Under the Influence (with Jo Piazza) - The $59 Million Wedding That Destroyed Social Media

00:00:00.580 Okay, so today's episode is a little bit different. I want to talk about this gonzo 0.98

00:00:07.820 $59 million wedding that has been all over, all over the Instagrams and the TikToks. I feel like

00:00:15.580 anyone with a TikTok account has made a stitch or has made a comment about this crazy viral

00:00:21.880 $59 million wedding that has been rocking social media. I have so many questions.

00:00:30.000 about this wedding. I personally did not spend $59 million on my wedding. I don't remember

00:00:35.800 what I spent. It was, I think, eight years ago. Am I? Have I been married for eight years? I don't

00:00:40.320 know. Nick's not home. I can't ask him. I think I spent about $19,000 on my wedding, which I think

00:00:47.860 is a lot of money. I know that a lot of people spend a lot more money. Nick and I paid for it

00:00:52.780 ourselves. I mean, my parents don't have a ton of cash, and we were grownups. And so

00:00:57.820 I don't really know the final cost because we just kind of paid for things as they came along.

00:01:04.060 And yeah, it was definitely under 20 grand. But that wedding, my wedding, I know I've said this

00:01:11.080 before, it was so awesome. My friends still text me just randomly and they're like, you know,

00:01:17.620 your wedding was fucking great. And I'm like, I know my wedding was fucking great. Like it was, 0.98

00:01:21.240 It was so much fun. Everyone had a blast. And we didn't spend $59 million. But apparently that is

00:01:30.540 an amount of money that someone could, could spend, could spend on a wedding. So today's episode is

00:01:36.340 actually an under the influence, too much money crossover. Too Much Money is another show that I'm

00:01:42.980 doing with my friend Dori Shafrir. It is, it's just, it's a podcast about how billionaires spend

00:01:48.920 their money, the crazy bananas things the billionaires do, like trying to build a replica

00:01:54.180 of the Titanic or that time that Jeff Bezos paid $500 million for a yacht that couldn't be driven

00:02:01.380 out of port because there was a bridge blocking the way. And so he asked if the bridge could just

00:02:05.420 be dismantled because that's what a billionaire does. So that is the crux of too much money.

00:02:10.480 It's kind of like maintenance phase meets poog meets lifestyles of the rich and famous. It's

00:02:17.020 It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. And this week's episode was about this $59 million wedding

00:02:23.900 that rocked social media. It was the wedding of this woman that no one had ever heard of.

00:02:29.200 She wasn't a celebrity. She wasn't even really a socialite or an influencer. Her name is Madelaine

00:02:34.540 Brockway, and she married a guy named Jacob Legron. They got married at a chateau outside of France,

00:02:42.780 uh obviously as one does they get a sleepover at the palace of versailles a party under the

00:02:48.840 arc de triomphe i mean like you you get the deal like they spent they spent a lot a lot of dough

00:02:54.300 and there are a ton of questions about why they spent so much money this is a kardashian level

00:03:03.000 wedding i mean it is it is crazy pants and none of us would have known about it if these videos

00:03:09.340 of the wedding hadn't been posted to social media. So it seems very, very intentional.

00:03:15.260 Madeline Brockway hired a content coordinator for her wedding. And so she had all of this

00:03:20.820 ridiculous, ridiculous content of the wedding. And those are the videos that ended up going viral 0.92

00:03:27.740 and making this a huge, huge story. The internet is crawling with conspiracy theories about this

00:03:35.980 right now. And there's whole Reddit threads and pages dedicated to why they would throw a wedding

00:03:42.980 like this. What is their angle? What are they getting at? And what a lot of people think is

00:03:49.240 that Madeline Brockaway is desperate to become none other than an influencer. Because it all

00:03:55.900 comes back to under the influence, my friends. All of it, full circle, every day. Dory and I talk

00:04:02.460 about all of these things in this episode of Too Much Money, which is like a Too Much Money

00:04:07.140 Under the Influence crossover. At first, we're asking, why would you throw such a gonzo bananas

00:04:12.940 wedding in the first place? And then what kind of attention are you trying to get for this wedding?

