On the McLaughlin Group Friday, real estate tycoon and media mogul Mort Zuckerman looked back fondly on meeting a young Vladimir Putin– who had only recently been promoted to head of the KGB:

There’s something about him. He’s very athletic. He’s very youthful in his look.

Zuckerman owns the New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report— w/ an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion.

My seething jealousy is assuaged only by the fact that, for all his wealth, Zuckerman’s wife is old and unattractive:

Eww.

But the crazy part is, Sonja Zuckerman is a huge upgrade over Zuckerman’s even less attractive first wife, Marla Prather!

For comparative purposes, here’s what New England Pariots owner Bob Kraft started smashing the millisecond his wife died: