It’s hard to forget one of the best songs of 2005, when in the album Late Registration by rapper Kanye West, he featured his homie Jamie Foxx in the famous song ‘Gold Digger’, which said: “I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digger, but she ain’t messing with no broke –“. I instantly remembered this single, since it is the perfect way to summarize the upcoming list.

Most of the following trophy women, it must be said, have particularly looked at their husbands’ bank accounts, properties, glory, legacy, toys and everything in the material area. Of course, not all of them were unknown women, who, if it weren’t for the spotlight that their wealthy men attract, wouldn’t be in the public eye. In fact, there are a good handful of successful girls, mostly entrepreneurs; models from Italy, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Belgium and Australia; a Mexican Hollywood actress nominated for an Academy Award; a Russian art curator; a beauty queen and a British fashion designer, among others.

It is a funny thing, since Wikipedia calls gold digging “a type of transactional relationship”. So, there’s no love involved? Maybe not. But in the end, it doesn’t matter where they came from or whether they were successful or not prior to their marriage. After all, these trophy wives have found their loves, and we should be happy for them, shouldn’t we? Let’s remember that these trophy wives didn’t get married just for convenience, but for love. Yes, love for the money.

16. Salma Hayek – Married To President of distribution group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR)

Hayek is a Mexican film, theatre and television actress, businesswoman and producer. She is famous for being one of the three Latin American actresses nominated for best actress (for an Oscar), when in 2002 she got the nomination for her role as Frida Kahlo.

On April 26, 2006, during an exhibition in Venice, the Mexican actress Salma Hayek met François-Henri Pinault, president of the luxury goods and distribution group Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR), owner of brands such as Gucci, Yves Saint-Lauren, Balenciaga and Puma. One year later, Hayek announced that she was pregnant and engaged to the French businessman and in September of the same year, she gave birth in a hospital in Los Angeles, California, to a girl named Valentina Paloma Pinault-Hayek.

15. Julia Flesher – Married to Koch Industries Co-Owner David H. Koch

David H. Koch is an entrepreneur and co-owner, along with his brother Charles G. Koch, of the company now known as Koch Industries, a conglomerate of U.S. companies with numerous manufacturing, trading and investment subsidiaries, estimated to generate annual revenues of about $100 billion. According to Forbes magazine, Koch’s company is the second largest private company in the country after Cargill.

His fortune reaches 48.5 billion dollars. He has given $20 million to the American Museum of Natural History, whose dinosaur wing is also named after him. And last but not least, his most prized possession is his wife, Julia Flesher, whom he met on a blind date. They got married on 1996.

14. Aleksandra Melnichenko Mariied to Russian businessman Andrey Melnichenko

She is the wife of Russian businessman Andrey Melnichenko, who has a personal wealth of about $13.4 billion, ranked 139th on Forbes magazine’s worldwide list of billionaires, and 11th in Russia, her country of origin.

In 1999, Aleksandra began her career as a model and signed with agencies such as Riccardo Gay and Traffic, and spent the next four years working in Milan and Barcelona, participating in a large number of advertising campaigns both in print media and television. Aleksandra met Andrey Melnichenko in the South of France in 2003. In September of 2005, they organized a luxurious wedding on the Côte d’Azur. One of their most prized possessions are two pieces of art from the ‘Water Lilies’ series by French painter Claude Monet.

13. Dasha Zhukova – Was married to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich

Born in 1981 in Moscow, Dasha Zhukova is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, stylist and publisher of the magazine Garage and founder of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, in Moscow. She got married in a 2008 secret ceremony with Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire owner of the investment company Millhouse LLC and whose dividends come mainly from oil. He is regarded as one of Russia’s greatest oligarchs, although his success is attributed to his privileged relations to Moscow’s ruling circles. He is best known for owning an English football team, the Chelsea Football Club, since 2003.

The couple have two children, a boy and a girl, both born in the USA, but after almost ten years of marriage, the couple split in 2017, with a US$300 million settlement, making it one of the most expensive divorces of all time.

