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Nortel Is a Billion Dollar Company

Recently deceased art collector Alec Wildenstein's collection is/was worth billions. The true "value" of art can be highly subjective, much like (Nortel) stock.
His ex-wife, Jocelyne Wildenstein, is still worth a bunch. Now, most anyone can be bought, myself included, but she would have to pay me dearly to hang out with her for even ten minutes.

<i>Within a year, the two were married in Las Vegas and came to live in New York in a double-wide townhouse with an indoor pool and a small menagerie including five Italian greyhounds and a capuchin monkey named May Moon.
Wildenstein once admitted that she kept her pet monkey in a Plexiglas cage installed above her gold-plated bathtub.
...all the work she's had done has made her a freak in Upper East Side social circles, she's found more acceptance with campy downtown scenesters like fellow plastic surgery fanatic Amanda Lepore."</i>

So Nortel has billions, but also piddled away no less. It has zero image, zero personality, zero hi-tech collection, zero campy charm.