Celebrities From Rich Families

Richy Rich.

He fits both ways!

Ellie Kemper-Her rich family is involved with the weirdo Veiled Prophet organization in St Louis.

Hardly a celebrity, but I was surprised recently to learn that Carolyn Warmus, the teacher who allegedly shot her lover's wife (she denies it but was convicted and did time), came from a billionaire family.

Lawrence

Tori Spelling

Dina Merrill

Helena Bonham Carter

Tilda Swinton

All.

Edward Norton

David Duchovny

GOOP

Sigourney Weaver

Lydia Hearst.

Gwyneth Paltrow.

The late Grace Kelly.

Rooney & Kate Mara, rich girls who perform.

Elizabeth Taylor

Katharine Hepburn

Anderson Cooper

Maya Rudolf

Nick Kroll

NIck Phan

Ronan Farrow

Bruce Dern.

Jane & Peter Fonda

Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill & Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Patrick Schwarzenegger

Chevy Chase

Rupert Murdoch.

Spike Jonze

Carla Bruni

Carly Simon - father was the co-founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing empire

Julian Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes - father John Casablancas, co-founder of Elite Model Management, one of the top modeling agencies

Armie Hammer.

[quote]Rooney & Kate Mara, rich girls who perform.

That's a generous description.

Richard E. Grant

Jewell

Angelica Houston.

Stevie Nicks

Elaine Stritch

Elizabeth was not from a rich family. Her father had an art gallery at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Sebastian Croft

Went to very posh schools and is a Kemble (full name Sebastian Theodore Kemble Croft)

Balthazar Getty

BEANIE FELDSTEIN and Jonah Hill.

Stephen Sondheim

Add Cole Porter, then.

[quote]Elizabeth was not from a rich family. Her father had an art gallery at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

He actually made an awful lot of money from his gallery. His many wealthy Hollywood clients included Hedda Hopper and Greta Garbo, and he was the exclusive North American dealer of the important Welsh modernist painter Augustus John. Elizabeth inherited 21 of John's paintings from her father.

r15 Maya was not from a rich family in any LA sense. She grew up in Westwood in LA - middle to upper middle class at best.

Most of these celebrities would be nowhere without their family money.

The most obvious ones have already been listed here: Nick Kroll, Louis-Dreyfuss (known from the get-go as billionaire offspring). What about the less obvious ones?

80s rocker Billy Squier is from Brahmin stock in Boston, his father was trust-fund wealthy. Squier supposedly purchased his apartment in the San Remo with money and references from his family.

Honestly, most of them. It's easier to count the ones who aren't from money. It's a difficult business to get into, highly competitive, and almost all actors will not be able to feed, clothe, house themselves on just acting gigs especially when starting out. That's true of most careers but lots of kids grow up wanting to be an actor.

Much easier with a trust fund. You show up to auditions better rested. You can pay for training.

It's not fair, I suppose, but it's true.

R31 I've never heard that.

Dominic West

Tom Hiddleston

Liesl Pritzker

r44 she is middle to upper-middle class, her father was an executive and she attend HS in either Tiburon or Menlo Park. Lindsay Buckingham also attended HS there, not the same school as she but in that area. Reasonably wealthy.

G.

R10, I don’t think DD came from a wealthy family. His mom was a principal of Grace School in Manhattan and was divorced from his father. The father moved back to his country of origin. I could be wrong, but I swear that’s what was reported.

Paul Giamatti (his father was the president of Yale as well as the US baseball commissioner)

Carly Simon (her father was one of the founders of Simon and Shuster)

Brooke Shields (her father was a top Revlon executive, and her grandmother was an Italian princess)

Michelle Williams (her father was a wealthy stocks and commodities trader)

Kristen Stewart (parents are wealthy Hollywood figures)

R47 "she is middle to upper-middle class"

So, not rich then. Got it.

Randolph Scott

Beanie and Jonah were not rich either. Solidly upper middle class but not Nick Kroll/Julia L-D level rich.

Riz Ahmed.

Don't buy the "I'm working class from Wembley" bullshit. Trust funder. Has generational feudal wealth, famous UK judge, famous Pakistani poet etc. Never had a job outside of showbiz, before fame, was always posting travel pics. Not many can travel all over the world without money.

Sharon Gless.

Her grandfather was a high powered Los Angeles attorney for Howard Hughes and also had a large clientele of major film studio executives and actors like Louis B. Mayer, Cecil B. DeMille, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Ginger Rogers, and Ava Gardner. Her mom’s family owned more than 42,000 acres of land in the San Fernando Valley and sold it off for development during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.

OP is the unhinged what do you think of blah blah looks what do you think of blah blah nose who was prettier in her prime blah blah... it's the same verbage. OP, can you go somewhere else and muck up another message board? You've been doing this daily nonstop for months.

Robin Williams

Christopher Lee - his father was a British Army officer and his mother was an Italian countess.

Edward Norton. He’s from the Rouse family developed dozens of shopping malls and the planned city of Columbia, Maryland I believe. I think they developed Harborplace In Baltimore which was massively successful in the 80s and 90s.

Dominick Dunne was the scion of a very wealthy CT family, "the Irish Kennedys"; his dad was a top heart surgeon.

R42 Billy Squier has also been very involved in the Central Park Conservancy.

David Schwimmer, but the Mara sisters own this thread — and a whole bunch else.

Minnie Driver

Cara Delevingne

That bitch Taylor Swift.

Brazilian film director Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries lol) - his father was a billionaire.

Sigourney Weaver

Paris Hilton

Kardashians

These responses are misleading…

Ronan Farrow grew up privileged, certainly, but Mia had no money after she split with Woody, and she never gave any of her kids financial help, hence the daughter who died of AIDS in poverty and the other who launched a gofundme.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s father was rich but he split from her mother when JLD was a toddler and she grew up with her mother and stepfather in Maryland. Affluent, but not rich.

Carly Simon’s father was forced out of Simon and Schuster when Carly was a kid and he died when she was 15, by which time the money had dried up. She said she spent her inheritance on therapy.

now that the cost of living in LA is closer to SF/NYC and service jobs don't pay well, you're going to see a lot more in the future. Actors need a car and a place to live.

Marisa Berenson.

Her grandmother was legendary designer Elsa Schiaparelli and her father Robert Berenson made a fortune as an executive director in Aristotle Onassis’ shipping empire after having been an American diplomat in Athens.

Mara sisters have multi billionaire families on both sides.

R70, I don't believe with a billionaire father that JLD lived in mere affluence growing up in Maryland.

I can't believe no one has mentioned Elon Musk yet.

Tea Leoni.

Justin Lazard.

Lex Barker

Dina Merrill

Topher Grace.

Jon Bernthal

Leven Rambin

Carly Simon

Armie Hammer

Not a meaningful celeb to most (or maybe not a celeb at all), but since I'm a tennis fan - American Jessica Pegula is the 12 ranked player in the world. She's 28 and has had a slow rise to being a near-Top 10 player. Her parents are billionaires who own the Buffalo Bills football team among other things.

Kyra Sedgwick

Betsy von Furstenberg

How broadly are we defining "from money"? Like the family doesn't have to work (even if they do) and can live off of investments?

I mean, I'd say a kid who's the offspring of a lawyer-doctor couple who make 500-600k per year is "from money" but I also realize that to many that's just "upper middle class." IMO, I guess for me it's not so much a set amount but whether the parents have enough discretionary income to indulge their kids' interests -far beyond a basic level - like paying for years of private sport coaches, sending them to expensive art school.

Whoops. I don't know why I wrote all that thinking the question was which celebs are "from money," when the OP clearly said "rich."

R88 I don’t know what OP had in mind, but I’m defining this as family money/trust fund….not just “oooh my parents have good jobs.” Although if their parents are hedge fund managers, etc.—something in the upper strata of wealth—that would qualify.

[quote] "the Irish Kennedys"

As opposed to the Italian Kennedys?

David Charvet (Baywatch) -- his father owned Sasson jeans, a famous brand from the 1970s (80s?)

