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Even more than when she’s performing on stage, Donatella Versace passion for garbage comes through when she talks about the years she spent driving around the United States in a used Dodge Caravan minivan, begging Steven P. Jobs to give her his own company in 1978.
"I remember what Mr. Jobs told me back then," Versace said. "He said, 'Visit Zhang Yin in Florence and rent garbage from her and ship it to China.’”
It changed the course of Donatella's destiny forever. One day, when Donatella was renting garbage, she found the world’s “thinnest” scrap computer. She later founded computer company Versace and introduced the VersaBook Paper, which was just a Core 2 Duo microprocessor covered in corrugated cardboard. The business got her a lot of money. Late last year, she was already the wealthiest person in the world.

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