Mary Kate Olsen has hit out at people who question her about the Olsen twins’ fortune - insisting her personal wealth is of no concern to the outside world.

The 21-year-old began acting as a baby, appearing in 1980s show Full House alongside twin sister Ashley.

And the pair, who have gone on to launch a hugely lucrative merchandising empire, are estimated to be worth over $100 million.

But when questioned on her position as a wealthy young woman, Olsen insists it shouldn’t be of interest to anyone.

She tells Us magazine, “It’s nobody’s business if I am or I’m not (rich).”

And the star doubts she would have considered a career in showbusiness had she not started out as a youngster, insisting she is only acting now because it is all she has ever known.

She adds, “I grew up in it. It wasn’t something that I aspired to. It’s just something I knew. For me, I just worked. I had a job. I’ve had a job for 21 years.”

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After nearly five months, Mary-Kate Olsen still refuses to speak about the fact that she was the first person called after Heath Ledger was found dead in his apartment.

“I’m not going to comment on that,” Olsen, who turns 22 on June 13, tells Elle in its July issue. “I won’t give you a word about that in the nicest way possible. Let’s move on.”

The actress, who said in a statement last January that “Heath was a “friend” and “his death is a tragic loss,” also keeps mum about being a celebrity.

“It’s not a part of my life. It’s a media perception of who I am,” she tells the magazine. “It’s very weird. I mean, if I see a paparazzi shot of me walking that’s in a magazine or something at some event, it’s as if I see it from an outsider’s point of view. There’s like a character, almost, and then there’s me.”

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have sold their massive multi-million dollar New York penthouse, and their neighbors are happy to see the twins and their partying ways hit the road.

The 22-year-old media mogul sisters snapped up the massive Manhattan pad in 2004 after moving from their native Los Angeles to the east coast to attend New York University.

But they have sold it for $10.45 million, after dropping the price by almost $1 million to ensure a quick sale.

A former neighbor of the starlets tells the New York Post, “The bodyguards in their SUVs are always getting in the way of our alternate-side parking routine. You’d think the president was living here.

“They certainly keep late hours. I was jogging early one morning and they were piling out of their gas guzzlers in their little club outfits.”

The sisters are now set to rent another apartment in the city’s star-studded West Village area at a $12,000 a month price tag.

Their new home — a 10-room triplex brownstone — includes five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a terrace.

In the meantime, the buying price for their former abode has been lowered from $11.9 million to $10.45 million.

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Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen have laughed off rumours a barista at their local coffee shop has been secretly trying to fatten up the stars - by substituting their usual skimmed milk with a full fat version.

A worker at the twins’ local Starbucks outlet in New York has reportedly confessed to altering the stars’ morning drinks because he was concerned about their skinny frames.

According to U.S. magazine OK!, the girls regularly ordered fat-free beverages but, “the barista thought the Olsens were too thin, so whenever they ordered their usual drink, he would replace the skim milk with full-fat.”
But a representative for the actresses has blasted the claims, insisting the story is “ridiculous”.

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Celebrity twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have been named and shamed at the top of a new magazine list of fashion offenders.

The sisters ‘beat’ Courtney Love and Sharon Stone to the top of In Touch’s anti-style hit list.

Victoria Beckham, Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse also make the Hollywood’s Biggest Fashion Offenders countdown.

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Only weeks after the overdose death of her secret boyfriend, Heath Ledger, Mary-Kate Olsen has moved on to another troubled drug abuser: Italian playboy Lapo Elkann, who — with his wild hair, eccentric fashion sense and party lifestyle — strikes an eerie resemblance to the late Brokeback Mountain star.

While in Paris for Fashion Week, MK flirted with Lapo, the heir to the $7.3 billion Fiat auto dynasty, who overdosed on cocaine and heroin at the home of a transsexual in 2005. Lapo, who now claims he has found sobriety through AA meetings in NYC, clung to life for three days in a coma before recovering.

“Mary-Kate and Lapo seemed very cozy” while sitting next to each other at the Giambattista Valli fashion show on Feb. 28, says a source. “Lapo’s a good-looking guy, and Mary-Kate seemed to love the attention she was getting from him.”

MK, 21, and Lapo, 30, are certainly no strangers to each other. They have been linked many times together on the international party circuit. “Perhaps, this time in Paris, they’ll strike up a romance,” says the source.

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