6 celebrities who married billionaires
The women on this list are wealthy, famous, and talented in their own right.
They also happened to fall in love with some of the wealthiest men in the world.
From Salma Hayek to Stephanie Seymour, here's who married billionaire businessmen.
Salma Hayek
Actress Salma Hayek married French business mogul Fran?ois-Henri Pinault in 2009, instantly becoming one of the world's richest women. Pinault is the head of Kering, the parent company of some of the most prestigious fashion houses in the world, including Gucci, Balenciaga, and Saint Laurent.
Pinault and his gaggle of adult children oversee the brands, and it keeps him near the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth is currently hovering at around 40.6 billion.
The couple has been together since 2006, but Hayek said she initially didn't want to wed Pinault.
"It was like an intervention," she told Glamour of their courthouse wedding. "I don't think I ever told this story. No, they just took me to the court. My parents, my brother, they were all ganging up on me. I had a phobia of the marriage thing."
On a recent episode of Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast, she addressed the idea that she married for money.
"You know, when I married him, everybody said, 'Oh, it's an arranged marriage, she married him for the money. I'm like, 'Yeah, whatever, bitch.' Think what you want. Fifteen years together, and we are strong in love."
Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz is been married to businessman Tony Ressler and they have two kids together. Ressler is the billionaire cofounder of Ares Management, an asset management company, and according to Bloomberg, he's worth around $7.69 billion.
Gertz, who starred in "The Lost Boys" and "Less than Zero," co-owns the Atlanta Hawks NBA team with Ressler and a group of minority owners.
Gertz met Ressler through her publicist in the late '80s. All she knew about him was that "he was a nice guy with a job," Gertz told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. "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."
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson married her third husband (after being married to singer James "El" Debarge for a year and René Elizondo for 11 years), Wissam al Mana, in 2012. In all honestly, al Mana's "billionaire" status is hotly debated — Forbes famously refused to put him on their list. But there's no doubt that al Mana, who runs a conglomerate of 55 companies, is extremely wealthy.
The couple had one son together, Eissa, before splitting in 2017. The two went to court to come to a custody agreement, but a friend of the couple told People that the couple was "working together to co-parent. They have a strong friendship. There is no fighting between them."
Ellen Barkin
Actress Ellen Barkin and Ronald Perelman, a billionaire banker and investor and the longtime owner of Revlon, married in 2000 but divorced in 2006.
Their acrimonious divorce involved Barkin suing Perelman for an investment she alleged he owed her into her film company. After several years, a judge ordered Perelman to pay Barkin $4 million on top of the initial $40 million she was awarded.
Barkin had previously been married to actor Gabriel Byrne and at one time dated Johnny Depp. Barkin testified during Depp's defamation lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard that Depp once threw a wine bottle at her.
Miranda Kerr
Supermodel Miranda Kerr married Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel in 2017, and the couple have two children together. She has one child with her ex-husband, Orlando Bloom.
"I was going through quite a challenging stage. I didn't really believe in love anymore. I felt a little bit overwhelmed with what had happened," Kerr told Vogue Australia in 2022 of her breakup with Bloom. When she met Spiegel, "He was so patient with me. Our relationship evolved slowly. And we established a nice friendship before we became boyfriend and girlfriend. I never even thought that this kind of love was possible."
Spiegel started Snapchat when he was 25, and the company ballooned in value. He's personally worth around $2.6 billion, according to Forbes.
In 2022, the pair purchased a massive $172 million Los Angeles estate.
Stephanie Seymour
Model Stephanie Seymour was once the star of Guns n' Roses videos. But she traded that life in for a mansion in Connecticut with paper producer and art collector Peter Brant.
When Seymour and Brant met in 1995, he was worth $1.5 billion, according to The New York Times. But in subsequent years, his company, White Birch Paper, dropped in value, and his net worth is now said to be hovering around $500 million.
Brant and Seymour had three children together, though their son Harry died of a drug overdose in 2021.
The couple runs The Brant Foundation Art Study Center out of New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut.
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