{"id":11511,"date":"2026-02-04T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:32:26","slug":"the-woman-in-this-photo-grew-up-to-become-the-richest-actress-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=11511","title":{"rendered":"The woman in this photo grew up to become the richest actress in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She grew up far from Hollywood, in Glenview, Illinois, the daughter of a contractor who never imagined his child would out-earn him before she finished high school. Discovered in a broad talent search, she was thrown straight into work, becoming a familiar face in beloved \u201980s films and later in TV favorites like Seinfeld and Modern Family. By 16, she was making more than her father, a shift that reshaped her understanding of money, power, and independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But instead of chasing relentless fame, she chose a quieter path. In 1989, she married financier Tony Ressler, at a time when she was the primary earner, even paying for their first home and vacations. As he co-founded Apollo Global Management and later Ares Management, she helped steward their growing fortune, raised four children, and steered major philanthropy. Today, Jami Gertz\u2019s estimated multi-billion-dollar net worth reflects not luck, but decades of shared decisions, discipline, and a refusal to let Hollywood define her worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She grew up far from Hollywood, in Glenview, Illinois, the daughter of a contractor who never imagined his child would out-earn him before she finished high school. Discovered in a broad talent search, she was thrown straight into work, becoming a familiar face in beloved \u201980s films and later in TV favorites like Seinfeld and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}