12. Kristy Hinze – donated more than $200 million to charities and universities

Hinze is an Australian actress, television host and model, and has appeared in Sports Illustrated magazine as well as the Victoria’s Secret catalogue. In October 2008, she got engaged to James H. Clark, who is an American businessman and computer scientist. He founded several notable technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon. Founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, Clark, who’s been divorced three times, is 36 years older than the beautiful Hinze, and is one of the most important philanthropists of the last two decades, as it has donated more than $200 million to charities and universities so that low-income students can pursue graduate and undergraduate studies.

11. Talulah Riley – Was married to Elon Musk

Talulah Ridley is an English actress who has had a not-so-extensive career in Hollywood, but rather on her country’s television. Her most outstanding role has been as a star of the films St Trinian’s and St Trinian’s II: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold, where she plays Annabelle Fritton.

In 2008, she met the real-life, human version of Tony Stark: Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla. Their relationship has been quite tumultuous. Since two years after they met, the couple got married, but divorced in 2012; only to remarry again a year later, although in 2016, they finally separated again. The Tesla’s founder moved on with Hollywood starlet Amber Heard (Johnny Depp’s ex-wife) but apparently they also announced their breakup recently.

10. Kirsty Roper – Wealthiest woman in the UK, with a fortune of $12 billion

Kirsty is the wealthiest woman in the UK, with a fortune of $12 billion. But that came not only from being a singer and former beauty queen, clearly representing the UK, but from marrying Ernesto Bertarelli, an Italian-born Swiss businessman and philanthropist who was the owner of biotech giant Serono until 2007 and winner of the America’s Cup in 2003 and 2007 with his yachting syndicate Alinghi, racing under the brand of the Société Nautique de Genève.

Bertarelli is considered the richest man in his country. In 1995, he returned to Switzerland after studying to obtain his Master’s degree in administration at the University of Harvard in the United States. The following year his father passed away from cancer and, at the age of 30, Ernesto took over the whole family business as president of the company.

9. Jade Foret – married French businessman Arnaud Lagardère (managing partner of Lagardère SCA)

Jade Foret was born in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in September 1990 in Belgium. At the age of 23, in Paris, in 2013, she married French businessman Arnaud Lagardère, with whom she has three children: two girls and one boy.

This 6-foot-tall blue-eyed brunette began her modeling career in New York, until she found the love of her life in the figure of Monsieur Lagardère, the managing partner of Lagardère SCA, a holding company of the Lagardère group, a multinational media conglomerate based in Paris, but it is also involved in sports, event and talent management. Lagardere first married Manuela Erdödy, an Austrian woman from a wealthy family, with whom he has two children.

8. Georgina Chapman – Ex wife of Harvey Weinstein

She is an English fashion designer and actress. Together with Keren Craig, an English-Swiss fashion designer, they’ve co-founded in 2004 the fashion label Marchesa, an American brand specializing in high-end womenswear. But everything changed when in 2004 she started dating the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, shortly after he dumped his first wife, just to get married with Chapman three years later, even though she divorced him this year when Weinstein got involved in many alleged s*xual harassment claims.

Weinstein’s productions, under The Weinstein Company, is a film studio that has produced films like Django Unchained, The King’s Speech, Silver Linings Playbook, The Imitation Game and Shakespeare in Love, winner of an Academy Award for Best Picture.

7. Katsia Damankova – married to Anton Zingarevich (Owner of Reading F.C.), one of the richest Russian tycoons

Anton Zingarevich owns Reading F.C., an English second division football team, but not even his millions or the football team are as valuable to him as his wife, Katsia Damankova. Also known as Katsia Zingarevich, this model was born in 1990 in Minsk, Belarus. Her entry into fashion came after winning the ‘Supermodel of the World’ competition in 2006. In 2010, she is one of those chosen to climb the catwalk of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Katsia married Anton, one of the richest Russian tycoons, in 2009. Besides modeling, she has another passion: football, just like her husband. This beautiful girl is a fan of Barcelona.