Megan Mullally’s family were society types in Oklahoma City. The family made their money supplying mules to the Allies in World War One and then got into oil.

Megan graduated from a fancy prep day school.

Uma Thurman's mom wealthy and aristocratic.

Don't just list celebrity names, explain their wealthy backgrounds.

Many newbie DL-ers have no clue who most of the old celebrities are.

Also, please list actual wealthy people, not just people who have lawyers or artists for parents.

[quote]How broadly are we defining "from money"? Like the family doesn't have to work (even if they do) and can live off of investments? I mean, I'd say a kid who's the offspring of a lawyer-doctor couple who make 500-600k per year is "from money" but I also realize that to many that's just "upper middle class." IMO, I guess for me it's not so much a set amount but whether the parents have enough discretionary income to indulge their kids' interests -far beyond a basic level - like paying for years of private sport coaches, sending them to expensive art school.

One would assume that the celebrities listed come from generational wealth or their families wealth came through extremely successful business ventures. Such as the Mara actresses sports dynasty families and the Dreyfus family's investment background.

So if the parent is Pablo Picasso, then Paloma didn't grow up rich? Madonna's kids? Not rich? Jade Jagger? All the celebrity spawn "models" and "artistes"?

London posh boy Eddie Redmayne. His father worked in finance (a bank manager maybe?) and Eddie went to ultra exclusive Eton prep school and was classmates, and a member of The Eton Society, with Prince William.

FYI. art school isn't all that expensive, there are actual public art high schools in the US. As a young teen, when applying, you need a good and somewhat unique portfolio as well as decent grades.

Most artistically talented people, with very good portfolios and good grades, can get scholarships to top art and fashion colleges in the US. For an art high school, during your entrance exam, you are also required to do a drawing test on premises, that way the student can prove the portfolio you are showing is yours.

I don't come from wealth, I attended the best art high school and one of the best art colleges in NYC, then studied art in Europe. All due to an excellent portfolio, good grades and scholarships. A student doesn't need to be from wealth to attend most art schools, they don't have to be there due to their wealthy family's legacy. That's the problem with legacy students, so many from wealth have little talent. They are only there due to connections and wealth.

Public art schools aren’t expensive. My college best friend went to La Guardia and his mother is a librarian and his father is an office worker. There’s a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds there - Azealia Banks (who came from poverty) went there but so did Madonna’s spawn.

R100 are you white?

R74 don't take my word for it, read Julia Louis-Dreyfus on her childhood. Her life in Maryland with her mother, surgeon step-father and two half-sisters was comfortably upper-middle class, but when she went to visit her father's family at his compound in Westchester County, she was acutely aware that they were *wealthy* and that her step-sisters would never understand. I assume JLD inherited a ton of money from her father when he died in 2016, but beyond getting extra presents at Christmas she was not living the life of a billionaire...

Billy Campbell (Champion Spark Plug fortune heir)

Porn star Scott O'Hara (industrial fortune)

Margaux + Mariel Hemingway.

Thanks I had no idea both Scott O'Hara.

* about

Paris and Nicky Hilton

How did Paris and Nicky's family amass a fortune?

Glenn close

[quote][R100] are you white?

First off, the NYC art school I attend had an extremely large portion of Black, Hispanic, South Asian and East Asian art students, from the US. When I attended, I don't think there were any foreign students. In art college, there were rich foreign students, from Europe, Japan and South Asia, but not in the high school. When I attended this art high school, the demographic was extremely diversified.

If you must know, I'm biracial. I'm Black, white and of six nationalities. Quite a mixture and my extended family is also mixed. Don't try using that "are you white" bullshit on me.

The ReThugs are trying to ruin the US, back in the day when I went to these various art schools, the schools were extremely diversified, most of the students got along. Not that there weren't any rich people there, there were, but the majority of us were there to learn, develop our talent and hopefully, afterward, get jobs in the areas we studied.

I attended art high school with one of the world's most famous photographers. Many people from these schools went on to fame and wealth. Others didn't continue in creative fields, yet still became successful.

R111, what field are you in now?

Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, in Greenwich, Connecticut, to socialite Elizabeth Mary Hester "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close,[1] a doctor who operated a clinic in the Belgian Congo and served as a personal physician to its dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.[2] She has two sisters, Tina and Jessie, and two brothers, Alexander (nicknamed Sandy) and Tambu Misoki, whom Close's parents adopted while living in the Congo.

Although Close has an affluent background, she has stated that her family chose not to participate in WASP society. She would also avoid mentioning her birthplace, the wealthy town Greenwich, whenever asked because she did not want people to think she was a "dilettante who didn't have to work."[5]

Glenn close--Through her appearance on the first episode of the seventh season of Finding Your Roots, she came to find out that she is related to Princess Diana through her 7 times great-grandparents, is also distantly related to fellow actor Clint Eastwood, and that some of her ancestors were slaveholders.[14]

[quote][R111], what field are you in now?

I'm an art director and a photographer. Most of my art school friends continued in art. One man worked right out of art high school, got a job doing graphics at a small ad agency. Our high school art education was quite extensive, we had classes in almost every area of art. The school day was very long. In those days, it was actually easy to get a decent job right out of attending a vocational high school.

This art school friend never attended art college, yet, did extremely well. He ended up taking over the small ad agency he worked for. He put three kids through college and is still doing well.

Anything else?

RISD, Pratt, SVA, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts - NONE are need blind financial aid. They are EXPENSIVE.

Diversity admits get much more aid than white admits, because the schools want diverse student body. And there are zillions of rich white kids who can pay, and who are sufficiently creative. That is why I asked if you are white. The only top undergraduate art schools with need blind admissions are Yale and Carnegie Mellon.

Its foolish to say higher education art school "is not expensive". I suppose if you study at one of the lower priced state colleges. Purchase would be must less expensive, for example.

If however you fulfill diversity quotas and are wildly creative, higher education art school will be cheap or tuition free, because they will through scholarships at the applicants they want.

Needless to say, if a poor white kid get into Yale, he won't go broke on loans, because it is need blind and full financial aid. RISD certainly is not.

All of them.

R95 Dina Merrill was often said to be the world's richest performer. With Post cereals on her mother's side and EF Hutton brokerage on her father's, she had billions. And grew up at Mar-A-Lago.

Her father objected to her acting career, so out of spite she took his competitor's surname.

Grace Kelly

[quote]RISD, Pratt, SVA, Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts - NONE are need blind financial aid. They are EXPENSIVE.

I got a scholarship to SVA, then studied art in London. There must still be scholarships available to people with real talent and not much in the area of financial resources. When looking for actual talent, diversity sometimes takes a backseat.

Diversity only works when the 'diverse' students have raw talent, a needed skill or are extremely intelligent. Schools should not give scholarships simply to fill demographics, but we know they do. That's the school's fault, not the students. I'm all for trade schools, lots of young people are not college material, yet, they can build and fix things, become plumbers, electricians. Electrical, carpentry and plumbing abilities will always be needed talents. Robots can't do everything. I have a friend who became wealthy through his plumbing business, this can be done.

I was not talking about the rich white kids attending these various art schools, their backgrounds can get them into any school. Remember the recent scandal with all those celebrities paying to get their talent-free kids into important Ivy League colleges?

Wish I could link the work of my friends who are now extremely famous and successful, but I can't. Upon entering the art high school, and art colleges, some of these people were already excellent illustrators, painters and photographers. You could easily see their talent. They then went on to scholarships from some very prestigious US art colleges.

We now live in a different world, where talent takes a backseat to artifice and general bullshit, I'm quite aware of that. Social media has changed so much. Too many young people think that's the way to fame, many don't even care they possess little talent. These people also watch too much reality show nonsense, they assume they can replicate that kind of fame.

Many friends from the art high school I attended, people I'm still friends with, almost all these people got scholarships to RISD, Pratt, SVA and Cooper Union. They went on to work in various areas of the art field and in other creative fields. One became a TV show producer and was nominated for an Emmy.

WTF is "need blind" ?!