00:04:19.080 And finally, what exactly does $59 million even get you in the wedding market these days?

00:04:25.920 So here's some of the conversation that Dory and I had on Too Much Money.

00:04:32.460 is touched by the very first time. I make decisions with my wallet, not my mind.

00:04:39.120 Too much money for one person to control.

00:04:45.940 Ooh, audacity will not buy back your soul.

00:04:50.400 so joe texted me about this and i was like yeah i've i've been i've been following this because

00:05:02.480 it came up on my for you page on tiktok oh of course it did yeah two or three weeks ago

00:05:08.520 and it was all these tiktoks of this woman's wedding in paris including her

00:05:17.760 insanely extravagant rehearsal dinner at the paris opera house the wedding itself was crazy

00:05:26.520 maroon five performed like and everyone was like who is this woman it was a woman named madeline

00:05:33.800 madeline is how it's spelled i thought she's madeline yes it is spelled m-a-d-e-l-a-i-n-e

00:05:41.860 um apparently she's called maddie i think we can i think we can call her maddie i do yeah um

00:05:49.900 and yeah so i i'd kind of been following this and then some news came out about her

00:05:57.820 her husband that has has thrown everything into question oh but i i want to start with

00:06:04.760 the wedding itself so had joe had you ever heard of maddie brockway before no no i've never heard

00:06:16.240 never heard i've never heard of her either and that was the general consensus on tiktok like

00:06:21.180 literally who is this person and why is she just like coming out of the gate with

00:06:27.840 this like very slickly produced wedding content that is very reminiscent of Sophia Ritchie

00:06:35.980 Grange's wedding content now oh I'm not I'm actually not familiar with Sophia Ritchie

00:06:42.400 Grange's wedding content so Sophia Ritchie famously dated Scott Disick when she was like

00:06:48.180 19 and she was a baby late 30s and she kind of laid low for a little then they broke up she

00:06:56.420 laid low for a little while. And then she reemerged dating Elliot Grange, who is the son

00:07:00.700 of Lucian Grange, like one of the most powerful and wealthy music executives. And then she had

00:07:08.680 this wedding that was like, I want you all to forget the Sophia Ritchie that existed when I

00:07:13.780 was 19 and dating Scott Disick. And I want you all to think of me as this like very sophisticated,

00:07:19.600 elegant to like impeccable taste wealthy kind of like socialite influencer right um her wedding

00:07:29.760 was in vogue like and now she has continued this and her tiktok posts are all like it's all very

00:07:37.840 it all seems very calculated um she was profiled in town in country like it's all like of a piece

00:07:46.960 Like there was clearly some PR strategist behind this.

00:07:50.920 And when I saw the Madeline Brockway wedding content, I was like, oh, and this was an opinion

00:07:57.620 shared by many people.

00:07:58.660 It was like, oh, she's using this as her launch pad for some, you know, this is her hard launch 0.96

00:08:08.840 as a socialite slash influencer on a world stage.

00:08:13.340 Like, this wedding was so extravagant, so over the top.

00:08:17.720 She's this, like, beautiful, young, blonde woman from...

00:08:21.840 And how much did it cost?

00:08:23.920 What was the total?

00:08:25.560 The S...

00:08:26.160 No one...

00:08:27.080 This has not been substantiated, but, like, experts, quote-unquote, have estimated that

00:08:31.960 the wedding and the rehearsal dinner and the bachelorette party, which we'll get to in

00:08:37.160 a few minutes, that it all cost around $59 million.

