When people think of Hollywood’s richest actresses, names like Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, and Nicole Kidman often come to mind.

But there’s another actress whose estimated family fortune has attracted extraordinary attention.

Her name is Jami Gertz.

If you grew up watching movies in the 1980s, you might remember her from The Lost Boys or Less Than Zero.

She was talented, recognizable, and building a successful career in entertainment.

But what happened outside Hollywood would eventually become an even bigger part of her story.

Long before the billion-dollar headlines, Gertz was a young actress earning enough money to help support herself and her family.

Then she met a young financier named Tony Ressler.

When they married in 1989, she was already financially established, while his future business empire was still taking shape.

She even helped pay for their first home.

Decades later, the couple would become associated with an extraordinary fortune — and the source of that wealth surprises many people.

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