Jho Low: How to Buy Friends and Influence People

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jho Low, a Malaysian-born businessman, will do anything to climb the social ladder. After attending Wharton business school, he establishes himself as a globe-trotting playboy with a celebrity entourage. He uses his money to get near Leonardo DiCaprio, Miranda Kerr, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Kim Kardashian. But the source of Jho Low’s seemingly endless cash is a mystery…. Until one of his former associates decides to blow the whistle.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to scamfluencers early and add for you right now.
0:04.6	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	Wondery.
0:10.6	Sarah, what is the nicest gift a man has ever bought you to express his romantic interest?
0:21.2	Thank you for asking.
0:22.2	I'm going to take you all the way back to Grade 5.
0:24.8	Wow.
0:25.8	It was Secret Santa and a guy gave me some used markers and I thought that was really
0:32.7	sweet.
0:33.7	He definitely had a huge crush on me.
0:34.9	Oh, that is nice.
0:36.6	Did it work?
0:37.6	Yeah, obviously.
0:38.6	Oh.
0:39.6	Okay, well, I only asked because today I have a story that made me rethink what it means
0:46.7	to splurge on a crush.
0:51.6	It's January 2014 in New York City and Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is walking through Midtown
0:57.6	Manhattan with her piercing blue eyes and high cheekbones Miranda sticks out anywhere.
1:03.7	But tonight she's especially striking.
1:05.7	It's just after midnight and she's wearing a full-on ball gown.
1:09.8	She's just come from a formal event but she's now headed to a restaurant to meet a friend.
1:14.6	It's an old school Korean barbecue spot, the kind that laminated menus in the window.
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