Sylvia Bloom worked for 67 years as a secretary at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and accumulated a personal fortune of more than $9 million.
Bloom did this by being "frugal" and "by shrewdly observing the investments made by the lawyers she served," reports the New York Times, which broke the story Monday on its front page.
Starting July 1, convicts in Connecticut who identify with a gender other than their biological sex will be able to pick whether they go to a prison for men or a prison for women.