To be clear, I never said and do not claim that there are less qualified "diversity admits". My point is, from professional and personal experience, the diversity admits GET THE BETTER FINANCIAL AID that is available in the limited budget of a school.

"need blind" means that a students family's income is completely immaterial to the admission committee, and EVERY student admitted will get FULL FINANCIAL AID to limit loans to nothing, to negligible.

RISD's selectivity is 27%. Everyone who is admitted has all the current and potential talent RISD deems necessary. But they will throw the financial aid more to diversity admits to ensure the class is diverse. FURTHERMORE, these elite colleges are making a priority not only to diversity, but "1st gen" college attenders. They want boots trappers.

Yes there is SOME financial aid to white admits but RISD can admit very talented RICH white kids and their mommies and daddies will pay. Rich diversity admits as well, of course.

R122 - see category 2

It means that they don't take your family's ability to pay into consideration in admissions R122 and that if they do admit you, they will ensure that you have the money to attend.

Colleges with very large endowments can do this.

The fact that most college admission is NOT need-blind often comes as a shock to people, but when admissions committees are debating between two candidates of relatively equal merit and one's family seems like they would easily be able to pay full tuition and the other seems like they'd need substantial financial aid, that becomes an issue.

And the situation gets worse in Grad school. Most creative MFA's have limited financial aid and its ear marked to diversity admits to keep the class diverse. Good luck to a white young person trying to get a tuition scholarship for an MFA in an American University.

Europe is a completely different situation.

Again, none of this is about one group being more creative than another. It is about a school meeting its diversity agenda.

CalArts MFA 1 year tuition cost is 55K. That is not room and board + tuition. It is tuition. They will give the limited financial aid to help keep the class diverse. Its easy as pie to find a creative and rich white person. The DUMMIES are the creative middle-class white people who take out huge loans to attend these schools and programs. These schools are for diversity admits on generous financial aid, and RICH kids. That's it.

excuse the tangent. back to regularly scheduled programming.

Jesus, take the art school squabbling to another thread.

R100, it is not school that is the problem. It is work.

In the arts, unpaid internships still a standard path into the industry--and lock out people who need to make money to make rent. Even without the unpaid work, during the first years of an artistic career, it can be very hard to survive without some family money helping out.

Would Meryl Streep have gotten where she did if her family could not have hired a publicist as she finished at Yale? Lots of great actresses have graduated from there, and most of them you never heard of.

I am sure someone is going to list exceptions. But as a product of those elite arts training programs, I can assure you that few lasted in the business without some family support safety net.

I liked the school funding tangent, How about a Canadian Healthcare tangent where Canadians could work in America fully knowing that their families were covered by Canadian health insurance.

The reason we got Jim Carey and the flip side, America shit Ray Romano and Gregory and Schmegory.

MFA and similar programs are very controversial right now for the reasons several of you laid out: they were designed to separate rich people from their money but wound up with many middle class students deep, deep in debt, working in fields where salaries are very low unless you get a big break, something that does not happen to most.

She claims otherwise, but Lana Del Rey aka Elizabeth Grant. Her dad was a domain investor in the early internet days and her family made a lot of money because of it. I don’t know why she tries to lie about this.

[quote]To be clear, I never said and do not claim that there are less qualified "diversity admits". My point is, from professional and personal experience, the diversity admits GET THE BETTER FINANCIAL AID that is available in the limited budget of a school.

Never accused you of this. I did say, diversity admissions are not actually a good idea, not unless the students have actual talent or are extremely intelligent. But that's not the case, most of us know this. Even the mediocre diversity students getting admitted know this. Then, there are the sports scholarships, that's a whole other area.

Years ago, I worked in an art department with a woman who got into Pratt on scholarship, she was dumb as a box of rocks and had mediocre artistic ability. Not to mention lazy. I always heard her complain about the freelancers making more money than she did, because of that, they should do the bulk of the work. Her entitlement was unbelievable.

This woman was always accusing people in the department of "racism." She thought nothing of asking the Italian-Americans in our art department if they were "mob connected"! I kid you not.

I knew this woman was hired to fill a demographic, our boss, the Creative Director admitted this to me. The CEO was a Black man, he wanted more Black people hired for every department. When a white woman was promoted to Art Director, this Black woman accused the CD of racism. I informed this dunce, "The 'new' Art Director has worked here many years before you, you do realize we have three art departments here? Just because she didn't work in our department very long, doesn't mean she wasn't already working for the company."

This dummy didn't even consider that the white woman had years more experience in the company, she had worked her way up the ladder in all three art departments, as well as having actual talent. This Black woman eventually left, but not before she got another job via nepotism and due to being Black. Her relative, who worked in a NYC government agency, suggested her for an art oriented job, another job she was not qualified for. She got that job immediately.

Coincidentally, a Hispanic woman, who had actual talent and an excellent portfolio, who worked with us, had applied for the same job, She was interviewed, then heard back from the AD, she was told, "We decided to not hire anyone, the job will be split with our existing graphic designers" A complete lie, they wanted a Black person and they hired the unqualified woman. Of course, life isn't fair.

Matthew Cowels. (Those Persuad-ee-ators are expensive!

Bryce Dallas Howard.

[quote][R100], it is not school that is the problem. It is work. In the arts, unpaid internships still a standard path into the industry--and lock out people who need to make money to make rent. Even without the unpaid work, during the first years of an artistic career, it can be very hard to survive without some family money helping out.

As I posted previously, this was not my experience. It's obvious, the world has changed and not always in good ways. Most of my friends who became extremely successful in various areas of the arts and other creative fields, had zero connections and no generational wealth to help them get admitted to the various art colleges they attended.

None of us interned either. I worked while in art college, as did most of my friends. After graduation we all managed to find jobs in the fields we studied.

I started as an assistant photographer, then decided that was not for me. I was in a studio all day printing. This wasn't the type of photography I wanted to do, which was photo-journalism. I wanted to be out shooting news stories. Since I also studied graphics, I put together a portfolio and was hired in an in-house art department at a small clothing company, I then moved on to various freelance jobs at record companies and ad agencies. I also did display at two major department stores. Success for me, was being able to work in the field I studied.

Out of my small NYC grammar school, nine students applied to the art high school. Only three of us were accepted. None of us came from wealthy families or had any connections which would have helped with being accepted.

obviously public high school is free.

We had a great discussion here. Shame a couple of fools had to sidetrack it.

Wow, R121, etc. - you sound INSUFFERABLE!!!! Less is more, my friend!

I, too, do not consider parents with good jobs as qualifying. By that rationale, Alexandra Daddario—upper east side, Brearley, both parents = lawyers—would qualify.

Here’s a good example of what I consider to be wealth. Intact, old family money that is still some degree of family-held, even via a Board role...money so old that is has a big, fat income producing trust. The progeny usually busy themselves with philanthropy or the arts or sports. Occasionally, one hunkers down and becomes a surgeon. The family—if based in the Northeast—almost always has a US ambassador lurking around in the family tree. In the south, a senator.

Here’s a good example of that kind of wealth.

Unfortunately, the actor at the end of the line quit acting very young.

Godfrey Lowell Cabot. Boston Brahmin. Industrialist and founder of the chemical company, Cabot Corporation, which has been thriving since1882 and today is approximately a $3 Billion company.

Cabot had five children including Thomas Dudley Cabot, CEO of Cabot and multiple Board seats, including United Fruit.

One of Thomas Dudley Cabot’s children was Linda Cabot Black, who cofounded Opera Company of Boston in 1958. Linda Cabot Black is today 93 and is the sole Trustee of th Linda Cabot Black Foundation, a private foundation in Boston, MA, which was founded in 2004. It’s most recent (2018) 990 Tax form reported $3.2 million in distributions and contributions.

Then...finally...one of Linda’s children is Jeremy Black. Jeremy memorably played 5 roles in The Boys from Brazil. Then, as far as I know, he never had another film or television roll again.

