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Being smart is a strict non-requirement for acquireing wealth. You really don't need to be smart to get wealthy. You need to be unscrupulous enough to rip off others. You need to be happy to gamble a lot of money on risky ventures and you need to be lucky enough that the risky ventures work out and don't blow up.
And inheriting lots of money and connections usually helps as well.
Incidentally, this seems to fit the bill for someone who'd pay a quarter million to poop in front of 4 people on the way to an assisted suicide where in the best case you can watch a video feed of the Titanic.