Peter John Wagner Jr. was born on the 3rd October 1959, in Washington, Missouri USA, and is an actor and singer, perhaps best known for his roles in the television series “Melrose Place” (1992 – 1999) and “The Bold and the Beautiful” (2003 – 2012); Wagner has been nominated for Emmy Awards twice, having been active in the entertainment industry since 1982. Jack Wagner loves golf and is ranked among the top 100 Hollywood golfers.
How much is the net worth of Jack Wagner? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is over $9.8 million, as of the data presented in late 2016. Acting and music are the main sources of Wagner’s fortune.
Jack Wagner Net Worth $9.8 Million
To begin with, he is only child of the car dealer Peter and housewife Scotty Wagner. At the age of 10, he became interested in the game of golf, and when he was a teenager, he excelled in winning the Champion Missouri Jr. For one year (1979), Wagner attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, then after winning the state championship in golf, in 1980 he received a scholarship from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he continued his studies until 1982. Then, he moved to Los Angeles.
He moonlighted as a guide of Universal Studios, before he joined the cast of the soap opera “A New Day in Eden” (1982). Then Jack appeared in two episodes of the CBS soap opera “Knots Landing” (1983), and won the sympathy of the audience portraying Andrew “Frisco” Jones in the ABC soap opera “General Hospital”(1983-1988, 1989-1991, 1994-1995), in which he brought to the screen romance and humour, and for above mentioned the role he was nominated for an Emmy. These roles contributed considerably to his net worth.
What is more, his career on television Jack perfectly combined with a career in the music industry. He performed at the Civic Light Opera in Los Angeles in the production of “They’re Playing Our Song”. In 1985, he rose to fame with the hit “All I Need” (1984), and in all he has recorded six albums – “All I Need” (1984), “Lighting Up the Night” (1985), “Do Not Give Up Your Day Job” (1987), “Alone in a Crowd” (1993), “Dancing In The Moonlight” (2005) and “On The Porch” (2014), adding to is net worth.
Getting back to his acting career, Wagner starred in the television thriller “Moving Target” (1988) with Tom Skerritt. Shortly thereafter he appeared in the soap opera “Santa Barbara” (1991-1993). He surprised the audience appearing as Dr. Peter Burns in the soap opera “Melrose Place” (1994-1999) and as Jack Williams in the NBC miniseries “Titans” (2000-2001). In 2000, he made his debut on the Broadway stage in the musical “Jekyll and Hyde”. For his role in the CBS soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” (2003-2012) the actor received the 2006 Swiss prize in Golden Rose festival in Lucerne and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award.
In 2012, he took part in the 14th edition of the competition show “Dancing with the Stars”, in which he and the dancer Anna Trebunskaya took 11th place.
Finally, in the personal life of the actor and singer, Wagner has dated Peggy Trentini, Nicole, Kimberly Foster (1985), Hilary Edson (1985-1986) and Laurie Landry (1987). At the end of 1993, he married actress Kristina Crump; they have two sons, but they divorced in 2006. From 2007 to 2011, he was in relationship with Heather Locklear, and they have a daughter. Since 2012, he has been in a relationship with Ashley Jones.
