The billions, dear.

I had to try to find out something about this. People mag (Jan 27, 1992; http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20111938,00.html ) says that when she was with/broke up with him was about the same time Ms magazine had to be sold. Must have been a high stress interlude … Also a peak from Gloria Steinem: A Biography by Patricia Cronin Marcello (Greenwood, 2004) at http://books.google.com/books?id=WcyRSrnAXaEC ” …. Gloria went through another change very close to this time. Although Stan Pottinger had accompanied Gloria to her party, Mortimer (Mort) Zuckerman attended as a guest. She had been seeing both men for more than a month, but Zuckerman was not Glorida’s usual date. He was a real estate magnet and magazine publisher at the time and not known for his integrity. (Today, he is editor in chief and publisher of U.S. News and World Report and owns Boston Properties, Inc.). Most of Glorida’s friends were astounded when she began the relationship with him, although she told them he was the smartest man she ever knew and that she was obsessed with him. But Gloria admits she was deluding herself. Zuckerman was not really the attraction; the incredible luxury of his enormous wealth soothed her exhaustion. She wrote, “Though I was privileged to be working in this movement that had given me life and friends I loved, I had less and less …”

Except for Madoff breaking him …