Celebrity News | Celebrity Net Worth

Strike while the iron is hot! Fresh off winning the Best Actress Academy Award for The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock inked a deal to appear in Gravity that ended up making her an ASTRONOMICAL amount of money…

Late last night, Mexican drug agents finally captured ruthless billionaire fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman at a resort in Mazatlan. El Chapo was the head of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful drug organization in the world.

As the son of a billionaire, Johann Rupert easily could have wasted his life away on a never-ending luxury vacation. Instead, he forged his own entrepreneurial path and ended up becoming the richest person in South Africa.

When you take into account all salaries and endorsements, who is the highest paid NBA player for 2014? Will it be Kobe Bryant? LeBron James ? Someone new entirely?

If Nick Kroll's Comedy Central series "Kroll Show" doesn't work out, I think he'll be OK financially. Why? Nick's dad, Jules B. Kroll, happens to be a billionaire lawyer who has had a seriously badass career.

Due to the surge in the performance of his stocks this past year, Michael Kors could be the fashion world's next billionaire.

Thanks to a dizzyingly complex corporate ownership infrastructure, the net worth of IKEA Founder Ingvar Kamprad is extremely difficult to pin down.

Yesterday, Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson performed an absolutely amazing Christmas miracle for a group of local at-risk kids. What? No I'm not crying. I was just chopping onions. Jeez.

On December 11th, 2008, the FBI arrested Bernie Madoff for orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history. How did Madoff get so much trust, money and power in the first place? How did it all go so terribly wrong?

In high school Ryan Seacrest was an awkward chubby teenager who couldn't land a date to save his life. Today he is one of the most powerful people in Hollywood with a personal net worth of $250 million. This is his story.

One of the greatest men who has ever lived, Nelson Mandela, passed away today at the age of 95. His influence on the planet will be felt for generations to come and his legacy will not be soon forgotten. Rest in peace..

In news that probably will not shock you at all, former child star Aaron Carter filed for bankruptcy earlier today.

Even though music sales are supposedly dead, there are still quite a few billionaires getting very rich off the music industry.

Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing has just donated his entire $3.25 million bonus to his hardest working factory employees. Best boss ever?

After getting fired from Two and a Half Men, Charlie Sheen took a very risky gamble with his new show Anger Management. But if the gamble pays off, he could be looking at a $200 million pay day soon. ***Update August 29*** Charlie just hit a very important $$$ milestone.