1. Salma Hayek

Actress Salma Hayek married French business mogul François-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 US$40.6 billion.

The couple has been together since 2006, but Hayek said she initially didn’t want to wed Pinault.

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“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, b****.’ Think what you want. Fifteen years together, and we are strong in love.”

2. Jami Gertz

Jami Gertz is been married to businessman Tony Ressler and they have two kids together. Ressler is the billionaire co-founder of Ares Management, an asset management company, and according to Bloomberg, he’s worth around US$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.

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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.”

3. 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 they were “working together to co-parent. They have a strong friendship. There is no fighting between them”.

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4. Ellen Barkin

Actress Ellen Barkin and Ronald Perelman, a billionaire banker and investor and the long-time 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 US$4 million on top of the initial US$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.

5. Miranda Kerr

“I was going through quite a challenging stage. I didn’t really believe in love any more. I felt a little bit overwhelmed with what had happened,” Kerr told Vogue Australia in 2022 of her break-up 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.”

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Spiegel started Snapchat when he was 25, and the company ballooned in value. He’s personally worth around US$2.6 billion, according to Forbes. In 2022, the pair bought a massive US$172 million Los Angeles estate.

6. 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 US$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 US$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.

This article originally appeared on Insider

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