Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

In one of the wildest contracts in Hollywood history, Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a staggering fortune to come back for 2003's "Terminator 3." But it still might not even be his biggest single film payday…

Forget grinding through 100+ shows across the globe for a relatively measly payout, the Backstreet Boys have cracked the code on the greatest gig in music history.

From trillion-dollar oil dynasties to centuries-old European monarchies with secretive fortunes, these are the richest royal families in the world today. Their palaces, private jets, and sovereign wealth funds make even billionaire CEOs look modest by comparison.

"My next goal is $100 million." Sophie Rain made more than double LeBron James' NBA salary last year.

Charlie Chaplin rose from poverty in London to become the most famous entertainer in the world. But behind the bowler hat and mustache was a shrewd businessman who buried cash in his backyard, outsmarted exile, and left his wife a fortune worth $500 million today.

Seann William Scott may have been paid just $8,000 for his very first movie role as Stifler in "American Pie," but over two decades of steady paydays, royalties, and smart investments quietly earned him an impressive fortune…

You might be surprised to learn that when Steve Jobs died, very little of his surprisingly small (considering who he was) fortune actually came from Apple.

Let's say you hopped into a DeLorean, traveled back to 1919, and bought a few shares of Coca-Cola at the company's IPO. How rich would you be today?

Is it really possible to write one hit song then retire off the royalties? Just like Hugh Grant's character in the movie "About a Boy".

Merv Griffin may be best remembered as the creator of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, but his most surprising career payday came from something far simpler — a 30-second lullaby he wrote for his son…

Michael Hutchence was one of the biggest rock stars of the 1980s and '90s, fronting INXS at the peak of their global fame. When he died in 1997, his will appeared to guarantee his young daughter and family a share of a presumably very large. Instead, decades later, his relatives say they've received nothing — and leaked documents suggest a tangled web of offshore trusts, rights sales, and unanswered questions about who controls his legacy.

What happens when the richest woman in the world gets pulled over and is accused of being drunk… a bunch of times?

From a farmer's son in rural Italy to the $3.5 billion "Jeans Genius" behind Diesel, Renzo Rosso has spent five decades rewriting the rules of fashion.

Beto O'Rourke is often slammed for marrying a "billionaire heiress." But is that actually true? We dug into the fortune of his father-in-law, William Sanders, and the answer is… kind of…

Silvio Santos grew up so poor that he was forced to work as a street vendor in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 14. He eventually built a media empire, earned a fortune, and became one of the most famous and powerful people in Brazil. This is how he did it.