Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Max Martin is the most successful, richest, and influential pop star you've never heard of.

The FireAid concert raised nearly $100 million with celebrities promising the money would go "directly to victims." But where did it really go?

Trip Hawkins earned a $100 million fortune in the 1990s as the founder of Electronic Arts. Unfortunately, he lost it all on a lifestyle that included mansions, private jets, luxury cars, and a whole bunch of awful tax advice.

TheGlobe.com's record-shattering IPO was the pinnacle of dot-com mania — a billion-dollar social network with almost no revenue. Within two years, it was gone, leaving behind one of the most infamous collapses in Internet history.

What company became the most valuable company in the world after its stock increased 4,000% in five years because it was "selling picks and shovels during a rush." Answer? CISCO in 1999. NVIDIA has only increased 3,000% in five years.

Tai Lopez, the self-proclaimed YouTube finance guru famous for his "Here in my garage" Lamborghini ad, has been indicted by the SEC for allegedly running a $112 million Ponzi scheme.The internet's reaction? Pure schadenfreude.

Nas was already a music icon. And a venture capital mogul. And this week, he took the first of many steps on the path to becoming a casino tycoon.

By all accounts, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla should have become the world's first billionaire thanks to lucrative royalties. So how did he end up dying alone, senile and bankrupt?

Jack Nicholson's turn as the Joker in 1989's "Batman" wasn't just one of his most iconic performances — it also delivered one of the most famous paydays in Hollywood history.

Rocky Aoki turned onion volcanoes into a global empire — and left behind one of the messiest inheritance battles in modern American business. From speedboats and scandals to stepmother vs. heirs, the Benihana saga is as wild as its founder's life.

They started with a $5 correspondence course and a dream. What Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield built became a billion-dollar brand—known as much for its chunky ice cream as its outspoken politics. But after decades of flavor and friction, Ben & Jerry's is now at the center of one of the strangest corporate breakups in modern business history.

Alec Guinness thought "Star Wars" was clunky "fairy tale rubbish." He took the job anyway — but only after demanding points. That one decision turned less than 20 minutes of screen time into an enormous windfall that's still raking in money for his estate 25 years afer his death.

Paul Newman never set out to build a business empire — let alone a charitable one. But a holiday batch of homemade salad dressing, a friend's offhand suggestion, and Newman's radical pledge to donate 100% of profits turned into Newman's Own, a brand that has now given more than $600 million to charity.

A new lawsuit over Noah Wyle's Emmy-nominated series "The Pitt" has pulled back the curtain on just how lucrative "ER" was for its creator, the late Michael Crichton.

Before he was a movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a millionaire — not from acting, but from real estate deals in Los Angeles. By 25, he had flipped his way into a fortune, and decades later, he may have quietly made even more from a stake in an $800 billion investment firm.