You may believe that the world’s wealthiest individuals may date whoever they like — but who they choose to remain with may surprise you. Numerous members are media figures, CEOs, and investors, and others have dedicated their lives to humanitarian causes that have shaped history.
1. Miranda Kerr and Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat
In 2017, the entrepreneur of Kora Organics beauty care — and the first Australian Victoria’s Secret model — married the Snapchat co-founder.
Evan Spiegel, who at the age of 25 became one of the world’s youngest billionaires, met Kerr at a Louis Vuitton event at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The supermodel revealed that her favorite tune was “Spiegel am Spiegel” by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
2. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
In 2003, while standing in line for the bathroom at Mark Zuckerberg’s “going-away” party, Priscilla Chan met the “nerdy” sophomore. He’d created a fake website in the hope of being booted from Harvard.
Despite the less-than-romantic start, the two began dating. Zuckerberg was not expelled, although he did leave to work full-time at Facebook. Zuckerberg presently has a net worth of $100.8 billion.
3. Grimes and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
According to reports, Canadian singer Claire Boucher met Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Twitter, connecting a joke about an AI-powered dystopia and an 18th-century French painting style. (Obviously.)
Grimes’ music is a diverse blend of influences, which The Wall Street Journal previously described as “the type of music you could imagine a gang of vampires listening to if they also happened to be on a cheerleading team.”
While the pair has periodically confounded the public by unfollowing and refollowing one another on social media, they had baby son X A-12 in 2020 — pronounced “X Ash A Twelve,” if you were wondering.
4. Nicole Systrom and Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram
Nicole Schuetz, founder of clean-energy investment business Sutro, married billionaire Kevin Systrom in an Instagram-worthy jazz-age Halloween masquerade in Napa.
Kevin Systrom, the founder of Instagram, is worth $2 billion. According to reports, the two met at Stanford and were engaged in 2014, when Schuetz launched her own business.
5. Lucinda Southworth and Larry Page, CEO of Google
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, reserved an entire private island for his 2007 wedding to Lucinda Southworth – with fellow billionaire Sir Richard Branson serving as best man.
Southworth is a research scientist and philanthropist with a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford and degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford. In 2004, the pair established the charity Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation and gave $15 million in 2018 to fight Ebola in West Africa.
