'Chauffeurs or private drivers for ultra wealthy/powerful people, what's something you've overheard that you'll never forget?': Drivers for famous and wealthy people spill the tea about things they have overheard during their job

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María Cetra • Writer
Oct 25, 2026 7:15 PM EDT

Being a limo driver or a fancy car chauffeur for wealthy people and celebrities can definitely make you hear gossip. 

Famous people and celebrities are a big interest of mine; some people like to pretend they don't care about that, so I'm all for knowing about the life of the Kardashian family, reality shows, and celebrity weddings. I love all that. I find so much joy from hearing celebs gossip; the lifestyle of the rich and famous is actually a good way to take my mind off of things that worry me, to dissociate. That's why I like watching reality shows and reading about royal weddings. It's a dumb interest, but it surely helps to forget, at least for a while, about other things that are going on. 

This thread made me think about when people reveal stories about their interactions with famous people. They usually have two ways of going: they say they were super nice and they were able to take a picture with them, or they were incredibly mean and it completely changed the perception they had of them. These kinds of reactions always led me to think that it may be that the celebrity could be having a bad day, or wanting to avoid pictures, and by just denying whatever request the fan had, now they are incredibly mean and do not deserve the fame they have. It could also be that they are lazy or entitled and don't want to take pictures with people they deem less important than them. As if they wanted the fame but not the tasks that come with it. We would never be fully sure a famous individual's behavior is entitled and mean or a sweetheart unless we are the ones who meet them in person, and even if we do, they could just be having a bad day or simply not like the attitude that you had when approaching them. 

So, do we believe these stories that "fans" tell about the celebrities they have encountered? That is completely up to you; you can believe it, consider it simple gossip, or defend your favorite celebrity through everything. You are entitled to your own opinion about them. But I do think that judging someone's character according to one encounter that someone had may be biased. But if you hear the same story over and over again about one particular celebrity always acting entitled and mistreating everyone, then well, you do have more reasons to believe that it isn't simple gossip. But, again, we cannot know for sure, as we haven't met them yet. I like simply reading about those encounters that people had and take them like that, just a good story; whether it's true or not, it doesn't affect me in any way. And even if they are in fact entitled and annoying, that is not really that relevant to me. I may like celebrity gossip as a distraction, but I do not care whether they are nice or not in real life.

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  • Chauffeurs or private drivers for ultra wealthy/powerful people, what's something you've overheard that you'll never forget?

  • A chauffeur driving a fancy car. Not actual story subjects.
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    A chauffeur driving a fancy car. 

    Not actual story subjects. 

  • magicmitchmtl Not a limo, but my grandfather drove a taxi. He had regular clients who he picked up from home and work on a daily schedule. One of them helped him manage his finances well enough that he was able to rent a cabin for his wife and five kids to spend the summers in the country (he would join on days off). After a few years she asked him if he had ever thought of going into retail. No, he had not. Well, she explained that it was really quite
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  • easy and she would be happy to show him how it works. Turns out she had no heirs and wanted to retire, and she really liked my grandfather's work ethic and family values. She hired him and quickly built him up to be her replacement. So that's how my grandfather went from an orphan immigrant with one set of clothes and zero dollars, to cabbie, to fashion boutique owner. To be fair, he really did love driving and the boutique was more my grandmothers thing, but she
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  • was very happy and he enjoyed the schedule a lot more.
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  • Coffee_pecking_order I was a very high end wedding photographer for a number of years. $100k + weddings. Anyway. One wedding in the Hamptons. I was chatting with the event coordinator and we were discussing how awful the people holding the wedding were. Just the worst of humanity. The stereotypes of repulsive rich people.
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  • 3 minutes later, the mother of the bride (the one with all the $ and in charge) came by and introduced her friend to the coordinator saying "this is tim. He handles all my events and he LOVES me!" Tim was like "I sure do and gave them both hugs etc" Tim called that woman a stuck up 30 seconds before. (She was indeed. A stuck up )
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  • Rich people think people actually like and respect them when all we want is their business.
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  • fuknthrowaway1 I went to school with a pair of girls that were constantly grounded. Somehow their parents always knew they'd lied about homework, or that one had skipped cross-country skiing to hang out in the lunch room with her friends, or that the shopping trip the other one had planned was really going to hang out with her boyfriend, etc..
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  • While they correctly assumed they weren't telling on each other, they never could figure out how their parents knew, until the older one got her driver's license and began taking both of them to school and suddenly they weren't getting in trouble as often. It was their driver tipping their parents off. They'd talk to each other during the car ride to and from school other and he'd blab.
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  • adirtygaspump I worked as a chauffeur in Los Angeles, and with a background check I secured a gig running big name celebrities to the academy awards. Pay was really, really good and often got to hang out (in the background) at the parties. What astounded me the most was how depraved celebrities really are. The conversations I overhead of all of them constantly cheating on each other, how they were willing to throw
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  • each other under the bus for even the slightest amount of personal gain, etc. These people are ruthless and operate on an entirely different frequency than normal people. The bad talking even extended to fans, especially from music producers and musicians themselves. Why anyone would talk like that about the people who literally pay their bills is appalling.
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  • A fancy black car being driven on the road.
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    A fancy black car being driven on the road. 

  • nix80908 I was a chauffeur for a summer and one of my clients was an actor I was a huge fan of. I never let them know, but I admired them. (Not a fan space, and they were expecting a ride, etc). Anyway, after some inclement weather, I overheard the sweetest conversation between them and their spouse (also pretty well known) and my heart just melted. Like realizing someone you idolized has a very deep and real connection just kinda hit me. I
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  • had happy tears. I miss those days, and I do miss my client.
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  • Bajadasaurus Him, to me: "You really should buy a home in Thailand. I only pay $1300/month for a four bedroom home staffed year-round with a housekeeper, cook, and groundsmen. Flights are cheap. Food in Thailand costs almost nothing." Me: I can barely afford rent in my town as it is- there's nothing left over to cover flights to Thailand or a second home.
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  • Him: "If you want a better life, you just have to go out and do things like this. Find a way. Make a way. You can make it happen if you really want it. You could even just ask your family to help you get started." Me: "I've been estranged from my family for twenty one years." Him: goes back to scrolling on his phone
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  • Monchichi4life In the military I drove for Generals, Senators, members of Congress, and some celebrities. The most outrageous comment I ever heard was made by a TV actress that I was driving to their hotel (I am not naming names) that said "I'm think I'm hotter than Salma Hayek." For context they were both on this trip to visit troops in Kosovo, and Ms. Hayek was in a seperate vehicle. This was in the year 2000.
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