Ariana Rockefeller
Yes, we’re talking about that Rockefeller family. Ariana is a model and equestrian who is the great granddaughter of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller and the granddaughter of David Rockefeller. She launched her own fashion line in 2011 and opened a popup shop in Soho, New York in 2014. Her net worth is estimated to be $2.8 billion.
Ariana Rockefeller
Alexander Soros
Alexander Soros, son of George Soros has a PhD in history from Berkley and is currently the chair of the Open Society Foundation. He frequently contributes to publications like The Guardian, Politico, The Forward, and others. Like his father, he frequently contributes to philanthropical groups and is on the board of Global Witness. His net worth is estimated to be about $20 billion.
Alexander Soros
Anderson Cooper
Journalist Anderson Cooper is perhaps best known for his work with CNN on his show Anderson Cooper 360, as well as his work as a correspondent for 60 Minutes. He is part of the Vanderbilt dynasty, as his parents were Wyatt Emory Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt, meaning he is connected to Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was a shipping and railroads magnate. His net worth is about $110 million.
Anderson Cooper
Amanda Hearst
Socialite Amanda Hearst hails from the family that owns Hearst Corporation, the media conglomerate founded by William Randolph Hearst. Amanda is a socialite, model, and activist. She has made appearances in Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair. Her net worth is estimated to be about $100 million.
Amanda Hearst
Carly Simon
Carly Simon is famous in her own right as a singer-songwriter and also children’s book author. She had several hit records in the 1970’s and even received a Grammy award for her first solo album Carly Simon. Her father was Richard Simon, the co-founder of book publisher Simon & Schuster. Her net worth is estimated to be about $65 million.
Carly Simon
Nicky Hilton
Nicky Hilton is an heiress to the Hilton Hotels empire. Born in New York, she had a classic heiress upbringing at elite private schools. She later married James Rothschild, who himself is the heir to the Rothschild family fortune. Nicky has worked as a model and later started her own handbag collection. Her net worth is estimated to be around $100 million.
Nicky Hilton
Chevy Chase
Actor Chevy Chase is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and Community, but he is the son of Edward Tinsley Chase, a Manhattan book editor, and Cathalene Parker, whose step father was Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, the heir to The Crane Company, an industrial conglomerate. His full name is actually Cornelius Crane Chase, having been named after his adoptive grandfather.
Chevy Chase
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde is an actress and film director who is known for her many works including Cowboys & Aliens, The Lazarus Effect, and 1984, and later directed Booksmart and Don’t Worry Darling. Her father is British journalist Andrew Cockburn and her mother is Leslie Redlich Cockburn, an American producer and journalist best known for her work on 60 Minutes. Her grandfather was British novelist Claud Cockburn.
Olivia Wilde
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty is an actor and musician who is a member of the Getty family, known for being involved in the petroleum industry during the 20th century and headed by patriarch George Getty. His father is oil tycoon John Paul Getty III and his mother is photographer and director Gisela Getty. Balthazar is best known for his works in Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, Charmed, Alias, and Brothers & Sisters.
Balthazar Getty
Lydia Hearst-Shaw
Lydia Hearst Shaw is a model, actress, socialite, and blogger who is the great granddaughter of publisher and politician William Randolph Hearst, as well as the daughter of actress and author Patty Hearst. Lydia has appeared in magazines like Vogue, Vogue Italia, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, and more. She has also worked with many high end fashion designers and photographers.
Lydia Hearst Shaw
Shannon LaNier
Shannon LaNier a news anchor, founder of Cheddar News, and actor who has quite the impressive lineage. It turns out that Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers and third president of the US, had six children with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who was owned by Jefferson. LaNier is a 9th generation direct descendant of Jefferson and Hemings.
Shannon LaNier
Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick is an actress and producer who is best known for her work in Something to Talk About, Singles, The Closer, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She is the daughter of Patricia Rosenwald, a speech teacher and therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist and descendant of Major General Robert Sedgwick, who came to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636. She is also related to model Edie Sedgwick.
Kyra Sedgwick
Eve Jobs
Eve Jobs is a model who is the daughter of the late Steve Jobs and businesswoman Laurene Powell Jobs. She is also an equestrian and was ranked as 5th best in the world in the under 25’s category. After graduating from Stanford University in 2021, she moved to New York and has been working in the modeling industry, having signed with DNA Model Management in March 2022. She has worked with companies like Glossier and Louis Vuitton.
