He is sometimes hidden behind his online personality “Richard Nouveau,” yet Jeremy Abelson is anything but under the radar. This 28-year-old University of Michigan graduate founded the website Pocket Change, a site dedicated to uncovering the ludicrous pricing of “luxury” items in New York and Los Angeles – wait, there’s more icing on this Jew cake. Abelson is well known for his site, but his true fame's derived from his speed dating events. These events skillfully titled for undeserved attention (e.g. Rich Guys & Hot Girls or Sugar Mamas & Boy Toys), are exclusively designed for Forbes list windbags and gold digger “model-types.” This "high end" meat market is not exactly a novel idea, the Bravo reality TV show, The Millionaire Matchmaker, already exposed the public to old rich men on Cialis with a desire for hot young ladies. Still, Abelson has received media coverage for his “Natural Selection” events.  

Not surprisingly, Abelson began cultivating this persona on the sprawling campus of the University of Michigan. Inspired by National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, he started a crusade that ended in him acquiring a University of Michigan (funded and approved) golf cart to roll around campus in. In a Page Six Magazine interview, he thanks the homely chick from the University of Michigan student council and the cronies who followed his leadership in an “Ecologically Friendly Committee” he founded during his undergraduate career. I’m sure the University of Michigan is proud to have produced this and other disposable personalities.   

The best part of Abelson’s rise to popularity is his sanctioned bigotry. As his alterego,
Richard Nouveau, he gets to pompously post phrases like:

“I’ve lifted my dating embargo on Orientals (I’ve decided to overlook the constant squinting).”

He says there’s no truth to these sayings, “it’s a mockery” he claims, but it’s a “mockery” that I’m sure Asians awaiting double lid surgery aren’t appreciative of. For added blissful amusement, Abelson says he is mocking the attitude of the white upperclass, and then clamors to say that he is a candidate for the "Rich Guys & Hot Girls" event (he is exactly what he mocks).

“Smart people understand it’s a mockery,” says Abelson, but I think, more importantly, smart people understand what an awful waste of space Abelson really is. Jezebel has named him “Douche du Jour,” and he has rightfully earned the title.

In regards to the exclusivity of his speed dating soirees Abelson claims, “the only victims are the poor and the ugly.” Abelson is unknowingly oppressed by his own standards, as far as we can see, he’s not really rich and I have yet to see the a hot or handsome angle on this guy.

He has received a coveted position in the Douchebag Hall of Fame.