One of the most successful figures in the world of 21st-century glamour has exchanged material wealth for poverty.
From Scott Vincent Borba’s perspective, however, he has merely chosenGodover mammon.
According toKGO-TVin San Francisco, Borba, the 52-year-old co-founder ofe.l.f. Cosmetics, said he has “never been happier” after donating his fortune to charity and setting off on a journey to become a Catholic priest.
That journey will reach its conclusion on Saturday, when Borba — now a deacon and seminarian at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California — is scheduled to be ordained by the Diocese of Fresno.
“We ran around with the likes of Paris Hilton, and partying with Kardashians, and just doing up the Hollywood life,” Borba said of his former life, according to KGO. He described himself as “a poster boy for luxury living,” “not in any which way humble,” and “very prideful.”
“I live in a little tiny room with … it’s sparse, nothing in it,” Borba said. “I have a few bits of clothes and a few pairs of shoes. And my life has been culled down to the bare minimum.”
The soon-to-be ordained priest said that in his 40s, he suddenly felt the emptiness of his now-former life.
“I asked our Lord to help me be the man that he created me to be,” Borba said. “And upon that instance, I had this massive flood of love and mercy that came into my life. It was a very mystical experience.”
Borba joined a seminary in Oregon in 2019, according toThe New York Times, before entering St. Patrick’s Seminary.
“He said he had given up his possessions — his house, his Aston Martin, his Dolce & Gabbana coats and his suits by Gucci and Ralph Lauren, and has divested from his stocks and 401(k),” the newspaper reported.
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