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In fact, many have turned to the match-making skills of Olivia Rigg, founder of high-net-worth dating agency, Hamilton Rigg. In normal life, everyone is too busy,' she says. She tells me, 'The opportunities where my clients might usually meet people have been reduced - all the global events that they might go to, such as the Grand Prix, the parties, art events or even on a First Class flight So, they turn to Rigg and her team for their match-matching expertise, where a six-month membership starts at around five figures, and where they hope, using her extended network, she will find them a suitable girlfriend or wife. She tells me that her male clients come from a diverse background, 'Some are royalty, some are from big dynastic families, right through to people who are super self-made. She adds, 'My youngest client is 29 and my oldest is Rigg tells me her niche in providing a service that The Times last year dubbed, 'The billionaires wives club' started by accident: 'My first ever client was a friend who had got divorced and asked me to start match-making for him while I was still running a charity and that started the ball rolling. By word of mouth they then began talking to their friends, and it ended up being a circle of people I was helping. She admits that most of her clients are not online dating types and they come to her 'Because they know what they want; they want to prioritise a relationship. These days, she helps new and existing members mostly via phone and video calls.

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By Donna Ferguson. Updated: BST, 19 May Karen Mooney launched Sara Eden, an exclusive dating agency, in and has matched many thousands of wealthy clients and seen thousands of weddings and children as a result. Here, Karen, 63, who is divorced and lives in Surrey with her year-old son, Cameron, tells us what she has learned about money and love from 36 years in the dating game. Money is a very important part of every relationship and these days you need to be pretty canny when it comes to love. I may deal with relationships and romance for a living but I deliberately keep my own personal life private and very separate from my business.

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Amber Kelleher-Andrews is looking for a husband: preferably attractive, ideally successful and, above all, indisputably rich. The list is of course confidential, though a few recognizable names — Terrell Owens, Cheryl Tiegs, Hoda Kotb and Bode Miller — have copped to being members at one point. There is no minimum net worth required — being able to pay the membership fee is proof enough — but clients must be serious about wanting long-term commitment. Earlier this month, she was conducting business poolside at the Rosewood Miramar Beach resort, looking first-date ready in a sheer mini-dotted black dress and chunky Versace sunglasses, cherry-lacquered mani-pedi matching her bright red lips, striped straw hat perched atop platinum blond curls. The beach just below, her year-old daughter, Tallulah, says, is where Travis Barker recently proposed to Kourtney Kardashian while kneeling in an enormous heart made out of roses.

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Finding love for $300,000: Inside the business of a matchmaker to the rich and famous

Though I dated lots of guys casually, I didn't get married until I was in my thirties. I have a Ph. Back then most guys couldn't handle that work was my first priority.

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