Such money raises questions, chief among them what to do with it. This is rarely a decision taken alone, and aiding Miller was his wife, Marie-Chantal. Born MarÃa Clara Pesantes in Ecuador, the daughter of a construction worker, she was a beauty with an ambition to match her husbandâs. The pair claimed that she was a direct descendant of the Incan emperors, and pursued this line at one party in which she made her entrance by hot-air balloon in full American princess garb. Miller, too, began to trace his ancestry back to various European royals, including William of