Chapter 177 Too many illegitimate children is also a problem

As December approaches, it becomes rainy in Los Angeles. Although the drizzle is annoying, it can wash many buildings in Los Angeles away, making them look brand new.

"It's really not easy to see you now."

In the hilltop villa of the BlackRock community, Brian Roscoe put down the coffee cup in his hand, leaned back, and looked at Milo in front of him with a smile: "When I heard that the Blackburn family was finally going to have their own bank, it sounded a little incredible."

Brian looked Milo up and down, admiring him and then said:

"To be honest, your fall was disappointing. I thought you would become a joke that Blackburn and we would not want to mention. Who would have thought that when so many people gave up on you, you would stand up again. In less than two years, you have reached the point where we all need to look up to you..."

"In a way, you have accomplished something that Paladin didn't do back then."

“It’s just a small bank. Even in Weaverville, it’s the smallest bank.”

Milo smiled disapprovingly and said, "As for my transformation. Everyone changes. I changed the moment Paladin died."

"That's the Federal Reserve Bank! Even a small one is still a Federal Reserve Bank."

Brian Roscoe looked at Milo seriously: "And you are the only one in the whole United States who can make such a change!"

"Are you here to flatter me? Brian, I feel good to hear that. But if it's just this matter, you could have said it on the phone." Milo laughed.

Brian Roscoe shook his head and said softly, "Two things. The first thing is to thank you for your support in allowing me to become the city council president of Santa Monica."

As December approaches, elections across the United States have basically come to an end.

Because most of them will have to give way to the real election.

In San Francisco, Haley became the prosecutor of Santa Clara County.

In Los Angeles, Brian became the Speaker of the City Council of Santa Monica, a city outside the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

This is a bit outrageous, a guy who has been parachuted in only a few months ago and has no foundation.

In the end, he became the third most powerful speaker of the Santa Monica City Council.

I can only say that this is America. Just like in a parallel universe, Kimpo originally had no political influence at all, but eventually came to power.

Brian knew very well the reason for his success, in addition to Milo's golden bullet support.

The support of Milo's media group and the stars of his film company is also important.

During the election period in the past few months, many Hollywood stars went to Santa Monica to settle down.

Buy a house, travel and so on.

They deliberately let the media see them, and then announced to the public that they came because they were optimistic about the candidate Brian Roscoe.

It was easy to increase Brian's popularity in Santa Monica.

"Given the relationship between Blackburn and Roscoe, I don't think you need to say thank you to me. Just like if you help me with something, I won't say thank you to you, dear Brian."

Milo smiled in response.

The Blackburn family is a core fringe family of the Boston consortium.

There are also several vassal families around him.

Rothko was one of them.

No matter where they are, the human race has always liked to use marriage as the best means to consolidate alliances.

The same applies to these vassal families.

Brian's mother, before she married Brian's father, publicly used her last name, Black.

However, in reality, according to bloodline, her last name should be Blackburn.

She was Milo's aunt, the illegitimate daughter of old Blackburn...

In terms of blood relationship, Brian is actually Milo's uncle.

It’s just that Europeans and Americans don’t recognize illegitimate children, so Milo won’t call Brian uncle.

But everyone is still very clear about the actual situation.

This is also a common operating method within large American families.

Especially when facing those vassal families, they like to marry their collateral or illegitimate children to the children of the vassal families.

And when a vassal family grows to a certain extent, it can be on equal footing with the main family.

They would not choose to split up, and generally would directly marry.

But such a marriage is basically between the main family and the main family's direct descendants.

"Let's talk about the second thing. This is why you came to see me. Brian, you always like to do things and talk like this."

When Brian Roscoe heard Milo say this, he nodded slightly.

"The second thing... Dear Milo, what are you going to do with your illegitimate children in San Francisco?"

Milo couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and at the same time he felt a little guilty.

"I don't understand what you mean. And Brian, this shouldn't be a question for you to ask, right?"

He didn't feel guilty because he had an illegitimate child.

Milo felt guilty because he gave illegitimate children to someone who shouldn't have them.

Brian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Milo seriously, "John asked me to come here. He asked me to tell you that the new generation of Blackburn's child can only come from Ariana Rockefeller's belly. He hopes you understand this."

"As for the French woman, John said he would not care as long as her child did not have the name Blackburn."

Oh, I only knew about the French one.

Then you probably don't know your own home...

Milo breathed a sigh of relief.

At first, Milo kept Sophie Marceau's pregnancy a secret.

But then…

Later, his sister-in-law also got... pregnant.

So after entering September.

Milo gradually relaxed his efforts to hide the fact that Sophie was pregnant.

Maybe this can be called a diversion?

Release a small one first to attract everyone's attention.

The purpose is to hide the bigger one behind...

So far the effect is pretty good.

"You all know?" Milo spoke, looking at Brian.

“Haha, this is actually normal.”

Brian chuckled and raised an eyebrow at Milo. "You don't really think that such a famous actress disappeared for so many months and no one paid attention to her, do you? Even though she is French."

