While a fair number of renown amount from classic rag - to - riches stories , or at least Gap - to - Gucci taradiddle , there are also some who were born into riches and success . I ’m not saying that they did n’t make it in their own right wing " “ I think our # 1 spot on the list has sure as shooting made his own name for himself . But the people on today ’s Q10 decidedly had some connection and privileges that the median mortal did n’t .
3 . Carly Simon’sdad is the " Simon" of Simon and Schuster : he co - founded it .
4 . Barbara Waltersis the girl of Lou Walters , who found the renowned " Latin Quarter" nightclub . As the result of possess such a glamorous joint , celebrities were at her sign of the zodiac all of the meter and she spent a lot of prison term at the clubs . " This is where I spend Thanksgiving and Christmas and birthdays and prom nights , " she once allege . As full-bodied as her dad once was , she said he was also very good at losing it all because of the business gambles he took .
7 . Linda McCartneywas an heiress , but not to the obvious . Her maiden name was Eastman , and when she once told a reporter that her family had nothing to do with the Eastman - Kodak company , Paul feigned being disconcert and said , " What ? I ’ve been had!“ But Linda was an inheritress : her mother was Louise Lindner Eastman , whose dad found Lindner Department Stores .
10 . Oliver Stone’sfather was a prominent stockbroker in New York . His dad was uneasy for him to follow in the family footfall and stage for him to pay heed all of the respectable schools and even lick at a French financial exchange . He was include to Yale but dangle out doubly , although he finally attended film school at NYU . As you could see , that knead out for him .
