Lily Safra’s way out of polemic situations she gets in is by opening her wallet. The brazilian, whose fortune is calculated to be US$ 1.2 billion, has just donated to the Neurology Department of Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière the amazing number of 8 million euros.
* This is the largest individual donation the hospital has ever gotten, the biggest in Europe , since 1997 widely known for being the place Princess Diana’s body was taken to.
* Currently Lily is in the north-American news for an unauthorized biography written by investigative journalist Isabel Vincent, who spent a year in Brazil talking to friends and acquaintances of the billionaire from the time she lived in Rio de Janeiro .
* The book is not that bad, but nothing like a donation to make you look good.