The real dirty sexy money

Long before David Letterman immortalized the Top 10, publishers figured out that readers love lists.
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Magazine cover stories rank the best places to live, the best places to do business, the world’s richest people. The internet, of course, is a bit more creative. A quick Google search for the phrase “top 10″ yields, after Letterman:

· Top 10 naked people on Google Earth
· Top 10 ways to destroy earth
· Top 10 urinals (somebody’s doing some serious SEO here)
· Top 10 strangest Lego creations (ditto)
· Top 10 spammers

While we might grow jaded about lists and the ways they’re compiled, we couldn’t resist Forbes’ new top 10 billionaire family feuds.

The magazine bows to popular appeal by leading with Anna Nicole Smith. Further down are Liesel Pritzker, who sued her father and cousins for $6 billion; and Marilyn Carlson Nelson, who was sued by her son, Curtis.

Other wealthy litigants include Brent Redstone, who sued dad, media titan Sumner Redstone; and the quarreling sons of Fred Koch, founder of Koch Industries.

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• Family strife dogs the Redstones - July 21, 2007
• Muckety this! Elizabeth Taylor to Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith - May 21, 2007
• Bobby Trendy connects Britney and Anna Nicole - January 4, 2008
• Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter named her heir - March 5, 2008
• Sumner Redstone to sell $400 million stake in CBS and Viacom - October 11, 2008
• Warren Buffett does doubleheader to raise money for Barack Obama - June 26, 2008
• Buffett buys one of the Pritzkers’ prizes - December 26, 2007
• Born to the manor, but devoted to the planet - June 7, 2008
• Matt Damon, George Clooney and other sexy men - November 22, 2007
• Buffett unseats Gates on billionaire list - March 6, 2008