Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Even though you won't be able to use this Batpod like Batman was able to, it's still a pretty incredible piece, with years' worth of authentic wear, thanks to its having been used in not one but two Batman adventures.

Author James Patterson has a net worth of $470 million. He made $94 million in 2016, making him the third highest-paid celebrity of the year. Unlike other writers, the bulk of those incredible earnings isn't from TV or movie deals, it is from the sheer volume of Patterson's book sales…

Recently, we profiled a number of celebrities that run empires separate from their chosen creative crafts. We left one off the list: Kenny Chesney launched Blue Chair Bay rum in 2013. But unlike other celebrities who license their name and image, country crooner Chesney does it his way, overseeing everything…

Ellen DeGeneres has conquered stand up, TV sitcoms, film roles, daytime talk show hosting, endorsements, and a mobil app on her way to her $75 million net worth.

Psycho is one of Alfred Hitchcock 's masterpieces. It came out in 1960 and terrified audiences. Many people haven't looked at a shower the same way since then. Hitchcock was 61 years old when he directed the psychological thriller. It was his 49th film. It rang in his fifth decade of making films and he hit it out of the park, not just with the commercial success of the film, but with the financial deal he worked out to direct it.

A very lucky man in Perth, Australia turned a Texas Hold 'Em bet of only $10 into an incredible $2.7 million jackpot.

Officials say that if The Met doesn't act quickly, their budget deficit could go from $10 million to $40 million in 18 months! See their plans to fix it.

Dave Grohl has been melting our faces off for more than two decades now, first as the drummer for Nirvana and then as the lead singer and guitarist for Foo Fighters. Would it surprise you to learn that he is one of the richest lead singers in the world?

Microsoft recently pondered purchasing Slack, one of its chief competitors, for $8 billion. But Bill Gates believes it would be better for Microsoft to funnel money into Skype and take down the competition.

Things were tough for Michael Fox this summer, so much so that he had to seek a part-time job in order to make ends meet. But he still dropped $10 on a scratch-off ticket, and got a million-dollar jackpot in return.

Bernie Ecclestone is the King of Formula 1 racing. But his billions are a long way from the small fishing village he was born in. Find out how Ecclestone went from rags to Formula 1 riches.

The former Fox News anchor has received not only an incredible $20 million settlement from the Fox News Channel's parent company 21st Century Fox, but an official apology as well.

Remember that scene in "The Godfather" where the guy wakes up next to the horse's head? Well now you can be a partial owner of the mansion where that scene was filmed… if you have at least $125k lying around.

The list of the richest people in the world is full of bankers, oil tycoons, trust fund babies and a slew of other profitable but boring career paths. But did you know you could get insanely rich off of a very weird idea? Let's look at some examples…

The 108M is a new mega yacht concept that was engineered with the beauty and power of the surrounding environment as the central focus.