You would think that a guy worth $7.5 BILLION would only be kept awake at night from banging the world’s most beautiful (and expensive) women, and would otherwise be sleeping like a baby on the comfiest mattress known to mankind.

Not the case for Johann Rupert – the multi-billionaire owner of luxury jewellery company Cartier. What keeps him awake at night is the poor rising up to bring down the rich.

Speaking at the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco (obviously), the fashion tycoon told his fellow elite that he can’t sleep at the thought of the social upheaval, which he thinks is imminent.

According to Bloomberg, Johann Rupert told the conference to bear in mind that when the poor rise up, the middle classes won’t want to buy luxury goods for fear of exposing their wealth. Honestly seems like a mental illness that a guy already worth $7.5 bn would be so worried about making more money, but there you go.

Rupert also shared that he had seen recent Oxfam figures suggesting the top 1 per cent of the global population owns more wealth than the other 99 per cent.

“How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare? We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us. It’s unfair. So that’s what keeps me awake at night.”

Not really sure he has anything to worry about tbh. The poor are too busy fighting each other over politics and sports and what a woman is to ever rise up and do anything useful together. So I don’t think Johann Rupert needs be out here sounding like the fat lad who’s terrified someone’s going to take a bite of his birthday cake just yet. Maybe one day, though.

For the billionaire tycoon who dumped his fiancée because he breast cancer was a ‘net negative’ on his life, click HERE. Deep.