The German exchange student who didn’t go home

by fieldus on August 24, 2008

Ready-Made Rockefeller – NYTimes.com


The man with the eccentric accent, the tantalizing hints of family fortune and the impressive conversational knowledge of everything from physics to art to the stock market is actually Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who grew up in Germany, came to the United States as a teenage exchange student and never left, not even contacting his family back home for the last 20 years.

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