00:08:40.940 dollars I don't know how they arrived at this number but 59 million is the number that has

00:08:46.140 been sort of like bandied about again I have I have no expertise in this area I have no way of

00:08:52.940 knowing whether this is accurate but it it's it seems like it's plausible um how much did you

00:09:02.540 spend on your wedding Dory um I spent about forty thousand dollars on my wedding okay yeah I don't

00:09:09.640 remember how much we spent on our wedding i actually think it was about 20 000 like 19 or 20

00:09:14.200 000 um it was not 59 million dollars no it was not 59 million dollars i mean i think even in the

00:09:22.000 like the world of society weddings this is like a shit ton of money i mean this is this is indeed

00:09:29.740 a shit ton of money so this is a shit ton of money i want to back up a little bit and so maddie

00:09:36.080 what is her deal where does this money come from okay so these were all questions that people on 0.95

00:09:42.380 tiktok were like what is the deal here like this is a wedding this is like a like a jeff bezos

00:09:48.240 alon musk like level of wedding like yeah totally people to just spend all this money

00:09:54.520 so her parents own car dealerships they own mercedes-benz car dealerships in florida and

00:10:03.360 they supposedly sold a couple of the dealerships for allegedly somewhere between 150 and 700

00:10:13.340 million dollars a lot again there's like there's not a ton of like verifiable accurate information

00:10:20.340 here yeah because that's a wide range it is a very wide range a lot of millions in between a lot of

00:10:25.340 millions in there she is from fort worth texas um which is a very fancy city uh near dallas

00:10:33.620 the dealerships were in florida you know i think when people have this kind of money it's like

00:10:42.140 their their money is not only coming from the car dealerships like once you make money you start

00:10:46.860 you start like diversifying you're buying real estate their money is multiplying in ways that

00:10:53.060 we have no idea about. Um, she went to Texas Christian university and she's 26. She's very

00:11:07.680 pretty, um, blonde, like, you know, it looks like she could be a socialite, but, but had had no 1.00

00:11:14.820 real presence like on, you know, on social media. She, so everyone was sort of like, what 0.93

00:11:23.060 like what is going on here um i want to talk a little bit about some of the aspects of

00:11:31.860 the wedding for one thing she hired a content creator oh that's a nice that's a that's a nice

00:11:39.420 job oh maybe maybe there's a crossover here between tmm and under the influence oh totally

00:11:47.820 right yes so this woman is um she's australian her name is um olivia

00:12:00.680 olivia what is her last name her her company is called olivia and living

00:12:08.540 okay okay olivia and living and olivia burrows sutherland is her name that's a fancy name too 0.62

00:12:18.680 it is a fancy name and so she was hired to create content for the wedding like she's basically a

00:12:27.520 videographer but you know that is kind of a day class a term to these people no we don't use we

00:12:33.280 don't use that word anymore so she says she's doing more like behind the scenes like

00:12:38.620 all very like slickly done she claims that a lot of her clients don't even post this stuff

00:12:47.100 on social media it's just for them but it's like done in the style of an influencer if that makes

00:12:52.120 sense oh yeah no that makes a lot of sense yeah um and maddie started posting these videos and

00:12:58.920 that's how people found out about the wedding now here's some interesting things so one of the

00:13:04.440 events that maddie had in paris in the days leading up to her wedding also she flew supposedly

00:13:11.080 she flew all the guests to paris private okay okay put everyone up in hotels um there was a 0.63

00:13:21.420 an event at chanel the chanel store for looked like about a dozen other women 0.99

00:13:29.240 where they like made pouches together out of the chanel tweed i mean i can only imagine how much 1.00

00:13:37.660 just like this event cost which they made they made clutches like they made chanel tweed

00:13:44.300 clutches basically yes and there were multiple chanel offers like you know it was like a private

00:13:52.300 event at the chanel store this is like this is like the rich person's version of like pottery

00:14:00.440 painting a thousand percent joe that is exactly that is exactly it is a paint and sip it's a 0.98

00:14:07.760 paint and sip but for stupid rich people oh so the i saw a tiktok that the content creator posted 0.98

00:14:16.440 and she said that this was the first time she had met or talked to maddie was at the chanel event 0.99

