Some of this staggering net worth’s of the wealthiest celebs in the business will leave your jaw on the floor!
John Stewart - $80 Million
When we think of celebs making millions we usually think of A-list actors in blockbustersAnother sports giant (literally this time) Lebron James is one of NBA’s all-time greatest players of all time or award-winning singers, but the top talk show hosts also rake it in!
Take John Stewart, your favorite political talk show host. He has accumulated millions over his long career and is best known for hosting The Daily Show.
Alicia Keys - $130 Million
Now, this is one talented singer and pianist. Alicia Keys rose to the spotlight and became known for her raspy voice and for being totally unapologetic and comfortable in her own skin.
Thanks to her recurring role as a judge on The Voice and her very successful and long-lasting music career, she has earned herself a place as a top earner in Hollywood.
Adele - $135 Million
It only seems right that Adele is a top earner too, after all, no one has a voice quite like this powerhouse of an entertainer. Adele is known for shattering records; her one album is the fastest-selling album of all time!
But it’s not only her record-breaking sales that rake in the big bucks, but she is also on tour more than most other singers and happens to be one of the singers thats voice is just as good live as it is in the studio!
Judge Judy - $400 Million
Judge Judy, AKA Judy Sheindlin, is one of the most surprising on the list. However, thanks to her incredibly successful reality TV show in her courtroom, as well as practicing law outside of Hollywood has made her the big bucks!
Judge Judy is one of the highest-rated daytime TV shows around! And although she may seem scary, she is certainly grinning from ear to ear when it comes to her salary.
Ellen DeGeneres - $400 Million
Ellen DeGeneres has become a household name that everyone knows, but she was successful long before her daytime TV show and even had her own sitcom once upon a time!
But it was her talent as an interviewer that got her $400 million dollar net worth she has today! There is no big name in Hollywood that has not sat in a chair opposite her chatting like good friends.
Beyoncé - $355 Million
Not only does she run the world, but she runs her finances! With talent and stage presence like hers, it comes as no surprise that she has built enough wealth to last her a lifetime and more.
And she knows how to use it! Bey is known for dropping million on mansions and gifts for her and her family.
Rihanna - $230 Million
Who would have thought the young girl in Barbados would grow up to be the star she is today. She is one of the world’s most popular artists and has amazed a fortune with her music and lingerie career.
Riri has transformed herself to the bad girl who has the voice of an angel and is a total fashionista.
Jerry Springer - $250 Million
Jerry Springer proves that a long and stable career earns big time. Most people know him for his TV show, but he actually began his career in politics! Eventually, his career culminated in a talk show called The Jerry Springer Show.
Kylie Jenner - $1 Billion
She has been in the spotlight since the age of 10 thanks to Keeping up With the Kardashians, but while she may have been handed her fame, she was not handed her huge net worth.
Kylie has proved an incredible businesswoman and thanks to her widely popular cosmetics line has been named the youngest billionaire in the world!
Jay-Z - $900 Million
He may not be as popular as his wife, but he has a larger net worth! However, together Queen B and Jay Z are as iconic of a couple as you get.
His whopping $900 Million is thanks to his music skills and numerous business ventures such as investing in entertainment labels, a clothing line, alcohol brands and his music streaming service- Tidal. Talk about a businessman!
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin - $265 Million
We all remember a few years ago when the long-fringed Bieber shot to fame with his hit single Baby, and since then, girls all around the world have been going gaga for the sweet-voiced singer.
After a series of sold-out tours and record-breaking Spotify streams, the 24-year-old is now wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
Leonardo DiCaprio - $245 Million
It’s taking him up till now to finally get an Oscar, but we doubt he cares with a net worth like his. DiCaprio started out his career as a young boy in Growing Pains and since then has been in hit after hit culminating in a huge net worth.
Richard Gere - $100 Million
He may not be a bigshot in Hollywood these days, preferring to stay out of the public eye, but back in the '90s, he was a certified A-lister and a Hollywood hunk of note.
But it's not just his good looks that has given him the big bucks, he has earned his fame thanks to his immense acting talents.
Lady Gaga - $275 Million
Stefani Joanna Angelina Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga, is the biggest name in Hollywood at the moment thanks to her incredible performance in Bradley Cooper’s A Star is Born.
Her newfound acting abilities, as well as her singing career, has scored her a position high up on our list.
