Lee Aronsohn Net Worth

What Is Lee Aronsohn's Net Worth?

Lee Aronsohn is an American television writer, producer, director, and composer who has a net worth of $30 million. Lee Aronsohn has scripted and created several classic American sitcoms. Without Aronsohn, several classic American sitcoms would either not exist or would not be the same today. Sitcoms Lee has worked on during his illustrious career include "The Love Boat," "Murphy Brown," "Who's the Boss?," "The Big Bang Theory," "Cybill," and "Two and a Half Men."

While working as a stand-up comedian, Aronsohn caught his first big break from Ben Joelson, the producer and writer of "The Love Boat." It was Joelson who gave him the idea of becoming a scriptwriter for the hit series. As doing stand-up comedy wasn't very lucrative, Aronsohn took the advice and started pitching stories for the show. It took a year before Lee sold one of his stories and wrote a script for "The Love Boat," and it wasn't long after that he became a full-time part of the team.

After "The Love Boat," Aronsohn went on to write scripts for memorable and long-standing sitcoms like "Who's the Boss?," "Murphy Brown," and "Cybill." At the turn of the century, Lee continued to churn out top-rated sitcoms. He co-wrote and co-created "Two and a Half Men" with Chuck Lorre. Starring Charlie Sheen, the sitcom debuted in 2003 and became an instant hit, earning Jon Cryer two Primetime Emmy Awards. Aronsohn was also involved in another hit comedy series, "The Big Bang Theory," which earned actor Jim Parsons four Primetime Emmys. In 2017, Lee released the documentary "40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie," which he wrote, directed, and executive produced. He has produced many of the shows he has written for, and he also produced the 2013 film "Desperate Acts of Magic."

Early Life

Lee Aronsohn was born on December 15, 1952, in the United States. He attended the University of Colorado-Boulder, graduating in 1975.

Career

In 1975, Aronsohn founded the Nebraska comic bookstore Trade-a-Tape Comic Center and ran it for two years. As of this writing, the store is still open. He began his TV writing career on "The Love Boat" in 1978, then he wrote episodes of "Who's the Boss?," "Charles in Charge," "Murphy Brown," "Grace Under Fire," "Cybill," and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." In 1997, Lee co-created the CBS sitcom "Life… and Stuff," which starred Rick Reynolds and Pam Dawber.

In 2003, he co-created another CBS sitcom, "Two and a Half Men," with Chuck Lorre, and he wrote original music for the show and served as an executive producer. "Two and a Half Men" starred Charlie Sheen (who was replaced by Ashton Kutcher in the ninth season), Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, and it aired 262 episodes over 12 seasons. The series earned 46 Primetime Emmy nominations, winning nine of them. Aronsohn directed the episodes "Just Once with Aunt Sophie" (2006), "Anteaters. They're Just Crazy-lookin" (2007), "Baseball Was Better with Steroids" (2009), and "This Is Not Gonna End Well" (2010), and he also wrote for the series. Lee was a writer and executive producer on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," which ran from 2007 to 2019, airing 279 episodes over 12 seasons. "The Big Bang Theory" won more than 50 awards, including 10 Primetime Emmys, 14 People's Choice Awards, and seven Critics' Choice Television Awards.

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Aronsohn wrote, directed, and executive produced the 2017 documentary "40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie," in which he "tracks down the scattered members of a beloved early 1970s band with the hope that, 40 years after they broke up, he can get them to play ONE LAST SHOW." He spoke to Filmmaker magazine about the documentary, stating, "When I first told my friends about the idea, I said that ideally I wanted to come up with a film that said something not only about the journey of the band from there to here, but the journey of our generation from there to here — and the journey of Boulder, because everything has transformed so much in the last 40 years." Lee added, "It started with my view of Magic Music as a fan, which was a very romantic image. I just thought, 'here are these incredibly cool hippies that live in school buses and smoke dope and get all the girls and are living the dream.' Of course, I found out what the reality was, which is that they were real people with the same struggles that everybody else has."

Personal Life

Lee and his first wife, Lori, married on  September 26, 1986. They welcomed two children before divorcing in 2001. Aronsohn wed Lisa Haisha on September 10, 2006, and they have one child together. Lee is Jewish, and his wife is Christian.

Awards and Nominations

Lee has earned five Primetime Emmy nominations: Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for "Two and a Half Men" (2004) and Outstanding Comedy Series for "Two and a Half Men" (2006, 2007, and 2008) and "The Big Bang Theory" (2011). Aronsohn and Grant Geissman won five ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for Top TV Series for "Two and a Half Men" (2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2013). In 2006, Lee received a PGA Award nomination for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy for "Two and a Half Men," and in 2012, he earned an Online Film & Television Association Award nomination for Best Writing in a Comedy Series for "The Big Bang Theory." For "40 Years in the Making: The Magic Music Movie," he received an Honorable Mention at the 2017 Napa Valley Film Festival and won the award for Best Music Documentary at the 2018 Boulder International Film Festival.

Real Estate

In 2006, Lee paid $1.475 million for a 2,151-square-foot home in Los Angeles. The home includes four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

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