As it turns out, comedian Chevy Chase comes from a long line of rich people — or at least his parents did. Per Refinery29, the comedian’s mother was an heir to the Crane Company, the plumbing conglomerate which was pretty much responsible for every toilet in America until the 1990s. In a 1993 profile in The New Yorker, he shared that his mother was adopted by Cornelius Crane, who he says “was worth something like $120 million in the fifties.” He and his brother, Ned, were listed in the American elite directory Social Register back then, but they apparently never got to enjoy the riches of the Cranes since Cornelius donated much of his wealth when he married someone new.
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But Chase still had a comfortable childhood to say the least. When the “Saturday Night Live” star’s parents separated when he was 4 years old, he dished that his father eventually married into the Folger Coffee family, while his mother wed a well-known doctor. And while he acknowledges that his mom had “grown up with nannies,” he vividly remembers that “there were always money problems” growing up. But “somehow, Ned and I were able to go to private schools.” His brother went to Harvard, while he graduated from Bard.
