Everyone loves a rags-to-riches story, but some of these riches-to-extreme riches are pretty compelling, too.
We're not counting the children of celebrities, nor those who got famous in large part because of their wealth (sorry, Paris), but the stars who attended the best schools and had the sweetest childhood vacations.
12. Beyoncé's dad was a successful Xerox salesman before becoming her manager.
Beyonce Knowles' father Mathew served as his daughter's manager for decades, but before that he was a successful salesman for the Xerox Corporation.
From 1992 onward, he devoted all his time to Music World Entertainment, which offers management and artist development services.
11. Glenn Close is the daughter of an esteemed doctor.
Glenn Close had a fascinating upbringing.
The daughter of a doctor who was once the personal physician to Congo president Mobutu Sese Seko, Close was raised in a stone cottage on her grandfather's estate until her parents joined Moral Re-Armament, which advocated communal living.
10. Chevy Chase is a private school kid with literary and musical parents.
Chevy Chase is a fourteenth generation New Yorker with a bevy of established relatives in the city's Social Register. His father was a book editor and magazine writer, his mother a concert pianist and librettist.
He attended a number of private schools, including The Dalton School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, before heading to college at Bard.
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