Richard Dreyfuss\u2019 son Ben is opening up about his family\u2019s \u201ccomplicated\u201d relationship with the Oscar-winning actor.<\/p>\n
The former Mother Jones reporter, 39, took to social media last week to claim that he and his siblings, Emily and Harry Dreyfuss, have been \u201cestranged\u201d from the 78-year-old \u201cJaws\u201d star<\/a> following an incident that occurred several years ago.<\/p>\n Richard welcomed his three children with ex-wife Jeramie Rain before the pair\u2019s 1995 divorce.<\/p>\n Richard Dreyfuss at the premiere of \u201cWaltzing with Brando\u201d in Los Angeles, California, on Sept. 15, 2025. Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n Ben and Richard Dreyfuss at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, California, on Aug. 8, 2013. Frazer Harrison<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone assumes my siblings and I are wealthy from our dad and we\u2019re all a bit too uncomfortable to make it clear, but we have no money from my dad,\u201d Ben wrote in a since-deleted tweet on Nov. 13, per USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMy dad has no money,\u201d he continued. \u201cIf he did, we wouldn\u2019t get it since we\u2019ve been estranged ever since some complicated family drama to do with MeToo.\u201d<\/p>\n He claimed that the \u201ccomplicated family drama\u201d stemmed from his younger brother\u2019s sexual assault allegations<\/a> against Kevin Spacey, which Harry, now 35, detailed in a Buzzfeed essay<\/a> in November 2017 and which Spacey has denied.<\/p>\n Richard Dreyfuss and his family attend the premiere of \u201cParadise Road\u201d at the AMPAS Theater in Beverly Hills, California, on April 4, 1997. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Richard Dreyfuss and his family at the premiere of \u201cHigh Fidelity\u201d at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March 28, 2000. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Ben said that he shared a post in support of Harry from their father\u2019s Twitter account, which he believes led an unnamed woman to come forward with her own sexual assault allegations against the \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d star.<\/p>\n \u201cThat tweet prompted someone to MeToo my dad. He blames us for that,\u201d\u00a0Ben wrote in his since-deleted tweet. \u201cThis led to years of acrimony.\u201d<\/p>\n However, Ben has since taken to his Substack blog<\/a> to make additional claims about his family\u2019s estrangement from their famous father and to share the most recent email exchange he\u2019s had with the Oscar winner.<\/p>\n Ben Dreyfuss explained why he and his siblings no longer speak with their father. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/p>\n Ben claims Richard Dreyfuss blames the kids for triggering a woman to come forward with sexual assault allegations against him. Frazer Harrison<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve possibly already seen this in the papers, but I don\u2019t talk to my dad anymore,\u201d he wrote on Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to write that like it\u2019s nothing, but it\u2019s been sitting in my head like a monster for years.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe simplest way to own this is to show you the last email exchange I had with him \u2013 the last one he actually responded to,\u201d Ben continued. \u201cI\u2019ve sent plenty since, but he hasn\u2019t replied.\u201d<\/p>\n