Billionaire Melinda Gates could have filled an entire room in her 66,000-square-foot mansion with Hermès Birkin bags. But when her daughter Jennifer wanted a luxury purse, she chose to say no

Melinda French Gates could have filled an entire room of her 66,000-square-foot mansion with Hermès Birkin bags, but she chose to draw the line when her eldest daughter Jennifer wanted a flashy purse in a store window.