It is a sad reality but when someone with wealth passes away, the subject of a will is brought up at some point or another. That was the case when Aaron Carter passed away suddenly, with the media speculating who would get his inheritance.Celebs have conflicting views when it comes to leaving behind their money. Anderson Cooper is among the many celebs who won't be leaving his inheritance to his children. As we'll reveal in the following, he's far from the only person. We can also add Daniel Craig to the list, but he has completely different reasons which actually make a lot of sense. We'll reveal his mindset, while also taking a closer look at his family dynamic back home.
Daniel Craig Is A Proud Family Man With Two Daughters, Ella And Grace
Daniel Craig is a proud father of two children, Ella is his oldest, and she appeared alongside the actor during the Glass Onion premiere. She was all smiles alongside her dad.
Born in 2018, Craig has another daughter named Grace, though he hasn't revealed much information related to his youngest daughter.
Although Craig is a happy family man, wife Rachel Weisz admits the topics of conversation at home are very different, and usually doesn't involve Daniel Craig, or anything related to his wealth and fame.
"He's just too famous. It would be a betrayal. You have to protect your marriage," she told MORE magazine.
"When you're young, you tell your girlfriends everything. One of the great pleasures of not being an adolescent is that you don't have to share everything. When you're married, that door closes. The audience goes, and you're in your own life."
Craig has a unique mindset when it comes to leaving behind an inheritance and in truth, although it might sound harsh not to leave his kids anything, his theory seems to make a lot of sense.
Daniel Craig Has Different Plans For His Inheritance And It Doesn't Involve His Children
No, Daniel Craig doesn't want to pass away holding on to his money. Instead, it is very much the opposite. Craig wants to spend as much money as he could while he's around, so when the time comes, he doesn't have much left in the bank.
Daniel Craig wants to spoil his children now, and not think about the distant future involving an inheritance.
He said, “My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go,” Craig said.
“Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed?” Craig said in the interview with the Times of London. “I think Andrew Carnegie gave away what in today’s money would be about $11 billion, which shows how rich he was because I’ll bet he kept some of it, too.”
Craig revealed that the idea of leaving a huge fortune behind is 'distasteful', and he wants to do his best to share it while he's here. In truth, he is far from the only celeb to avoid the idea of an inheritance.
Daniel Craig Is Far From The Only Celeb To Refuse His Children Of An Inheritance
Ashton Kutcher is another celeb that doesn't believe in giving his kids extra money when he passes away. Instead, Kutcher wants to donate his money to charity, given that his kids are already living a privileged lifestyle.
“I’m not setting up a trust for them,” Kutcher explained. “We’ll end up giving our money away to charity and to various things. 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.”
Anderson Cooper shares a similar mindset to Kutcher, “I don’t believe in passing on huge amounts of money,” Cooper said. “I’m not that interested in money, but I don’t intend to have some sort of pot of gold for my son. I’ll go with what my parents said: ‘College will be paid for, and then you gotta get on it.’”
Gordan Ramsay can also be added to the list, not wanting to spoil his children while Gene Simmons stated that giving his children an inheritance might to more harm than good for their work ethic.
"Every year they should be forced to get up out of bed and go out and work and make their own way. ... I don’t want them to say, 'Thanks, dad, for making me rich.' No, you wanna be able to stand on your own two feet and say, 'I did that.'"
All very valid points.
