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Long Island tycoon blasts 'rip-off' matchmakers after spending $65G in search of love
New York Post ^ | 10/08/2012 | Tara Palmeri

Posted on 10/08/2012 7:18:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Money really can’t buy you love — just ask this picky multimillionaire on Long Island.

Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife.

After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.”

But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league.

Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long Island, says he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”

“New York is a tough market for a guy like me. I thought I get the career, then I find the woman,” Greenfield told The Post.

“I’d trade it all in for a white picket fence, two kids, a dog. And you can have it all! I’d take a $50,000-a-year job, work until I retire.”

“I’m not a bad guy. I haven’t been to prison,” he said. “It’s just a very frustrating thing.”

As for the Manhattan matchmakers — who charge about $10,000 per year — Greenfield said: “You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear.”

He complained when Barbie Adler, a matchmaker at Selective Search, set him up with a Knicks dancer.

“Do I seem like the New-York-City-dancer type of guy?” he scoffed.

He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: dating; matchmakers; tycoon
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‘HAVE’ HAS NOT: Retired millionaire Larry Greenfield can’t find the right woman to share his large Plainview, LI, home.
1 posted on 10/08/2012 7:18:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

RE: he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”

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OK, someone educate me here — what on earth is an “alpha”? Is there a “Beta” or a “Gamma” too?


2 posted on 10/08/2012 7:20:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: SeekAndFind
A jewish women who's not an Alpha?
From New York
With a sense of humor?

Let me guess...He's an Obama voter?

3 posted on 10/08/2012 7:25:50 PM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Larry, face it, you’re gonna have to get a shiksa from the heartland.


4 posted on 10/08/2012 7:28:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is a guy who wants a temple virgin to worship him and thinks he deserves one because he made a lot of money. What he fails to factor in is that New York is full of fat-faced rich money guys who think they're gods, and no decent woman wants anything to do with any of them. Picket fence my ass. Not this prima donna.
5 posted on 10/08/2012 7:30:13 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SeekAndFind

Women aren’t a buffet line, no matter how much money you have. This guy is destined to die lonely because he is a jackass.


6 posted on 10/08/2012 7:30:17 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: mountn man

OK, I got this definition from the Urban Dictionary:

Alpha Female

A powerful, assertive woman. Her confidence may be due to her good looks and/or superior intelligence. Men desire her, and girls with low self-esteem hate her.

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So, he does not want this kind of woman...

Why not try a traditional Jewish lady instead?

There are lots of them in the country.


7 posted on 10/08/2012 7:33:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, I’m not female or Jewish, so I can’t be his wife, but for $65000 a year I can be a real good pal.

“She’s no good for you, Lar. Come on........you can buy me another Porsche.”


8 posted on 10/08/2012 7:33:58 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

But I thought everybody has a right to marry the person the love.


9 posted on 10/08/2012 7:34:09 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: SeekAndFind

Free advice: Move out of the Liberal hellhole of NY. Find some country gals. Larry is stuck on stupid.


10 posted on 10/08/2012 7:35:19 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: mountn man

“A jewish women who’s not an Alpha? From New York[?]”

LOL, I KNOW! The Jews have a word for a guy like this: putz.


11 posted on 10/08/2012 7:35:33 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: hinckley buzzard

Hell, only $65,000, I paid $20.00 for a marriage license, and it cost me $20,000,000 to get out.. He should quit while he is ahead.. My Honeymoon was a period between “I DO”, and “YOU’D BETTER”.. :)


12 posted on 10/08/2012 7:44:20 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sometimes for a good laugh I read the personal ads. The way people describe themselves and what they are looking for are often hysterically funny!

LOL!


13 posted on 10/08/2012 7:49:37 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Winning is everything.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”

14 posted on 10/08/2012 7:51:41 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Berlin_Freeper

There was one ad recently...

“I am 30 years old and love animals. I always wanted a dog.”

Huh?
30 and always wanted a dog?
Lol


15 posted on 10/08/2012 7:59:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Winning is everything.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He needs to go to Russia


16 posted on 10/08/2012 8:02:46 PM PDT by agincourt1415 (Tired of the current State, and Federal Tax System go here: APTTAX.com)
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To: agincourt1415

Or some of the former Soviet Republics.

There also are a lot of nice traditional Jewish ladies in South America.


17 posted on 10/08/2012 8:10:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: SeekAndFind

An alpha woman = high maintenance.

The guy doesn’t want a wife. He wants an accessory that will service him at night.


18 posted on 10/08/2012 8:15:41 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are a gazillion JAPS out there and this putz spends $65 k for someone to put a slipper on one of them?


19 posted on 10/08/2012 8:16:01 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Berlin_Freeper
There was one ad recently...

“I am 30 years old and love animals. I always wanted a dog.”

If that was a personal ad, a dog is the best he can hope for!

20 posted on 10/08/2012 8:18:26 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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