Eve Jobs
Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton is perhaps the best known socialite and heiress of current times as she has built an entire career out of it. She is a great granddaughter of Conrad Hilton who founded Hilton Hotels, and she began modeling at age 19. She became a household name when she starred in The Simple Life alongside Nicole Richie and she later dabbled in acting and later became a disc jockey as well as continued to be an influencer.
Paris Hilton
Tinsley Mortimer
Tinsley Mortimer is a socialite and reality TV personality, best known for appearing in High Society and The Real Housewives of New York City. Her father was George Riley Mercer Jr. a real estate investor, and her mother was Dale Tatum Mercer, a socialite and interior designer whose parents were part of the elite Richmond, Virginia society.
Tinsley Mortimer
Clare Bronfman
Clare Bronfman is an heiress who is a member of the Bronfman family, as her dad is Edgar Bronfman Sr, who is the former Seagram liquor chairman after his ancestors helped make the company huge. Clare was an accomplished equestrian before she became involved in NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company and cult. She and her sister were the main financial backers of the cult founder Keith Ranier until they were all arrested and charged with several federal charges. She was sentenced to six years and nine months imprisonment in September 2020.
Clare Bronfman
Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst is the granddaughter of William Ralph Hearst, publishing magnate, who became known when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. She was found 19 months later but was also arrested for her involvement with the crimes committed by the group. She spent 7 years in prison. She later became an actress, working closely with John Waters in films like Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, and A Dirty Shame.
Patty Hearst
Victoria Mars
Victoria Mars is and heiress and businesswoman who is the former chairwoman of Mars, Incoporated, the company whose founding family she is a fourth generation member. Her father was Forrest Mars, Jr., whose father Forrest Mars Sr. was the driving force behind the Mars candy empire and whose father Franklin Clarence Mars founded the company in 1911. Victoria is now the chair of Salzburg Global Seminar.
Victoria Mars
Dylan Lauren
Dylan Lauren is the daughter of fashion designer Ralph Lauren and is the founder and owner of Dylan’s Candy Bar, who claims to be the largest candy store in the world. She founded the store in 2001 after being inspired when she watched Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. She also appeared as a judge on reality competition The Toy Box in 2017.
Dylan Lauren
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Teresa Heinz Kerry is a businesswoman and philanthropist, who was married to the late US Senator John Heinz and is now married to John Kerry, former US Senator and current US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Through her marriage to Heinz she became the heir to the H.J. Heinz Company. She is also the Chair of the Heinz Endowments and Heinz Family Philanthropies.
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Cindy McCain
Cindy McCain is a diplomat, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She was married to US Senator John McCain until he passed in 2018. Her father was James Hensley, founder of Hensley & Co., an Anhauser-Busch beer wholesaler and distributor. Cindy became the controlling owner of the company in 2000 after her father passed away. She is on the board of philanthropical organizations like Operation Smile, Eastern Congo Initiative, CARE, and HALO Trust.
Cindy McCain
Susan Alice Buffett
Susan Alice Buffett is the daughter of Warren Buffett and Susan Thompson Buffett who herself is a philanthropist, mainly working on the Sherwood Foundation (formerly the Susan A. Buffett Foundation) that aims to provide grants for public education, social justice, and human services to lower income famlies.
Susan Alice Buffett
Whitney Ann Kroenke
Whitney Kroenke is an heiress and film producer who is the daughter of Stan Kroenke and Ann Walton Kroenke, who is a member of the Walton family that founded Walmart and are the richest family in the United States. Her father is a billionaire businessman who is the owner of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, a holding company of many prominent sports teams.
Whitney Anne Kroenke
Anne Hearst
Anne Hearst is a socialite and philanthropist and the daughter of Randolph Apperson Hearst, who was the president of The San Francisco Examiner, and the granddaughter of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Her sister is Patty Heast. Anne is a contributor to Town & Country magazine.
Anne Hearst
Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is an award winning actress and filmmaker who has made a name for herself with roles in films like Freaky Friday, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, The Silence of the Lambs, Panic Room, and many more. Her father was Fisher Foster III, a wealthy businessman. Through her father she is related to John Alden, who came to America in 1620 on the Mayflower.
Jodie Foster
Peter Brant II
Peter Brant II is a socialite and model whose parents are model Stephanie Seymour and industrialist/art collector Peter M. Brant, whose father founded paper converter Brant-Allen Industries. Peter Jr. and his brother Harry collaborated with Mac Cosmetics to release a unisex cosmetics line aimed at a gender fluid demographic.
