Million Dollar Trust Funds: Movie Stars Who Don’t Need The Money
Chevy Chase
Chevy didn’t just play a crazy old racist millionaire on TV.
Chevy Chases’s maternal grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to The Crane Company. His father’s second wife was a member of the Folgers coffee family.
Chevy Chase’s ancestors first arrived in Manhattan back in the early 1600s! He grew up, a fourteenth-generation New Yorker, with his father, a prominent book editor and magazine writer, and his mother, the adopted child of Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to Crane Plumbing.