Porn heiress India Rose James was the youngest person to ever make the Sunday Times Rich List.
The loaded 20-something came into the vast fortune after her granddad, porn baron Paul Raymond, left her the majority of his fortune.
The self-proclaimed 'King of Soho' made his extensive fortune launching the country’s first topless dancing club and introducing top-shelf magazines to the UK.
He also acquired the freeholds on almost two-thirds of Soho’s properties, building up a seedy business empire estimated to be worth around £650million
And now India, and her sister are benefiting from his dodgy businesses, after inheriting a whopping £454m.
According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013, when their granddad died in 2008 at the age of 82, India and her sister Fawn, 28, inherited 80% of his money and businesses.
The heiress, who is richer than the Queen, insists she still takes the tube and hasn't let the money go to her head.
Privileged India, told The Evening Standard: "I don’t drive and I don’t have a driver.
"It’s all cabs and Tubes."
And when asked if she has a PJ, she said: "'Private jet? I thought you meant pyjamas'."
But despite her down-to-earth attitude she still owns 60 acres of prime real estate and has breakfast at Soho House every morning.
The affluent sisters are the children of Debbie Raymond, who died in 1992 from a drug and drink binge age 36.
Their dad John is managing director of Soho Estates, where daughter Fawn works.
It is thought that Paul Raymond’s son Howard, 53, had to settle for 20% of his dad’s fortune after they fell out when he started taking cocaine in his 20s, leaving India Rose and her sister the majority.
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