Aide says Franks offered her $ 5 million to carry his child
5 mil better get genetics just a step below ascended being...
Yikes. That reads like the first half of the old "Haggling over the price" Churchill joke. I wonder which secret slush fund covers that sort of thing?
Franks was born in 1957, and married his wife when he was 23, in 1980. Assuming she is roughly his age, or only a little younger, and since they have two children, this request came when they were well into middle age, and sounds rather suspicious.
Why offer so much? Was that a cover up after the fact? Surrogates are available for less... I don’t know how much less, but I would hazard a guess that it’s in the 50K range, since you’re laid up for the better part of a year, and it’s a very personal job.
“...offered $5 million to carry his child”
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I call BS on this! The going “commercial” Rate with IVF facilities is in the 5 figure range and there is usually a split between the egg donor and the surrogate “carrier”.