Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

"It was the most successful thing I ever did. Two weeks of work. They never even used my script!"

What if you bought $10,000 worth of Apple stock at its 1980 IPO… and then literally forgot about it for 44 years? Thanks to stock splits, dividends, and one of the greatest corporate turnarounds ever, that single decision would have turned into a very nice fortune and passive income stream.

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick thought they had tens of millions safely invested with Bernie Madoff… until it all vanished overnight. Here's a breakdown of what they likely lost, what they actually got back, and how they rebuilt from scratch.

The NCAA's March Madness basketball tournament is in full swing. March Madness is very big business for all involved, including the NCAA, the teams participating, and online betting sites.

Jennifer Tilly's smartest financial move didn't happen on a movie set or a poker table. It happened in a 1993 divorce that quietly gave her a multimillion-dollar annual stake in "The Simpsons."

When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle left the royal family, they quickly signed deals with Spotify, a major book publisher, and, most importantly, Netflix. How much did they make from these deals?

Out of all the winners and losers in the Warner Bros. Discovery bidding war, no one will win more than the Newhouse family. But they are also the biggest losers thanks to a catastrophic decision made just a few months ago.

Quincy Jones' estate just sold a major portion of his legendary catalog. The price tag remains a mystery, but by comparing the assets involved to recent blockbuster deals, it's likely this transaction landed somewhere in the $300–$500 million range.

Winning an Oscar is Hollywood's ultimate honor, but for a select group of winners it also came with extraordinary wealth. Here are the 30 richest Academy Award winners of all time, a list that includes billionaires, media moguls, music legends, and actors who turned cinematic success into massive fortunes.

He made "Jaws," "E.T.," and "Jurassic Park." But Steven Spielberg's most lucrative deal isn't a movie—it's a quiet contract that pays him tens of millions every year, just because Universal has theme parks. And the kicker? It was signed in 1987 and lasts forever.

If you invested $10,000 in the Microsoft IPO 40 years ago today, how rich would you be? See how stock splits and DRIP turned $10k into a massive fortune and incredible annual dividend earnings.

For people who enjoy reading stories about extreme wealth, March 13 should be a holiday. What happened 40 years ago today? A little software company in Seattle called Microsoft went public.

"Seinfeld" may have been a show about nothing, but financially it became one of the most valuable television franchises in history. More than 25 years after the finale, the sitcom has generated billions in revenue and made its creators extraordinarily wealthy, while its supporting stars earned huge salaries but only a small slice of the long-term profits.

In 1989, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld sat down to write a pilot for NBC. That pilot was titled, as you may have guessed, Seinfeld, and it went on to run for nine seasons from 1989 to 1998. It is the most profitable and popular half-hour television series in the history of TV.

Last week Netflix revealed it had quietly acquired an AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck, surprising Hollywood insiders who didn't even know the company existed. Now new reporting suggests the mysterious venture, called InterPositive, could pay out as much as $600 million, instantly turning Affleck's stealth side project into one of the biggest AI deals in entertainment history.