Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

The last several years have seen a boom in reality TV – and we're not just talking about on the television schedule. The producers and production companies behind our favorite reality shows have been cashing in, big time. Brent Montgomery received perhaps the biggest buyout of the reality TV production company buyout frenzy.

The last several years have seen a boom in reality TV – and we're not just talking about on the television schedule. The producers and production companies behind our favorite reality shows have been cashing in big time. Pilgrim Studios' Craig Piligian is one of them.

You may remember Prakazrel "Pras" Michel as a member of the 90s band the Fugees. The founding member of the Fugees is fighting the U.S. Justice Department over that agency's claim that he was involved in the scheme to embezzle money from a Malaysian investment fund.

Charlie Sheen was once the highest-paid actor on TV, bringing home $1.8 million per episode for Two and a Half Men. Now, he's six months behind on his mortgage. How did the actor, who was once worth $150 million come to be in such dire straits?

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland scammed $27.4 million from investors. Where did that money go? Certainly not to catering, villas, or the bands.

Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, and other models, artists, and Instagram influencers who helped promote the Fyre Festival will be forced to disclose the terms and information about payments they received from Billy McFarland.

Sergey Petrossov launched JetSmarter, the Uber for private jet travel in 2013. In April 2018, JetSmarter was valued at $1.5 billion and had 15,000 subscribers paying at least $5,000 a year to book flights on private jet. Today, the company is mired in lawsuits and worth about a fifth of that $1.5 billion. It's 30-year-old founder is scrambling to explain himself.

A Pasadena mansion with a very interesting history recently sold quietly for just over $8 million to the CEO of LegalZoom and his wife. The former owner, Nancy Yih, was the owner an apparel company called LA Idol. It turns out, however, that Yih was involved in a far shadier business on the side. One that changed the rules for buying real estate in cash in the U.S.

The world_record_egg account has 9.6 million Instagram followers in its worldwide "EGG GANG," and that kind of influence is bound to be worth a lot to advertisers looking to hit so many eager eyeballs.

Hulk Hogan and Linda Bollea's divorce was a drawn out, nine year legal battle. Y'all, this has been going on since 2008. Yet here we are, in 2019, and Hulk Hogan is taking his ex-wife to court to attempt to avoid paying her what was agreed upon in their divorce.

Former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto put his net worth at about $3.3 million in 2014. That's just not enough money to pay for the house he lives in… so who did buy it for him and his wife?

Everything Rihanna touches turns to gold. That's not an exaggeration. Now, reports are surfacing that Ms. Fenty is poised to make the move into fashion via a deal with luxury conglomerate LVMH.

Gene Autry epitomized the straight shooting hero, in the 95 films he appeared in from 1934 to 1953. He was a singer, songwriter, actor, musician, and rodeo performer. At the time of his death in 1998 at the age of 91, Autry was worth the equivalent of $500 million.

The infamous drug kingpin El Chapo evaded authorities for eons. He escaped from jail a number of times. Watching this from north of the border was somewhat amusing. Were the Mexican authorities that bumbling or was El Chapo that cunning? It turns out, he had $100 million reasons not to fear Mexican authorities

In May 2017, Richelieu Dennis was dining with the U.S. president of Unilever. Dennis is the co-founder of Sundial Brands, a $240 million in revenue maker of shampoos, conditioners, and lotions targeted at African American and Latino customers. Unilever had been chasing Dennis for a long time.