Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Nicki Minaj is a force of nature. She recently announced her intention to retire and she's going out on top, literally. She brought in $20 million last year, making her one of the highest-paid in hip hop and one of only two women to make the male dominated list of the 20 highest-paid hip hop stars.

Rap isn't even Childish Gambino's main gig. Donald Glover a/k/a Childish Gambino, is a rapper, actor, writer, comedian, and producer who first gained fame thanks to his role on the hit sitcom Community. Before that, he was a writer for 30 Rock.

Peggy Ann Fulford claimed to have graduated from Harvard and had a Wall Street career that netted her millions before becoming a money manager for some of the biggest names in pro sports. Now, Fulton is in a federal prison in Alabama for swindling her clients out of millions of dollars over just a few years.

Wow. Not only did Fleabag, win six Emmys last weekend, but the one-woman show that became a critically acclaimed television show has also landed its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an overall deal with Amazon studios that is worth $20 million a year.

The top 20 acts in hip hop made a combined $860 million, which is up 33% from last year's $648 million. Pitbull is the 20th-highest earning hip hop artist on the list, with an $18 million haul, the highest the minimum earnings has ever been.

Leave it to Mitch McConnell to get richer in the middle of the global financial crisis, but that's exactly what he did. His 2009 financial disclosure showed an enormous jump upward, while his colleagues in the senate were losing money like most Americans at the time.

On Monday, Netflix announced that it had acquired the digital rights to Seinfeld for more than $500 million. How much of that money do Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David get?

The current Fed Chair, Jerome H. Powell, is one of the richest people to ever serve in that position. He has a reputation in Washington D.C. as a consensus builder who operates behind the scenes.

Re-runs of Seinfeld make so much money in syndication, licensing deals, and formerly in DVD sales that Jerry Seinfeld could live off the never-ending paychecks from that sitcom, alone.

We recently reported on JJ Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath's huge new $250 million deal to bring all of their Bad Robot productions – TV, film, video games, and digital content – under the same roof at WarnerMedia. Let's look at three other TV producers with enormous deals.

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.

Paris Hilton's billionaire grandfather was reportedly so embarrassed by how she has acted in public, that he changed the terms his will to leave 97% of his fortune to charity.

It isn't farfetched to say that Seinfeld – the show about nothing – is the last best pop culture phenomena to come out of the 20th century. That got us thinking: How much did the Seinfeld cast members make off the show?

Jimi Hendrix is one of the many musicians who died way too young. He was just 27 years old when he asphyxiated on his own vomit in September 1970. He didn't have a will when he died, he owed back taxes and other debt, and he had just $20,000 in the bank.

The 10 highest-paid YouTube stars made serious money last year. However, if you take the amount these 10 YouTubers made in 2018 and calculate how much they made per minute of video on each other their YouTube channels – well it's astounding.