The Olsen Twins - $300 Million
You may think this is odd since they have been very private in the Hollywood scene, but the Olsen twins are one incredibly lucrative package since they began their career at 3-years-old.
The blonde bombshells have bowed out of acting and now have an incredibly successful clothing line ‘The Row’.
Taylor Swift - $320 Million
She is a social media influencer with a group of friends that everyone is jealous of, and more importantly, a singer whose album sales have exceeded 40 million sales!
Thanks to her success Tay Tay is rolling in cash and her fortune now stands at an estimated $320 million.
Barbara Walters - $140 Million
She took strides for women when she became the first female anchor on the national evening news. Over her long and stable career, she has interviewed the top celebs, politicians and world leaders with style and grace.
Still, not all of her wealth was self-made as she was born into one of the wealthiest families of America.
Oprah Winfrey - $2.5 Billion
It goes without saying that talk show queen Oprah Winfrey would get a spot on this list. Oprah started from the bottom and through pure talent and hard work worked her way all the way up to the very top.
She has been ranked one of the wealthiest African-Americans in the United stated and the first female black billionaire EVER- you go girl!!!
Bruce Springsteen - $345 Million
Bruce Springsteen started out with his breakout hit first help in 1973 and has been on an upwards journey ever since.
He is also known as being one of the former president of USA Barack Obama’s favorite artist and performed on multiple occasions for the Whitehouse.
Robin Williams - $100 Million
He may not be with us anymore, but his impact on pop culture and incredible sense of humor will go on forever.
Robin Williams started off as a stand-up comedian and quickly found a home as a beloved actor who won the hearts of the world with films such as Mrs. Doubtfire and The Dead Poet Society. He left his fortune to his three children.
Michael Phelps - $55 Million
He has an incredulous 28 medals and has proved to be one of greatest Olympic swimmers of all time.
But not only that, this Olympic champion is a talking goldmine for companies such as Nike, Speedo and Kellogg’s, all which helped him amass his fortune and earn a spot as the wealthiest Olympian today!
Cher - $345 Million
Sonny and Cher were a big deal in the 1960s, but when Cher achieved worldwide fame with the song Believe in 1998, she exploded.
Cher’s net worth has risen extraordinarily thanks to appearing in various films and a lucrative Las Vegas residency.
Barbra Streisand - $375 Million
The living legend herself, Barbra Streisand has basically won every award possible, From the Oscars to the Grammys, to the Emmys, and the Tony’s, you name it there is no award she has mot earned for herself.
Clearly, she is fully worthy of the incredible fortune she has made for herself over the years.
Cristiano Ronaldo - $400 Million
Cristiano Ronaldo is not only one of the most followed people on social media, but he also has done pretty darn well for himself.
The star soccer player has signed contracts with the likes of Nike and has replaced David Beckham for the wealthiest soccer player in the world.
LeBron James - $400 Million
Another sports giant (literally this time) Lebron James is one of NBA’s all-time greatest players of all time.
Not only that, but thanks to his lucrative endorsements over the years (such as Nike of course) has als0o become one of the richest players around!
Mel Gibson - $425 Million
He may have had some rather difficult times in the public eye thanks to a series of embarrassing behaviors, however, it clearly didn’t stop him making the big bucks.
During the height of his fame in the 90s, he already established himself as one of the A-Listers and thanks to his successful acting and directing career, boasts a very large net worth.
Dolly Parton - $500 Million
She is the queen of country and her long and successful career which has grown her net worth into what it is today.
She is the queen of country and her long and successful career which has grown her net worth into what it is today. Parton burst onto the country music scene in 1967 with her album Hello, I’m Dolly, and has been unstoppable ever since.
Maria Sharapova - $195 Million
This Russian born tennis player is one of the best the world has seen and one of only ten women to obtain a career Grand Slam in professional tennis.
Thanks to her tennis talent as well as her many model campaigns she is one of the top earners in the tennis world.
Steve Harvey - $100 Million
This is a true rag to riches story. At the beginning of his career, Harvey failed as a stand-up comedian and was left homeless for years. But when he had his big break as a host of Its Showtime at the Apollo, it was uphill from there.
Taking away the embarrassing moment of him messing the name of the winner of 2016 Miss Universe pageant, he is Hollywood gold.
David and Victoria Beckham - $450 Million
This is one dynamic duo who, between them have amassed the kind of fortune we can only dream of.