00:14:23.320 she'd only spoken to the planners and she claims that maddie had quote only just found out that 0.97

00:14:30.160 event content creators exist that is a lie that is a dirty dirty ass lie what is funny about that 0.97

00:14:39.800 is that before the wedding she had a bachelorette party duh at amangiri in utah oh the amangiri 0.97

00:14:51.320 the amangiri the amangiri is a very expensive very exclusive resort that like

00:14:57.700 the kardashians go to like it's i think it starts at two grand a night maybe three yeah yeah no i

00:15:05.600 think it's it's three yeah i've looked it up before i've written i've written travel stories

00:15:09.480 about the the amangiri though i have never been there it's too expensive even to even to take

00:15:15.400 like travel editors there exactly so she bought out amangiri for for a four-night bachelorette

00:15:23.460 party and every night had a theme one night the theme was aliens shut up i just want you to shut 0.99

00:15:33.640 your goddamn mouth right now i don't believe this one night the theme was um like it was a movie 0.99

00:15:43.440 night so they all had like matching silk pajamas and they set up a screen by the pool and like so 1.00

00:15:49.920 that was a movie night and then one night was a marie antoinette theme

00:15:54.520 um did anyone's head get cut off well you know it's funny you say that we're gonna take a short

00:16:03.320 break but what has happened in the last few days makes me think that no one told maddie

00:16:11.740 what actually happened to marie

00:16:13.460 okay let's take a quick break let's take a quick break

00:16:18.300 all right we are back so the bachelorette party

00:16:42.720 i saw an instagram post by the designers of the bachelorette party and i just want to point out

00:16:53.240 that before the wedding so this was posted five weeks ago and at that time maddie's instagram

00:17:01.880 handle was brocodile underscore hunter huh i guess like crocodile hunter okay brocodile hunter

00:17:14.700 brocodile brocodile hunter okay it has since been changed to madeline brockway but at the time it

00:17:22.840 was brocodile hunter so like that should show you her level of like social media savvy like yeah

00:17:30.540 not the best it was not the best like she was not no one knew who she was um

00:17:35.680 there's also in this designer's post on instagram they credit all the people

00:17:43.160 who worked on the bachelorette party there were two planning and design people

00:17:48.740 um they did the floral design a company called tulipina design there was a photographer there

00:17:56.580 was a videographer not the same person that later did the social media the the social media content

00:18:02.440 creation stuff by the way entertainment there's an entertainment and immersive vendor what what

00:18:08.880 is that so like on alien night they had people come dressed up as aliens no no no they didn't

00:18:19.020 yes wow you know what maddie sounds like a lot of fun to be honest like i uh look this looks

00:18:27.860 amazing like i would want to be a guest at this there was a glam squad there was someone who did

00:18:35.060 stationary art which that's stationary with an a so i'm assuming that just means art that stayed

00:18:41.580 in place like i don't know printing travel and then they uh tagged a travel agency and a private

00:18:51.140 jet company okay okay and so these these are um this is just the batch or this is just the

00:18:58.740 bachelorette party okay okay um joe i i'm gonna share you on this document that i put together

00:19:09.440 for this episode because I put some photos in the document that I think are important for you to see.

00:19:15.140 Yeah. Share those. So there's one photo of her dressed in all hot pink where she's wearing

00:19:23.800 these like enormous platform shoes and this like off the shoulder dress. And she her look reminded

00:19:30.760 me of like a photo of Julia Allison. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah. I remember Julia.

