Monte Carlo Casino

And that's the casino, actually, that I was at.

Casino de Monte Carlo.

Anyway, so here's what I think happened.

I think that, uh, I think I lost a little less than $15,000 at the casino, 'cause I was drunk.

Okay.

And one nationality, I was in the Monte Carlo Casino, and they asked for your passport to go in because what country is prohibited from going into the Monte Carlo Casino?

Vatican City.

Yes.

It wasn't South Africa or Nigeria or any of the continent's other traditional centers of wealth to earn this honor, but rather tiny, scrappy Angola.

Dos Santos owned significant stakes in banks, media companies, and cell providers in Angola and Portugal, a home on the private island of the exclusive Bulgari Resort in Dubai, a $16 million home in the affluent Kensington neighborhood of London, a comparatively modest $1.8 million penthouse apartment in Lisbon, a $55 million villa just steps away from the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, and to go with it, a $35 million 50 meter 164 foot yacht anchored in the Mediterranean below.

And in 2016, her fortunes, both literal and figurative, only increased as her father fired the entire board of Sonangol, Angola's national oil company, and replaced it with a sole chairwoman.

Isabel dos Santos herself.

I don't wanna see it on a board when I walk up.

I hit, I hit, uh, it was black 17 times in a row at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco one time.

That's nuts.

It's, and that's like the richest sounding thing that I've ever said in my life.

But, but I was n- I was not, uh, I was not rich when I was there.

I was traveling.

I was on a vacation through France, decided let's see what Monaco is all about, look at the yachts, and, uh, went to the Mon- Monte Carlo Casino around lunchtime, um, wearing, wearing shorts, and they were supposed to not let me in, but there was nobody there so they're like, "Fine, we'll take this guy's money." Um, all the dealers were wearing like full tuxedos, the whole nine.

It's a very, very fancy place.