"Besides, the movie she starred in is about to be released. It's your movie, but she hasn't come out to promote it yet."

"As long as you think about it, you will always find the information you need. Besides, you don't care too much about hiding it, do you?"

"Who else knows?" Milo looked at Brian and asked.

"I'm afraid all the forces that are following you know about it. But this kind of thing is not a big deal for a billionaire like you who is not married. Besides, if it is exposed, it will easily provoke your crazy revenge. It is not worth it."

"Rockefeller should also be very clear about this, but they never pay attention to this. Moreover, they play even more lavishly, even their illegitimate children can become..."

"And I guess those foreigners are also very clear about this. Don't treat the embassies of various countries as decorations. They are all agents living in the sun. You are too dazzling. In addition, you have the Blackburn family behind you. Your father Joseph is so young. Now you have made up for the shortcoming of wealth. The future has infinite possibilities. Tell me yourself, are you dazzling or not!"

After a few seconds of silence, Milo nodded, "Okay, I understand. I promised my grandfather about this."

Even if your last name is not Blackburn, it doesn't mean you can't have the last name "Blackburnson" or "Blackburnso" or something like that.

In fact, Milo understood what his grandfather or anyone else meant.

They are not saying that Milo's illegitimate children must not have the surname Blackburn.

It's just a surname, nothing more.

In the United States and the United Kingdom, there are at least hundreds of thousands of people with the surname Blackburn, if not millions.

There are many black people with the last name Blackburn.

Perhaps their ancestors had picked cotton for the Blackburn plantation owner.

What old Blackburn meant was actually hinting at Milo.

Hinting to him, except for the children born to Rockefeller.

They do not recognize other illegitimate children.

Just like their illegitimate children, their grandparents and parents would not acknowledge them.

For example, Brian's mother, old Blackburn would not recognize her outside.

Joseph also did not recognize that she was his sister.

As for privately, no one will care about you.

Hearing Milo's agreement, Brian obviously relaxed.

The main thing is that this Blackburn in front of him was nothing before.

He dared to drive his car to hit a potential politician with a great reputation and influence in Boston.

Now that I have grown up, I always like to make other people's families tidy and neat.

Brian's impression of him was that he was somewhat moody and violent.

Now that he is so easy to talk to, Brian is naturally happy.

After sending Brian away with the message, Milo pondered in the study.

Like Brian said, there's too much focus on ourselves.

I like to stir up trouble and I am also a playboy.

So it seems that we should indeed prepare some fallback plans.

Not only for yourself, but also for your children and their mothers.

A trust fund?

Milo didn't quite believe this.

It would be fine if I were alive, but it would be fine if I were dead.

Then there's no use for any trust fund.

Many times, unless it is a wealthy family with a legacy.

Otherwise, once those family trusts are established, the principal will already belong to the trust manager.

The trust manager only needs to pay some interest to the descendants in the initial stage.

When it comes to huge wealth, whoever has the right to manage it is almost equivalent to having control over the wealth.

There is no need to even acquire wealth in name only, the benefits can be transferred at any time, it is so easy.

That is why Swiss banks are not in a hurry to confiscate NC’s inheritance. Keeping it in the account is equivalent to having it confiscated.

Fan Zhongyan of ancient China had already seen through the trick here.

Therefore, he must make the family trust into family land that is visible and cannot be moved within the family community, rather than money that is hung in the account and can be easily transferred.

There are also examples in the United States.

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For example, the Solomonson family and the Nurenberg family are both wealthy people, and their ancestors have been doing business together.

You invest in me and I invest in you. We make money together and share the risks together.

Your son marries my daughter, and my daughter marries your son.

Solomon invested 1 billion to establish a family trust fund, appointed Nurnberg as the manager, and distributed the money to his descendants.

Nuremberg invested 1 billion to establish a family trust fund and appointed Solomon Song as the manager to distribute the money to his descendants.

Once the trust fund is established, the money theoretically no longer belongs to their family.

Therefore, any risk to their family will not affect any penny in this fund.

Do you think they actually transferred the money out? It seems that they did, but in fact they didn't! This is the nature of the Western Trust Fund! However, if the beneficiary of the trust fund established by Milo is Blackburn.

That's not bad, it can play the same role as the Solomonson and Nuremberg families mentioned above.

Because Blackburn's in-laws will help keep an eye on it, unless all the in-laws want to wipe out the entire family and take action together.

Otherwise the money is safe.

But if he wants to set up a trust fund for his illegitimate children.

It's good that he's alive.

Once he was gone, his illegitimate children never grew up.

Then these trust funds will most likely be taken away by Blackburn in the end.

Although the money will eventually go to his family, and most likely to be his and Ariana's child.

But the original intention of establishing a trust fund was completely lost.

Unless the future child of himself and Ariana is a truly filial son.

And he has enough authority within the family to allow him to maintain friendship with his illegitimate brothers.

This is based on the assumption that Blackburn is a large family and there is no need to worry about the trust fund being taken away by the administrator.

If it were the ordinary grassroots rich people who started out as rich people, most of them would be smart enough not to even set up a trust fund.