00:19:36.980 micro celebrity who is now kind of also trying to make like a funny comeback and relaunch 0.90

00:19:44.100 she yeah she she's relaunching she uh she just got married right or i think they're engaged yeah

00:19:51.320 um to that law to that law professor to the handsome law professor yes exactly to a law

00:19:58.380 professor um and then there's a photo from the wedding planner people of the bachelorette party

00:20:07.240 where maddie is dressed as marie antoinette in like full blonde wig and the caption says

00:20:16.600 transport yourself to the opulent world of marie antoinette this halloween at amangiri

00:20:20.760 for day four of madeline brockway's bachelorette party step into 18th century with costumes

00:20:27.640 inspired by the grandeur of her court enjoy a night of ballroom dances intriguing mysteries

00:20:32.760 and immerse yourself in the decadence of the era under a full moon it's a halloween celebration

00:20:37.020 like no other oh wow okay okay cool all right so that's the bachelorette party then we get

00:20:49.700 to the wedding and once it started being like talked about on tiktok mainstream outlets

00:20:57.100 picked it up and started referring to it as the wedding of the century yeah i mean i think this

00:21:03.560 what this this seems more more intense than like the kardashian wedding oh i completely agree with

00:21:11.580 you so there were multiple days of celebration the the aforementioned rehearsal dinner at the

00:21:20.020 paris opera house they bought out the opera house i mean the pictures are unbelievable like just

00:21:25.840 flowers everywhere it's so it's like it looks like royalty and i think that was the idea

00:21:33.340 um the actual wedding was at the chateau de viet which i guess is outside of paris

00:21:41.660 um this is the description from her wedding planner

00:21:48.180 madeline brockway and jacob legron 22's wedding at chateau de viet was a celebration of unparalleled

00:21:56.980 elegance and meticulous attention to detail madeline walked down the aisle in a custom

00:22:01.980 dior haute couture dress embroidered with the lily of the valley maddie's favorite flower

00:22:06.900 and a matching cathedral veil the dramatic aisle led right from the chateau doors to the fountain

00:22:12.520 at the end of the grounds the platform madeline and jacob stood on was actually floating in the

00:22:16.760 fountain a truly epic and memorable setting for exchanging vows leveraging on the symmetry of

00:22:21.920 the chateau and its gardens we constructed two identical greenhouses one on either side of the

00:22:26.840 aisle dinner for the guests was held in a bespoke white greenhouse by at la coperture a choice that

00:22:33.740 displayed the couple's commitment to a light and natural light and neutral aesthetic oh yeah yeah

00:22:39.120 that's light and neutral is not the adjectives i would use to describe their aesthetic but no okay

00:22:45.100 the lily of the valley theme seamlessly woven into maddie's attire adorned the dinner space

00:22:50.460 with delicate embroidery on napkins and menus adding an extra layer of personalization and

00:22:54.240 detail the after party was held in a black greenhouse here we created an atmosphere of a

00:22:59.260 lush and vibrant nightclub the sunken marble dance floor became the epicenter of the celebration

00:23:04.100 where the couple shared a memorable first glance to the soulful tunes of maroon fives

00:23:08.820 she will be loved performed live by maroon 5 performed live by maroon 5 i'm curious what

00:23:15.260 maroon 5 charges for for such a thing i wouldn't be surprised if it was like a million dollars

00:23:21.060 probably yeah no that sounds right that sounds right you know i i recently found out that almost

00:23:25.860 every band is available for the right oh yeah amount except except for bruce springsteen

00:23:32.160 oh wow that's so interesting yeah but everyone else everyone else has a price

00:23:38.260 Everyone else. OK. So this was the description from the wedding planner. So, I mean, you know, you see these pictures, you watch these videos, you read these descriptions and you're just like, OK, like, again, socialite hard launch.

00:23:57.360 social aid hard lunch she wants she wants to be famous she wants to be famous she wants to be

00:24:03.540 in vogue she this is this is what she's going for and then

00:24:09.360 it all kind of comes crashing down oh

00:24:15.820 so a few days after the wedding um people start posting that her now husband this man named

00:24:31.940 jacob lagrone who has had like a a couple of random jobs like he um worked for jason aldean

00:24:47.080 i think his his dad is supposedly a music executive um people are like he uh was arrested

00:24:58.160 well wait what he was arrested so let's take another break and when we come back

00:25:06.040 we will get into what her her husband is accused of and how this all went down

