{"id":31567,"date":"2021-08-19T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/daniel-craig-says-he-wont-leave-any-of-his-116million-fortune-to-his-kids\/"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T03:41:36","slug":"daniel-craig-says-he-wont-leave-any-of-his-116million-fortune-to-his-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/daniel-craig-says-he-wont-leave-any-of-his-116million-fortune-to-his-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Craig says he won&#8217;t leave any of his \u00a3116million fortune to his kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>JAMES Bond star Daniel Craig said he will not leave his children an inheritance as he finds the practice \u201cdistasteful\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The actor, 53, is reported to be worth around \u00a3116million after heading the 007 franchise and appearing in films such as Knives Out.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__media\">\n<div class=\"article__media-img-container open-gallery\" data-index=\"340584\"><a href=\"#\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article__gallery-count-value\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"article__media-caption\"><span class=\"article__media-span\">Actor Daniel Craig, worth \u00a3116million, said he won&#8217;t leave any of his fortune to his children as he finds the practice &#8216;distasteful&#8217;<\/span><span class=\"article__credit\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Craig has a three-year-old daughter with wife Rachel Weisz, 51, and an adult daughter, named Ella, from his previous marriage to Fiona Loudon, 53.<\/p>\n<p>He said he does not plan on passing all of his money to his kids, noting the example of industrialist Andrew Carnegie.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIsn\u2019t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you\u2019ve failed?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Carnegie gave away what in today\u2019s money would be about $11billion. That shows how rich he was because I\u2019ll bet he kept some of it too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"article__quote\">\n<div class=\"article__quote-copy\">\n<p>I don\u2019t want to leave great sums to the next generation.<\/p>\n<p><cite class=\"article__quote-credit t-p-color\"><span class=\"quote-credit\">Daniel Craig<\/span><\/cite><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My philosophy is, get rid of it or give it away before you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intensely private Craig, born in Chester, also said of his fame: \u201cPrivacy is a hugely important part of my life and this being a celebrity makes me nervous, actually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a side of my life that I just choose not to share and not to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His final outing as 007 will come in No Time To Die, due out on September 30.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bc-video-6237120768001\" class=\"brightcove  \"><span class=\"article__bc_video-caption\">Bond stars Daniel Craig and Gemma Arterton reveal first Aston Martin F1 car in 61yrs <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n      fbq('init', '752905198150451');\n      fbq('track', \"PageView\");\n    <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMES Bond star Daniel Craig said he will not leave his children an inheritance as he finds the practice \u201cdistasteful\u201d. 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