Chelsea Clinton, sole heir to the massive Bill and Hillary Clinton family fortune, is scheduled to introduce her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on Thursday.
Chelsea, at 36-years-old, is the least successful Clinton, if you don’t count her husband Marc Mezvinsky, a success-challenged hedge fund manager and occasional spirit wanderer. In fact, Chelsea has suggested that she is incapable of caring about money.
“I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” the former first daughter said in a 2014 interview in Fast Company, presumably when asked about the biggest difference between her and her multimillionaire parents. They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but maybe it does even now and then. (Unless she’s not telling the truth, in which case the adage holds.)
Chelsea gave up a $600,000 a year gig as a very part-time “special correspondent” for NBC News, during which she conducted probing interviews with some of the most influential newsmakers in America.
Chelsea also got to interview Beatles scion Stella McCartney — for the doomed NBC news magazine “Rock Center with Brian Williams” — in which the famous daughters commiserated about the difficulties of growing up with wealthy, famous dads.
Chelsea’s time at NBC was short but sweet. A source informs us that NBC staff were told they could not approach Chelsea if they saw her in the hallway or the elevator — which wasn’t often because she was barely ever there.
Chelsea, who currently works for the Clinton Foundation, claims to have found her true calling, much like that dude from high school who went to work for his dad’s car dealership.
“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?” she said in the Fast Company interview. “It’s a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work.”
Mr. and Mrs. Chelsea Clinton display their commitment to the austere lifestyle by residing in a $10 million “luxury fortress” in Manhattan’s trendy Flatiron District.
