Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Alfred Hitchcock made a bold, unconventional deal to get Psycho made—one that shocked the industry at the time. What he earned from it would go on to rival the biggest paydays in Hollywood history.

When Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he left £2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia—with instructions not to spend it for 200 years. What happened next is one of the greatest compound interest experiments of all time.

In 2007, police raided a Mexico City mansion and found something truly unbelievable: $226 million in cash stacked floor to ceiling in a back bedroom. What followed was a global saga involving meth cartels, Las Vegas casinos, and one of the wildest criminal defenses ever claimed. This is the insane true story of the biggest drug cash seizure in history.

In 1998, two Stanford grad students convinced their professor to invest $100,000 in their search engine startup company. That startup's name? Google.

Trip Hawkins founded Electronic Arts, earned $100 million then blew all of it on a lavish lifestyle that included mansions, private jets, luxury cars and a whole bunch of awful tax advice.

Before it was a $5 billion brand, Victoria's Secret was just one man's awkward trip to the lingerie section. Roy Raymond had the vision—but not the empire-building instinct. His story is one of brilliance, heartbreak, and the brutal cost of being early.

In in the mid-60s, an Omaha man named Myer Kripke humbly asked his neighbor, a young upstart money manager named Warren Buffett, to manage a small life savings. Wait till you hear how that turned out…

Imagine getting paid $400,000 every time you had sex AND you got to have sex for that fee hundreds of times a year for years and years. That's the life of the biggest studs in the world. Horse studs.

From $1,200 underdogs to $100 million stud fees, explore the staggering wealth, risk, and reward behind America's most iconic horse race.

Ronald Wayne co-founded Apple, sold his stake for $800, and vanished into obscurity. Nearly 50 years later, he's back — starring in a Busch Light ad that pokes fun at the most infamous financial mistake in history.

49 years ago, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a guy you've never heard of co-founded Apple Inc. That "other guy" would soon make the worst financial decision in human history.

Rapper and YouTuber DDG claims he's worth $100 million. He also just offered IShowSpeed $2 million to make a cameo in his music video. But he's also recently admitted he lives "paycheck to paycheck." So what's the truth behind the viral flex?

Imagine how painful it would be to lose $1 million in Vegas in a year. Now imagine how it would feel to lose $204 million… IN ONE YEAR!

They didn't all win—but they all won. From Grammy queens to Broadway stars, daytime hosts to rock frontmen, these ten American Idol alumni turned reality TV fame into lasting success, massive net worths, and cultural influence that far outshines the Idol stage.

Before there was Twilight or Harry Potter, R.L. Stine terrified an entire generation with his Goosebumps books — and built a massive fortune in the process. Here's how the original master of children's horror turned spooky stories into an empire.