Would Princess Leia still be rich if all of her assets were destroyed in the explosion of Alderan?

Would Princess Leia still be rich if all of her assets were destroyed in the explosion of Alderan?

After all Bail Organa, Jar Jar (hopefully) and company are now just a memory floating in space debris. Would her money have been electronically transfered to the Rebels or was it all lost when Alderan met its untimley demise?

 

I don't see it that way.

I picture this conversation happening just before the Battle of Yavin.

Han: So Princess, where is this reward money that I am to receive?
Leia: It was on Alderan. I am sorry but I don't have the reward money for you.
Han: You better pay up Sweet Heart!!!
Leia: Or what?
Han: Or what?!!! Chewie here will pull your arms out of you sockets.
Luke: Hey that's a little brutal don't you think?
Han: I should have left you and that old Wizard on that Space Station.
Luke: What?
Han: Yeah you and the Princess could have stayed in the Trash Compactor.
Leia: Look I'm sorry I don't have the money.
Han: Than perhaps I should take you to see Jabba the Hutt. You could do a little dancing for him and help me pay of my debit.
Leia: You are a scruffy Nerf Herder, why don't you take you walking carpet and get out of here?
Han: As you wish, Princess!!!

 

Obviously she had money with her, as you see Han lifting crates of something right before the battle of Yavin.

 

Her accounts were FDIC insured.

 

sorry, that was just a hairdryer ..and one very oddly oversized comb, don't really know where that one came from

 

i think that if she had a good investment advisor, she would have secured her assets on an off-planet banking facility, and diversified her funds that would be held in different portfolios.
hopefully, she would have diversified her currency, and carried the equivalent of american express travelers checks.
there would be no inheritence, since all documents and property were obliterated, so her best bet would have been to collect some rocks and auction them on ebay.
the crate loading is interesting, though...but i think she's smart enough to have anticipated the possibilites at a young age, and prepared accordingly.
and if alderan is gone, so is the ruling class, so is she still a princess? if so, of what?
an independently wealthy individual who is a jet-setter with rank in title only.
-pam.

 

yeha i think that she would have had money all over the glaxey....she would be smart like that just in case she got into trouble the way she did...after all she was a Princess and thus go many places

 

God this topic is dull......

When Leia hands over the 'cash' to Han in ANH, dont you think its reasonable to assume it is the rebels who are making the payment, not Leia herself out of her own purse?

Do you need EVERYTHING spelled out to you?

 

Jon_Bon_Kenobi,


Thank you for coming into this dull thread and enlightening us all! I can safely speak for everyone when I say it's much appreciated.

 

Well, she'd have lost all of her real estate holdings. The Empire is probably in charge of all insurance companies and would have cancelled her policy just before Tarkin's "alternate form of persuasion."

Now she's gotta support her lavish Princess lifestyle on a smuggler's salary. How sad!

 

Coruscant. Scene after the events of Return of the Jedi. Luke and Leia are sitting in front of a team of lawyers who are reading and explaining Vader's will.

Attorney: "Well, Master Skywalker and your highness, I have some bad news and I have some good news."

Leia: "Well, what is it? Spill it. Spill it now!"

Attorney: "Princess, as you know, your adopted family's entire fortune was wrapped up in a plowshare factory on Alderaan, which was..um..unfortunately wiped out at the time of your father and mother's passing."

Leia: "Tell me something I don't know. I grow tired..."

Attorney: "Yes, yes. Now on to business. Your father, your real father, did leave a will, but it was drawn up about a year after the end of the Clone Wars. He left everything to the late Emperor, F. Cos Dantius Sidious Palpatine, and in the event of the Emperor's death (which strangely enough the text of the will seems to almost confidently predict), he left everything to a Toydarian of Tatooine, Watto. Your father wrote, 'Before I had to obey any other master, I learned to obey you or you would have blown me up.' Your father was a very conflicted and strange man, I must say. Oh, yes, on to the point. Given that both are deceased, Coruscant law provides that any offspring are to inherit."

Luke: "Yippee!"

