One of the world's wealthiest actors has finally opened up about how she got rich.
When you think of the world's richest actors, who comes to mind?
Maybe Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston, or someone along those names, right?
Now what if I told you that the world's richest actor is actually someone who you may have never even heard of?
Born in Chicago, Jamie Gertz initially rose to fame in the 1987 movie Less than Zero starring alongside some other big names like Robert Downey Jr. and Michael Bowen. She then went on to star as a vampire on the hit drama The Lost Boys and while she hasn't really peaked at the Box Office or taken on any big-name roles, she still sits comfortably on the top of a very elite list of celebrities.
The American actress-turned-entrepreneur is the richest actor in the entire world with Forbes reporting that Gertz's net worth is around the $8 billion mark.
This far exceeds the wealth of any celebrity in the world, let alone just actors.
In fact, the 59-year-old has more money than the next three stars on the list put together - Taylor Swift comes in at number two with $1.6 billion, followed by Rihanna at $1.4 billion, and then Selena Gomez at around $1.3 billion.
But how did Gertz manage to become so successful?
It turns out that the star gave up pursuing a fully-fledged acting career (her last movie appearance was in 2022 for a cameo appearance in Jason Orley's I Want You Back) and instead, she's now chasing other ventures.
In 1989, the actress married Tony Ressler, an American billionaire businessman, and together they started securing deals to keep that money flowing including becoming the co-owners of the MLB team, the Milwaukee Brewers as well as for the NBA team, the Atlanta Hawks.
Combined with her investments in other businesses, she's managed to secure herself a fortune over the years.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter back in 2018, Gertz cleared up some rumors about her success.
"Everyone thinks I married a rich guy," she said at the time. "But I made more money - way more money - than Tony when I met him. I paid for our first house. I paid for our first vacation. I married him because I fell in love with him."
Ressler also confirmed that at the time he knew his soon-to-be wife was an actress, though he wasn't quite sure what her actual credentials were.
"He was a nice guy with a job,” Gertz said of her now-husband. "Which is what any Jewish girl from Glenview would want. It would have been nice if it was a doctor or a lawyer, but a banker was OK, too."
So there we have it guys, even if you marry rich, make sure you have your own avenues of money flowing in - that's the life lesson we all learnt from this, right?