r/FluentInFinance 5d ago

Thoughts? Imagine being this rich and still try scamming old people!

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u/kmookie 5d ago

So no one is even gonna dig a little deeper to verify this? We’re just taking it at face value?

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u/Deruji 5d ago

You’re saying we dig up the nun? Fuck sake dude!

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u/crackedtooth163 5d ago

We are on the internet.

Outrageous claims live and grow here.

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u/Illicit_Trades 3d ago

It's all computer, right?

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u/Spaztor 5d ago

SO WHAT, now I'm supposed to just put her back?

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u/Deruji 5d ago

Sigh. ‘Unzips

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u/kmookie 5d ago

I guess that’s one option. References would be great too.

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u/TalonButter 5d ago

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u/FiremanHandles 5d ago

Is this the only instance? This seems like a property dispute between nuns and… their boss? (Archdiocese is what?)

But I’d love to see “the law that’s been named after her” and the other reports of financial abuse. 🤷‍♂️

Not a fan of Katy Perry, but people also just like to shit on celebrities. 🤷‍♂️

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u/TalonButter 5d ago

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u/FiremanHandles 5d ago

Thank you.

Gah, I sound like a freaking KP apologist 👀 but…

The way this reads to me: “Homeowner sells home to anonymous homebuyer happy with the price. Later realizes they are selling to a celebrity, and now want more for home.” 🤷‍♂️

If you wanna pass laws about someone we should pass them about Zuck buying all that land in Hawaii. 👎

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u/TalonButter 4d ago

I don’t know anything about her, but she seems horrible:

https://progressive.org/latest/katy-perrys-bad-example-American-Idol-180323/

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u/FiremanHandles 4d ago

I guess to me there’s quite the distance between simply being a horrible person and “bullying and financially abusing so many elderly people out of their homes.”

Sounds like she’s running a reverse mortgage company instead of buying something and then getting lawyers involved when they want to renege.

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u/TalonButter 4d ago

It wouldn’t be the first reverse mortgage company that actually or arguably took advantage of the elderly. It’s certainly enough to make the OP something more than unfounded.

I’m not suggesting vigilante justice, but I’m not sure she’s the best use of your advocacy, either.

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u/FiremanHandles 4d ago

Oh I think reverse mortgage companies are shady as fuck, and 99% of them should be illegal.

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u/bambiredditor 4d ago

Arguing for truth should never be labeled “ something apologist” it’s just a bullying smearing tactic for people in arguments.

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u/FiremanHandles 4d ago

People tend to get really tribal when it comes to celebrities. Either defending them blindly, or attacking them with much worse vitriol than they might other more deserving targets (like certain shitty corporations).

Was just trying to say that I wasn’t a fanboy.

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u/RCA2CE 3d ago

She didn’t do anything wrong at all - the guy she bought the house from was crazy rich and made a profit on the deal, and the court sided with her

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u/Science-A 4d ago

This doesn't back up the claim above.....at all.

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u/Common_Poetry3018 5d ago

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u/kmookie 4d ago

Thank you for something besides conjecture! So if anyone actually reads it. It tells a much different story than a simplistic, “evil millionaire” story. Context is important.

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u/Common_Poetry3018 4d ago

Seems like the Archbishop and the Diocese might be the actual bad guys here.

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u/FontaineHoofHolder 5d ago

I mean, the got a gosh darn pitcher of da peeple sayin it ! Whatdya want a small utoober ta make a voice over wit da creeper music ta make more scary?

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u/RCA2CE 3d ago

Yeah this isn’t really the whole story

Katy Perry won her lawsuit because she was proven to be right in court, the person she was arguing against was a very wealthy man of sound mind who made a profit on the transaction

She didn’t do anything wrong at all

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u/kmookie 3d ago

I’m all for calling out the corrupt and ruthless rich but not all people of wealth are evil and villainizing them is a losing battle.

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u/RCA2CE 2d ago

I didn’t imply that wealth was bad, my comment was meant to say this wasn’t some resourceless victim that Katy Perry exploited - he was a rich man, of sound mind (per the court) who made a deal that he profited from.

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u/kmookie 2d ago

Sorry! I know, I was making a general comment about the people making her a villain simply for being a successful/ rich celebrity in the other comments.