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Benjamin Graham— the financial wiz who taught Warren Buffet to invest — was not unduly interested in money himself. Graham was a true intellectual — excited by math, languages and classic texts. And women. Although he was so honest that he repaid all his investors for their losses during the Great Depression, Graham was a thrice-married philanderer and an absentee dad. He had so many affairs that Joe Carlen uses the word "swinger" to describe his sex life in a new biography, The Einstein of Money. Graham divorced his first wife in 1937, when divorce was still socially unacceptable, leaving his four children stigmatized. The next year, he married a young actress. Next up, he married his young secretary. Eventually, he took up with a Frenchwoman who was introduced as the former lover of his own deceased son. All the while, the rest of Graham's life was the stuff of inspirational kids' books: • When his wealthy father died abruptly, 9-year-old Benjamin sold magazines on city...