Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

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.

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.

Meet the legends behind 42 #1 hits. From Janet Jackson's "Control" to their 2026 Vegas residency, explore the iconic 40-year career of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

Howard Schultz grew up dirt poor in a Brooklyn housing project, the son of a truck driver with no health insurance or job security. One visit to a tiny Seattle coffee shop in 1981 changed his life and eventually helped turn Starbucks into a $115 billion global empire, making him a billionaire in the process.

For years, everyone (including Kathy herself) thought Kathy Ireland was the richest supermodel on the planet with a net worth in the hundreds of millions thanks to a sprawling retail empire. According to a shocking lawsuit she just filed against her 35-year business managers, in reality, she has ruined credit, she couldn't co-sign her son's mortgage, and was forced to sell her family mansion.

From Joe Kennedy's 1920s Wall Street fortune to Jack Schlossberg's 2026 Congressional filing, discover how the Kennedy dynasty preserved a multi-million dollar legacy through private trusts, Chicago real estate, and strategic investments.

Before Steve Bannon was shaping presidential campaigns and dominating political headlines, he made one very un-Washington move: he took part in a Wall Street fee in TV backend points. Yada yada yada… decades later, he's made a fortune thanks to "Seinfeld."

He lives in an extremely modest home in Tehran without any luxuries, yet Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reportedly controls a $200 billion financial and real estate empire…

His crown had 3,000 diamonds. His private jet had a name. And his fortune helped spark a revolution.

By 2017, five stars of "The Big Bang Theory" were each earning $1 million per episode. Then, in a move almost unheard of in Hollywood, they voluntarily gave up $24 million to help two co-stars close a massive pay gap.

Back in 2014, Eva Longoria wired $6 million to rescue a low-budget action movie that was hours away from shutting down. That movie was "John Wick."