Spend time in any exclusive watering hole and you’re likely to come across some colorful characters. Head to Europe, and you’ll meet a tribe of loaded riff-raff so faaahbulous, so eccentric, so inexplicably shady, that it’s imperative you be briefed before departure. Behold, the United Nations of ne’er-do-wells (and other all-too-real ‘types’) in this exclusive excerpt from Christopher Tennant’s The Official Filthy Rich Handbook.

Illustrations by Andy Friedman