What young boy truly wants to grow up? The responsibilities of manhood simply can’t compare to the joyful exuberance of youth. Still, with great success comes great reward, providing incredibly successful men with the ability to not just succumb to Peter Pan Syndrome, but to actually create their own Never Never Land (think Michael Jackson). Unfortunately though, refusal to grow up does have its disadvantages, in that “modern” society does not always look favorably upon such behavior. This is precisely the problem facing the 35-year-old teenager at the center of the comedy series
Man-Teen. It is and/or was the same dilemma facing the men occupying this list of The World’s 10 Most Successful Men That Didn’t Grow Up – but obviously, they found a way to make it work.
10. Jefri Bolkiah
Prince Jefri Bolkiah – the youngest, so-called “playboy” brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Hassan al Bolkiah (one of the wealthiest men in the world) – is the former owner of the New York Palace Hotel and the Hotel Bel-Air in Beverly Hills and has a reputation for flamboyant excess, including a private Boeing 747, a large art collection including works by Manet and Renoir, at least twenty-one works by Degas, a collection of 2,000 luxury cars, a number of properties around the globe, businesses such as the luxury goods manufacturer Asprey, and a yacht named Tits (which, naturally, came with lifeboats named Nipple 1 and Nipple 2).
The 55-year-old prince is currently at the center of a blockbuster real estate trial unfolding in Manhattan Supreme Court. Bolkiah is suing two ex-financial advisers, Thomas Derbyshire and his wife, Zaman, saying they bilked him when they sold his 23-room Sunninghill estate on Long Island’s North Shore for $11 million. The prince argues the property was worth much more, but that is irrelevant compared to evidence the judge recently ruled off-limits – his four sex trophies.
The statues, which were stored at the estate, are lifelike recreations of the prince – a longtime pal of late pop star Michael Jackson (birds of a feather freak together) – making love to his fiancée. Photographs of the pieces show an endowed, muscular prince in a series of sexual positions with the woman, one of many at his beck and call. Bolkiah has multiple wives and a harem of lovelies. But then again, what good man-teen doesn’t?
Prince Jefri, who served as finance minister of his oil-rich country from 1986 to 1998 and once headed the Brunei Investment Agency, was cut off from the tiny oil-rich nation after his brother accused him of embezzling $15 billion. That set off a long feud between the Sultan and his youngest brother, whose sexual shenanigans were spotlighted in “My Life In A Harem,” a book written by a stripper who dropped out of NYU to join Prince Jefri’s stable of beauties, which at times has included a former Miss USA, a future Miss USA, a former Miss Teen USA, and a Miss United Kingdom runner up. (I wonder if she ever got the chance to finish first?)
Prince Jefri’s full name is His Royal Highness Pengiran Digadong Sahibul Mal Pengiran Muda Jefri Bolkiah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa’adul Khairi Waddien.