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    Singapore is crazier rich

    by Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times Sep 05, 2018 4 minutes

    SINGAPORE - While movie audiences worldwide relish the million-dollar earrings and private jets of "Crazy Rich Asians," Singaporeans would like you to know that in reality, things here can get even richer and even crazier.

    One described a wedding reception where Diana Ross performed. Another told of a son from a wealthy family who knocked out his front teeth chugging from a magnum bottle of Dom Perignon.

    An heir to a business fortune admitted - no, more like bragged - to a newspaper that he'd once walked into a designer shoe store and said: "I'll take one pair of everything you have, in every color."

    "The movie is just a really nice romantic comedy," said Juliana

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