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Steven Spielberg is one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Take a look at what the billionaire's life is really like, from his 27-year marriage to his $184 million yacht
Steven Spielberg is one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Take a look at what the billionaire's life is really like, from his 27-year marriage to his $184 million yacht
Spielberg is also one of the richest people in Hollywood. Forbes estimates Spielberg's net worth to be $3.7 billion, while Bloomberg's Billionaires Index puts it at a much higher $6.08 billion.
Most of Spielberg's wealth has come from his films, but he's also a consultant for Universal theme parks, and he profited from the sale of DreamWorks Animation to NBCUniversal for $3.8 billion in 2016, according to Forbes.
Spielberg's first feature film was "Firelight," which was released in 1964. IMDb describes the storyline as "menacing flying saucers attack the citizens of a town."
Spielberg attended college at the California State University, Long Beach after being rejected from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinema Arts twice.
He later dropped out of college after he was offered a job at Universal Studios, but he came back and finished his bachelor's degree in Film Production and Electronic Arts in 2002.
Spielberg went on to direct mega-hits including "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," about a gentle alien who becomes stranded on Earth, as well as "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List."
Several of the Spielberg children are involved in creative industries. Theo, who was adopted in Capshaw's previous marriage, and Sasha formed an indie folk rock band called Wardell in 2012 and have since toured with Ryan Adams and opened for Vampire Weekend, Grimes, and Haim.
"I grew up around [the film industry], so I was like, 'I'm going to stay away,' but I ended up falling in love with it," she told Town and Country Magazine in a 2018 interview.
Some of Spielberg's children have had small roles in some of his films, such as when Sawyer Spielberg played a "plaza protester" and Sasha Spielberg played a "women with package" in 2017 film "The Post."
Their home is a tile-roofed stucco mansion they bought in the late 1990s. It sits on a three-acre hillside and counts "Gone with the Wind" producer David O. Selznick and actor Cary Grant among its former owners.
Spielberg and his wife have accumulated a sizable real-estate portfolio across the country. In 1989, they bought a property in Malibu and later bought an adjacent property in 2000 for a total of $6.57 million. They sold the spread for $26 million in 2015.
At one point, he owned a condo in the trendy Tribeca neighborhood in a star-studded building that has counted Taylor Swift, Orlando Bloom, and Peter Jackson among its celebrity residents.
Spielberg has been known to cruise the world on his yacht, stopping in locations including Portofino, Italy, Shanghai, and Hawaii. The director bought a yacht called The Seven Seas for $184 million, but in 2015 he put the 282-foot vessel up for sale because it wasn't big enough, according to the Daily Mail.
Spielberg is Jewish and has spoken publicly about how he was bullied for his religion as a child, which is partially what led him to found the USC Shoah Foundation in 1994 to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses. The foundation has collected 115,000 hours of video testimony.
