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...surprise of some Chinese guests in an audience which included movie star Ziyi Zhang and the granddaughter of reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, branding the hillsides with projections of Fendi's double F logo. Before the first ever fashion show to be held on the structure, Arnault and his wife, Hélène stopped to snap their own photos of the views and TIME's Marion Hume talked to the world's seventh richest man about luxury in China...
...TIME: You were 18 when you were told you were going to be the fourth wife of Merril Jessop, a 50-year-old leader of the FLDS. How did you feel...
...write about how having children or having your husband sexually favor you is how a polygamist's wife gets status...
...people viewed that as not being okay. But a man was believed to have the spirit of God and he could get divine revelation from God that pertained to his family. If he had a revelation that in order to get a wife in line physical violence [was required], then he was within his right to use whatever means he needed to have control of his family. Mostly it pertained to children. It was frowned upon for a man to beat his wife, but they did it all the time...
...religion, we believed that men are not supposed to favor [one wife over another]. It happened all the time and everybody knew it happened and it was kind of a way of life. But many didn't operate as lopsided and as extreme as Merril did. A lot of men might have their favorites, but then they were a little more careful about how badly they treated the rest of the family. Merril wasn't at all careful. The first statement he made after I married...