E!/’Rich Kids of Beverly Hills’The ‘Rich Kids of Beverly Hills’ cast (from left): Roxy Sowalty, Jonny Drubel, Dorothy Wang, Morgan Stewart, and Brendan Fitzpatrick.
“The #RichKids of Beverly Hills” became the E! network’s breakout reality show of 2014 and recently wrapped its second season on the air.
Made up of six wealthy best friends from the 90210 zip code, “Rich Kids” was inspired by the popular and outrageous Tumblr “Rich Kids of Instagram,” in which offspring of the super rich flaunt their yachts, diamonds, magnums of champagne, and more.
It was through this Tumblr that E! producers and casting directors found Dorothy Wang, the 26-year-old “funemployed” heiress to her father’s $US4 billion retail real estate fortune. Dorothy’s dad, Roger Wang, founded the Golden Eagle International Group in Nanjing and turned it into one of the country’s largest mall chains, with stores in 15 cities, according to Forbes.
instagram.com/dorothywangDorothy Wang boarding a private jet in one of her many ‘fabuluxe’ Instagram posts.
Casting Dorothy — who says she had no idea of her family’s wealth “until it was printed in Forbes” despite her collection of $US10,000 Hermés Birkin bags so large she “lost count” — was easy, but E! needed a whole cast of people just as outgoing and unabashedly outrageous as the self-described “fabuluxe” University of Southern California graduate.
Instagram.com/Dorothy WangThe cast of ‘Rich Kids of Beverly Hills’ are friends in real life, too.
The cast is currently made up of six Beverly Hills natives, including Magic Johnson’s flamboyant son, a self-described “Persian Princess” interior designer, a successful young real estate agent, and a songwriter.
As with any reality show, the cast has conflicts with each other, but it’s clear these friendships are real and have history that goes back further than when the cameras started rolling last year. The on-air conflicts haven’t been enough to tear the group apart just yet.
While Dorothy was on board to showcase her life for the public, adjusting to people’s hateful comments online has taken some getting used to.
Before the show aired, Dorothy had 26,000 followers on Instagram. Today she has 561,000 followers and counting, as well as a new outlook on her haters.
So what does Dorothy’s influential dad think about his daughter’s newfound reality show fame?