00:25:15.160 cool all right bring it bring it

00:25:28.160 all right we're back so her husband jacob lagrone

00:25:44.000 eight months ago in

00:25:48.180 march or no it happened in march but he was indicted on three counts of aggravated assault

00:25:57.520 on a public servant in texas which is a first degree felony in texas

00:26:03.020 now what is aggravated assault on a public servant in texas mean i mean you know to me i read that

00:26:10.680 i'm like oh that could mean anything that could mean he was like at a protest and he was being

00:26:15.900 roughed up by cops and he punched a cop in the face and you know i'm i'm thinking of like some

00:26:21.860 a cab kind of oh that's so interesting that's so interesting that that's what you think about

00:26:26.840 because i immediately go to uh punch a tsa agent in the face oh okay but like you know things that

00:26:36.260 are bad but not like so bad that right right right like bad bad but like oh forgivable i mean 0.98

00:26:45.720 Punch a TSA agent in the face. 0.94

00:26:48.080 Not the best.

00:26:49.260 He was actually accused of firing a gun at three cops, which can mean a life sentence in Texas. 0.99

00:27:02.660 Shut up. 0.99

00:27:04.040 He shot at a bunch. 1.00

00:27:05.120 He shot at some cop.

00:27:06.660 He shot at some cops.

00:27:11.240 Now, why did he shoot at some cops?

00:27:13.980 I don't know.

00:27:14.520 Tell me.

00:27:15.140 Tell me.

00:27:15.720 because the cops were called to a house in what is it west uh hold on sorry i have this somewhere

00:27:28.640 oh yeah okay the cops were called to a house in westworth village texas now no news accounts

00:27:38.620 that i have seen have revealed the address of this house or who else was home at the time

00:27:44.440 But all the news accounts have noted that Madeline owns a house in Westworth Village, Texas.

00:27:52.080 Oh, OK. All right. Yeah.

00:27:55.020 So Business Insider reported that they called the city of Westworth Village, Texas, and they said that the police had received multiple disturbance calls to a home address on March 14th.

00:28:11.120 I read elsewhere that people had reported gunshots being fired, and that's why the police were called.

00:28:18.140 And when three police officers got to the house, they were fired upon.

00:28:24.860 Wow. Okay. All right. This is not good.

00:28:30.180 I would call that an aggressive response.

00:28:34.640 I think that's an aggressive response. Yeah.

00:28:38.520 That's an aggressive response. So he was charged with aggravated assault against a public servant. And in August, he was offered a plea bargain of 25 years in prison.

00:28:51.100 Wow.

00:28:52.520 25 years.

00:28:56.160 Which, it seems he has not taken. He was in court recently for a motion hearing. He brought a bodyguard who, like, pushed away reporters.

00:29:08.520 Mm hmm. Supposedly, they cut their honeymoon short because he had to come back and go to court.

00:29:16.240 And so now there's even more questions. Number one, you knew this was coming. Why did you

00:29:30.100 go ahead with this wedding and promote it on social media i mean they wanted a guest to go

00:29:41.240 out with a bang is that in poor taste given the gun violence the allegations i don't it's it is

00:29:51.160 truly a mystery to me my next question is how was he allowed to travel to paris

00:30:01.360 right yeah i mean i feel like he would yeah like he probably i feel like he shouldn't be

00:30:07.980 allowed to leave the country right i mean i don't know i'm not a lawyer um but that seemed odd

00:30:15.540 um my my next question is did they think no one would find out like do they know that google exists

00:30:26.820 right it's it is so flabbergasting there's people now who are saying

00:30:35.980 that she married him so she wouldn't have to testify against him but why have a why have a

00:30:43.200 59 million dollar wedding why have a 59 million dollar wedding joe so the other option that i'm

00:30:50.840 thinking is that they're both in such deep denial and or they think that because they have so much

00:30:58.500 money that he is going to get off but i feel like if anything this is going to backfire for them

