WHILE Nicola Peltz may be the most recognisable member of her famous family due to the ongoing feud with her Beckham in-laws, the Peltz family tree spans much wider than the model and actress.
Nicola’s billionaire father Nelson is actually a dad of ten children, and the family aren’t short of achievements.
As well as their youngest daughter, Nelson and his wife Claudia Heffner Peltz share seven other children together; Matthew, Will, Brad, Brittany, Diesel, Zachary and Gregory.
While Nelson – who has now spoken out on his daughter’s feud – is also a dad of two from his first marriage to Cynthia Abrams, whom he split from in 1981.
Most of the family stay largely out of the limelight, but with Nicola’s career in entertainment and subsequent union with Brooklyn Beckham – she has done anything but that.
The heiress has become a household name due to her feud with Brooklyn’s famous parents Victoria and David, and has cut contact with both them and his siblings in the aftermath of their nuclear family feud.
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But back home in Palm Beach, Nicola has a very close relationship to her own siblings.
From a former professional sportsman to business moguls, the family members have plenty of accolades to their names.
Here, we take a look at Nelson’s giant brood…
Matthew Peltz
It’s fair to say that Nelson and Claudia’s eldest son Matthew is a chip off the old block and has followed his dad into a career in finance.
Matthew, 41, is thought to have began his career at prestigious firm Goldman Sachs as an investment-banking analyst, but then moved to his dad’s hedge fund company, Trian Fund Management.
Matthew is also a director and the non-executive Vice Chairman of US fast food chain Wendy’s.
In 2013, when he was just 29, he made it onto Forbes’ 30 under 30 list for finance – being one of Nelson’s two kids to do so.
Matthew has been married to Hallie Dunn since 2018 and they share a son.
He largely remains out of the limelight – unlike some of his siblings.
Will Peltz
Just like his younger sister, Will has forayed into the entertainment industry as an actor.
Will has starred alongside the likes of Justin Timberlake, Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman in supporting movie roles.
While he has appeared in several indie and horror flicks and has had cameo roles in Euphoria and NCIS.
In 2024, he appeared in sister Nicola’s directorial debut movie Lola.
Will is engaged to fellow nepo-baby Kenya Jones, who is the daughter of Quincy Jones.
Nicola and Will have a close relationship and are often seen at events together and hanging out as a group with their significant others.
Brad Peltz
The Peltz family are a sporty clan with Brad a former professional ice hockey player.
The sportsman, 36, who went to Ivy league Yale University, previously played for the Ottawa Senators up until 2013.
It’s no surprise he made a career in the sport, with the Peltzs’ proclaiming themselves as a “hockey family”.
In the past, Nicola has said that both she and all of her brothers were interested in the sport.
“I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do—be an ice-hockey player,” she said in 2014.
However, Brad has now stepped away from the sport to found company Mymo.
The company is an AI-powered scheduling platform founded in 2015 that helps health systems and providers fill canceled appointments with in-person or virtual visits.
On his LinkedIn, Brad says that his own “chronic illness” and “several hospital stays” are what sparked the business idea.
It’s not known what illness he is referring to, and Brad now stays widely out of the limelight – with his social media set to private.
Brittany
Brittany is another one of the Peltz clan who almost had a career in sports as she started out a career in ice skating.
But following an injury, Brittany, 36, moved to the creative side of things and is the founder of interior design studio SENA Lifestyle Studio.
The luxury e-boutique’s website says it serves New York, Miami, and Palm Beach.
With prices such as $399 for a candle and $2,400 for a rug, it certainly isn’t on the cheaper end of the spectrum.
The company was founded following her time at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Brittany is married to Franz-Ferdinand Buerstedde, a businessman who has been on the board of directors for a number of well known companies – including Elizabeth Arden and Saks.
The couple share four children, with Brittany a doting mum to Eva, Lila Rae, Phoenix Blu & Indy Moon.
Diesel
The second member of the family to make it on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list is Diesel.
The businessman, 31, attended New York University but dropped out before completing his course – instead coming up with a business idea.
He developed the app Twenty, a location-based platform designed to reduce the “fear of missing out” (FOMO) by helping friends meet up in real life.
The app allowed users to see their friends’ locations, in a bid to inspire spontaneous social plans.
His dad Nelson backed the project with initial funding, and according to Forbes, it reached 2 million users and raised over $40 million in funding.
This was enough to place Diesel on the coveted list in 2020 for Consumer Technology.
Six years on, Diesel is the co-founder and CEO of Healthy Together, a public health platform focused on improving community wellness through technology.
Diesel’s social media is private and it’s not known whether he has a partner.
Nicola
Nicola, 31, is the third-youngest child of Nelson and Claudia and their youngest daughter.
She began her career in entertainment with a cameo role in 2006 festive flick movie Deck The Halls and Miley Cyrus’ 2008 music video 7 Things.
But her breakout roles came after she starred in 2010 movie The Last Airbender, with Nicola going on to appear in Transformers: Age Of Extinction and Netflix’s Bates Motel.
In 2024, she made her directorial debut with the movie Lola – which she wrote, directed and starred in.
In the flick, she plays struggling sister who is saving enough money to get her younger brother away from a toxic home.
However, the film didn’t land well with audiences and made a mere $648 at the box office and less than four stars on IMDB.
Nicola met her now-husband Brooklyn in 2017 at US music festival Coachella, but didn’t begin a relationship until several years later.
In 2019, they reconnected at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Halloween party, and went public with their romance the following year.
The relationship moved fast, with the couple engaged by the summer of 2020 and tying the knot in early 2022 at Nelson’s lavish Palm Beach estate.
Now, the wedding has become synonymous with the ongoing family feud – and was referenced several time’s in Brooklyn’s bombshell statement last month.
Before Brooklyn, Nicola had a one year relationship with Anwar Hadid, the younger brother of supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid.
She also had a short-lived romance with LANY lead singer Paul Klein.
Zachary and Gregory
The youngest of Nelson’s brood are twin boys Zachary and Gregory, who turn 23 this month.
Both currently attending the Miami Herbert Business School, Gregory describes himself as an “undecided business major”.
Both avid ice hockey players like the rest of their family, Gregory has played for junior team the Boston Junior Bruins while Zachary previously for his middle school team but is said to have now retired from the sport.
In 2016, the boys hit headlines after Nelson threw them a lavish $2M Bar Mitzvah, which included a hockey rink inside.
Nelson’s eldest children
Alongside his eight with Claudia, Nelson welcomed two children with his first wife.
However, they stay out of the spotlight and have not publicly been named.
It’s not known whether Nicola or her siblings have a close relationship with their two half-siblings.
