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Marie Douglas-David apparently can’t. The 36-year-old Swedish countess is divorcing George David, her 67-year-old former CEO husband, and simply can’t live on the $43 millions she’ll get in the settlement. She wants the post-nuptial invalidated.
It’s obvious that George is being completely unreasonable about this. How can he expect his ex-wife to make ends meet on a mere $43,000,000? After all, she has housing expenses to consider; a Park Avenue apartment and three residences in Sweden. Other weekly burdens include $700 for limousine service, $4,500 for clothes, $1,000 for hair and …
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It sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Not for Markus Frind, founder of plentyoffish.com. His site, a free online dating service based in Canada, serves up 1.6 billion webpages a month. Compare that with Digg, who serves up a mere 250 million page views a month, plentyoffish.com is probably the largest website you’ve never heard of.
Markus Frind’s site generates an unbelievable $10 million dollars from Google AdSense a year. “The site pretty much runs itself. Most of the time, I just sit on my ass and watch it.” With all his free …