For example, Musk in the parallel universe does not believe in trust funds.

He directly set up a charitable foundation and managed it himself.

When you are about to die, you can just pass the position of charity fund manager to your descendants.

Legally speaking, it was not an inheritance of wealth, but just a change of position as the manager of a private charitable foundation.

This way you don't have to pay the horrible inheritance tax.

Secondly, you don’t have to worry about someone else taking away control of your property.

However, there are disadvantages to doing so. Legally, the wealth belongs to the charitable foundation, not to Musk's descendants.

Musk's descendants only have management and use rights, not ownership rights.

It would be fine if Musk's descendants were capable.

If you don't have the ability, you might as well squander all the assets in the charity fund.

There is a high probability that they will be targeted later and control of the charity fund will be taken away.

This is the helplessness of the wealthy people who come from grassroots backgrounds in the West.

Or they can bet that their descendants are capable and can retain control of the charitable fund.

Either you pay protection fees to the government or a large inheritance tax, and your descendants will get ownership of the remaining property.

Clearly, none of them believed in trust funds.

Even so, he is a wealthy man of Western origin.

Many wealthy people outside of Europe and America, such as in Asia and China, highly praise this thing.

You say that you are a wealthy Chinese and you set up a family trust fund overseas and let a foreigner be the manager of the money. Is the money still yours? This is just like Swiss banks are very safe and Switzerland is always neutral.

It's all a joke.

After much thought, Milo finally decided that he really wanted to leave wealth to his descendants.

The best way is to live longer, long enough for the illegitimate children to grow up.

As for other things, trust funds or charitable foundations are not reliable.

noon.

At the gate of the hilltop villa in the BlackRock community.

In the middle of the motorcade leaving the villa, in the trunk of a specially modified and enlarged Cadillac Escalade SUV.

Julie Delpy looked at Milo and Blanchett, who was lying on his knees, "Huh, you said you would take us to the streets, but you ended up playing around... Kate's makeup will all be ruined!"

Blanchett said nothing. She couldn't speak now.

Zeta-Jones is now famous for "Angels and Demons" and "Shakespeare in Love" and is climbing up the Hollywood ladder.

Jolie was originally a third-tier star. After following Milo, she relied on Milo's face to star in several Hollywood blockbusters.

Although not as popular as Zeta-Jones, she is now a firmly established second-tier Hollywood star.

There is only the Australian goddess, and she is still the bag-carrying girl in their small circle.

It’s not that Milo didn’t support her, but her looks were very important in role setting before she became famous.

But this time it's different.

Because Paladin Films has announced that it will begin filming the epic fantasy blockbuster next year.

The Lord of the Rings film adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Jolie plays the female lead and Blanchett plays the female supporting role.

Although she is still the second female lead, the second female lead in a blockbuster movie is different from the second female lead in a small-investment movie.

Hearing Julie teasing him, Milo stroked the hair of the Australian goddess, shrugged and said indifferently:

"Hey, every time I come to Los Angeles, I always come to your place first. Doesn't this show how important you are to me? You are all my people. Now that the time is right, all the resources will naturally be yours."

"Haha, your people? Yes, they are all your people!"

Julie's upbringing made her more precocious.

The dark experiences in her childhood allowed her to see the world more clearly and naturally become more open-minded.

It is a very lucky thing to have a backer like Milo to protect her from the wind and rain.

At least Milo would not be so ruthless. Just look at the care and treatment he and Catherine received in Hollywood.

She wondered whether the Australians and British people were aware that they were treated very differently from everyone else.

If nothing else, Julie knew it very well.

Another Jolie in the circle, in order to play some more important movies.

That Julie, she had to taste at least a dozen birds every time before she could get a role.

Not like her, Julie.

She only needs to eat one.

Thinking of this, I was worried that my makeup would be ruined and I would have to do it again.

But Julie still tied up her hair and leaned over.

There are too many people competing with her for the birds, so she can't let down her guard.

Half an hour later.

"Okay, we're almost there."

"Don't just focus on putting on makeup, you should also adjust your clothes! When you get off the car, you must maintain your manners, be confident, and smile. After all, paparazzi are everywhere on Sunset Boulevard."

Milo also straightened his suit and gave instructions to the two beautiful girls with a serious look.

It’s fun to play, but you still have to be a little careful.

Julie Delpy and Blanchett, who was starting to straighten her clothes and putting on new stockings, nodded unconsciously.

They also knew that if they followed Milo, they would definitely be on the front pages of major newspapers across the United States tomorrow.

Some major entertainment-oriented newspapers, such as the New York Post, might even put them on the headlines.

Not to mention those tabloids, they will definitely be the ones to massacre the pages tomorrow!

Such is the charm and influence of Milo.

The word "hot" is not enough to fully describe how popular Milo is.

The young people just love him to death.

Whether it's his looks, figure, cool expression, or his creations, music, novels, and movies, not to mention the mainstream media touting him as the epitome of the American dream of creating wealth.

The Americans just buy into this! (End of this chapter)