Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

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.

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.

The NFL is celebrating its 100th season this year, and the league's highest-paid players are raking in the cash.

David Drummond, one of Google's highest-paid executives, is at the center of allegations that he carried on an affair with, had a baby with, and then abandoned a former Google employee. She's detailed the timeline of their relationships in a new essay on Medium.

The buyer may or may not have spent $20.8 million on the La Jolla home because of the Stark connection, but in looking at the home, its Starkian qualities are undeniable.

What's going on with Papa John Schnatter? On Tuesday, August 26th, the embattled pizza man unloaded another $30 million in shares. This week alone, he sold off 250,000 shares over two days.

Two years ago, a VIP Live Nation ticket to Dave Matthews Band at The Gorge was $198. Today, that same ticket is nearly $900. Welcome to Platinum Pricing, people.

Entertainment One acquired the Death Row Records catalog in 2013 for a reported sum of $280 million, several years after the label was forced into bankruptcy.

The top 10 earning comedians brought in a combined $272 million, which is $20 million less than last year.

Jim Gaffigan has had a really good year. He's worked for it. He's made more than 300,000 people in 15 countries spend an evening laughing. His latest comedy tour hit 75 cities in the past year, with an average ticket price of $56. That was good enough for a $30 million payday this year .