Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Shania Twain grew up in nearly desperate poverty. She started singing in bars to supported her family when she was just eight years old. Today she is the best-selling female artist of all time with $400 million in the bank.

How rich is Bill Cosby and can he really lose his entire fortune if he loses this sexual assault case?

Performers at Coachella aren't making as much as you might think. In fact, some performers, like Cardi B, are losing money by performing at the music festival.

Toby Keith came within a heartbeat of giving up his music career altogether. Thanks to one extremely lucky break, he is not only a country music super star, he's also on pace to become a billionaire.

You could spend all day listing the different commercial benchmarks Grand Theft Auto V has met or surpassed, but at the end of the day the most impressive one is this: It's the highest grossing title of all time, in any existing media.

This random rock star, whose name you probably wouldn't recognize, has secretly masterminded dozens of the most popular songs of the last decade…

Don't mess with Judge Judy. She earns $47 million a year for her part in "Judge Judy." Her earnings were attacked when a talent agency filed a lawsuit claiming that CBS deliberately inflated Judge Judy's salary to avoid paying them their fair share of profit participation.

What would you do if you owed millions of dollars to the IRS? Will Smith chose to star in a little sitcom called The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Actually he was forced to do it. By the IRS.

Well, here's a story ripped right from the nighttime soaps. Jamie Luner, an actress best known for the 1990's hit show "Melrose Place," has been slapped with a $250 million dollar lawsuit for allegedly drugging a teenage boy prior to sexually assaulting him.

If you were to rank the best jobs in the world, being an A-list actor in Hollywood would definitely be near the top, especially after you see the size of these paychecks…

Apparently, the sandwiches in prison are not quite up to Jared Fogle's tastes. The disgraced former Subway pitchman is angling for a payday from the attorneys and judges who sent him to prison.

In 1984, Jim Koch threw away a high paying, low-pressure consulting job because his dream was to start a brewery. Friends thought he was completely insane. Today he is a billionaire.

After raising more $32 million, two co-founders of a cybersecurity startup abruptly left the company. Here's the up-and-down ride of Centra.

Spotify's Daniel Ek has built a way to make music available to listeners for free without piracy issues, while at the same time offering a sustainable revenue model to musicians and investors. Here is how he did it…

There is no word yet on when, exactly, Spotify will go public but all indications point to very soon, making two new billionaires in the process.