This butler, serving billionaires, ensures that the most extravagant desires of his rich customers are satisfied. But, sometimes, their whims come close to the absurd, as evidenced by this anecdote to a lunch …
What can the daily life of ultra rich, those whose fortune is counted in billions? This butler accustomed to working in the luxury world has revealed behind the scenes in Legend, the Guillaume Pley show on YouTube. It is called Jean-Jacques and is butler for billionaires. He sums up his job thus: “We do help with the person, we are Mr. Comfort. The goal is that we become essential. We plan everything, we always have to have one step ahead. We arrive at a place, the logistics has been put in place, we have prepared everything. Everything is planned …”
During his interview, the butler of billionaires explained that he was at the service of a daily life where excess reigns supreme. “It is the unexpected every day, we have no limit,” he deplored. In this opulent universe where anything can happen, each desire must be anticipated, however eccentric as it is …. and whatever the price of course. And unlike clichés, billionaires are not always stowed. “They are like us. They like to mess around, they like to have fun. But we, there are times when we hold back. We do: ‘Oulah this one, she will cost dear my c*nnerie’. They, there is always one who will add behind, it never stops”. An extraordinary atmosphere where excess is the norm.
And Jean-Jacques concedes him himself: “Sometimes it’s going too far.” Evidence in support, he told a anecdote as funny as it is disconcerting. During a lunch with friends, in Ibiza, the addition quickly reached heights for its customers: “We are 30,000, 40,000 euros of addition quickly”. But it is not the amount that marked it the most. It is especially the logic – or rather the absurdity – of certain orders. “They are completely lit, they will take you 150 oysters,” he said. A staggering order for oysters … that no one intended to eat. When the butler asked for explanations on this strange order, the rich customer replied: “I want to give them freedom”. It was then that he began to “swing” the oysters at sea. A gesture as absurd as it is insufficient, especially when we understand the situation: “they were open in the crushed ice stage”, therefore already condemned as the butler clarified.
This anecdote illustrates how much, in the cozy world of the prestigious hotel industry, the service goes beyond simple material comfort. It becomes a millimeter choreography between anticipation, discretion and adaptation to desires … sometimes confusing.
