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So what first attracted you to the billionaire Jim Clark?

He's just so handsome, funny and charismatic

IT SEEMS THAT some girls don't need an online simulation game to become "the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world", they are perfectly happy acting out their characters in real life. Take Australian model Kristy Hinze, the 27-year-old swimsuit model girlfriend of Netscape founder, 63-year-old Texan billionaire, Jim Clark.

According to the Sydney Herald, Hinze told Australian Women's Weekly that she had been 'instantly attracted' to the thrice-divorced billionaire, and that it had been his intelligence that had captured her heart. Clark's yacht, Athena, the biggest privately-owned yacht in the world, obviously had nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Hinze, who the US press have dubbed 'the Aussie Angel', admits that she never thought she would date an old (sorry, older) man, but that "To me, it was different to hang out with someone with something to say". Hinze, who is a former Sports Illustrated covergirl and recently became the face of fashion label Sportscraft, is also the granddaughter of a former Queensland politician, Russ Hinze.

The couple have been dating for two and-a-half years and, despite his being worth an estimated $US1.1 billion, Hinze gushes that the reason she loves her billionaire entrepreneur so very much, is because "He's handsome and has so much charisma - and he's so funny". He has her laughing all the way to the bank, obviously. She adds, "I just love him".

Hinze will have to wrench herself away from her handsome, charismatic, intelligent, rich husband for a little when she becomes the host of the Aussie version of Project Runway, which starts shooting in April. µ

L'Inq

Sydney Morning Herald

Comments

So...

Jealous Sylvie..?
posted by : fishbone, 26 March 2008

To be fair....

At 63 years old, and a billion in the bank, come on guys, you'd do the same ! :)
posted by : LPF, 26 March 2008

Money cant buy love!

But money can buy you all the viagra one needs and the youngest and hottest models on the block. One wonders if this pretty poor billionaire can have a twenty something supermodel how much supermodels could the someone like the King of Voiles buy? Ole billie boy such do gooder, I would have 2 twentysomething year old models AT LEAST! Maybe have new ones for every windows release. Windows eXposed!
posted by : DeadSouL, 28 December 2007

If you could bottle that appeal

Would you call it AUDaciou$? Hinze-57? Most Aussie notes feature both a male and a female, which makes for something to $Ay plenty. Russ never sleeps. On the Athena, he's navigator and commander on the far side of the world from Texas. I guess he's onboard for her because she's a great roll model.
Gor figure!
posted by : karlsbad, 28 December 2007

Paul McCartney...

...hasn't entirely cornered the market, then?
posted by : michael, 26 March 2008

The rich (and the beautiful) are very different...

C'mon. Think about it. Both of these people have extreme assets. In both cases, with respect to personal relationships, they exist in a very "target rich environment". Given extreme wealth or extreme beauty (but not necessarily both) how would YOU select a life partner? My blessings and best wishes go to the pair of them.

- The Garret
posted by : The Garret, 26 March 2008

Did anybody else think...

... Anna Nicole II ...
posted by : Lawrence D'Oliveiro, 26 March 2008
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