Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

After months of stalled negotiations, legal threats, and merger drama, Trey Parker and Matt Stone just closed a $1.5 billion global streaming deal with Paramount. Thanks to a clause buried in a 1997 contract, they'll reportedly collect nearly half.

If you were alive in the 90s then Miss Cleo and the Psychic Readers Network need no introduction. Ever wondered how much Miss Cleo herself made off the scam? How about company's actual owners? Both answers a pretty insane.

Jordan Belfort is back in the spotlight—this time railing against socialism on Fox News. But before you take financial advice from the "Wolf of Wall Street," remember: He's a convicted criminal who still owes his victims $100 million.

An obscure line of text buried in a 1997 contract just might be the most valuable clause in Hollywood history. It's already helped make the "South Park" creators billionaires—and now it's at the center of a billion-dollar legal war.

It would be heartbreaking to find out that your fiance lied about her true identity. Unless the identity she was hiding was multi-billionaire heiress of one of the coolest companies on the planet!

One day you wake up feeling pretty good because you happen to be the richest person in Russia. The very next day you wake up in a Siberian prison where you will rot away for the next 10 years. This is the unbelievable true story of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Imagine how unfathomable it would be if America owned a 50 square mile of North Korea right now. That's essentially what we have had in Cuba for decades. How did this come to exist?

In the mid-2000s, Dov Charney was on top of the world. As the founder of American Apparel, he built a global fashion empire on sweatshop-free basics and hypersexual ad campaigns—peaking with a $730 million stake in his company. But behind the edgy branding was a growing storm of lawsuits, scandals, and chaos. Within a few years, Charney was fired, broke, and eventually bankrupt. This is the wild story of how it all came undone.

Every July 1, the world celebrates Bobby Bonilla for pulling off "the greatest contract in sports history." But what if deferring that $5.9 million was actually a terrible decision? Here's what he missed by not betting on Apple, Amazon… or Bitcoin.

Bobby Bonilla hasn't swung a baseball bat professionally in over a decade yet the Mets are still paying him nearly $1.4 million per year today. How is that possible?

In 1962, a quiet building manager left a modest stock gift to his tiny Finnish hometown. He insisted the shares could never be sold. Decades later, that restriction turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to the town.

Frank Bourassa might be history's best counterfeiter, and his path to fame and fortune was definitely not boring…

In the 1970s, FedEx was on the verge of collapse. With just $5,000 left in the bank, founder Fred Smith didn't go to investors or the bank—he went to the blackjack tables in Las Vegas.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has fathered 106 children—and he plans to leave them his $14 billion fortune. But there's a catch: they won't see a dime for 30 years.

When Jack Kent Cooke sold the Lakers in 1979, it wasn't just a business decision — it was the financial fallout from what was, at the time, the most expensive divorce settlement in history.