Celebrities are rich and famous. Many celebrities, like Sarah Jessica Parker, start from scratch and earn their money and fame through talent and hard work. Some celebrities are born with a silver spoon.
Here is a brief overview of 15 Celebrities Who Were Born Rich:
Robin Thicke
Robin Thicke is an American-Canadian singer, actor and songwriter. Gloria Loring and Alan Thicke are his parents. Gloria is an American singer and actress. Alan is an actor, game show host, song writer and talk show host. Alan and Gloria were well to do when Robin was born.
Psy
Psy is a South Korean singer, rapper, dancer, songwriter, television personality and record producer. He was born into a wealthy family in Gangnam district in South Korea. His mother Kim Young-hee is a restaurant owner and his father Park Won-Ho is the executive chairman of DI Corporation.
Mike Posner
Mike Posner is an American singer, songwriter and producer. He was raised in the affluent suburb of Southfield, Michigan by his parents Roberta Henrion (a pharmacist) and Jon Posner (a criminal defense attorney). In Southfield Michigan, the annual income for a family of four is around $115,000. The tuition fee of the college (Duke University) where he studied is about $56,000 a year.
Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Her mother Jodi Sparks (an entrepreneur) and Phillippi Sparks (a former NFL cornerback) were financially strong when Jordin was born.
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran is an English singer and songwriter. His mother Imogen is a jewelry maker and his father John is an art curator and a lecturer. Ed enjoyed high standard of living while growing up.
Cassie
Cassie Ventura is an American actress, dancer, model and recording artist. Her Mexican/African-American mother and Filipino-American father sent her to a top quality private prep school (annual fee $26,000).
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande is a singer, songwriter and actress. Her mother Joan Grande is the CEO of Hose-McCann Communications and father Edward Butera is a graphic designer. They are pretty well off.
Julia Louis Dreyfus
Julia Louis Dreyfus was born into a family that already included a rich great-grandfather and father. Her great-grandfather, in 1851, founded Louis Dreyfus Energy Services, a shipping conglomerate in French commodities. Decades later the family is still running the company. Her father was the chairman of the company and was already a billionaire by the time she was born.
Rooney and Kate Mara
Twin actresses Rooney and Kate Mara were born into rich families on both their mom and dad’s sides. The twin’s father’s family is the one responsible for the founding of the New York Giants and their mother’s family founded the Pittsburgh Steelers. To this day both families continue to run their respective football teams.
Adam Levine
Adam Levine is a singer and a songwriter. Adam Levine was also born into wealth. His father is the founder of a Los Angeles clothing retailer called M Fredric. Adam attended a private school from kindergarten through twelfth grade where the tuition was $30,000 per year.
His parents divorced when he was seven. While growing up, he spent weekdays with his mother and weekends with his father. Both his parents were rich. But he suffered due to their divorce. He also underwent therapy for his parents’ divorce.
Darren Criss
Darren Criss is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and actor. The Glee actor is another celebrity who was born rich. His father used to be the on the San Francisco Opera Board of Directors. He makes his living as a banker and moved the entire Criss family to Hawaii for a period of one year so he could found the EastWest Bank, which he now serves as the CEO and Chairman of.
Miley Cyrus
By the time Miley Cyrus was born her father, Billy Rae, was a successful country music artist. On the day of her November 1992 birth Billy Rae had a song at the top of the charts with his smash hit “Achy Breaky Heart.” At that time it was the leader of the Billboard charts for country music and it was number four on the list of Billboard’s Hot 100.
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift lived a luxurious life even before she became famous. With a marketing executive mother and Meryl Lynch financial adviser father Taylor Swift was raised on an 11-acre farm. Her family owns a beach house in New Jersey and Swift attended private school up through twelfth grade.
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga was born to telecommunications entrepreneur parents and was raised on the Upper West Side in New York City. Both she and Paris Hilton were students at a private- girls only school in Manhattan called Convent of the Sacred Heart.
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart was also born into wealth. Her mother worked as a director and script supervisor in the movie industry and her father worked as both a producer and a stage manager. Kristen was raised in a mansion decorated in an Alice and Wonderland theme in Hollywood Hills that had a value of $1.75 million.
Though each of these individuals was born with a silver spoon in their mouth they all worked hard to become rich on their own merits and talents.
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