COVER STORY
their respective wealth:
Aniston, with a reported
net worth between $200
million and $240 million,
was ranked by Forbes as
one of America’s richest
female entertainers in
2017, joining the likes
of Madonna. Bullock,
similarly, has a net worth
of around $200 million,
which includes about
$60 million in real estate
holdings.)
I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU
Before Aniston and
second husband Justin
Theroux, 47, ended their
two-year marriage in late
2017, they loved a good
double date with Bullock
and her boyfriend of more
than four years, model
turned photographer
Bryan Randall. “Sandy
felt comfortable enough
to bring Bryan to Jen
and Justin’s wedding”
in 2015, says the source.
fall. “Jen was extremely
thoughtful when Sandy’s
dad passed away,” says
the source, likely because
she’d lost her mom, with
whom she had a famously
difficult relationship, just
two years earlier. “They’ve
bonded because they each
had complicated relation-
ships with a parent.”
SAME OLD FRIENDS
After Aniston and
Theroux split, dinners
continued with Randall
as the third wheel. “The
dynamic hasn’t changed,
even though Justin isn’t
around anymore,” says
the Aniston insider,
adding that the Murder
Mystery star “adores”
Bullock’s guy. “Jen, San-
dra and Bryan still hang
out the same way they
always have. They all just
click and have a strong
friendship. Jen counts
Sandra and Bryan as
close friends she loves to
have around.”
Yet with two energetic
young children — Louis,
9, and Laila, 7 — whom
Sandra’s raising with
Randall, Bullock has
come to prefer that
Aniston head over to her
place. “Jen’s invited Sandy
with the kids over to her
house,” a meticulously
restored $21 million
mid-century Bel Air man-
sion, says the source, but
“Sandy jokes they’d never
Theroux and
Randall, adds the
Aniston insider,
“got along great.
The four of them
would often do
things as couples,”
including hitting
up Bullock’s Bess
Bistro in Austin,
Texas, with the
then-newlyweds in
September 2015.
The ladies
have helped each other
through hard times
too. “Sandra was there
when Jen and Justin got
divorced,” says the source.
“She was someone Jen
could lean on.” Though
Aniston wasn’t in the
picture when Bullock
endured a devastating
split from first husband
Jesse James in 2010, she
was there for her friend
when Bullock’s father
and two dogs died within
weeks of one another last
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AN INSIDER
Kaling, 40, created the
Wreath Witherspoon — a
holiday wreath covered
with pictures of Reese, 43
— on The Mindy Show in
2014, then the two became
fast friends while filming
2018’s A Wrinkle in Time.
Witherspoon’s nickname for
her bud? Min Diesel.
bandmate Mick Fleetwood
when the legend brought
his daughters to a 2014
One Direction concert. A
year later, the boy bander,
25, met Nicks, 71, at a
Fleetwood Mac concert and
they clicked. She’s since
told Rolling Stone he’s “the
son I never had.”
The Bravo host, 51,
and musician, 41, were
introduced by a mutual
friend on an NYC street in
2012 and soon bonded over
a shared love of the Grateful
Dead. “We have a very
sweet friendship, and we’re
together all the time,” Cohen
told CNN in 2018.
producer Clooney, 58, has
been tight with Spin City
star Kind, 62, for decades.
Clooney, who served as
best man at Kind’s 1999
wedding, even moved
in with his buddy after
splitting from first wife
Talia Balsam.
HOLLYWOOD HOMIES
Aniston and Bullock aren’t the only
surprising besties in Tinseltown
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