Money really can’t buy you love — just ask this picky multimillionaire on Long Island.
Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife.
After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.”
But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league.
Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long Island, says he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”
“New York is a tough market for a guy like me. I thought I get the career, then I find the woman,” Greenfield told The Post.
“I’d trade it all in for a white picket fence, two kids, a dog. And you can have it all! I’d take a $50,000-a-year job, work until I retire.”
“I’m not a bad guy. I haven’t been to prison,” he said. “It’s just a very frustrating thing.”
As for the Manhattan matchmakers — who charge about $10,000 per year — Greenfield said: “You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear.”
He complained when Barbie Adler, a matchmaker at Selective Search, set him up with a Knicks dancer.
“Do I seem like the New-York-City-dancer type of guy?” he scoffed.
He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”
And Long Island matchmaker Maureen Tara Nelson didn’t produce enough women — just five in one year — and he described the looks of one match as “terrible.”
But the matchmakers said Greenfield needs to lower his expectations — and not rely only on his money to find love.
“In the outside world, he would not be able to get a date with that girl, because she was far more attractive,” blasted Nelson, who dropped Greenfield as a client after one year.
“He was too picky! I gave him exactly what he wanted multiple times . . . He would always come back with some minor, minor thing that the person wasn’t perfect.”
Greenfield may soon try Serious Matchmaking’s Janis Spindel — who said she’s reluctant to take him on as a client because she’s worried that his dream girl isn’t in her database.
“I don’t want to take his money,” Spindel said.
“The target audience of what he needs is a teacher from the boroughs or a secretary. Larry can’t be with an alpha female who runs a hedge fund . . . He’s a country bumpkin.”
The former Wall Street trader lives in rural Plainview, Long Island, and says he doesn’t want to date a woman who is obsessed with her career.
“I’m battling successful alphas, driven women who are very comfortable in their lives, and I get left in the dust,” Greenfield said.
“My job right now is meeting a girl.”
Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife.
After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.”
But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league.
Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long Island, says he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”
“New York is a tough market for a guy like me. I thought I get the career, then I find the woman,” Greenfield told The Post.
“I’d trade it all in for a white picket fence, two kids, a dog. And you can have it all! I’d take a $50,000-a-year job, work until I retire.”
“I’m not a bad guy. I haven’t been to prison,” he said. “It’s just a very frustrating thing.”
As for the Manhattan matchmakers — who charge about $10,000 per year — Greenfield said: “You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear.”
He complained when Barbie Adler, a matchmaker at Selective Search, set him up with a Knicks dancer.
“Do I seem like the New-York-City-dancer type of guy?” he scoffed.
He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”
And Long Island matchmaker Maureen Tara Nelson didn’t produce enough women — just five in one year — and he described the looks of one match as “terrible.”
But the matchmakers said Greenfield needs to lower his expectations — and not rely only on his money to find love.
“In the outside world, he would not be able to get a date with that girl, because she was far more attractive,” blasted Nelson, who dropped Greenfield as a client after one year.
“He was too picky! I gave him exactly what he wanted multiple times . . . He would always come back with some minor, minor thing that the person wasn’t perfect.”
Greenfield may soon try Serious Matchmaking’s Janis Spindel — who said she’s reluctant to take him on as a client because she’s worried that his dream girl isn’t in her database.
“I don’t want to take his money,” Spindel said.
“The target audience of what he needs is a teacher from the boroughs or a secretary. Larry can’t be with an alpha female who runs a hedge fund . . . He’s a country bumpkin.”
The former Wall Street trader lives in rural Plainview, Long Island, and says he doesn’t want to date a woman who is obsessed with her career.
“I’m battling successful alphas, driven women who are very comfortable in their lives, and I get left in the dust,” Greenfield said.
“My job right now is meeting a girl.”