Despite the fact that they have both retired from the professions that shot them to fame, their new careers including modeling campaigns and a successful fashion like has kept them in the top of the high earner's list
George and Amal Clooney - $500 Million
Another pair that has talent, power and wealth is Amal and George Clooney.
The A-list actor has not only earned his fortune acting in many films that prove his acting abilities, but he is also a billionaire entrepreneur who sold his stakes in his tequila company for a reported $1 billion!
Gisele and Tom Brady - $540 Million
Her husband may be one of the best quarterbacks in history, yet Gisele’s wealth is almost triple that of her baller husbands standing at $120 Million.
Gisele is still considered one of the highest earning models at the age of 36 and is the face of many high end brands.
Tom Cruise - $550 Million
These days he is more well known for his views on Scientology and his multiple divorces than his acting abilities.
But despite this, he is still one of the worlds biggest movie stars and through the years has had some lucrative deals in projects such as Mission Impossible and Jack Reacher.
Kobe Bryant - $360 Million
He may be retired, but his huge net worth did not only come from his time as one of the most popular and talented players in the NBA.
Bryant has some lucrative deals with companies like Nike, Spalding and Coca Cola, not to mentions creating his very own sports brand Kobe Inc.
Celine Dion - $650 Million
Granted, Dion has had some huge hits like “My Heart Will Go On’” but it was not just her song sales that got her her fortune. Dion also has lucrative long-term deals with Las Vegas’s Ceaser Palace Hotel who has paid her fortunes for a residency deal.
However, The Canadian singer recently lost both her husband and brother in a span of two days- proving even wealth cannot stop a tragedy.
Tyler Perry - $600 Million
He is one of the highest-paid directors in Hollywood history not to mention an actor and comedian! It seems Perry can do it all.
His directing skills are so good that five of his movies have gone straight to number one at the box office!
JK Rowling - $640 Million
Probably the most famous author of all time (and my absolute hero), JK Rowling was the very first writer to accumulate wealth beyond a billion dollars when her Harry Potter novels were turned into films.
But get his0 though her wealth exceeded a billion dollars, thanks to her many many charitable donations and willingness to pay taxes in the U.K. dropped her fortune to the $650 million mark- can you get a better person?!
Bono - $700 Million
Another billionaire with a soul of a saint, Musician Bono has earned a fortune touring the world with the Edge and co.
Being an ardent philanthropist, he has given a lot of his personal wealth to charity, so his actual net worth would also be at the one billion mark.
David Letterman - $400 Million
Letterman has had one impressive and long career spanning back to 1982. He has been ranked one as one of TV Guide’s 50 best TV stars of all time and has the net worth to show for it!
His $400 million net worth keeps growing thanks to his new gig as a host of one of Netflix newest shows.
Tyra Banks - $90 Million
Tyra may have started out as one of the first hugely successful African American models, but she turned her modeling career into a multi-media empire.
She created the still-running show America’s Next Top Model and began hosting her own TV talk show. The Tyra Banks Show which was also very successful.
John Madden - $200 Million
He is the legendary football coach and sportscaster who has a Superbowl in his bag when he coached the Oakland Raiders. But his crazy net worth came mostly from the video games he is involved with!
Madden is the name, voice, and personality behind the Madden NFL game series which are a bestseller.
Shania Twain - $350 Million
While her roots are Canadian, her fortune has come from the USA. Twain started her ridiculously successful singing career as a teenager and is still releasing new music and touring until today.
It is her constant performances and releasing of new music which just keeps adding to her ever-growing net worth.
James Cameron - $700 Million
When you have the power to launch the careers of names such a Leonardo Di Caprio and Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know you’ve got it.
The incredible director who has made some of the cinemas most profitable movies such as Titanic and Avatar has a net worth of $700 million.
Dr. Dre and Nicole Young - $830 Million
This one may come as a surprise, but as one of the earliest pioneers of hip-hop and as an incredible entrepreneur, he has reached heights one could only dream of.
Most of his fortune comes down to the creation of Beats, a headphone company set up by the music mogul which he sold to Apple Music for an absolute fortune.
Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld - $920 Million
He is the mastermind of one of the most successful TV show in history along with Larry David, Seinfeld still brings millions each year with his show that's popularity seems to grow by the year.
Although Jerry is now more focused on his stand-up career, his show still takes it in leaving his and his wife’s net worth at a whopping $920 million.
