Saturday, April 24, 2010

Silly Saturdays for 04/24/10 ...Is Carlisle in Trouble with the IRS?

Silly Saturdays


This just in from MSNBC:

In dramatic economy, it pays to be fictional!

Twilight’ patriarch Cullen leaps to top of Forbes list of rich and imaginary

It's a great time to be imaginary.

"Global markets are rapidly recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, and so are the fortunes of the fictitious. There are six new characters on the 2010 edition of Fictional 15, our annual ranking of fiction's richest, with an average net worth of $7.3 billion. In aggregate, the nine returning members are worth $79.8 billion, up 9 percent since we last checked in on them.

Topping the list this year is newcomer Carlisle Cullen, patriarch of the Cullen coven of vampires in the "Twilight" series of novels. Cullen, age 370, has accumulated a fortune of $34.1 billion — much of it from long-term investments made with the aid of his adopted daughter Alice, who picks stocks based on her ability to see into the future. Low-key and undead, Cullen has spent recent years posing as a mortal doctor in a small town in Washington State."

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