Thanks for your insight.
I have personally seen that this is not true. In fact wealthy at time do this to have a dose of reality.
https://www.crfashionbook.com/culture/a23784668/cr-muse-brigid-berlin-rejection-of-status/
Among these talents was Brigid Berlin, a photographer and painter who found herself after rejecting the upper class lifestyle she was born into.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/arts/brigid-berlin-dead.html
This may have been somewhat true on Nancy Cunard heiress to the Cunard Cruise ship fortune
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/nancy-cunard/9780231139380
Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others.