00:31:04.080 i mean it definitely doesn't make them more likable and relatable to a jury exactly it's

00:31:12.180 not like it doesn't make them relatable no it it makes them it makes them seem like completely out 0.97

00:31:20.120 of touch like they think that they could just like use their money to get away with shit and

00:31:26.420 yeah so the motives are mysterious I would say I mean I would say more than mysterious

00:31:37.320 okay i just i and so as all this is starting to come out she deleted her tiktok okay made

00:31:46.700 her instagram private so what was this all for what was this all for and well also are we just

00:31:59.260 cynics or maybe it was just for love dory maybe it was just for love maybe it was just for love

00:32:06.820 I mean, maybe she truly didn't have any idea of how much this was going to blow up.

00:32:11.380 And she was just like, I'm just going to post this.

00:32:20.120 It's my beautiful wedding.

00:32:21.780 This is my beautiful wedding.

00:32:22.840 And I just want to share this.

00:32:24.860 Yeah.

00:32:25.440 And, you know, because I want to have a nice memory before my husband gets thrown in the clink.

00:32:32.220 maybe that's maybe that's what like maybe that is maybe maybe it is as simple as that

00:32:41.880 maybe it is as simple as that and you know if you've got that much money well also i want to

00:32:49.180 dissect this for a second yes let's talk about this we don't know for sure that it was 59 million

00:32:57.140 dollars no we don't we do not we also don't know if any of these things were sponsored because she

00:33:06.020 was going to get so much attention um a lot of a lot of the vendors are tagged in the social media

00:33:13.000 posts and as a person who is now a self-declared expert on influencers you are an expert thank you

00:33:22.340 So don't put yourself down.

00:33:24.700 You're an expert.

00:33:25.480 I am an expert.

00:33:26.580 But I do know that there is a lot of trading and bartering for things that goes on.

00:33:36.600 They definitely had to have paid for Maroon 5.

00:33:40.560 Right.

00:33:41.580 Yes.

00:33:42.280 Right.

00:33:42.900 Yes.

00:33:43.960 I'm just, I'm skeptical of the $59 million price tag.

00:33:50.740 And that is fair.

00:33:52.340 It takes a lot to get to $59 million.

00:33:55.540 It takes a lot.

00:33:57.240 That Maroon 5 is probably a cool million.

00:34:01.760 But where's the other $58?

00:34:05.900 I mean, if you, like, I can kind of see it.

00:34:12.120 Like, if you look at these photos and these videos, like, you know, renting out Amangiri.

00:34:19.780 Truth, truth.

00:34:20.560 party probably cost a million dollars yeah you know like so it all i feel like it all starts to 0.98

00:34:28.780 add up oh definitely i mean it definitely adds up i don't think chanel does shit like that for 0.97

00:34:33.840 exposure no like they definitely had to pay for that um but i hear you like i i think we have to 0.94

00:34:42.380 approach this with a with a large degree of skepticism um i also just want to note that

00:34:48.780 that their wedding registry is still up and what's on it can we send them a we should send

00:34:54.400 them a gift we should probably send them a gift um it is for a local fort worth boutique called

00:35:05.920 ps the letter so you know i appreciate that they that they wanted to shop local yeah no same same

00:35:13.620 um their registry is not the registry of a couple where one of the parties is about to go to prison

00:35:23.800 for possibly 25 years there's what you you mean like prepaid phone call phone cards aren't on

00:35:29.300 no like commissary gift card cartons of cigarettes yeah was that in poor taste there are things on

00:35:35.400 the registry like a twelve thousand five hundred dollar uh butterfly glass butterfly house what

00:35:45.240 there's there's many um like ceramic figurines from a company that i'd never heard of called

00:35:55.440 errant i'm um i'm looking at i'm looking at this that the ceramic bobcat right now

00:36:03.440 yeah there's a lot of ceramic yeah there's a there's a lot of ceramic um uh animals there's a

