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This latest claim comes from Kelleher International, an upscale matchmaking service who charge their single and rich clients hundreds of thousands of dollars to help them find their soul mate. Here's a profile in the New York Times that lists down their exorbitant fees:
  • $15,000 for a year of "unlimited matches" in one city
  • $5,000 extra for a second city
  • approximately $45,000 for time on Branson's island, a number that does not include flights or "optional spa treatments" – though some of that money is tax deductible "because net proceeds go to Virgin Unite, Mr. Branson’s charitable foundation"
  • $150,000 to join "the CEO Club," which means Kelleher will search internationally for you rich life partner and put their top people on your game
  • "additional 'success fees' for a match that results in either marriage or a long-term relationship, usually defined as one year"
But apparently, being rich simply can't buy you love, especially if you happen to be a middle-age woman. Here's how Kelleher's chief executive Amber Kelleher-Andrews puts it:
“A lot of older women we don’t take — and they’re fabulous, but it’s too hard to match them,” Jill Kelleher said the morning after the party, at the company’s headquarters in Corte Madera, Calif., which was filled with impeccably groomed young female matchmakers (many of whom have marriage- and family-therapy degrees or a background in life coaching, Sunya Andrews said). “We need to find a system to bring in the men.”
Read the full post over at NYT