Apart from shares in a Hermès property company worth about $1.2 million, Puech says, “I have nothing left.” Some relatives reportedly help him with money.
On a recent trip to London, he reportedly flew easyJet, in a middle seat.
In 2023, he set out to leave half his fortune to the man who tended his garden. By then, most of it was already gone. And one of the first people to sense that something was wrong was the gardener's wife.
