Some have said that billionaire businessman Henry Silverman is a genius for his work at Cendant Corporation. It turns out he thinks so too.
Mr. Silverman, neck-deep in a bitter divorce battle with his wife, tried to introduce evidence in court that would empirically prove his elevated intelligence quotient, the Daily Mail has reported. Why, you wonder, would the established exec make such an outlandish move?
The answer, of course, is money. Mr. Silverman wanted to wield official “genius” status in court to prove that his wealth is the direct result of superior intelligence, preventing his wife Nancy from claiming that she contributed to the fortune. Mr. Silverman and his lawyers clearly executed a quick cost-benefit analysis and decided the cost of sacrificing his dignity was worth the money he would otherwise have to cough up to his ex-wife.
Jokes on him, however. Even after making a spectacle of himself, state supreme court judge Laura Drager rejected the evidence.
Mr. Silverman has been deadlocked in divorce proceedings since 2008 when he left his wife of thirty years for a yoga instructor he met at Starbucks. The former couple have a daughter together, Casey.