Peter Brant II
Lynsi Snyder
Lynsi Snyder is a businesswoman and the owner and heiress to the In-N-Out Burger company, as her grandparents Harry and Esther Snyder founded the company in 1948. She was named the youngest American female billionaire in 2012 as she was the sole beneficiary of the family trusts on her 35th birthday.
Lynsi Snyder
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gloria Vanderbilt was a model, socialite, and heiress that was a member of the Vanderbilt dynasty. Her mother was Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and her father was railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. She was their only child, and she was part of a highly publicized custody battle between her mother and her paternal aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, as they each wanted control of her trust fund. Later in life she released lines of perfume, fashion, household goods, and also helped develop designer blue jeans. She was also the mother of Anderson Cooper.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Brennan-Jobs is the daughter of the late Steve Jobs and Chrisann Brennan. Although her father initially denied paternity, the two late reconciled. Lisa worked as a journalist and magazine writer, and the early Apple business computer was called the Apple Lisa after her.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Ally Hilfiger
Ally Hilfiger is the daughter of Tommy Hilfiger and Susan Cirona. In 2003, Ally was a cast member of MTV reality show Rich Girls, which documented their last semester of high school and the summer after graduation, which they spent in London, the Hamptons, Nantucket, the British West Indies, Los Angeles, and New York.
Ally Hilfiger
North West
North West is the eldest daughter of media superstar Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West. North was born in 2013 and was baptized at the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Old City of Jerusalem. She frequently posts on TikTok and has become a fashion influencer in her own right.
North West
Chloe Green
Chloe Green is an actress, socialite, and the heiress to her father’s retail empire. Her father is Sir Philip Green, who is the chairman and owner of Arcadia Group, that owns retailers like Topshop, Topman, and Miss Selfridge. She is also known for her high profile relationship with felon turned model Jeremy Meeks.
Chloe Green
Katharine Rayner
Katharine Rayner is a billionaire heiress whose mother was Anne Cox Chambers, whose father James. M Cox founded Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate. She is a part share owner of the company, and her net worth is estimated with be about $5.2 billion.
Katharine Rayner
Charles Butt
Chales Butt doesn’t have an enviable name but his fortune is a whole other story. He inherited his family’s San Antonio based H-E-B supermarket chain, which is worth $38.9 billion according to Forbes. He is also a philanthropist, having pledged millions of dollars to Texas public education.
Charles Butt
Nicole Mellon
Nicole Mellon married into the Mellon family fortune when she got hitched to Matthew Mellon. Their marriage was turbulent, and he struggled with an OxyContin addition that reportedly cost him $10,000 a month. He died in April 2018 in Mexico under confusing circumstances while at his hotel room in Cancun after taking ayahuasca and suffering from a heart attack as a result.
Nicole Mellon
Owsley Brown III
Owsley Brown III is the great-grandson of George Garvin Brown, who founded the Brown-Forman Corporation in 1870. Brown-Forman manufactures brands like Jack Daniel’s, Old Forester, Finlandia, Korbel, Chambord, and more. His father Owsley Brown Frazier founded the Frazier History Museum.
Owsley Brown III
Haley Busch
Haley Busch is an actress and producer who has worked in films like The Final Song, 23 Minutes to Sunrise, and The Importance of Doubting Tom. She is an heiress to the Busch family fortune, and her great-great grandfather was Adolphus Busch, who co-founded Anhauser-Busch. She is one of seven children of Billy Busch and his wife Christi. They all appeared on reality TV show The Busch Family Brewed in 2020.
Haley Busch
Kate Hudson
Kate Hudson is an actress who has appeared in films like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, and Bride Wars. She is the daughter of actors Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, though she was raised by her mother and Hawn’s long time partner actor Kurt Russell.
Kate Hudson
Brooke Shields
Brooke Shields is an actress and model who became known for roles as a child star in films like Pretty Baby, The Blue Lagoon, and Endless Love. She was born to actress and model Teri Shields and Francis Al. Her paternal grandparents were tennis star Francis Xavier Alexander Sr. and Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi.
Brooke Shields
Caroline Rose Hunt
Caroline Rose Hunt was an heiress and hotelier who founded Rosewood Hotels & Resorts in 1979. Her father was H.L. Hunt, an oil tycoon. Rosewood Hotels & Resorts also owns the Carlyle Hotel in New York City, and is a subsidiary of a Hong Kong company owned by billionaire Henry Cheng, after Hunt’s sale of the company in 2011. She passed away in 2018.
Caroline Rose Hunt
