To Inherit a Fortune Due to inherit a fortune when his sickly, widower father died, Charles decided he needed a woman to enjoy it with. Going to a singles' bar, he spotted a woman whose beauty took his breath away. ""I'm jus an ordinary man,"" he said, walking up to her, ""but in just a week or two, my father will die and I'll inherit 20 million dollars."" The woman went home with Charles, and the next day she became his stepmother.