Brunettes bag the billionaires, blondes get the barmen

It's official, if you're a brunette like Carla Bruni, you're more likely to marry a successful man than your blonde counterparts. Experts at LOVE@LYCOS the dating channel of Lycos.co.uk analysed the WAG's hair colour of the world's top 100 billionaires to determine if there is a predominant hair colour wealthy men seen to go for. The majority by a long way were brunettes, with 62% of billionaires marrying women with brown hair.

The results went on to show that fair haired ladies come in a poor second with only 22% of the world's top billionaires marrying blondes. Women with black hair lag behind in third place, enticing on 16% of the world's wealthiest, whilst carrot-tops come in last.

BRUNETTES MARRIED TO THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL MEN

CARLA BRUNI                   WIFE OF FRENCH PRESIDENT

DARIA ZHUKOVA              GIRLFRIEND OF ABRAMOVICH

SARAH LARSON               GIRLFRIEND OF GEORGE CLOONEY

CATHERINE ZETA              MARRIED TO MICHAEL DOUGLAS

ANGELINA JOLIE               GIRLFRIEND OF BRAD PITT

So with wealthy men showing such a considerable preference for brunettes, it will be interesting to chart the number of women requesting a change of colour at their local hairdresser! (by Sara Hassan)

Comments

[what]

what? Blondes aren't rare. They're EVERYWHERE. Just come to LA and you'll see. I've never considered blonde a rare color. now, red is rare. Blonde is common. Brunettes are hotter anyway. Sorry!

[fairysugarpuff]

i actually love red heads, i wish my hair was red, nicole kidman and rita heyworth, yummy!

[fairysugarpuff]

OMG!! who cares if someone colours there hair blonde, it is the same as saying some brunettes where tones of make up or tan their skin hence which is not being themselves. Most men don't even think about whether a girl has died their hair or not so that shouldn't count. I am inbetween blonde and brunette, but must say being blonde I got more attention but being brunette got cuter guys!

[Sally]

Do a ratio statisic of women and you'll find very few sport their own hair colour anyway. It's all out of a bottle.

[Cha]

oh man, people really don't need to be taking this seriously, haha. it's just a light-hearted article, it's not as though it's a scientifically proven fact.

if you want to get mad at something, get mad at the state of world we live in, not hair colour.

cheers

[Karl Chads]

It doesn’t mention the two brunettes who are currently most famous for their style: Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria. The article is not a fantastic analysis, but I guess it’s tongue-in-cheek.

[Alan]

If I aspire to becoming a billionaire should I marry a brunette? If I marry a blonde does this condemn me to becoming (and remaining?) a barman?

And which is the more honourable trade or profession?

In my experience time takes care of all of this. Both my ex-wives now have white hair. I have none.

[Emerald]

Get over yourselves!

Is this the only thing you can think of to write about? Women with a certain hair colour getting richer men?

[Stefania Sardo]

i just think the plain thruth is that brunettes look more exotic and sexier, whereas natural blondes usually look insipid and colourless and fake blondes look tacky.
the fact that blondes are a minority depeds on the country your in, in england or holland for instance there are far more blondes than brunettes...

[Jo]

I'm a brunette, but I have blonde streaks- so I'll end up with a billionaire barman then ? AAAH!!!Does that mean I'm gonna marry Peter Stringfellow ???

[vee]

though there are natural blondes are a minority, blonde hair is NOT rare because you have to take into account many women dye their hair blonde. if the study didn't take this into account than the study is flawed and there' no point in commenting on it. also, i don't see the point in arguing about how men love blonde hair because it is rare seeing that so many women dye their hair blonde nowadays. Blonde hair (unnatural) is not rare. Men prefer blondes (this was in a sociology paper) b/c blonde hair evokes a sense of youth which is more attractive to men. i personally love brunette hair (it's very sophisticated- most of the guys i know love brunettes too) and red hair (especially when it's a darker red). black hair is very pretty too. anyway i think it'd be interesting to study why this might be true

[KC]

I find it rather amusing that many women find this article insulting. I belive this just to be a bit of light hearted humour and not to be taken seriously. Does it matter who has the more dominant hair colour?....No! and this comes from a responsible teenager

[alex]

In Italy the saying goes: Men prefer blondes but marry brunettes, this is because in Italy, where the majority of women are brunettes, blondes represent the 'unusual' or the 'forbidden fruit', the 'sexual vixen' whereas brunettes are the ones that will bear children, cook and wash dirty pants....... Ridiculous in whatever Country.

[Sarah]

Black of hair, black of soul...

[Eric]

george clooney is a billionaire? thats news to me

[Anna]

its a gift of nature to have long blond hair...stop being jealous at us!

[X]

How disappointing that The Times printed such a non-article, and even worse that it seems to have been written by a woman.

The superficial nature of this article only serves to feed into the notion that a woman can attract a man by looks alone and a man can attract a woman by simply flashing his wallet. This idea insults both men and women.

I should also point out that Angelina Jolie was considerably wealthy by most peoples' standards before Brad Pitt entered the picture. Obviously this is because she is a brunette.

I won't even begin to comment on the highly unscientific nature of the research conducted, as I think others have been doing quite good job of that.

Slow day for news was it?

[Sophie Warner]

It has always been my greatest ambition to marry a rich man. So good job I have dark hair - otherwise I'd have to fork out for some hair dye! Phew.

I find it insulting that it this was a subject deemed worthy of print.

[Valerie]

This article reveals no truth, and this type of propaganda should never be published in the Times. The people who conducted this study have very weak validity since they couldn't even indicate that the population has more brunettes than blondes to begin with. The population sample is distorted among the "world's richest." Since most of the general population is brunette then there is a HIGH probability that a billonaire is going to end up with a brunette simply because there are more of them.

I've always been more fond of blondes because brown is such a common color.......

Its so irrelevant to base your likeness for someone on their hair color

[marc de berner]

YUM YUM to all the beautifull women blonde, brunette, red or grey

[marc de berner]

YUM YUM to all the beautifull women blonde, brunette, red or grey

[Hellen]

So, "only" 22% of the milionaires marry blondes. But among the general population blondes are ~5%. Therefore, the blondes are OVERrepresented among the milionaires' wifes!

[Steph]

Susan in Paris - So everyone that colours their hair blonde is a bimbo??? Sounds like jealousy creeping in here....

And Emmanuel - "in my experience women from wealthier backgrounds are more likely to keep their natural colour" - what utter, utter tosh!

I am both very educated, wealthy and colour my hair... reading these comments has seriously made me worry about the general intelligence of readers of the Times....

[Andre]

Blondies are beautiful, and normally they come from a socially higher class and do not need to marry a rich one to climb...

[Andre]

Blondies are sooo much beautiful.
Black and brunette is boring...you see it everywhere