What is the secret behind actress Jamie Gurtz (59) surpassing wealthy stars like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Lopez to take the title of the world's richest actress?
According to Celebrity Net Worth, actress Jamie Gurtz's current net worth is about $8 billion (Hanwha 11.4648 trillion won), making her much wealthier than Hollywood A-list stars like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Jennifer Lopez.
Gurtz's net worth is greater than that of other famous artists like Taylor Swift (who has an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion due to the success of her Eras Tour) and Steven Spielberg (who has an estimated net worth of about $5.3 billion due to blockbuster films).
According to a report from Daily Mail on the 24th (local time), Jamie Gurtz has accumulated wealth many times greater than that of the richest stars in Hollywood over the years. She could have unimaginable wealth because she married a billionaire businessman with assets of $10.9 billion (Hanwha 15.6295 trillion won) who founded several private equity firms.
However, according to Gurtz, her own efforts also played a role. After marrying, she set aside her successful acting career to focus on making famous transactions with her husband Tony Ressler. As a result, he has been earning increasingly more money than when he first met her in the 1980s.
In 2018, Gurtz revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that her rise to the ultra-wealthy class was not as simple as just marrying a rich person. She stated, "Everyone thinks I married a rich man. However, at the time, I was earning more. I paid for our first house and our first vacation. I fell in love with him and married him."
Gurtz met Ressler while he was working at investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert due to a publicist. At the time, Gurtz was performing in a small play, and Ressler knew almost nothing about her aside from the fact that she was a 'working actress', and he was unaware of the movies and TV shows she had appeared in until then.
However, the two fell in love and quickly became a couple, with Gurtz joking that her family would have preferred her to marry a doctor or a lawyer at the time.
Gurtz appeared in films like "Twister," the CBS sitcom "Still Standing," and the ABC sci-fi series "Comedy the Neighbors." Since the romantic comedy "I Want You Back" in 2022, she has not taken on any new roles. Instead of acting, she has increasingly followed her husband's lead into business.
Ressler moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s to support his wife's acting career, but co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global in 1990 and established Ares Management in 1997, quickly surpassing his wife's income.
In 2010, Gurtz decided to establish her production company, Lime Orchard Productions, creating a new revenue source during a time when her acting roles were diminishing. However, 'Lime Orchard' ended in failure, and according to Gurtz, she poured millions of dollars into the failed production company.
Now a billionaire, Ressler thought about owning a sports team, and Gurtz was all in with him. They joined an investment group that acquired the Milwaukee Brewers and more actively participated in the acquisition of the Atlanta Hawks in 2015. Gurtz's tremendous wealth appears to have come through ownership equity in the teams, and she has almost halted her acting career since becoming the official face of the ownership team.
Her next step was to build relationships with wealthy industry figures in Hollywood, including Disney CEO Bob Iger. Around that time, Ressler began to fervently aspire to manage his own sports team, and the couple joined Mark Attanasio's investment group to acquire the baseball team Milwaukee Brewers.
After becoming the owner of the Hawks, Gurtz and Ressler constructed a training facility and sports medicine center of 8,800 square meters for the team at Emory University. Now the couple has risen to the ranks of the ultra-wealthy and is also active as major philanthropists.
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