Meet the family of billionaire Nelson Peltz: From Brooklyn Peltz Beckham's wife to a former pro-hockey player, here's everything we know about his 10 kids

Nelson Peltz

Before he became the father of 10 children, Nelson Peltz was a college dropout working for his family business.

"I was quite bored at Wharton," he told Bloomberg in July 2022 about his college experience at the University of Pennsylvania business school. "I felt that was the wrong place. What I really wanted to do was ski."

After some time as a "ski bum," he moved back home, working for his family's food-distribution company — and investing on the side using his bar mitzvah money and some contributions from family and friends, per Bloomberg.

By 1973, he'd grown the family business and taken it public, Bloomberg reported, and more than two decades later, in 2005, he cofounded Trian Fund Management, now called Trian Partners. The firm had an estimated $8.5 billion in assets under management, including stakes as of April 2025, Forbes reported.

As an activist investor, the firm takes large equity stakes in companies and helps them make changes to improve their business.

"We see companies that were once great but have lost their way, and we have a plan for them to get back to greatness again," Peltz said in the 2022 Bloomberg interview. "We're not there to do all the terrible things that typically go along with the term 'activist.'We're just trying to get these companies to operate better, the way they used to."

He served as the non-executive chairperson of the Wendy's Corporation until September 2024 and was involved in a proxy fight with Walt Disney Co. that spanned from 2023 to 2024.

According to a 1964 wedding announcement in The New York Times, Nelson Peltz's first wife, Abrams, got married at the Plaza Hotel and went on to have two children whose identities have been kept private.

After the pair broke up, Peltz married Heffner Peltz, who has mostly kept out of the limelight during the marriage.

Together, the couple shares eight children: Will, Brad, Brittany, Matthew, Diesel, Nicola, Zachary, and Gregory.

Peltz made headlines in 2023 for suing the planners of his daughter Nicola's wedding to Brooklyn Beckham, Business Insider's Claire Atkinson reported. In the court filings, the billionaire investor alleged he was "hoodwinked" and asked for the planner to return his six-figure deposit plus legal fees.

Matthew Peltz

Matthew Peltz's ascent in the world of finance is arguably a product of his father's corporate legacy.

The son of Nelson Peltz and Claudia Peltz attended Yale University and began working at Goldman Sachs as an investment banking analyst the day after graduating in May 2006, according to Forbes. In January 2008, Matthew Peltz left Goldman to join his father's investment fund, Trian.

As a partner at Trian, he managed portfolio companies, including discount chain Family Dollar, whose shares jumped under his tenure, Forbes reported.

In 2013, at 29, he made theForbes 30 Under 30 list for finance.

From 2012 to 2015, Matthew Peltz served as a director at Arby's. He then took on the same role at the fast-food chain Wendy's, according to the company's website. Since November 2021, he's served as its vice chairman.

His business moves have paid off nicely: In 2020, Matthew Peltz purchased a waterfront mansion in Gulf Stream, Florida, for $10.5 million, the South Florida Business Journal reported. The 10,154-square-foot home includes six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, three half-bathrooms, a pool, a dock, an office, a massage room, and an exercise room, per the South Florida Business Journal.

Will Peltz

Will Peltz is a model and actor who has appeared in films including "Sierra Burgess Is a Loser," "Time Freak," and "Unfriended."

He's also walked the runway for Philipp Plein and Zadig & Voltaire and shot campaigns with brands like Calvin Klein and Armani.

"It's a lot more intimidating than your traditional acting roles," Will Peltz told Vogue about runway modeling. "You only have around 30 seconds or so to get it right. You have to make your walk convincing and make the clothes look damn good — but it's so gratifying when you're off the catwalk."

Brad Peltz

Brad Peltz is a former professional ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators. He was drafted by the team in 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile, and played from August 2012 to April 2013.

He attended Yale University from 2011 to 2015 and graduated with a degree in political science, per his LinkedIn. In 2016, he founded a startup called Mymo, which is an automated scheduling platform for patients and doctors.He served as its CEO until 2021.

In his LinkedIn profile, Brad Peltz said he's a "patient with a chronic illness" and wrote that he "founded Mymo after multiple extended hospital stays, which showed numerous fractures in the healthcare delivery continuum."

Brad Peltz became a director at Wendy's in July 2025 while serving as the managing director of franchisee Yellow Cab Holdings, which owns about 90 Wendy's restaurants across New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, according to the company's website.

Brittany Peltz Buerstedde

Brittany Peltz Buerstedde has worn many hats throughout her career.

As a child, she wanted to become a competitive ice skater, Aventura Magazine reported. After getting injured, she began pursuing a career in the arts.

She studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, interned at the Gagosian Gallery, and eventually became a fashion designer who launched a children's clothing line inspired by her family's summers in the South of France, WWD reported.

In 2014, Brittany Peltz Buerstedde married Franz-Ferdinand Buerstedde, the managing director of Rhône Capital, a private-equity firm, per Aventura. They have four children — Eva Leah, Lila Rae, Indy Moon, and Phoenix Blu — according to her Instagram.

Brittany's family lived in a high-rise in lower Manhattan for some time, but when the pandemic hit, they relocated to a gated community in Miami close to the Design District.

"The energy in the city felt off, and I didn't feel safe sending my kids out," she told Aventura.

The couple also bought a waterfront lot in Miami for $10.8 million in 2021, The Real Deal reported, though it's unclear if they built a house there.

She is the founder and creative director of Sena Lifestyle Studio, an interior-design studio that blends elements of wellness and spirituality, Haute Living reported.

She credits her strong family values to her upbringing.

"I loved my upbringing and am so grateful to have the most incredible parents, who taught me that family and love are, above all, most important," Brittany Peltz Buerstedde told Aventura.

Diesel Peltz

Diesel Peltz's entrepreneurial journey began thanks to his father.

After dropping out of New York University in 2015, he took a leap of faith to cofound Twenty, a mobile app that seeks to eliminate FOMO (fear of missing out) by alerting users where their friends are so they can meet up.

Peltz backed the startup in its initial rounds of seed funding, Forbes reported, as did DJ Khaled, who told Forbes that tech that facilitates social interaction is "going to be the next big thing."

Getting the app on the market took years, according to Forbes. Diesel Peltz started off by testing a beta version at multiple college campuses, Forbes reported, but he said that he didn't feel pressure to turn a profit right away.

The app officially launched in 2019. Later that year, it merged with Mappen, a social-media platform for location tracking, per Forbes. That same year, Diesel was named toForbes' 30 Underfor consumer technology.

Diesel Peltz has also cofounded and is the CEO of Healthy Together, the firm behind the healthtech app of the same name, according to Crunchbase.

Despite the advantages of coming from a wealthy family, Nelson said in a 2020 Q&A with Thrive Global that "most days are filled with a set of small failures and successes," though he did not specify what those were.

Nicola Peltz Beckham

The 31-year-old is an actor who has appeared in "Bates Motel," "Transformers: Age of Extinction," and "Avatar: The Last Airbender."

She's perhaps better known as Brooklyn Peltz Beckham's other half. She married the son of the soccer legend David Beckham and the former Spice Girl and fashion designer Victoria Beckham in 2022. The pair's wedding took place at the Peltz family estate in Palm Beach, which, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, was purchased in 1987 for $18 million.

The couple's nuptials made the news in 2023 because of Nelson Peltz's lawsuit against Plan Design Events, a Florida-based party-planning company that was hired to organize the affair. He sued for $159,000 plus legal fees, hoping to recover his nonrefundable depositafter the family movedto a different planner at the last minute.

Both parties said in a September 2023 joint statement that the legal battle had been settled and that Plan Design Events would make a donation to the CARE Ukraine Crisis Fund in Brooklyn and Nicola's names, People reported.

On January 19, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham posted a series of Instagram Stories in which he accused his parents of spreading "countless lies" in the media about him and his family. He alleged that Victoria Beckham canceled making Nicola Peltz Beckham's wedding dress "in the eleventh hour." He concluded his statement by saying that the narrative that his wife controls his life is "completely backwards."

Like some of her brothers, Nicola Peltz Beckham played ice hockey when she was younger. She told Coveteur that her dad had "really wanted me to focus on playing ice hockey," but when she was 11, she asked her mom if she could try acting.

"It started because I loved my drama class," she told Coveteur. "My parents were very against it [at first]. They didn't get it. We lived an hour away from Manhattan, and I convinced my mom to bring me to one manager."

She said that she ended up booking her very first audition for a play called "Blackbird" at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Zachary and Gregory Peltz

Zachary Peltz and Gregory Peltz were born in February 2003 to Nelson Peltz and Claudia Heffner Peltz. They've stayed mostly out of the spotlight and on the ice.

According to the hockey-statistics site Elite Prospects, Zachary Peltz spent the 2021-2022 season as part of an AAA team, the highest level of youth hockey, at Mount St. Charles Academy. Gregory Peltz, who also played hockey, attends the University of Miami Herbert Business School, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Both men appear to have a close relationship with their older sister, Nicola Peltz Beckham, and her famous husband, social media posts indicate. In 2016, their father threw them an extravagant bar mitzvah that had stilt walkers, two bands, five singers, a hockey rink, a basketball hoop, and video games. Page Six reported.