The actress who got ‘a piece of The Simpsons’ in her divorce

Jennifer Tilly stunned fans erstwhile she revealed that she ‘got a piece’ of The Simpsons successful her divorce settlement.

The actress, astir known for her stint arsenic Tiffany Valentine successful the Chucky franchise, opened up astir her emotion beingness successful the latest occurrence of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, wherever she teased her astonishment fortune.

Amid a treatment astir separations, the 66-year-old shed airy connected her divided from Sam Simon, who co-created the hugely fashionable cartoon on with Matt Groening and James Brooks, earlier helium died successful 2015.

They tied the knot successful 1984 but called clip connected their matrimony successful 1991 and, arsenic portion of their divorcement settlement, she inactive received a percent of the net from the series, which has been connected our screens for 35 years.

Speaking to the camera, she said: ‘It takes a truly agelong clip to get implicit a divorce. My ex-husband was Sam Simon, who created The Simpsons.

‘I was joined to him for 7 years. We were unneurotic for astir 10 years, and past erstwhile we got divorced, I got a portion of The Simpsons in the divorcement settlement.

‘Nobody knew that The Simpsons was going to spell connected for trillions of years. Honestly, each day, I’m like, “Thank you Sam!”’

Tilly did not stock details implicit the nonstop sum she is inactive awarded, but aggregate US reports antecedently stated that she was ‘entitled to 30% of the nett proceeds’ that her precocious ex’s property ‘receives from Fox’.

RHOBH viewers couldn’t get capable of the fiscal bombshell and flocked to Reddit to unpack her comments.

IllustratorSea8372 wrote: ‘Damn I had NO CLUE astir Jennifer Tilly’s Simpsons ownership… get it grl [sic].’

RangerFan293 agreed: ‘She was joined to the antheral who created The Simpsons AND got a portion of it successful the divorce?! Damn Jennifer Tilly wherever you been??’

‘Glad Jennifer told america that story, due to the fact that u was wondering however she had that immense mansion successful Bel Air,’ Kenyaj121 said. ‘I didn’t deliberation she’d person each of that from her acting career. But Sinpsons wealth makes full consciousness [sic].’

Sun_set22 replied: ‘The much I larn astir Jennifer, the much fascinated by her I am.’

As Gigigrahame added: ‘Jennifer is RICH RICH honey.’

Despite their divided successful the aboriginal 90s, the erstwhile mates remained adjacent friends and Tilly really introduced Simon astatine the Writers Guild of America erstwhile helium was fixed an grant to grant his humanitarian efforts successful 2014.

She was besides by his broadside during his crab conflict soon earlier his decease the pursuing year.

Speaking connected the Originals podcast successful 2021, she said: ‘When I met him, I was conscionable starting out. In fact, I deliberation I got my archetypal movie erstwhile I was dating Sam.

‘I tried to halt him from doing The Simpsons due to the fact that I thought helium was truthful talented, had truthful overmuch imaginable and James Brooks was his mentor – helium thought James Brooks was a genius.

‘Sam truly felt similar everything James Brooks touched turned to gold, and The Simpsons was conscionable a small one-minute bumper earlier it went to commercial. Matt Groening – astatine the clip – was a truly outsider artist.

‘Jim Brooks called him up and said, “I privation to marque a tv series, a half-hour show, with The Simpsons and I privation you to nutrient it. I tried to speech him retired of it, I said, “Sam you’re truthful talented, don’t you privation to bash your ain thing?”

‘Sam is evidently smarter than me, helium goes, “No, I truly privation to bash it. I privation to spell with this due to the fact that Jim Brooks is truthful talented”.

‘The remainder is history.’

‘Nobody knew that The Simpsons was going to spell connected for trillions of years,’ she added of her finances. ‘They accidentally gave him this brainsick woody but they didn’t recognize … Everything I bash present is things I privation to do.’

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