His Billion-Dollar Hands, His Biggest Mistake

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At a charity gala in a high-end steakhouse on the Upper East Side, my husband, the pianist Julian Vance, was using his multi-million dollar insured hands to cut a filet mignon for his assistant, Chloe.

He was just trying to coax the girl, who claimed she had no appetite, to eat something.

A few minutes earlier, I’d just escaped a sponsor who’d been bombarding me for two hours with his suggestive “investment ideas” for Julian’s upcoming national tour. My stomach was churning. I called out t