Jeff Goldblum, 71, recently shared that his sons Charlie, 8, and River, 6, will have to support themselves when they get older. The "Jurassic Park" actor shares his sons with wife Emilie Livingston, 41. Goldblum recalled telling his sons, “Hey, you know, you’ve got to row your own boat,” while he appeared on the iHeartPodcast, "Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi." “It’s an important thing to teach kids. I’m not going to do it for you. And you’re not going to want me to do it for you,” he continued. “You’ve got to figure out how to find out what’s wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what you can do. And even it if doesn’t, you might have to do that anyway.”

Goldblum tied the knot with Livingston in 2014 and welcomed their first child two years later. In 2018, the actor opened up about being an older dad. “I keep doing the math, and keep extrapolating where they’re going to be, and where I’m going to be. And when I buy a watch, I wonder who’s going to get it,” he said at the time. “I’m glad I waited. It feels great to do it right now, because all the things I’m considering are perfectly suited to the big questions and challenges of having kids, and what you want to expose them to,” he added. “What you want to leave them with, what life is, and what kind of life you contribute to them.”

Goldblum isn't the first celebrity to say they won't be leaving their fortune to their children. In recent years, Guy Fieri, Marie Osmond and Mick Jagger have all said that they won't be leaving their money with their children. “The children don’t need $500 million to live well. Come on,” said Jagger in September 2023. “You maybe do some good in the world.” Marie Osmond recently told The Post that leaving her kids with her inheritance would be harmful. “They don’t learn the joy of hard work, of picking themselves up when things don’t work. I believe in general that you rob children of the experience of figuring out who they are,” she noted. “They don’t learn that you cannot buy your child self-esteem — they have to earn that.”