Ted Turner’s complicated love life

The unlikely Lothario who divides his time between four girlfriends.

Like most billionaires, Ted Turner doesn't suffer from self-doubt. As a teenager, after nearly being expelled from his Ivy League college for entertaining a girl in his room, he told people he had three goals in life: "To be the world's greatest sailor, businessman and lover, at the same time." Well, he's "come close", says John Harlow in The Sunday Times: he's won the America's Cup, shaken up the broadcasting world with CNN and bedded some of the world's most beautiful women.

He's now back in the headlines, thanks to a piece in The Hollywood Reporter. According to this, he divides his time between four girlfriends (each of whom gets one week a month with him to share his 28 ranches and apartments), bird-watching and BBQ cookouts in Montana. Are the women, all much younger than Ted, happy about this? "Sort of," he says.

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