Sir Paul McCartney - $1.2 Billion
One of the few billionaires on this list is none other than the legendary Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney who, along with his bandmates, blessed the world with tunes such as Dear Jude and Yellow Submarine.
Despite the infamous divorce from Stella McCartney, he has kept the majority of his fortune which stands at an incredulous $1,2 billion.
George Lucas - $5.5 Billion
Close your mouths, yes, despite only directing 8 films, the Stars creator has amassed the kind of wealth its hard to comprehend. The majority of his fortune comes from the sale of LucasFilms to Disney in 2012 for a reported 4,1 billion.
Lucas also is the forefront of a charitable foundation which has given away more than 1 billion!
George Lucas - $5.5 Billion
He has been crowned the king of the country and from his first hit single in 1981, ‘Unwound’ has sung hit after hit and embarked on many tours which helped bring him his fortune.
Strait has become one of the bestselling singers of all time and the 12th best-selling artist in the United Stated overall!
Garth Brooks - $280 Million
To date, Brooks is one of the world’s highest-earning country singers, making a cool $70 million in 2015 alone! And it seems he has no plans to stop.
He embarked on a world tour from 2014-2017 and has been releasing new music since! Talk about a never-ending career!
Phil McGraw - $400 million
Who would think that a degree in psychology coupled with charisma and stage presence could turn you into one of the wealthiest people in Hollywood!
Dr. Phil, aka McGraw may have faced much criticism from the public but he is laughing all the way to the bank.
Johnny Depp - $200 Million
Depp used his bad boy charm to become one of the most sought-after men in Hollywood back in the day following his role in the 21980s show 21 Jump Street. And his net worth reached new heights thanks to being the muse for renowned director Tim Burton.
However, his $400 million net worth was slashed in half after his bitter divorce from Amber Heard which included a domestic abuse lawsuit.
Robert De Niro - $300 Million
He has built for himself a Hollywood empire thanks to his roles in some of the most iconic films in history the likes of The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, and Cape Fear.
But much of his net worth also comes his investment in Nobu restraint chain and Tribeca Enterprise.
Sandra Bullock - $200 Million
Sandra Bullock may stay out of the public eye, but she is one of Hollywood’s top 20 actresses when it comes to how much she earns!
She has one long career under her belt, not to mention owns her own production company, Fortis Films which has made 19 movies!
Mariah Carey - $520 Million
One of the best-selling singers in the world, Mariah Carey has been belting out hits for decades. Her 1994 track, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ made $60 million on its own!
Her Las Vegas residency doesn’t hurt either, not to mention her role as a judge on American Idol!
Jimmy Buffett - $550 Million
While you may have the image of Jimmy Buffett sitting on a beach somewhere sipping margaritas, you couldn’t be more wrong.
He has become quite the businessman and besides his music career, most of his net worth comes from Margaritaville Café and Cheeseburger in paradise chains.
Matt Groening - $500 Million
He may not be as much of a household name as the others on the list, but he is the brainchild behind hit series such as The Simpsons and Futurama.
Being the king of cartoons has not only garnered him a star in Hollywood Walk of Fame but made him a cool fortune.
Janet Jackson - $150 Million
Sometimes Janet Jackson gets put on the sidelines with her super famous brother, but the 7-time Grammy winner has earned herself a pretty huge net worth too!
At of 2017, she is worth an astounding $150 million and has clearly stepped out of her late brother's shadow.
Simon Cowell - $550 Million
He may not be a singing or acting sensation in his own right, but this business genius has produced and managed some of the biggest names in history like Westlife!
Not to mention managing people like Leona Lewis and One Direction. Of course, his longstanding role as a judge on American Idol and the X-Factor help too.
Michael Bublé - $150 Million
While his personal life has been one of turmoil over the last few years with his son struggling and overcoming cancer, his business life has always been on the rise.
Canada’s most famous musical export and four-time Grammy winner has earned himself a cool fortune over the years and now that he's back in the recording studio, it will just increase!
Brad Pitt - $240 Million
Although we are all still mourning the death of Brangelina, rumor has it Brad, and Angie had a prenup in place which left both in the green when it comes to their finances.
Brad is not only a high-earning actor with a long career and iconic films like Pulp Fiction under his but, but he has also has produced Oscar-winning movie, 12 Years a Slave.