The breakdown: Rich Lord has faithful manservant, who actually slept on the floor at his Lord’s feet for almost 30 years, walked the baron’s elephant and cooked for the Lord and his jet-set friends.
Lord dies from cancer.
At reading of will, it is learned the Lord left a multi-million dollar inheritance to his faithful servant, which included a beach house in St. Lucia overlooking the Caribbean.
The Lady (widow) pleads to manservant to please “do the right thing” and return the inheritance. Manservant says “ain’t happenin’ Lady.”
Can you say made for TV movie – or at least a Chapelle Show skit?
(I think we can hear a Dave Chapelle ‘I’m rich, b****’ in the background.)
You can’t make this stuff up; 40 acres and a mule is an understatement.
Read the entire article below:
According to the Daily Mail, the widow of Lord Glenconner, who has left his fortune to his West Indian manservant, has appealed for him to return part of the estate to the family.
Distressed Lady Anne Glenconner said she hoped that Kent Adonai, 48, ‘would do the right thing’.
Lady Anne, who was a close friend of Princess Margaret, said it was a ‘surprise’ to learn that her husband had left the multi-million pound estate on the Caribbean island of St Lucia to Mr Adonai.
At a memorial service yesterday for Lord Glenconner, 83, near Innerleithen in the Scottish Borders, Lady Anne said: ‘Kent was beloved by my husband but so were we all – I was married to him for 55 years.’
Mr Adonai had walked the baron’s pet elephant in the Caribbean, cooked for his jet-set friends and slept on the floor by his bed for 30 years.
Lord Glenconner changed his will seven months before his death from cancer to leave Mr Adonai everything that had been meant for his heir, his 17-year-old grandson Cody.
This included his beachside house between the Pitons in St Lucia, all its contents and a valley overlooking the Caribbean.
Mr Adonai has now cleared his master’s beach home and is planning a sale of its furniture at auctioneers Bonham’s.
Lady Anne said she would not challenge the will but appealed for its ‘wishes for the family’ to be carried out.
Read more of what Lady Anne had to say at the Daily Mail.
Photo credit: The Daily Mail
