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One of Jerry’s Girlfriends on ‘Seinfeld’ Has Three Times His Net Worth

One of Jerry’s Girlfriends on ‘Seinfeld’ Has Three Times His Net Worth

Alyson Lewis
December 31, 2023

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Here’s Why ‘The Simpsons’ Episode Where They Go to Japan Is Banned in Japan

Ironically, Japan did not accept the challenge of Mr. Sparkle.

The Simpsons is one of the most beloved animated properties worldwide, with 36 dubs and translations of the longest-running American animated series airing internationally. As a top American cultural exports, the humor of The Simpsons has been transcending language barriers ever since its beloved Latin American Spanish dub launched in Mexico back in 1990, just a year after the show premiered in American America. Within a couple short years, The Simpsons was an international, multilingual hit on six continents, and, with so many countries tuning in to see America’s first animated family every week, you’d think that nothing would make The Simpsons more popular in each respective nation than an episode wherein the Simpsons visit said country. In Japan, you’d be very, very wrong.

One of Jerry’s Girlfriends on ‘Seinfeld’ Now Has Three Times His Net Worth

Contrary to what her character said on Seinfeld, Jami Gertz could spare a billion squares if she really wanted to.

With an approximated net worth of $950 million, Jerry Seinfeld has come the closest to sniffing a billion-dollar net worth of any sitcom legend in history — with the obvious exception of sitcom producers and network executives, of course. At that level of wealth, it’s inevitable that he’d have to date down on the dollar scale in order to find a partner as, according to Forbes, there are only 337 living female billionaires in the world. However, that list includes a certain former flame who once denied a sheet of toilet paper to another affluent female in Seinfeld’s life: Gertz, who played Seinfeld’s on screen girlfriend Jane in the Season Five episode “The Stall,” is worth an estimated $3 billion today. Maybe she could have just wiped her ass with a few Benjamins.