R104 r106 Scott O’Hara grew up in a middle class environment on a farm in Oregon but yes he had a family trust fund which eventually ran dry towards the end of his life…just when he needed it most. According to his memoir he never knew he had money as a child…he only began to put two plus two together when he realized his parents never complained about money and they had no jobs, all they ever did was volunteer for the church.

R134, you are not talking about the performing arts. It is different. Writers and visual artists have a product that can be sold. They do not need to be hired before painting, writing, photographing.

That is why there is more equity there. My experience agrees with you that there is more equity there.

But that is simply not how it is in the performing arts. A writer or painter working in an office can just take longer to finish their work. A performer cannot decide that they will rehearse slower to accommodate the need to bring in an income.

R134 in the arts the "diversity admissions" usually are better than those paying full price. Anyone who has been through an MFA program knows this.

Actually anyone with common sense knows this. Anyone who had to compete for their spot is better than someone who just pays to get in..

Can the 2 old fat art-school queens go elsewhere? You've ruined a fun thread, trash.

[quote]Wow, [R121], etc. - you sound INSUFFERABLE!!!! Less is more, my friend!

This thread is insufferable, with so much misinformation.

Just listing a celebrity's name without how their family came upon their wealth, is lazy and silly.

[R134] in the arts the "diversity admissions" usually are better than those paying full price. Anyone who has been through an MFA program knows this. Actually anyone with common sense knows this. Anyone who had to compete for their spot is better than someone who just pays to get in..

Yes and no to this. Again, you missed the point, No one should gain entrance to a college due to fitting a certain demographic, especially if they don't have artistic talent, any other talent or intelligence.

Don't grades hold any importance re a student gaining entry?

R147 No one cares, dear. Bless your heart, how sad.

[quote]Can the 2 old fat art-school queens go elsewhere? You've ruined a fun thread, trash.

Newbie here? DL can, and does, always divert from thread topics. Threads are only ruined by trolls like YOU, never by a conversation being diverted. No one cares what you think. The "old farts" here outnumber you, remember that.

Right about now, shouldn't you be blowing some random dick at some glory hole?

R147, no one does gain entrance to a college due to fitting a certain demographic.

Sorry, that was wrong. If the demographic we are talking about is wealth, then yes, they do get in because they can pay. And yes, they usually are not as gifted.

So I guess you are arguing in favor of free tuition?

R150 This thread is the highlight of your month, I'm guessing?

[quote][R147] No one cares, dear. Bless your heart, how sad.

[bold]What a predictable response. Zzzzzzzzz [/bold]

wrong, r37. well-off, yes; rich, no.

[quote]We had a great discussion here. Shame a couple of fools had to sidetrack it.

How about stepping into the real world sometime? Stop obsessing about celebrities and rich people. Is your own life so dull you always need to talk about celebrities and rich people?

Rashida Jones (The Office, Parks and Recreation, etc.)- daughter of Quincy Jones.

R154 Did you see the title of this particular thread?

Dominick Dunne didn't grow up "rich," either. He just had a lot of pretensions, and he married a very wealthy woman. Where are you queens getting your information-- Us Weekly?

[quote][R154] Did you see the title of this particular thread?

DL threads ALWAYS veer off-topic. It's not a crime. Big deal, some people wanted to comment on how regular people with talent can get into certain types of colleges. Doing so was not earth shattering, you know it. The bullshit on DL is getting ridiculous. You could have simply ignored the posts you aren't interested in.

DEAL WITH IT.

R158 You are very "special." I hope your day improves.

[quote][R158] You are very "special." I hope your day improves.

And you are a dumb piece of shit. Hope your brain improves.

Toodles.

But the wedding is still on for June?

[quote]But the wedding is still on for June?

Wedding? Are you in the wrong thread? Are you asking about the The Long Guyland Cesspool Princess Murderer's wedding?

Humor is wasted on the young.

I don't know the source of Richard E. Grant's family money. His memoir mentioned Hugh Grant asking him if he had money and being envious when REG said he did. IIRC, his father was minister of education in Swaziland.

Scott O'Hara *sigh*

Hugh Grant comes from a distinguished family including aristocracy. Hugh Grant went to Oxford. May his own family wasn't filthy rich but there was money in the history and why would he be jealous of Richard E. Grant.

Ralph Fiennes

R133 She doesn't lie about it. Her father and mother both worked in well paying positions for an ad agency, and he became rich when she was in her late teens/early 20s. Maybe she has songs from the perspective of trailer trash junkies in love, but that's a persona.

Mike D from the Beastie Boys was came from wealth - his parents were both art dealers, and he grew up on the Upper West Side. Spent two years at Vassar before quitting college to focus on the band.

The other two were upper middle class at best. MCA's parents were an architect and social worker respectively. Ad-Rock's father was a well known off-Broadway playwright who got MeTooed before he died, but I'm not sure that he was exactly rolling in dough. Beyond that (like JLD's story), his mother (who ran a small boutique as well as took in boarders in Greenwich Village) had primary custody of him.

**CAME from wealth, I fucking hate iPhones.

I'm too lazy to look it up, but isn't Ansel Elgort from rich parents?

Taylor Swift's father is a wealthy stockbroker.

R171 Yes, because Ansel’s dad Arthur made a fortune as a fashion photographer who had a very lucrative decades long contract with Condé Nast back in the day when magazines paid star photographers a boat load of money. Plus, he did campaigns for major brands like Chanel and Valentino that paid fees into the millions for guys like himself or Patrick Demarchelier.

Rupert Everett's father was a military officer and his mother was from the gentry - baronets and barons, etc.

I think Cary Elwes' father was a famous painter who killed himself. His mother was the daughter of a Yugoslavian socialite.

R101, as did Merritt Wever; her mother is a single parent by choice.

Funny R169, I recently read an article about Mike D's parents apartment in the Eldorado--it had been expanded many times over the years--it was a real estate article, it mentioned in passing that he was their son. (His mom recently died and the place was for sale.)

Lady Gaga

That Eldorado pad is really something. My sister lived in a 1 bedroom there in the 80s.

The El Dorado is where Ansel grew up, too. Right?

One word R180.

The late Jane Wyatt. (Actress...Father Knows Best. Spock's mommy.) Both her parents were from founding families and very rich. She was also related to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and spent a lot of time at Hyde Park, New York.

Nicola Peltz, actress in Bates Motel and Transformers: Age of Extinction, and wife of Brooklyn Beckham, has a billionaire father.

r182 Wyatt's mother was a Van Rensselaer, as was David Crosby's maternal grandmother.

A more interesting thread topic would be Celebrity Oddball Cousins. There are several instances of these (Glenn Close and Brooke Sheilds, Oliver Platt and Princess Diana, Crosby and Wyatt, etc).

A very high percentage of actors coming from upper middle class to wealthy families. It's more of a rarity if they don't, like Hillary Swank.

The list is endless.

Ellie Mae Douglas

[quote] A more interesting thread topic would be Celebrity Oddball Cousins. There are several instances of these (Glenn Close and Brooke Sheilds, Oliver Platt and Princess Diana, Crosby and Wyatt, etc).

Charles Shaughnessy's grandmother was President James K. Polk's second-cousin.

It's one of the interesting reasons to watch a show like Finding Your Roots, to find out who a celebrity is related to.....they discovered that Julianne Moore and Marisa Tomei, who knew each other (and worked together on As The World Turns) were, I believe, fifth or sixth cousins.

Graham Phillips family is loaded.

This thread is top-drawer, I must say! Rully nifty.

DL, you never disappoint when it comes to Old Money!

David Crosby.

Usually find an actor with a great career and very questionable looks, and you'll uncover a boatload of cash flowing from their very wealthy (mostly newly so) parents funneled into the industry pockets of agents, managers, PR agents, stylists, makeup artists, and hair stylists. As well as shop owners for stylish clothes and to whoever they rent or buy their home, possibly one of the same people listed above.

Gotta spend money to make mommy famous... I mean, make money. Haha! Make money.

Kristin Johnson

[quotes]All the celebrity spawn "models" and "artistes"?

Whatever do you mean?