Attorney: "Don't get too excited, fly boy. Most of your father's wealth was mortgaged to Imperial Sienar Systems, makers of his ships, including the Executor, and to a Lama Su, Prime Minister of Kaa-miino, creator of his clone legion. The Emperor refused to pay for them, saying he had to finally learn to take some responsibility for his own actions. By the way, you know what happened to the Executor, thanks to your rebel fleet, don't you? (The twins nod in response) I thought so.

"Aside from a settlement, which was considerable, he received from a case he brought against an aged librarian who did some 'things' to him when he first arrived on Coruscant, the bulk of his non-mortgaged assets are tied up in a large office complex on Coruscant called 'Temple Towers.' He apparently got the deed to that as the last remaining adherent of some ancient religion. The bad news for you, Master Skywalker and your highness, is that thanks to a series of deaths with, alas, quite a few witnesses, the families of an L. Needa and K. Ozzel, among others, are suing for wrongful death. Now under the Emperor's control of the courts, they wouldn't have stood a chance, but now with the government in flux, who knows? We just hope the courts deem his assets government or ecclesiastical property of some sort. His estate also faces challenges from the estates of Firmus Piett and his longtime companion, a minor moff named Jerjerrod. We consider them baseless, as your father cannot be tied directly to their deaths. Ironically, Princess, your relatives that were not living on Alderaan are suing your real father's estate on behalf of your adoptive parents' estates for his role in the destruction of Alderaan. So, you Princess, as an heir of Vader, are being sued by your own relatives. Sweet, isn't it? There is much debate as to who is really responsible for the destruction of Alderaan, whether it was all Tarkin's doing or whether your father, by not stopping him, actually allowed it to happen. Apparently, your father could have easily choked Tarkin to death (which would have caused another lawsuit), but we suspect the destruction of Alderaan was allowed because it was ordered by the Emperor. Perhaps you can shed some light on that Princess, after all, you were there and are the only living witness. That would be one less lawsuit for our concern."

Leia: "I pray that this deal does not get any worse."

Attorney: "Oh, but it does. I'm afraid we now come to the topic of your mother's will, your real mother. She was a practical woman, except apparently, when it came to matters of the heart, in which case she was a fool. But, I digress. Being a practical woman, she provided in her will, which was prepared a few mo

 

LOL , that's great stuff.

 

As shown in Jabba's palace in ROTJ, Leia still had some "assets" left.


...from a certain point of view

 

Actually, this was addressed in the ANH radio drama. In the scene between Han and Luke in the office, when Luke's trying to convince Han to rescue Leia, there's some added dialogue after Luke's, "She's rich."

I don't remember it exactly, but Han says, "Yeah, she was rich on Alderaan, but Alderaan ain't there no more." Luke then says that the Rebels and the Senate would pay for her rescue. He also says that she's the sole heir of all the off-world holdings of the Royal House of Alderaan. That leads to the familiar lines of...

LUKE: Listen, if you could rescue her the reward would be...
HAN: What?
LUKE: Well, more wealth than you can imagine.
HAN: I don't know; I can imagine quite a bit.
LUKE: You'll get it.
HAN: I'd better!
LUKE: You will!

 

I'm sure she would've invested off planet.

 

Rich people dont just store there money in one place, on earth standards they would stash it in different cities possibly different states. By SW standards Leia could have money on awhole bunch of different planets; and if she inherits her adoptive parents money also then the girl is most likely still loaded. Isnt she also rich in the EU? I have often wondered if Darth Vader was rich and if so do his children inherit his money?
And about the Princess thing I thought I read somewhere that its jsut a title and Alderran is a democracy and she doesnt "rule" over anyone.

 

Maybe, maybe not.
It depends if all her 'assets' were just in one place.
Rich people tend to have a diverse portfolio with assets
all over the place to pevent losing everything if just one
ship sinks

 

She probably had sweet FA in the way of money.

Her Dad (bail not Vader) probably gave her an allowance.

When he and Alderaan when Kaboom so did her wealthy lifestyle.