From a janitor who left behind an $ 8,000,000 fortune to a reclusive computer programmer who amassed $ 18,000,000; a lawyer who
quietly built a stock portfolio worth $ 188,000,000 to a retired IRS agent who turned her $ 5,000 savings into a portfolio valued in the tens of millions of dollars from her apartment in New York, ordinary Americans have been using the stealth wealth strategy to grow rich for a long time.»
He also hired the British starchitect David Adjaye to
build an avant - garde seven - story black concrete town house (
quietly concealed, Lex Luthor - style, behind the unassuming late - 19th - century facade of an Upper East Side carriage house) and
stocked it with enough treasures to make an auction - house rep weak in the knees.