True Story Behind ‘Gunther’s Millions’: Is German Countess Karlotta Leibenstein Real?

Spoilers ahead for Gunther’s Millions on Netflix. The story goes: a German Countess named Karlotta Leibenstein (also spelled Carlotta Liebenstein) died in 1992. Upon her death, she left her entire $80 million fortune to her beloved dog, Gunther III. That money has remained with Gunther’s descendants—making Gunther the German Shepard the richest dog in the world. “Karlotta Leibenstein was a German countess who resided in Munich,” Lucy Clarkson, head of PR for Gunther, says in episode one of Gunther’s Millions on Netflix. “And her husband was university professor who came to Germany as a refugee from Hungary. They got their… Read Full Article