For the second year running, Carlisle Cullen is the top of Forbes annual "Richest Fictional Character" list with a total fortune amounting an estimated (wait for it) $34.1 BILLION!Forbes met (briefly) with Dr Cullen in an attempt to call him out on his multiple years dodging taxes:
FORKS, Wash. -- Those Goldman Sachs bankers taking home millions in bonuses could take a few lessons from the richest man in fiction, Dr. Carlisle Cullen. Unlike those bankers, Cullen has avoided populist ire by hiding his $34.1 billion personal fortune from charities, the I.R.S. and, until now, Forbes' intrepid imaginary billionaire hunters.
"It took you long enough to find me," Cullen, 370, said when approached at his home in Forks, Wash., before peeling off in his Mercedes S55 AMG. Sources tell us he is headed to Volterra, Italy, or possibly to Isle Esme, the private island he bought for his wife, Esme, just off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
But it was shrewd long-term investments, made on the advice of Alice, Cullen’s adoptive daughter turned portfolio manager, that have propelled Cullen to the top of the Fictional 15. Alice, who can see the future, helped her father turn a huge profit trading options during the 1987 stock market crash. More recently, anticipating the Great Recession, Alice purged the family’s portfolio of retail, media and financial stocks and took big stakes in tech and biotech, including a significant stake in Immucor, Inc. (BLUD-news-people), a dominant player in the $1 billion blood reagent industry.
Despite his vast fortune, Cullen has worked for many years as a doctor here in Washington. Reached for comment, Washington state regulators claimed to be unaware a 370-year-old vampire was working as a licensed state medical practitioner. The Washington State Board of Heath has since revoked Cullen’s license for “exaggerating his formal education” and “unprofessional conduct.”
But Cullen has bigger things than his medical license and an ongoing I.R.S. audit to worry about, namely, his old benefactors. The Volturi have laws, or really, just one law, to being a vampire: You must keep a low profile. They forbid exposure. Forbes could not reach Aro, Marcus or Caius Volturi for comment, but was able to reach Felix, a member of their security detail.
This seriously made me laugh !
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