Celebrities who married billionaires: Miranda Kerr bagged Evan Spiegel, Nicky Hilton joined the Rothschild dynasty, and Salma Hayek made big bank with the Kering billions
- Meanwhile Mick Jagger’s former flame Jerry Hall, who appeared in Modern Family and Seinfeld, married media mogul Rupert Murdoch after his divorce from Wendi
For an actor, singer, athlete or model, reaching a certain level of success and celebrity is generally accompanied by some pretty great perks and privileges.
Then there’s the additional benefits of entry into a higher-profile social circle, where hobnobbing with mega-millionaires and billionaires is commonplace. And sometimes friendships in high places can even grow into something more.
Here are six celebrities who – after having achieved a degree of fame and fortune themselves – married into even bigger fortunes and prestige.
Nicky Hilton Rothschild
Though she hails from a famous family tree, Nicky Hilton Rothschild – Paris’ sister and the granddaughter of the Hilton hotel group’s founder, Conrad Hilton – married into an even more distinguished dynasty when she wed James Rothschild in 2015.
James is the grandson of the third Baron Rothschild, whose lineage can be traced back to at least the 1700s when the founder of the renowned family, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, established his banking business and dynasty.
In 2021, it was estimated that James boasts a net worth of some US$1.3 billion.