After the divorce, Kluge established a 23,500-square-foot, 45-room estate in Charlottesville, Virginia called Albemarle in 1999. She and her third husband William Moses, a former executive at IBM, held elaborate dinners and events that some felt were trying too hard. “It’s really ridiculous and very pretentious,” said Marie Ridder, an environmentalist who attended several such events. “There were these grand busts of people everywhere, and even a private chapel. It was imitation British grandeur without the history to go with it.”

To go along with the grandiose idea she had of herself, Kluge founded a winery on the property and spared no expense in appearing to be a high-class vintner. She paid millions for wine masters from France. She imported expensive oak barrels to store the wine. She had the boxes it sold in designed specially by some relative of the British royal family you’ve never heard of. Then she charged $75 a bottle. And although they enjoyed moderate success, it wasn’t enough to carry it through the excessive spending and economic downturn of the Great Recession. She and Moses tried selling Albemarle for $100 million in 2009, but that price was ultimately reduced to a measly $24 million. They even tried auctioning off all their silly rich people stuff — ruby rings, fox hunting guns, silver Faberge plates, etc. — but they only fetched around $15 million, not enough to save their hides.