Paul Rudd, Jeffery Dean Morgan have been invested in New York candy shop more than seven years

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Paul Rudd, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton have held a stake in Samuel's Sweet Shop, a Rhinebeck, New York candy store, for more than seven years.Morgan, 56, Burton, 39, Rudd, 53, and his wife Julie Yaeger, invested in the establishment in December of 2014 following the unexpected death of the shop's original owner Ira Gutner eight months earlier, according to thePoughkeepsie Journal.Rudd said that he was inspired to invest based off of his ties to the area.

The latest: ActorsPaul Rudd, 53, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 56, have held a stake in Samuel's Sweet Shop, a Rhinebeck, New York candy store for more than seven years'One of the most important things any human can experience is to be a part of a community and feel connected to where you live and to other people who live there, especially in a job like mine,' Rudd told the publication.The shop's John Traver told the Poughkeepsie Journal that amid a time of peril in the wake of Gutner's passing, he was contacted by Morgan who told him that he, Burton and Rudd would invest to help keep the establishment's doors open.

He said that Burton advised him, 'Whatever you do, don’t close the shop - hang in there.' Traver said of the celebrity investment: 'There was triumph out of tragedy ...

I had lost my friend. But these really great people came forward and helped me and saved the local candy store and now I have this incredible opportunity to make this place as successful as I can, which is awesome.