30 Shocking Things People Learned About The Lavish Life At Rich People’s Events

Went to a wedding in San Francisco 30 years ago. My wife was good friends with the groom. Lots of nice people that I'd never met. Casual conversation with anonymous attendee, he asks me what I do professionally. I tell him that I'm a public employee Union advocate. He tells me I'm the problem with the world and turns his back to me. Similar thing happened to me when a mutual friend introduced me to Reince Preibus. In both instances, "tell me you're a class warrior on the wrong side of the battle without telling me". The rich don't care about being polite or getting along. They drive the steamrollers.

I worked in catering while in law school. Worked a super rich family's daughter's wedding where the dessert course was a whole show. A giant ice sculpture of a dove was carted out. Probably 10 ft high. In the middle there was a giant gold ball. Once it got set they pushed two racks of glasses up next to the sculpture on opposing sides. Then, two guys with chrom bore drills drilled into the sides of the sculpture and desert wine came pouring out of the internal globe into the waiting glasses. According to the wedding planner the sculpture was 15k. The wine in the sculpture was close to 50k.

An investor of my company bought a new Bentley SUV because his Cadillac's battery died.

At my former employer we had a client book one of the largest aircraft in the fleet to fly her son to private school in Europe and she accompanied him. She then stopped at a smaller city in Italy for her to visit a restaurant she liked and then returned to the west coast of the US. The bill for this was well over 100k…to drop her kid off at school for the year.

I went to a famous person's birthday party in Beverly Hills. I won't say who it was, just in case. But when my girlfriend and I got there, we were escorted up his driveway in a golf cart. Security brought us into his front room where there was a gold piano and then they escorted us to the backyard. First thing I saw was a woman in lingerie in one of those big inflatable spheres floating in the pool. But that was just the side pool. We kept going to the main backyard where there were trapeze artists, more lingerie girls in the bigger pool, a cigar wrapping station, Topher Grace sitting by himself (didn't seem like he knew anyone there), and a big jazz band playing.

It was the most Los Angeles thing I've ever done and honestly didn't enjoy my time there. We left early because of how self important everyone seemed.

I work at a high end country club. It was raining so we closed the tennis/pickleball/basketball courts. A group of teens came in and asked if they could play basketball. When I told them the court was wet and slippery and they weren’t allowed to play one kid said, there are towels in the locker room, grab some and go dry it off!” It was pouring rain when he said this.

I was once at an all you can eat lobster dinner put on by a company as a reward for high performing employees and a drunk millionaire started yelling at his bosses who were worth hundreds times more than him, because the wine selection was sub par.

I was once told to get my pilot license after complaining about being in a long distance relationship.

I was invited once to a party with very rich people here in México City, nothing too crazy but a guy was casually talking about his new island near Cancún like It was nothing.

Not a gala or event, a friend’s wife worked at an HOA in a rich area where some celebs and pro athletes lived. One resident asked her if the airplane paths overhead could be changed to avoid the area. They weren’t even close to the airport, maybe 20 miles.

Private jet sent from Las Vegas back to the Bay Area to pick up leftover brisket from a party hosted by someone in the VC world.