Celebrities Who Were Rich Before They Were Famous
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the daughter of billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, who has an estimated net worth of $4 billion.
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Anderson Cooper's mother is Gloria Vanderbilt, the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.
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Brooke Shields has ancestral links with a number of noble families from Italy.
Her father was an executive at Revlon cosmetics, and his parents were a top-ranking tennis player and a princess whose family gained its fortune through the administration of Vatican finances.
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Jake Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal is a film director, and his mother is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter.
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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.
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Paul Giamatti's father Angelo Bartlett Giamatti has been both the president of Yale University and the commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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Giada De Laurentiis is the daughter of two actors, and her maternal grandfather Dino De Laurentiis was a prolific film producer.
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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.
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Taylor Swift's father is a financial advisor, and her mother is a former marketing executive.
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The Maroon 5 lead singer and The Voice judge is the son of Fred Levine, who founded the retail clothing chain M. Fredric.
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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.
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Ed Norton's father was an environmental lawyer who served as a federal prosecutor in the Carter administration.
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Carly Simon's father, Richard L. Simon, was the founder of publishing corporation Simon & Schuster.
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Nicole Richie was adopted and raised by Lionel Richie, whose first album went platinum four times the year after her birth.
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Jordin Sparks is the daughter of former New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys player Phillippi Sparks.
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Rashida Jones is the daughter of The Mod Squad actress Peggy Lipton and record producer/media mogul Quincy Jones.
His estimated net worth is $500 million.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal is a film director, and her mother is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter.
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Bryce Dallas Howard is the daughter of actor and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard.
His net worth is estimated at $200 million.
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Ariana Grande's father is CEO of design firm Ibi Designs, Inc.
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Devon Aoki's father, Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki, founded the Benihana restaurant chain.
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Nick Kroll
Comedian (and star of Kroll Show and The League) Nick Kroll is the son of Jules B. Kroll, founder of Kroll, Inc. which sold for $1.9 billion in 2004.
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Armie Hammer's father, Michael Armand Hammer, owns several businesses, and the Hammer family owned the Occidental Petroleum Corporation.
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Spike Jonze (Adam Spiegel) is the son of Arthur H. Spiegel III, a relation of the Spiegel catalog family.
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Balthazar Getty is the great-grandson of Jean Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Company.
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Psy (Park Jae-sang) is the son of Park Won-ho, executive chairman of DI Corporation in Seoul.
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Sugarland singer Kristian Bush is the great-grandson of A.J. Bush, founder of Bush Brothers & Company, best known for its Bush's Baked Beans.
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Girls actress Allison Williams is the daughter of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.
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Paris Hilton's great-grandfather Conrad Hilton founded Hilton Hotels, and she is an heiress to the company fortune.
She has an estimated net worth of $300 million.
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Miley Cyrus's father Billy Ray Cyrus released a record that went platinum nine times over in 1992, the same year Miley was born.
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Robin Thicke is the son of Days of Our Lives actress Gloria Loring and Growing Pains actor Alan Thicke.
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