Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Manhattan's Billionaires' Row is home to some of the priciest and most luxurious real estate in the world. With the slowdown in the economy due to the coronavirus, those buyers have all but dried up. That's why one realtor is trying a new tactic – he's putting his penthouse up for auction in December.

Brad Pitt may be one of the most famous people on the planet and he may be in the middle of a messy divorce and custody battle with Angelina Jolie, but that hasn't stopped him from giving back. Pitt has been quietly volunteering at one of the Watts housing projects in Los Angeles for months.

When it comes to celebrities who continue to earn big bucks long after they have been buried six feet underground, the King of Pop is still King, even 11 years after his death.

We admit we can get caught up in the hype about a new startup that looks like it's going to be a major disruptor and make its founder(s) billions. Theranos and WeWork are two examples of this. There are others.

Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in January. Since his death, his estate has made $20 million, making him the sixth highest-paid dead celebrity of 2020.

Remember when Scooter Braun bought Taylor Swift's masters for $300 million? Well, he's turned around and sold them to an investment fund. Once again, she is enraged.

Supreme is an enormously popular brand with teens and 20 somethings. Basically, Supreme has a cult following. Now, news has broken that the company is being sold to the parent company of Vans and Timberland for about $2.1 billion including debt.

Thomas Wesley Pentz, aka Diplo, has just paid $13.2 million for a Bali-inspired estate in the exclusive Malibu enclave of Point Dume. The home previously belonged to Kid Rock, who bought it for $11.6 million in 2006.

Sean Connery's corpse is barely cold and people are going after his 91-year-old widow Micheline over a reported scam surrounding the sale of the couple's home in Marbella, Spain.

It wasn't all that long ago that we were singing the praises of self-made billionaire and Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian. She was a self-made billionaire of a red-hot jewelry brand. Now, she's lost $900 million and her company.

This week, a judge called Johnny Depp a "monster," who had beaten his ex-wife Amber Heard 12 times while handing down the verdict in his $6.5 million libel lawsuit against the British newspaper "The Sun." Depp has vowed to appeal the ruling, which he called bewildering.

Doctors Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin saved an entire generation from horrors of Polio. But more impressively, they both decided not to patent their creations and therefore forfeited billions in royalties.

The race to find a viable vaccine for the coronavirus a/k/a COVID-19 is on. This isn't the first time in human history that a disease or pandemic has swept the world. This isn't the first time a vaccine was needed to stop the progress of a virus…

It seems like the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt divorce has been dragging on for years. There's a good reason for that: it has been. It's been four years that the former couple have been battling it out in court.

Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein is the former mistress of exiled King Juan Carlos of Spain. The two were involved from 2004 to 2009. She's now facing some backlash after it was revealed he gifted her $65 million.