Johnson & Johnson Heiress Caught Kicking Horse, Raimondo Has Provided $6M in Incentives to Company

Johnson & Johnson heiress Jazz Johnson-Merton was caught trying to kick her horse after she tumbled to the ground competing in an equestrian event at the Hampton Classic earlier this month. The Raimondo administration has provided incentives totaling $6 million in incentive to Johnson & Johnson to bring "75 high-paying jobs" to Rhode Island -- $80,000 per job.

According to the NY Post, the competition’s judge Chris Wynne, described the incident.

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“She got up, lost her temper and tried to kick the horse in the stomach,” Wynne said.

“I’m not sure she made contact, but then she trotted the horse out of the ring, in hand, and I watched her from the judge’s booth go into the schooling area to see if she was going to do something, and she didn’t,” he said.

According to Johnson-Merton's bio for her book The Social Climber's Bible, "(she) is a thirty-six-year-old Johnson & Johnson heiress, a former debutante, and graduate of Barnard College; she has been photographed for Vogue, and has created a line of her own jewelry. A distinguished horsewoman, Ms. Johnson has won in the Amateur Owner Hunter division at the top horse shows in the country."

Her book was written to help people become better social climbers. The about the book states, "

Welcome fledging Social Climbers! Allow us to show you the way.

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, so what’s the big deal? You shouldn’t be punished for wanting to improve your lot in life! This is America, after all. In the grand tradition of True Prep and The Hipster Handbook, The Social Climber’s Bible will teach you everything you need to know to become a pro Mountaineer.

As GoLocal reported in December of 2016, Johnson & Johnson agreed to bring 75 "high wage jobs" to Rhode Island by opening a new health technology center in Providence -- and with the incentives they are asking from the state, it will cost taxpayers $80,000 a job.

"They will be asking for approximately $6 million in incentives," said Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor following the press conference at the Providence Public Library. "There will be a qualified jobs allocation as part of that in excess of $4M....there'll be allocations for talent incentives, and there'll be allocations for coverage of costs for the facility One Ship Street." The company generates more than $78 billion a year in revenue.

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