A YOUNG woman, who is set to inherit tens of millions, has said she does not want to keep the fortune but would rather give up to 95 per cent of it to charity.
Marlene Engelhorn, 29, is a partial heir to the famed German Engelhorn family’s $4.2 billion-dollar fortune following the death of her grandmother.
Marlene said she does not want to keep her inheritance, claiming discovering her grandmother had decided to leave her this fortune did not make her happy, but rather it annoyed her.
“It should not be my decision what to do with my family’s money, for which I did not work,” Marlene told Vice News. “Managing that heritage takes a lot of time. That is not my life project.”
Having known about her inheritance for two years, Marlene said she had time to think about the best option for her and she has decided to give the money away to charity.