Ariana Grande- “ She is the daughter of Joan Grande, the Brooklyn-born CEO of Hose-McCann Communications, a manufacturer of communications and safety equipment, and Edward Butera, a graphic design firm owner in Boca Raton”

Ansel elgort- son of Jewish photographer Arthur Elgort

Ansel Elgort's mom must be gorgeous, his father is short and squat, he looks a bit like actor Kevin Pollak.

As usual, the majority of DL seems to define "rich" as upper middle class or having two working parents.

I don't want to hear about a stockbroker's son, a heart surgeon's daughter, or a Nepotism baby. I could walk around USC or NYU to see that.

Show me some old money, some trust fund money! Take me back to the May-motherfucking-Flower, if need be.

I want to hear about parents who dabble in philanthropy...siblings who sculpt...cousins who breed horses. Not, "Her dad was a DOCTOR and her mom a LAWYER!" How many of you are from the wrong side of the tracks?

There are—and I'm being generous here—perhaps15 valid entries on a thread with nearly 200 replies.

Dazzle me!

This is alumni list for an boarding school in Michigan called Interlochen Center for the Arts. The alumni list interesting and I assume a good portion of these people possible upper midde class or wealthy parents.

^^ I meant to type possibly have/had upper middle class or wealthy parents.

[quote]Rashida Jones (The Office, Parks and Recreation, etc.)- daughter of Quincy Jones.

Oh, I guess I no longer matter anymore since I'm dead.

[quote]Not, "Her dad was a DOCTOR and her mom a LAWYER!" How many of you are from the wrong side of the tracks?

Please, STFU.

Being a doctor or lawyer, is considered being successful. These people might not be super rich, however, they have very comfortable lifestyles, they are not simply middle class, not the US definition of middle class. (Middle class in Britain means something completely different, it means wealthy and usually from generational wealth.)

The American kids of doctors and lawyers are spoiled, the parents buy them whatever crap they want, send them on expensive trips, pay their rent and college expenses. These kids are being supported by their parents, this is not the norm with most young people. Only the children of professionals seem to have this lifestyle.

Look at the Long Guyland Cesspool Princess, the unhinged young woman who recently murdered the vocal coach. Her parents sent her on numerous expensive vacations, the parents apparently didn't expect much from her, ignored her violent outbursts and basically coddled her. The lower classes cannot afford to do any of this.

The lower classes, especially working class foreigners who move to the US, usually want their kids to transcend their working class backgrounds.

R202 This is still not notable to be commented on, plenty of people have comfortable lives. Nobody expects every celebrity to have a Dickensian upbringing. WEALTH and connections are not the same thing as having white collar parents, you sound like a tumblr user.

Are you people being serious with equating the children of billionaires or movie stars with the children of white collar professionals? These aren't comparable at ALL.

r191 Crosby indeed came from very old money and was clearly born on 1st base, which makes his treatment of some of his musical colleagues - such as the poor country boy Gene Clark - all the more heinous.

As far as the Byrds go though, he was outclassed by Gram Parsons, whose mother's family owned a major chunk of central Florida and made millions in the citrus business.

R203, no one ever thinks that they are wealthy.

But I am guessing that if mom is a corporate lawyer and dad is successful doctor. that person is able to get financial help from their family.

It is not a level playing field. If someone gets a boost because their family is a little rich, that is not negated by pointing out that someone else is very rich.

Candace Bergen

Gwyneth Paltrow

R206 Why does this shit matter? Most people can afford to get some level of help from their parents, be that emotional support or financial aid. It reminds me of this idiotic tweet I saw that said if your parents ever helped you out with groceries you were "privileged." If a good parent CAN help their child, they will.

Keep telling yourself that, R209.

Getting money from your parents after you are old enough to vote will not seem privileged to you if everyone you know is also privileged.

But most people of that age support their parents, not the other way around.

What’s the difference between being supported by a rich spouse/partner and rich parents?

Lana del Rey - parents are millionaires/The Great Family Foundation/Web Media Properties

Emma Stone - i forget why, so pls consult google same with: Carla Delevingne Adam Levine Edward Norton Spike Jonz - heir to the Spiegle Mail Order Catalog, which has been in existence for at least 100 years Nick Kroll - dad is cofounder of Kroll, Inc, worth appx 2 billion dollars

*Humphrey Bogart- “Bogart was born in New York City on December 25, 1899. Bogart, whose surname comes from the Dutch for "keeper of an orchard," was born into a wealthy and prominent New York family, descended directly from New York's first Dutch colonial settlers.Apr 27, 2017”

……oh,one more : tiny rich actor Bob Balaban

[quote] [R206] Why does this shit matter? Most people can afford to get some level of help from their parents, be that emotional support or financial aid. It reminds me of this idiotic tweet I saw that said if your parents ever helped you out with groceries you were "privileged." If a good parent CAN help their child, they will.

I have seen those kinds of tweets on twitter or similar memes on Facebook and Instagram. They are annoying as fuck because many parents choose on their own to help their kids because shit happens in life like job loss, divorce, health issues/disability etc and in many situations it's just short term help. Also, there are situations of adult children paying their parents back for help.

Yes, there are some people can't/won't help their kids. But, if a parent chooses to help their adult child, that's on the parent and not the kid.

R214 Of course it's on the kid if he's an adult and not self sufficient. Only those skating through life on daddy's back would think otherwise.

Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson - both are children of Goldie Hawn, whose estimated wealth is $90 million.

Christopher Reeve

Bobby Flay

Catherine Oxenberg - her father had clothes manufacturing factories all over the world and her mother is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, second aunt to the current aspirant to the Serbian throne Prince Alexander and cousin of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia, who was forcibly removed from the throne by the Nazis in 1941 and lost his title in 1945, when Tito declared Yugoslavia a republic.

Through her mother, Catherine is closely related to the British, Danish/Greek and Spanish royal families, as well as the former Russian imperial family.

“…and was clearly born on first base”

OK, sidebar? It’s not “born on first base.”

It’s born on THIRD base…as in born on third base, thinking he hit a triple. A metaphor that is commonly used against people with an inherent advantage in life. Many journalists evoked this when George W Bush was running for President.

Sorry to be a grammar queen but I just had to…

I did not know that my Future Husband Billy Campbell was an heir to the Champion Spark Plug fortune. I know he’s in his 60s now, but I’ve been in love with him since DYNASTY. That spark plug cash will help me take care of him when he’s really old.

R220, I just saw something yesterday about your future husband, and thought of you. I think you're cute, and I hope you get your man.

Donald Trump himself. He was born into massive wealth--he ain't no self-made man.

Seems to be two concurrent trains of thought on here.

OP is looking for the world as depicted in Philadelphia Story-- heiresses and debutante parties and country estates--the whole midcentury "Let's Be Things That Are Upper Class" scenario that is a frequent topic on DL.

Most other posters are calling out actors and musicians who did not have to worry about waiting tables while waiting for their break, whose parents thought "well if it doesn't work out by the time they are 30, they can just go to law school."

I love how people immediately go to feeling that some blame is happening to people who benefit from well-off parents.

Yet all we are saying is factual information. Instead of getting defensive about having had parents help you, would not gratitude be the better response?

There is nothing wrong with being privileged.

But it is foolish not to recognize the role it played in your life.

And be grateful for your luck.

Robin Williams.

Scott O'Hara [quote]he had a family trust fund which eventually ran dry towards the end of his life

Yeah, but the family was huge. He never really held down a steady job, apart from briefly being a sauna attendant, and spent most his life travelling. And he also blew a large wodge on publishing Wilde magazine and Steam - the magazine devoted to global sauna culture. I still have a couple of copies of that. It was great.

R221, Aw, thanks. You sound nice. My partner accepted a long time ago that I’d throw him over for Billy given half a chance. We know that will never happen, just like I know he has no chance with his #1 crush, Tim McGraw.

I’ve had friends over the years tell me that my Billy crush is narcissistic since I SORT OF resemble him. I have never seen it, but I wish! I think ONCE AND AGAIN was the peak of his hotness.