6. Oleksandra Nikolayenko – married to Treasure Island Resort & Casino Owner

Phil Ruffin, an American businessman whose interests goes from casinos, greyhound racing tracks, oil production and real estate, has 82 years. Ten years ago, he met and married a Ukrainian model named Oleksandra Nikolayenko, whom represented her country in the 2004 Miss Universe pageant, but unfortunately, she wasn’t even selected for the 15 finalists. At least she’s got her sugar daddy, the owner of the Treasure Island Resort & Casino and 50% of the Trump International Las Vegas hotel alongside friend Donald Trump, one of his best buds. Mr. Trump, the current president of the United states, was also the best man at Ruffin’s wedding in 2008 with the blondie Oleksandra. With those kinds of friends and that great-looking spouse, what else do you need?

5. Alexandra Lenas – Married to co-founder of Napster Sean Parker (also one of Spotify’s shareholders)

In 2013, America’s most expensive wedding list added two new names: Sean Parker and Alexandra Lenas. Parker is the co-founder of Napster and was the first president of Facebook, and Lenas is a singer. The couple spent $8.9 million on a fairy-tale wedding, as defined. Parker won massive recognition when Justin Timberlake starred in David Fincher’s acclaimed film, The Social Network, which recounted the beginnings of the world’s most popular social network: Facebook. Today, Parker is also one of Spotify’s shareholders and his fortune, by 2014, was estimated at around 3.100 million dollars.

4. Allison Williams – Yale Student And married to Richard Raphael “Ricky” Van Veen

This beautiful 29-year-old American actress jumped to fame after playing Rose in the horror movie Get Out. She also participated in the series Girls (HBO), characterizing Marnie Michaels. While studying at Yale, Williams was a member of Just Add Water’s four-year improvisational comedy theater, as well as a member of the three-part YouTube web series College Musical.

But her life changed when she began dating Richard Raphael “Ricky” Van Veen, co-founder of CollegeHumor, a comedy website based in Los Angeles. Oh, yes, and Tom Hanks officiated the marriage ceremony, but don’t ask us why that happened.

3. Stephanie Seymour – Married to millionaire Peter Brant

Stephanie Seymour started out as a model for local shops and newspapers at the age of 14. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she was featured in several issues of Sports Illustrated‘s swimsuit edition and on the cover of Vogue. In March of 1991 and February 1993, Seymour posed for Playboy. This particularly caught the attention of Axl Rose, Warren Beatty and Charlie Sheen, with whom she had romantic relationships, but since 1995 began dating millionaire Peter Brant, an American industrialist, businessman, art collector and philanthropist with a worth net of 500 million dollars. Luckily for them, they are still together; Stephanie likes bad guys, as Brant was sentenced to three months in jail and bailed $200,000 in 1990 for tax evasion.

2. Elisabetta Gregoraci – married to Flavio Briatore

Flavio Briatore is one of the Italian tycoons in the automotive world. In the early nineties, he managed to sign German driver Michael Schumacher, one of the Formula 1 legends, and who won the driver’s championship in 1994 and 1995 for Briatore’s team: Benetton Formula. In June of 2008, Briatore married Italian model and presenter Elisabetta Gregoraci, but not before sharing marital duties with supermodels such as Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum. His last position as sports director was between 2002 and 2009 with the Renault Formula 1 team, which was champion in 2005 and 2006 with the Spanish driver Fernando Alonso, the same one who drove the wedding car on Flavio and Elisabetta’s wedding day.

1. Miranda Kerr – married to co-founder of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel

Miranda Kerr is an Australian supermodel, well known for being one of Victoria’s Secret’s Angels from 2007 to 2013, and the first Australian to do so. Kerr began her modeling career at the age of 13 and was married to British actor Orlando Bloom (famous for his roles in the The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean series, respectively) for three years. But everything changed a couple of years after her divorce, when in 2015 this sapphire blue-eyed beauty started dating Evan Spiegel (co-founder of Snapchat), until they married this year. This rich nerd managed to beat the good-looking actor and take Miranda. Who would have thought? Not even Evan himself, we can guarantee you that.