Troubled Jess Brolin has been evicted from his £500-a-month apartment and has shunned all offers of help from his family, which is believed to be worth £300million
He’s showbiz royalty blessed with a superstar stepmum, a TV star father and a six figure trust fund.
But as Jess Brolin digs around in rubbish bins desperately searching for his next meal he looks like any other homeless person.
Troubled Jess, 41, is the son of actor James Brolin, who is married to singing legend Barbra Streisand. The couple’s estimated wealth is £300million.
But since Jess was evicted from his £500-a-month apartment in May 2011 he has shunned all offers of help from his worried family.
Now grossly obese at around 25 stone, he sleeps on the streets of the Californian city of Ojai, 80 miles from the sprawling Malibu mansion his father shares with Streisand.
He whiles away his empty days sitting on public benches or hunting for food.
A source close to Jess said: “He will sometimes be sleeping in a field behind shops, basically wherever he can bed down.
“It can be very cold at night as it’s in the valley.
“Looking at him, you wouldn’t realise he is part of one of the biggest, most successful showbiz families in the world. It is a heartbreaking situation.”
But it is a situation Jess’s wealthy relatives are powerless to change.
He is said to have inherited his six-figure trust fund in 1995 after his mother, Brolin’s first wife Jane Cameron Agee, an animal rights activist, died in a car crash.
But the money apparently ran out and by 2011 Jess could no longer pay his rent. For a while he was sleeping in an old pick-up truck, said friends.
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