I *do* want to know more about the “awkward” encounter the former waiter had with Billy in that other thread here about waitstaff and stories about celebrities!

Okay, sorry for hijacking this thread about My Future Husband! I will shut up now.

What about Mike Nesmith, from the Monkees, whose mother invented White Out?

Liquid Paper.

Nesmith's mother eventually patented Liquid Paper after he was grown and had moved on to LA to join the music scene. For most of his childhood she raised him in relative poverty as a single mother.

It must have been strange for both to see themselves garnering wealth and relative fame in their separate respective careers, parallel to each other. Bette Nesmith died fairly wealthy in 1980, and Mike continued to have a lot of success behind the scenes as a producer and businessman outside of the Monkees.

This might sound corny of me, I honestly think the Bette Nesmith story would be great material for a movie.

[quote]These responses are misleading…Ronan Farrow grew up privileged, certainly, but Mia had no money after she split with Woody, and she never gave any of her kids financial help, hence the daughter who died of AIDS in poverty and the other who launched a gofundme.

Mia Farrow's parents were a Hollywood director/writer and a movie star. She had a TV and movier career that began when she was a teenager and lasted well into middle age. Her net worth is listed as 10 million. Ronan Farrow went to Yale and Oxford. But he's not from a "rich family"?

Farrow's net worth probably includes the Connecticut property. I think Mia relied heavily on her gentlemen callers for financial gifts.

A lot of artists (actors, writers, directors) are a lot less substantially rich than their reputations would have you believe. Nic Cage was flat broke about a decade ago.

But prove Mia Farrow is flat broke.

I'm not saying she's flat broke, in fact I think she's probably well off, but not as wealthy as some of her contemporaries. She has probably lived off of her connections (old friends and boyfriends) for the past dew decades.

R237 I doubt she has had to live off people. I don't even live off people and I'm poor. She has had films and Broadway roles for the past two decades, not that she was starting from scratch at that time either. But okay, Ronan Farrow, son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow and grandson of Maureen O'Sullivan, came from a regular working class background and not a rich family. Sure, okay.

She's had no acting jobs for at least 10 years. I don't think she's as broke as she claims, but she has to reinforce her waif image so that the old friends and boyfriends continued to pony up tuitions (maybe still, for the grandchildren) and the new roof. Do not fool yourself about this. She's made a career of using people, and she's quite appealing as the beautiful victim.

R239 She was on Broadway in 2014 (Love Letters) (got great reviews, according to Wikipedia) and is in a 2022 miniseries that's in post-production (IMDB says). I don't care where she got the money at this point in the argument, just that she has it, and I'm sure she does.

*And anyway, Ronan Farrow isn't being raised by her in 2022, so what she's worth today is beside the point that he was from a rich family growing up.

Didn't Woody Allen have to pay child support for Ronan?

I think Woody Allen is a creep. But, I also think Mia is an awful person in other ways. I wish more would come out on the daughter who died of AIDS in poverty and the other daughter who set up a GoFundMe to buy a car. I suspect St. Ronan has managed to covered up a lot of Mia's secrets. I always thought it was telling years ago how Ronan expected he and sister Dylan to be instantly believed by the public. Yet, when Soon-Yi and Moses Farrow talked about Mia being an abuser he basically said that they shouldn't be at least listened to. It was clear white privilege allowed Ronan to keep people further listening to Moses Farrow.

I think Ronan is appalling. And I agree it was telling that he expected to be believed by the public. And yet, he was. Dylan's a different matter: I think she actually believes that she was molested.

R240, she was on Broadway for about 6 weeks.

Not exactly going to pay the mortgage.

R244 she was on Broadway for about 6 weeks. Not exactly going to pay the mortgage.

I 2014. The original comment I answered was, "She's had no acting jobs for at least 10 years." Even if it was one night, she had an acting job in 10 years. And, as I said, she also had a 2022 acting job.

And why do people assume celebrities never have investments, savings, inheritances, etc.? Do you really think just because a celeb of retirement age isn't working that they're living in a furnished room, cooking on a hotplate?

*In 2014

And Ronan Farrow was from a rich family. Period.

Isn't Stockard Channing from a wealthy family?

Oprah

Daryl Hannah inherited more from than $50 million when her land developer step father died.

R248, did you read the original post? It's not that long.

[quote]Stockard Channing [quote]Julia Louis-Dreyfus

R245, good to see you finally caught on to what was meant by the comment at R244 (and others previously).

She was not making money from acting. That was what people usually are refering to when they talk about someone not having any acting work for a period of time--do they have an income from acting.

Her lack of acting work, indicates that she is living off of saving, investments or other passive earnings.

[quote]Her lack of acting work, indicates that she is living off of saving, investments or other passive earnings.

And just what does that have to do with the subject of the thread? Who cares? Mia Farrow is a celebrity from a rich Hollywood family and so is her son. Move on.

What does that have to do with the subject of the thread? Ummmm....Farrow is a celebrity and is the mother of a celebrity. Money to live on without work usually means wealth--did you read what the subject of this thread is?

Anya Taylor-Joy comes from serious money.

I've read that here previously r255, but have seen no evidence of it as fact. Her parents are definitely comfortable, well-off and not poor. But billionaire level, 100-millionaire level?

Not sure if she'd be considered a celebrity, but she is a working actress, Sting's daughter Mickey Sumner. Mickey is currently in the cable series 'Snowpiercer'. She been in several films with Greta Gerwig.

One would assume, Sting being worth between $300-$400 million would be considered "rich".

Years ago, Sting claimed he'd never support his adult children or leave them his wealth. Obviously that was a lie, he seems to be supporting almost all of his six children.

One daughter, Eliot, who lives in Brooklyn (in an apartment Sting obviously bought for her), is a musician and actually has a career, but the rest of his children, none appear to have actual jobs. His eldest son, from his first marriage, is also a musician, but his band isn't very well known. Yet another son claims to a documentary filmmaker.

His eldest daughter, think she's now in her early 40s, doesn't do much but travel and post selfies on IG.

[quote]I've read that here previously [R255], but have seen no evidence of it as fact. Her parents are definitely comfortable, well-off and not poor. But billionaire level, 100-millionaire level?

Ten to hundreds of millions, certainly. Her father was a banker (since retired) and former speedboat racer with MBE and OBE titles. She grew up with the Gettys.

R233 are you an idiot? Mia's "writer/director" father was mostly unemployed during his "career" and did nothing but get wasted and fuck around on Mia's mother, Maureen, whose major claim to fame was playing Jane in early Tarzan movies. They also had SEVEN kids.

Mia's TV "career" lasted three years before she left Peyton Place. When her movie career failed to take off, she moved to London with Andre Previn. When they broke up in 1979, she moved back to the US and took over Maureen's apartment in the Langham on Central Park West because she had no money and nowhere else to go. She had to do a shitty Broadway play with Anthony Perkins because NOBODY would hire her in Hollywood after every single one of her movies post-Rosemary's Baby bombed. Why do you think she was so eager to hook up with Woody?

When she was making movies with Woody, she got paid scale like all the other actors who clamored to work with him. Even after meager child support from Previn and stealing the apartment from her mother, who eventually gave up and moved to Arizona with her new husband, Mia hardly had enough money to care for all of her kids.

In 1997, Mia and her brood were later forced to give up the CPW pad because she violated New York rent control laws by not accurately disclosing her finances -- she was paying under $3k/month for an 11-room apartment in a full-service building! When the building jacked up the rent to market rate she moved full time to CT.

Ronan may have gone to private school thanks to Woody's child support, and Mia obviously favored him over all of her other children, but his family was not "rich." You don't need to be wealthy to go to Yale Law, and he only went to Oxford because he received a Rhodes scholarship -- do you know what that is? It means he didn't have to pay...

R259, Mia Farrow's net worth has been estimated at figures from $10 million to $60 million.

Even if she only has half of the lowest figure, that would have her net worth at $5 million.

She is rich.

Not affording or not wanting to pay a large rent does not make someone poor.

on what possible factual basis could anyone make estimates about Mia's net worth?

