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How the richest actor in the world zoomed ahead of wealthy stars like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Lopez
She has amassed a fortune over the years that is multiple times the size of several of the wealthiest Hollywood stars' net worths.
As Gertz explains it, she put her lucrative acting career on the back burner after getting married and focused on joining her husband Tony Ressler — worth $10.9 billion, according to Forbes — in making high-profile business deals. Gertz's publicist put her in touch with Ressler, who was working at the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert, which would file for bankruptcy in 1990 due to illegal junk bond trading. Ressler made the move to Los Angeles in the late '80s to support his wife's acting career, but after co-founding the private-equity firm Apollo Global in 1990, followed by Ares Management in 1997, he quickly eclipsed her earnings.
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