Janna Bullock emigrated from Russia to become a nanny in New York. She met Aleksei Kuznetsov, a Moscow bank executive, while he was visiting, and they married. Next thing you know her husband is Moscow's finance director and she's "acquiring vast tracts of land around Moscow" until her empire is worth $2 billion dollars. Which, naturally, transformed the nanny into a New York socialite and plopped her on the board of the Guggenheim Foundation.

Sadly, all good things must come to an end. "We didn't get into any of the gossip or the allegations," said the president of the Guggenheim. "We have no idea what's true or false." The New York Times, though, goes far enough out on the limb to say that in July of 2008 Mr. Kuznetsov was "pressured" to resign. Then he "went on vacation," and while he was gone, an ally was shot in an apparent contract murder. He "decided not to return to Russia."

Dear New York Times,

How wealthy does a man have to be so you won't say he was "forced" to resign, then "fled the country," narrowly dodging hitmen, and is now "laying low" in an undisclosed location behind a phalanx of armed bodyguards?

Sincerely,
RomanHans