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Rich Before They Were Famous

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Aug 19, 2015 4:25 PM
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Adam Levine

The Maroon 5 frontman and chart topper is the son of Fred Levine, founder of M. Fredric, a successful retail chain.


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Taylor Swift

The multi-award-winning songstress' father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a financial adviser and the descendant of three generations of bank presidents.


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Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal

Not only do the famous siblings hail from Hollywood royalty—their father Stephen Gyllenhaal is a film director, and their mother is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter—they are also descendants of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.


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Anderson Cooper

The popular CNN journalist is son to millionaire heiress and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt—of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad family.


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Lady Gaga

The pop princess spent her early years on New York's swanky Upper West Side, raised by her mom Cynthia Bisett and internet entrepreneur dad Joseph Germanotta.


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Robin Thicke

Son of Growing Pains star Alan Thicke, the soulful crooner grew up around stars from screens big and small and the affiliations helped him get his early studio-recording start.


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Lana Del Rey

The "Summertime Sadness" singer's father is Rob Grant, a former Grey Group copywriter turned entrepreneur and current CEO of Web Media Properties— an online media and publishing company.


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Michelle Williams

The My Week with Marilyn star's father, Larry Richard Williams, is a Montana-based stocks and commodities trader and author who also ran for the United States Senate twice as a Republican.


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Chevy Chase

The SNL alum and actor's father was a well-known book editor and magazine writer, and his mother was adopted as a child by her stepfather Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to Crane Plumbing.


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Kate & Rooney Mara

The celeb sisters are the great-granddaughters of the founders of both the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Veep star is the daughter of billionaire Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, who has an estimated net worth of $3.4 billion


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Armie Hammer

The Social Network star is the great-grandson of famed oil tycoon, philanthropist, and art collector Armand Hammer.


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Paul Giamatti

The 12 Years a Slave star is the son of Angelo Barlett Giamatti—a professor of Italian Literature at Yale University who went on to become the president of the university, and then the commissioner of Major League Baseball.


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Jordin Sparks

The American Idol alum's dad is a former NFL athlete who played for top teams, the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.


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Miley Cyrus

Born the same year her father's hit song "Achy Breaky Heart," the "Wrecking Ball" singer was rolling in the rocking dough from the beginning.

 


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Darren Criss

The Glee star grew up well-off in San Francisco where his father worked as a banker and former director of the San Francisco Opera before moving the family to Hawaii to launch EastWest Bank.


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Rashida Jones

Daughter of renowned music producer and mogul Quincy Jones and Mod Squad star Peggy Lipton, the TV and film actress followed in their rich and famous footsteps.


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Ed Sheeran

The "Give Me Love" crooner's father is an art curator and his mother is a culture publicist. Together they ran the independent art consultancy, Sheeran Lock, for 20 years.


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Kim Kardashian

The E! star's father, Robert Kardashian, became a household name during the O.J. Simpson murder trial before she went on to amass her own fame and fortune.


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Edward Norton

Worth an estimated $50 million, the Grand Budapest Hotel actor comes from money, as his maternal grandfather, James Rouse, founded The Rouse Company—which developed shopping malls and communities prior to being acquired by General Growth Properties Inc.


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Nicole Richie

Adopted into a family that was already flush with cash from one of the best-selling music artists of all time, Lionel Richie, the Candidly Nicole star has always lived an abundant life.


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Paris Hilton

The hotel heiress' paternal great grandfather was Conrad Hilton, who founded Hilton Hotels, but she's gone on to stake her own claim as a businesswoman outside of the entertainment industry.

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