The children of these celebrities seem to have it made from the moment they're born.
Growing up in the lap of luxury with maids, nannies and chefs likely at their beg and call, they basically don't have to lift a finger.
Um, not so fast... They may have it good now, but once their wealthy parents pass away, they are on their own.
Yep, these stars aren't leaving trust funds or their wealth to their offspring. Read on to find out why.
Jeff Goldblum's children might only be aged six and eight but he's already told his sons they won't be getting financial support from him when they're older.
The Jurassic Park star and his wife Emilie are parents to Charlie and River? and Goldblum told the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast that he wants his boys to "row your own boat".
"?It's an important thing to teach kids. I'm not going to do it for you. And you're not going to want me to do it for you," he said.
"You've got to figure out how to find out what's wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what you can do. And even if it doesn't, you might have to do that anyway."
Guy Fieri wants his children to learn the value of hard work and get a thorough education before they see any of his millions.
The celebrity chef and TV host is reportedly worth about $70 million and hopes to instill in his children the same lesson his father taught him.
?"I've told them the same thing my dad told me. My dad says, 'When I die, you can expect that I'm going to die broke, and you're going to be paying for the funeral'," he told Fox News.
Fieri is determined his children will ?graduate from university with a post-graduate degree, a high expectation his son Ryder has already pushed back against.
But the chef is sticking to the rule?, which his son Hunter is on the way to achieving as he's studying for his master's degree in business.
I?t doesn't look like Mick Jagger's children will be getting a portion of their famous dad's U$500 million (approx. A$785.6 million) fortune.
The Rolling Stones star, 80, hinted in a recent interview that his eight children won't be getting an inheritance. ?
From across his various relationships and marriages, Jagger has children Karis, 52, Jade, 51, Elizabeth, 39, James, 38, Georgia, 31, Gabriel, 25, Lucas, 24, and his youngest Deveraux, 6.
"The children don't need $500 million to live well. Come on," Jagger told the Wall Street Journal.
Instead, the singer seemed to suggest he might leave his rather wealthy music catalogue ?to charity.
"You maybe do some good in the world,?" he explained to the outlet.
E?nglish cooking icon Nigella Lawson has made it publicly known that her children Cosima and Bruno won't be getting her fortune.
The celebrity chef is reportedly ?worth U$20 million (approx. $AU31 million).
"I am determined that my children should have no financial security," Lawson told My Weekly.
"It ruins people not having to earn money," she explained.
Marie Osmond is standing firm on her choice not to leave her children her multi-million-dollar fortune.
The country music singer and actress doubled down on her stance in an interview with Us Weekly, arguing that all inheritance does is "breed laziness and entitlement".?
"Honestly, why would you enable your child to not try to be something? I don't know anybody who becomes anything if they're just handed money," said the 63-year-old, who has eight children from her two marriages, aged from 18 to 39.?
Osmond ¨C who is worth a cool $US20 million ($28 million) ¨C further explained that wealth can discourage children from working hard.
"To me, the greatest gift you can give your child is a passion to search out who they are inside and to work," she continued. "That's one of my rules with my kids. If you start it, you finish it, you don't ever have to do it again, but you gotta finish."
"I just think all an inheritance does is breed laziness and entitlement. I worked hard and I'm gonna spend it all and have fun with my husband."
The star married athlete-turned-motivational-speaker Stephen Craig for the second time in 2011, 25 years after they were divorced. She was also married to actor and composer Brian Blosil from 1986 to 2007.?
It was in 2020 during a segment on her daytime talk show The Talk that Osmond first revealed her plans to leave her riches to charity when she dies.
"I'm not leaving any money to my children," she said. "Congratulations, kids. My husband and I decided that ... I think you do a great disservice to your children to just hand them a fortune because you take away the one most important gift you can give your children, and that's the ability to work."
Simon Cowell is one of the music industry's bigwigs and he has $US600 ($956 million) to show for it. But he won't let his only son Eric, eight, ride his coattails.
"I'm going to leave my money to somebody. A charity, probably ¨C kids and dogs," Cowell told The Mirror in 2013 before Eric was born. "I don't believe in passing on from one generation to another."
"Your legacy has to be that hopefully you gave enough people an opportunity so that they could do well, and you gave them your time, taught them what you know."
Sting didn't grow up with wealth and he wants his children to follow suit ¨Cthe singer shares four kids with wife Trudie Styler and another two ?from his first marriage.
"There won't be much money left because we are spending it!" he told the Daily Mail in 2014. "We have a lot of commitments. What comes in we spend, and there isn't much left."
"I certainly don't want to leave them trust funds that are albatrosses round their necks. They have to work," said the singer, who is worth $US550 million ($877 million).
"All my kids know that, and they rarely ask me for anything, which I really respect and appreciate."
Elton John dotes on his two children with his husband, David Furnish: Zachary, 11, and Elijah, nine, but the iconic singer won't spoil them after his death.
"Of course, I want to leave my boys in a very sound financial state. But it's terrible to give kids a silver spoon. It ruins their life," he said in an interview with The Mirror in 2016.
"Anything beyond the basic, they have to go out and earn it themselves. If they want a Picasso, they have to go out and earn it. I think there's real sensibility in that."
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis grew up in working-class households and have a combined net worth of $US275 million ($438 million). But don't expect their children ¨C daughter Wyatt, eight, and son Dimitri, five ¨C to be trust-fund babies.
"My kids are living a really privileged life, and they don't even know it. And they'll never know it because this is the only one that they'll know," Kutcher said on friend Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert back in 2020.
"I'm not setting up a trust for them. We'll end up giving our money away to charity and to various things."
Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay is known for being tough with his staff, but his approach towards his children doesn't differ.
Exercising tough love, the British TV personality ?¨C who is worth a cool $US220 million ($350,000) ¨C is adamant his five children with wife Tana Ramsay won't see a cent of his fortune.
"It's definitely not going to them, and that's not in a mean way ¨C it's to not spoil them," he told The Telegraph UK in 2017. "The only thing I've agreed with Tana is they get a 25 per cent deposit on a flat, but not the whole flat."
Hong Kong-born action star Jackie Chan swung his way to the top of Hollywood with his stellar stunts, amassing a whopping $US400 million ($637 million) empire along the way.
But he won't be casually leaving his hard-earned fortune to his son Jaycee, who he shares with his wife of 40 years, Joan Lin.
"If he is capable, he can make his own money. If he is not, then he will just be wasting my money," the actor famously said Channel NewsAsia in 2011.
He has $UD160 million ($255 million) in the bank and Daniel Craig plans to spend every cent before he dies instead of leaving it with his children; daughter Ella, 30, with ex Fiona Loudon, and his four-year-old daughter with actress Rachel Weisz, whose name they've yet to publicly share.
"My philosophy is to get rid of it or give it away before you go. I don't want to leave great sums to the next generation," he told UK's Candis Magazine last year, adding that he finds inheritance "distasteful".
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr Priscilla Chan, are worth $US72.5 billion ($115 billion) and $US50 billion ($79 billion), respectively, but their kids won't inherit the bulk of it.
In 2015, after the birth of their first child, the couple announced ¨C on Facebook, of course ¨C ?that they will be donating 99 per cent of their fortune to charity.
"We want you to grow up in a world better than ours today," they wrote in a post addressed to their childWe will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation."
