Well, this is an especially poorly-written article. I stopped reading and skipped to the comments after the second sentence was: As Jane Austen might have said

Well, this is an especially poorly-written article. I stopped reading and skipped to the comments after the second sentence was: As Jane Austen might have said, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who single-handedly loses a large fortune, especially one that wasn't of his own making, must be way more interesting than the average man.