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| Subject: Idiotic, altruistic, OZschwitz financier: I want to die with nothing, I want my last check to bounce, I want to give it all away Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:43 am | |
| The 19th-century American steel baron Andrew Carnegie said: ''The man who dies rich dies disgraced.'' It might become a fitting epitaph for Simon Mordant, the Sydney financier and leading philanthropist who plans to take none of his fortune with him.
Mr Mordant is rich. He is a multi-millionaire. But he does not plan to die that way.
''I hope my last cheque bounces,'' he told The Sun-Herald. ''I want to die with nothing.''
So Mr Mordant plans to give it all away before he dies. And he has made a good start. He and his wife, Catriona, gave $15 million to the Museum of Contemporary Art two years ago, rescuing the gallery's long-delayed plans to redevelop the 1940s former Maritime Services building at Circular Quay. The Mordants' generosity was instrumental in pushing the federal and NSW governments to each contribute $13 million to the $53 million MCA extension, or Mordant Wing, which opened on Thursday and attracted big crowds yesterday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/well-be-richer-if-our-last-cheque-bounces-20120331-1w53p.html#ixzz1qmRfzYLF
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