Darryl Hanna

Oops. Already mentioned. ^

R261 at the very least, she has a larger property in Connecticut. That alone indicates wealth.

No, R264, it doesn't. That would make every homeowner in Litchfield County, CT "wealthy." She has a dozen kids, owning a house is not unusual. It's currently assessed at $675k, and Fletcher Previn bought it from Mia in 2017--probably because she was having financial difficulties...

[quote]Rooney & Kate Mara, rich girls who perform.

[quote]Mara sisters have multi billionaire families on both sides.

I'm somewhat fascinated by the relationship between Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix. I get an Aladdin/Princess Jasmine vibe from them, as corny as that sounds. haha

She comes from two NFL dynasties (her father's family owns the NY Giants, her mother's family owns the Pittsburgh Steelers) so no doubt grew up in great wealth/privilege.

On the other hand, Joaquin was literally born dirt-poor in a shack in Puerto Rico, while his American parents were missionaries for a Christian cult. In fact, until he was around 8 and began acting professionally, his home life was pretty unstable. His family was constantly homeless, moving around the country and the Caribbean, begging on the streets, then busking for money once the kids got older. Also, Joaquin never finished high school.

I wonder, what drew them together? And what do they talk about?

So, R265, you really believe Mia Farrow's net worth is under $1 Million?

Not r265, but I've always believed that Mia Farrow depended on "gifts" from friends to stay afloat--and certainly to pay her children's tuitions at various private schools.

I don't know what her net worth is, R267, nor do I care. Having a few million squired away doesn't make somebody wealthy, despite what many posters on this thread seem to believe. That's the baseline for any retired upper-middle class person.

She didn't take any alimony from Frank Sinatra and got nothing more than child support from Andre and Woody. She evidently doesn't own any real estate and probably hasn't received a big paycheck since the advance for her memoir "What Falls Away" in 1996. The idea that her net worth approaches anything near $60 million seems laughable to me. She hasn't used her name to advertise shitty products and doesn't seem to be a shrewd investor. I can't imagine she gets much in the way of residuals from her movie career.

Only 8% of the US has a net worth over 1 Million. So, I would say having over a million does indeed make you wealthy.

Just because there are people richer than you, does not mean you are not rich yourself.

r257 Sting's eldest son, from his 1st marriage, is not only a musician he has several children himself (more than 4 I believe). He is most definitely receiving some kind of financial assistance from his father, most likely in the form of trust income, the typical source of support for most celebrity children.

You'd never guess by their photo that Scott O'Hara's family were trustafarians.

He's front and center in the shot: you can guess which one was his lesbian sister who was close to.

And when O'Hara was slightly older...

[quote][R257] Sting's eldest son, from his 1st marriage, is not only a musician he has several children himself (more than 4 I believe). He is most definitely receiving some kind of financial assistance from his father, most likely in the form of trust income, the typical source of support for most celebrity children.

I know a lot about Sting and his two sets of children from two wives. Joe and Eliot (Sting's gay daughter with Trudie) seem the most serious, as far as pursuing actual careers. I know a few people who had worked at A&M Records, the first record company Sting and The Police were signed to. I've been a longtime fan, it was a coincedence knowing a few people who had worked with the band. I got so much dirt!

Yes, Joe Sumner is the son Sting had with his first wife Irish actress Frances Tomelty. Joe is 45, he has three daughters and a son. Kate is Joe's sister, she's 40. She looks exactly like Frances. Kate doesn't do much but travel, take selfies and spend Sting's money.

Frances and Trudie Styler, were best friends, they were in the RSC together. Trudie pursued Sting, she actually went as far as moving next door to Sting and Frances when they lived in London. Trudie lured Sting away from Frances. Frances never remarried.

Sting knows he's stuck, so he remains with Trudie, she's an awful woman. One incident which was well publicized, Trudie demanded her very pregnant cook travel HOURS to cook her kids SOUP! Trudie is unstable, so fake and haughty. Trudie, a mother for four, had the audacity to scream at her chef when she became pregnant. The chef sued Trudie, claimed it was sex discrimination, the cook won the lawsuit. Trudie thinks she royalty! She forgets her very humble upbringing, she lived in a house without a toilet. Before becoming an actress, Trudie was an escort. Trudie lies about her past.

Guess it's easier for Sting to remain and not give Trudie a massive amount of money. Both of them cheat. Trudie is bisexual. It's been a very open relationship for years.

If you check Sting's kids IGs, it seems any issues between the kids were resolved a long time ago. I guess when the six of them are still being supported by their millionaire father, his kids had better get along. Some of their posts are ridiculous, always going on about how much they all "love" each other.

Sting doesn't only make money from his music, he runs a wine and olive oil business from his Tuscany estate as well as a recently opened restaurant. He also rents out part of the estate for weddings and other events.

Sting owns so many homes, about 7 or 8, besides supporting his adult children, dealing with all those residences is a whole other expense. The upkeep of two estates alone must be massive. He has one estate in Tuscany and the other is in Wiltshire, it's a 16th-century manor house located near Stonehenge. He also has a huge condo in Manhattan, I'm not sure if he still owns the London townhouse, it was featured in AD a few years ago, as was the Wiltshire estate. Sting also had a huge loft downtown Manhattan, friends who live downtown used to see Sting all the time walking around near Prince Street.

This other incident shows you the levels of Trudie's insanity, years ago, she sued someone in Wiltshire because she claimed either their trees, or a new house extension, were blocking her views from 'her' estate. Did she expect these people to tear down trees? Isn't she supposed to be an environmentalist? Remember her Rainforest Benefits??

Trudie is a typical hypocrite. Please don't talk about others carbon footprints not when you are constantly jet-setting all over the world. She even wastes money on designer clothing she never wears. Sting was telling someone Trudie had closets filled with still tagged very expensive clothing. The more I hear about this woman, the more repulsive she seems.

Actor Jonathan Silverman. Used to be pretty cute. Now, not so much.

"[R259], Mia Farrow's net worth has been estimated at figures from $10 million to $60 million."

FYI all those "celebrity net worth" sites are bullshit, and most of the claims celebrities make about their massive fortunes are bullshit as well.

There are no standards in "entertainment journalism" demanding accuracy and integrity, so they will make shit up or print whatever publicists tell them, so if a celebrity thinks it'll be good publicity to claim to be a billionaire at 18 then the publicist will announce it and the enterianment press will publish it as fact... even if the celebrity in question is actually broke and breaking into other people's mansions to take selfies.

I just want to point out that just because someone comes from a wealthy family, doesn't mean that the wealthy family is funding them or their career. Sometimes wealthy families cut off their children, I mean I grew up in a wealthy town that you've all heard of, but I was thrown out at 18 and never a dime from a family member since then. Or if they don't cut children off completely, they will refuse to fund certain things, like a kid who wants to go to film school instead of law school.

Although I do rather assume that if you've heard of an entertainer from a wealthy family, the wealthy family helped out. Anyone who has to pay their own rent is at a huge disadvantage in showbiz.

You all seem to miss the point. You do not need frequent support, but knowing that you can get help coming up with the deposit for a lease, money to see a doctor if injured, and that you will not starve if you run out of money, or will not be on the street when evicted---all of this is something that gives you some measure of security that makes it easier to stick with an uncertain carreer.

Brooklyn Beckham.

R276, Hahaha, love you.

I’m the son of Sidney Poitier.

Howdee . . .It's down-home Minnie Pearl.! I don't know that her family was super rich but she grew up on an Antebellum estate in the tony part of Nashville. She was a Country club debutant, graduated from one of the Ivy League Universities, and spoke three languages.

Shall we throw in Tallulah Bankhead? Her father was Speaker of the U.S. House and both her grandfather and uncle were U.S. senators.

R276 So true! Even Forbes' "richest" lists are bullshit. There's no way that celebrities will just give out how much money they really have on their bank accounts! Plus, most of them commit tax frauds, and their real net worth is not the kind of info they want out there. Some years ago I saw an interview with a guy who works for Forbes and he said that they can't verify people's net worth, so they just guess it based on their work and popularity and how much they THINK that person is getting paid and how much money they MAY have accumulated. They don't have real numbers. He forgot to mention that most of that info comes from publicists - not the most reliable source.

