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The house up for sale
Stand*ChickieSTAFFMOD 发布于 2017 年 02 月 23 日 8:52下午
I never saw this documentary but I was curious how they were able to live with no jobs. After Big Edie's death I think Little Edie lived for another 15 or 20 years. On Wikipedia it was said she had an apartment in New York for a while, lived in Montreal briefly, then Florida, then California with relatives, then back to Florida where she died. Where did she get the money to move around that much and pay for apartments. I've known people who work all the time and can barely afford their rent or to buy food.
genplant29 的回复
于 2017 年 02 月 23 日 11:29下午
My presumption is that there must have been major family estate money that they were able to indefinitely live off of. I'm not personally familiar with what that branch of the Bouvier family had their fortune(s) from or in. Maybe Big Edie's husband left a fortune?
Stand*Chickie 的回复
于 2017 年 02 月 24 日 12:18上午
Someone had posted on IMDb - when there was IMDb - that they believe they were getting some money from an estate or maybe it was benefits. Something like $400 or $500 a month. In the '70s that amount of money might go a ways, but I'm doubtful even back then and that may explain why their mansion was falling down. Even when it was sold it seems unlikely she, Little Edie, could've lived off of that money the rest of her life without it running out but maybe she did. It was said she died alone in an apartment in Miami Beach, I think it was.
genplant29 的回复
于 2017 年 02 月 24 日 12:23上午
Perhaps they even may have held inherited family shares in some corporation or the like. As for Little Edie, I imagine that the "Grey Gardens" house and property that she and her mom lived on was valuable real estate, once she eventually put it up for sale, as it's beach property in an exclusive area. So she (in addition to whatever other possible sources of ongoing available money) would have made a lot of money when it sold.