The heiress of $10 billion Perdue Farms and the $12 billion Sheraton Hotels empire wore hand-me-downs, still rides the subway, and flies economy

“If you’re always going on private jets, what inkling do you have about the real world?”

A drive through rural Manitoba passes farm after farm—grain bins catching the light, cattle scattered across pasture, and the occasional yard with old machinery rusting away. Most have changed hands at some point—sold, bought out by a neighbour, or left behind when nobody in the family wanted to take it over.