Another request motivated by insecurity. This girl is all dressed up with somewhere to go, and she looks great, but she's caught sight of her reflection in the mirror and doesn't like it. It's really just a small detail of the photo, but she's decided that she simply can't bear to look at it anymore, and she wants Fridman's help to get rid of it.
Fridman's options were limited with this. He could remove her from the mirror, but that would make her look like a vampire with no reflection! He decided that he couldn't do that to her, and so he did away with the mirror completely. Now she's got a window instead, and an excellent view of the boiler room. Some people might see that as a downgrade, but we can tell you that urban chic is very in at the moment. If this apartment were in the middle of New York, people would be happy to pay big money for it!
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.