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Bundchen

She likes her men American.* She likes her money anything but: 

Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world’s richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar.

Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans led by President George W. Bush are living beyond their means.

Even after the dollar lost 34 percent since 2001, the biggest investors and most accurate forecasters say it will weaken further as home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. The dollar plummeted to its lowest ever last week against the euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan and the cheapest in 26 years against the British pound.

“We’ve told all of our clients that if you only had one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a non- dollar currency,” said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, and manager of the world’s biggest bond fund. “That should be on top of the list,” said Gross, whose firm is a unit of Munich- based insurer Allianz SE.

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When Bundchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Co., she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil’s biggest weekly magazine. She’ll also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce & Gabbana SpA in Milan to promote the Italian designer’s new fragrance, The One, Veja reported. Bundchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July.

“Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” Patricia Bundchen, the model’s twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in a telephone interview in September from Sao Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week.

“Gisele has contracts in dollars,” said Anne Nelson, Bundchen’s agent in New York at IMG Models, in an interview today. “When she works in Europe she gets paid in euros, when she works in the U.S. she gets paid in dollars, when she works in Brazil she gets paid in reais, and so on and so forth.”

Back up a sec. Giselle’s got a twin sister? OK, here you go. Not exactly identical.

Tigerhawk, apparently undistracted, develops a new economic principle.

Powerline’s hung up on the politics. Yeah, there’s that, too.

Jezebel says she’d do better with Brazilian reals.

Anyway, the girl works hard. Who cares how they pay her.

* Argument could be made the way she likes ‘em has more to do with metro than American.

Topics: money, supermodels

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:49 pm on Monday, November 5, 2007

6 Responses to “Bundchen”

1. saltydog Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 2:59 am

   I say we pay her in whatever it is that Zimbabwe is using for money these days.

   I’ll be glad when Bush is gone if these people will just shuddup. I’m so sick of listening to the arrogance of ignorance posing as competence.

2. RebeccaH Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm

   And won’t she feel stupid when the dollar picks up again.

3. AW1 Tim Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

   Umm,

   Well Jules, I certainly wouldn’t consider Tom Brady to be Metrosexual…

   Heh… I wonder how this part of the affair will go over in the Patriot’s locker room?

4. TBinSTL Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

   I suggest that we pay all Media types in Iraqi Dinars. That’ll give em a reason to cheer for the good guys!

5. OnlyInBostonKids Says:
   November 6th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

   Give Gissie a few hundred (paper) barrels of light sweet crude as payment. Safe, and the #1 choice of inside traders and speculators on Wall Street these days.

6. Texas Bob Says:
   November 7th, 2007 at 5:45 am

   I prefer payment in either Persian rugs or myrrh. And likewise, I prefer to make payments with live poultry.

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