The world's richest actress has so much money that the combined net worth of the top 10 richest actresses in India is not even 10% of her net worth
What if we say that the world’s richest actress has not been seen on the screen in over a decade, and has never been the star of a film that worked at the box office. Despite all this, she has enough wealth ($8 billion or Rs 66000 crore) that is more than the combined wealth of two of the biggest actors in the world – Tom Cruise (Rs 5000 crore) and Shah Rukh Khan (Rs 7300 crore). We take a look at how this seemingly impossible thing is indeed possible
1. World’s richest actress is...
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Jami Gertz is a name that not many cine fans would be familiar with. But she is the world’s richest actress and by a long margin at that. As per multiple reports, Gertz has a net worth of $8 billion (Rs 66000 crore), more than 15 times her nearest rival in the list of world’s richest actresses
2. How Jami Gertz dwarves India’s richest actors
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Just how rich is Gertz? The combined wealth of the ten richest Indian actors - a list that includes Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Nagarjuna, Aamir Khan, Prabhas, and Akshay Kumar - would be less than half her net worth today. The combined net worth of the top 10 actresses of India does not even come close to 10% of Gertz’s wealth
3. Jami Gertz’s film and TV career
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Interestingly, Gertz has not had a very successful film or TV career. In fact, she does not have a single hit to her credit as a lead actress. Discovered in a talent hunt in the 80s, Jami Gertz made her debut with Endless Love in 1981, and went on to appear in supporting roles in several films over the 80s and 90s
4. Jami Gertz’s biggest successes
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Gertz is best remembered for playing Judy Miller in the 2002 TV show Still Standing, her most prominent starring role. She later earned critical acclaim when she guest starred on the show Ally McBeal, for which she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
5. The secret to Jami Gertz’s net worth
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In 1989, Gertz married billionaire business executive Tony Ressler. She and her husband together have a number of other business investments across the board, which contribute to Gertz’s sizable wealth, something actors cannot hope to touch through traditional means
6. Jami Gertz’s prized ‘possessions’
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Jami Gertz and Tony Ressler are the co-owners of the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball, along with the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), along with a dozen other small and big businesses