00:36:14.940 there's a cow there's a honey bear uh there's a slumber bunny that's what's it wait what's a

00:36:23.700 slumber bunny it is a it's a sleeping bunny okay who's tucked in with the who's who's lying on a

00:36:32.280 carrot as a pillow and like what looks to be a lettuce leaf as a blanket it's cute now would i

00:36:39.460 pay um 395 for it it's three inches long no probably not probably not um but as we've said

00:36:50.180 before when you have a gazillion dollars that's probably like me buying the seven dollars like

00:36:55.920 dinosaur for Charlie totally but I'm also like where do these go in a home like I I did not grow

00:37:04.820 up in a home that had multiple porcelain figurines displayed in it so no I didn't I didn't go how is

00:37:13.060 this part of the of the decorating scheme yeah well it's interesting I'm going through some of 1.00

00:37:18.760 this china too it's it's kind of old lady tacky it's old lady yeah which is fine i love old ladies 1.00

00:37:26.260 but yes this is not these are not choices that i would think of as like a 26 year old

00:37:32.700 wanting it just yeah oh my god there's a there's a there's a michael aram who makes a lot of um

00:37:41.540 like judaica like i have i have a i have one of his menorahs um but they have they registered

00:37:48.200 for a k-cup carousel like that you would put like for your keurig a michael aram wow k-cup

00:37:57.360 carousel that cost 275 dollars i mean it's just it's like it's all stuff that is i i it's a it's

00:38:08.720 a it's a world that i do not understand i guess is like the best way of putting it um but yeah

00:38:16.080 this is and like a lot of their stuff on the registry has been has been purchased so

00:38:20.820 again this is this is a developing a developing story and I guess we will have to see just what

00:38:33.860 happens here like will he will his white privilege get him off will his rich white privilege get him

00:38:39.680 off is he actually going to prison what was her goal in all of this like she hasn't she hasn't

00:38:46.720 spoken to the press no one has interviewed her um it's it is really odd to me i have so many

00:38:57.080 questions i just i mean we're really we're leaving the listener with a lot more questions than

00:39:02.980 answers in this episode we are we are and you know hopefully we will have answers at some point but

00:39:12.500 we can only communicate what we know right yeah no i mean this this is this is one of our developing

00:39:20.680 developing episodes and this is one of our developing stories i think we'll probably

00:39:24.900 revisit this um you know along with bezo's yacht we just you know the show it just it just each

00:39:36.080 episode just keeps building on the next it just really does it does and you know i think our our

00:39:42.840 like the the thing that we always love to say like does being rich make you crazy or do you

00:39:47.540 have to be crazy to be like super rich like is is kind of in on full display here yeah

00:39:54.400 like yes a hundred percent yeah the the the the motivations I you know I understand if you are

00:40:04.160 rich and you want to have an extravagant wedding I get that people do it all the time it's not

00:40:13.060 like unusual for rich people to have extravagant weddings no but to

00:40:17.960 put it out there on social media the Marie Antoinette themed bachelorette party like it's

00:40:25.280 so on the nose that I'm just like all of your money couldn't have hired you a publicist

00:40:31.680 like all of your money well here's the thing like money doesn't buy good taste and that's

00:40:37.460 that's another thing that we realize like that's something else that we realized doing this show

00:40:41.500 right? Just like, rich people be tacky. That was just a little taste of what we're doing

00:40:49.740 with too much money. It's fun. It's a romp. It's Dory and I just shooting the shit about

00:40:54.920 stupid ass rich people. Which if you think about it, I mean, under the influence is just me 1.00

00:41:01.540 shooting the shit about influencers who are desperate to be rich. Maybe I should get some 0.99

00:41:07.440 hobbies. Thanks for listening. You can find too much money wherever you get your podcasts.

00:41:13.560 Have a great weekend, my friends. You deserve it.

Under the Influence (with Jo Piazza) - December 14, 2023

The $59 Million Wedding That Destroyed Social Media

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