"Wait, Mr. Devonshire, you haven't answered the reporter's question. You can't just leave like this."
"Please answer our question, Mr. Devonshire. Are you a celibate?"
Seeing that William had already stood up and was about to leave, the scene was noisy. The reporters in the front row protested loudly. They rushed toward William with recording pens and shouted that they had the right to interview him. However, William ignored them. It was up to him whether he wanted to answer or not.
Suddenly, a reporter shouted, "If you have a child without getting married, isn't that an illegitimate child? God, is there going to be a second illegitimate child in the Devonshire family that has been passed down for thousands of years? "
Silence, extreme silence. Everyone looked at the reporter who spoke with great surprise. The reporters who were close to him instinctively stepped back and distanced themselves from him.
William, who was standing up and shaking hands with the chairman of Brand L, turned his head and stared at the reporter who spoke. When he saw the staff tag on the reporter's chest, he let go of his hand and picked up the microphone. "News International's News of the World? Very good, I'll remember you. "
Putting down the microphone, he turned to the chairman of Brand L and said something that made the old man's heart skip a beat. "You should thank me. Tomorrow, our company's stock will definitely soar. Maybe you should really consider letting me take over more shares. My joining will only be good for you and the company. As for the company's management rights, I'm not interested. Think about it seriously. Call me if you have any ideas."
Then, he took Ambrosio's hand and walked out of the press conference hall under the escort of more than a dozen bodyguards while the reporters were screaming and cursing. They got into the same Cadillac limousine as the American chief executive and returned home to New York under the escort of eight large SUVs.
Less than an hour later, the words William said when he signed the contract with Brand L appeared in the news at noon.
Perhaps it was because of William's prior reminder to prepare a legal team and a $10 million or even $100 million reserve for the lawsuit. That day, the TV, newspaper, and other media reports about him were more or less true. However, even if they didn't distort the truth, the video recorded at the scene was enough to make people all over the world gape in shock.
The talkative guests invited by the TV station also became honest. They only discussed the reason why William suddenly set up a family foundation, and why the beneficiaries of the foundation were Lena, himself, and his child. They did not mention his future wife, the mother of his child.
Also, why would William suddenly reveal his net worth at this time? In the press conference, William had revealed that he had earned more than 110 million USD in two days. Although he didn't know how much more, William's net worth in Devonshire was already over 13 billion USD if he calculated it at 110 million USD in two days.
But this was only calculated based on the minimum estimate. Many guests thought that William's net worth had exceeded 20 billion USD. If that was the case, then William would immediately become the 9th richest person in the world. Even if it was only 13 billion USD, he could rank 21st.
All kinds of doubts puzzled people. At the same time, people were discussing whether Lena's Devonshire was really the richest woman in England.
Judging from the companies William announced, although Apple and Amazon's performance was not good, the shares of the two companies could be worth about 400 million USD. Chelsea and Jenny were almost 1 billion USD. With 1 billion USD in cash, the current wealth of the Devonshire Family Foundation had exceeded 2 billion USD.
Many curious people checked and found that the richest person in England was the Duke of Westminster's family foundation. The data in May this year showed that the wealth of this foundation was about 7 billion USD.
The richest woman was the Queen of England's King Philip, but the Queen's wealth was only 1.2 billion pounds, which was about 1.5 billion USD. Lena's Devonshire had really become the richest woman in England.
And someone on the Internet suddenly revealed that Lena's Devonshire still had more than 300 million pounds in cash in the Bank of England. With the foundation's 1 billion USD in cash, Lena's cash had reached nearly 1.5 billion USD. She had become the richest woman in England.
However, within a day, the London police received a tip and arrested the informant. The informant was a trader who had been fired by the Bank of England because of a mistake.
When the news came out, although the people of England were crazy with jealousy, Lena was different from those women who got rich through marriage. Lena relied on giving birth to a good son. No matter how unhappy the people were, they did not criticize Lena much. After all, she had given birth to a son, William's Devonshire, the richest man in England.
Yes, that's right. The next day, all the newspapers in England used the headline "The Two Richest People" to report that the mother and son of the Devonshire family had become the richest people in England at the same time. The media's valuation of William's wealth was 11 billion USD.
At the end of the report, the Guardian left a paragraph stating that the 11 billion USD was the wealth that they could find. The Guardian believed that William's actual wealth, excluding the 2 billion USD from the Devonshire family's foundation, was likely to reach 15 billion USD.
Because the Guardian obtained an exclusive news, according to an unconfirmed rumor, a bulletproof suit that was worth 5 million pounds had become popular in the upper class of England. The owner of the newspaper gritted his teeth and bought one of these suits. Using some connections, he obtained the approval of Lena's Devonshire family, and only then did he expose the news.
This suit was no different from an ordinary suit. The bulletproof level 4 suit was invented by William, and he was planning to form a professional bulletproof product company with some people of status.
With the current popularity of the bulletproof suit among the upper class of England, the valuation of this company, which had not yet been established, had reached 4 billion USD. The reason for this valuation was that the Guardian's boss knew that this new product had sold dozens of sets, or even hundreds of sets, before it was even listed on the market.
Before it was officially sold, the turnover was estimated to be 100 to 500 million pounds. According to the normal 20 times earnings ratio, 4 billion USD was a very reasonable valuation. Once this bulletproof product company went public, the company's valuation could directly reach tens of billions of USD.
This was because the products of other companies that also sold bulletproof suits could only reach the level of a level-3 pistol at best. Moreover, the fabric was twice as thick as William's company's products. At the same time, it was not dustproof or waterproof.
The most important thing was that the price of these companies' products was not lower than the bulletproof suit invented by William. The price of some products was even six times higher, reaching an astonishing 8 million pounds per set.
As soon as the Guardian's report appeared, the next day, the products of all the bulletproof casual companies around the world began to slow down, and the stock prices of some listed companies began to decline.
This gave William, who was still in New York, a headache. He could imagine how much trouble and harassment he would encounter once he returned to England, but it would be even more troublesome if he did not return. This was because he had already received no less than 20 phone calls and hundreds of invitations to cocktail parties while he was at home in New York.
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