Taylor Thomson

Taylor Thomson owns a brain-disintegrating luxury real estate portfolio worth nearly $100 million, including lavish homes in Bel Air and Malibu. The 62-year-old media heiress and former actress isn’t playing around — records reveal she’s paid about $48.7 million for a Hollywood-pedigreed Santa Monica compound sold by Shane Smith, the cofounder of Vice Media. Her reported net worth of $7.5 billion. She’s a member of the ultra-private Thomson clan, which has for decades reigned supreme as Canada’s wealthiest family. Forbes says the Thomsons have a collective net worth of about $44 billion, as stewards of a media empire founded by Taylor’s grandfather Roy Thomson. Their biggest asset: Woodbridge, the holding company that owns a controlling stake in Thomson Reuters; Taylor herself reportedly retains a 14% stake in Woodbridge.