[quote]She hasn't used her name to advertise shitty products and doesn't seem to be a shrewd investor.

She doesn't "seem"? Based on what? How would you have any clue how she invests her money? And it's not as if she needs to be shrewd herself if she has a good business manager.

R282 according to Wikipedia, Minnie Pearl, god bless her, went to Ward-Belmont College, a completely unknown woman's college and definitely not a Seven Sister and certainly not Ivy League. God Bless your charming ignorance, too.

R286 Kudzu and Ivy can be hard to tell apart.

R285 what is your damage? Have you read What Falls Away or the book by her former nanny, Kristi Groteke? Mia never had a head for business/money. Have your read about her as an early investor in any lucrative venture? If she were such a savvy investor, she wouldn’t have sold her CT house to Fletcher in 2017. The woman’s a grifter, plain and simple.

All I know is I keep hoping to win the goddamn lottery.

You do not need to be a "savvy investor" if you have enough. You just need to hire good people to manage your money.

I know a very wealthy person with absolutely no business sense. But her neice and her financial advisor keep her in the top 3% of wealth in the US.

Beatrice Straight was from a VERY wealthy family as she was a granddaughter of William Collins Whitney:

Beatrice Whitney Straight was born in Old Westbury, New York, the daughter of Dorothy Payne Whitney of the Whitney family, and Willard Dickerman Straight, an investment banker, diplomat, and career U.S. Army officer. Her maternal grandfather was political leader and financier William Collins Whitney. In 1918, when Straight was four years old, her father died in France of influenza during the great epidemic while serving with the United States Army during World War I. Following her mother's remarriage to British agronomist Leonard K. Elmhirst in 1925, the family moved to Devon, England. It was there that Straight was educated at Dartington Hall.

R119 Not just Post Cerials, Dina Merrill pretty much owned the whole freak’n General Foods Corp. Donald Trump with his obsession over being the winner and everyone else a loser hated Dina Merrill’s high society palm beach guts. He couldn’t accept the fact that Dina Merrill wasn’t eating her heart out because he got Mara a lago, and Dina didn’t. Trump wanted to believe that Dina was a rich girl who’d lost the family fortune and couldn’t afford to keep the family home, when the fact was she had as much money as he, maybe even more, and simply wasn’t interested in keeping the house and wasn’t interested in Palm Beach society, she’d gone Hollywood, married an actor and made her way in Beverly Hills society. Basically The Donald found himself with The Dina’s cast off second hand house and society. That drove him nuts and he hated her.

Marlo Thomas is a billionaire due to residuals from her father's old shows.

R293 Probably not a billion considering she had two siblings, but when you figure in DT’s savvy investments, I’m sure her piece of the Thomas pie may well be in the hundreds of millions.

Goop was by no means from a "wealthy" family- her father was a middling director and her mother was no movie star. A comfortable upper middle class life is what she has until she latched onto CM who was worth $400 million plus. That is how good old goopy got her money - the old fashioned way.

R292 Her mother originally left MAL to the US government to be used as a guesthouse for visiting foreign leaders, but the government ultimately declined the offer, leaving DM and her sister with something of a white elephant.

They finally washed their hands of the place by selling it to Trump pretty cheap. Supposedly Trump ever after mocked DM's business acumen because she gave him such a good deal.

Most of the replies are mistaking upper middle class with wealthy. 20 years ago:$20 million

Now at least $100 million

99% of the replies are confusing doctors and executives with the truly wealthy.

R295 is correct about Bruce Paltrow being a "middling director"--if anything, that's generous (DUETS, anyone?)--but he was also an executive producer and writer on successful series like ST. ELSEWHERE and THE WHITE SHADOW. So that's real TV money, right there.

I would say Gwynnie grew up in a state of abundance even before she hit the lottery with Mr. Coldplay.

Namaste.

PS: Bruce Paltrow was only 58 in 2002 when he died of "complications from pneumonia and recurrence of throat cancer."

Weren't there rumors at the time that it was AIDS?

R291 Willard Straight Hall, the student union at Cornell, is named after her father.

R288 Have your read about her as an early investor in any lucrative venture?

I haven't read about her at all because I don't have some weird investment in proving she's a grifter, or any other particular interest in her. I haven't read about Angie Dickinson or Sally Field or Sophia Loren as an early investor in any lucrative genre either, because I never bothered to research their financial life. She acted in about 30 movies and TV shows, so I assume she made money that she saved or invested. But maybe she squandered it on lavish whatever.

*venture

Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart.

R291 Straight and Whitney men have huge cocks.

Jean Harlow.

Her father was a successful dentist who grew up working class, but her mother came from a very wealthy Missouri family. Thus, Harlow grew up privileged. At 16, she married an heir who soon inherited his large fortune and the newlyweds spent their days lazing around. Harlow really had no further ambitions than to be a housewife of leisure and mother. The constant interferences of her mother, who always aspired to be an actress, changed all of that.

I love these people who assume you can go for years without working, live comfortably, without being rich.

If you can explain this, please do. Many of us would like that lifestyle.

Easy, r306. Befriend very wealthy people and then look wan until they pay for your new roof, or your kids' tuitions.

[quote]I love these people who assume you can go for years without working, live comfortably, without being rich. If you can explain this, please do. Many of us would like that lifestyle.

It's called retirement. Many people live comfortably in retirement. As for actors who are famous stars, they usually make a lot more money than average people. Even if they never invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, and just saved some of it, they could live comfortably.

Greta Garbo retired in 1941, in her 30s. She lived until 1990. Never worked another day in her life after 1941. 49 years. Didn't just live comfortably, she was wealthy. Too bad she's dead, or you could ask her to explain it.

Adam Rich

R308, thank you for pointing out that people like Greta Garbo (and Farrow) who live so well in retirement are indded wealthy. Like you say, stars were paid well enough that they can save enough to live comfortably.

I do not know what kind of fantasy world DL's live in in which retirees can maintain large homes and the same lifestyle they had while working---but not be wealthy.

99% of actors/actresses come from rich families since about the 90s or 00s.

A couple of theories:

-Nepotism keeps getting stronger.

-Fashion influennce also getting stronger and it attracts the rich and well connected.

Julia Louis Drefuss, Balthazar Getty, and Armie Hammer own this thread.

But, adding to it -

Roony Mara: Rooney Mara's father's family founded the New York Giants, and her mother's family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. Her father is vice president of player evaluation for the Giants.

Chevy Chase's maternal grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to the Crane Plumbing Corporation. He is a distant cousin of Anderson Cooper. His father's second wife was a member of the Folgers Coffee family.

Kyra Sedgwick is the first cousin once removed of actress Edie Sedgwick, and is related to William Ellery (signatory of the Declaration of Independence), Endicott Peabody (founder of the Groton School), Ellery Sedgwick (owner and editor of The Atlantic Monthly), as well as several other important and notable people in American history.

Charlie Hall fils de JLD

R77 is Justin Lazard of Lazard Freres/Lazard?

Wow, googled him. He was stunning and jet set for a few minutes in his prime. Must’ve had life on a string.

Deacon Phillippe

I assume this thread would consider him from sufficient means to be included?

[quote][R77] is Justin Lazard of Lazard Freres/Lazard?

[quote]Justin Force Lazard has been arrested and as of last Saturday was being held at Riker’s Island pending extradition to California. The son of ABC foreign correspondent Sidney Lazard and allegedly a descendant of the founder of the Lazard Frères investment bank, the former actor and Calvin Klein model failed to show up for his trial after he was arrested

R316 Who did he expose himself too?

^ I don’t know, couldn’t find it. That would be fun though.

Also not sure why they’re saying ‘allegedly’ a descendent. That’s usually pretty easy to determine for such a prominent family.

Also that’s the face I would make if I was being booked into Rykers

Raymond Massey, of the Massey-Ferguson family. His brother was Governor General of Canada.