Michelle didn’t have time for bonbons her first trip to the top. It’s not until Claire cooks a batch of delicious brownies, and Michelle attends one of Rachel’s Dandelion meetings (think Girl Scouts, complete with cookies), that a vision of the Next Big Thing starts to take shape.įorget the Dandelions! Forget all their nice, traditional values and devotion to charity work! The Dandelions’ wildly popular cookies are the only things that matter, and Michelle decides to create a new girls’ organization-Darnell’s Darlings-based solely on the sale and distribution of brownies! Yessir, it’s time that girls stopped getting badges for caring for the elderly or building mud huts in third-world hamlets! They should be trained to sell, sell, SELL! Why, the girls can even keep some of the money they earn-say, 10%. Dutifully-and after a bit of prodding by Claire’s kindly young daughter, Rachel-Claire opens her apartment to her former boss, allowing her to stay until Michelle’s able to pull herself up by her Jimmy Choo shoe straps.Īlas, Michelle lost all her Choos, too, so it takes a while to figure out how she’s going to start a new climb to the top.

Michelle can only turn to one person in this time of need: Claire, her former personal assistant. Most of her “loyal” employees have moved on to more secure, much more rewarding work. Her homes have been forced into foreclosure. When she’s released from prison five months later, Michelle discovers that her businesses have been bought by her former beau and bitter rival, Renault. So when she’s busted for insider trading, even people she thought were friends melt away like lowly Hershey’s Kisses on a Las Vegas sidewalk. You don’t get to the top without making enemies, and it seems like Michelle’s made nothing but.

That’s right, people: Michelle Darnell doesn’t tolerate slackers, not even in her bite-sized sweets.Īnd, tellingly, now many of Michelle’s acquaintances would definitely like the turtlenecked tycoon to get her just desserts. Any lonely snacks left over she’d put to work analyzing stocks. Any bonbons in her possession during her rapid rise to the top would’ve likely been poison-laced gifts to her competitors, or tiny missiles used to pelt her underlings. And most of all, she had to be incredibly ruthless and devious. Michelle Darnell didn’t become America’s 47th richest woman by sitting back and eating bonbons.

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