Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Rocky Aoki turned onion volcanoes into a global empire — and left behind one of the messiest inheritance battles in modern American business. From speedboats and scandals to stepmother vs. heirs, the Benihana saga is as wild as its founder's life.

They started with a $5 correspondence course and a dream. What Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield built became a billion-dollar brand—known as much for its chunky ice cream as its outspoken politics. But after decades of flavor and friction, Ben & Jerry's is now at the center of one of the strangest corporate breakups in modern business history.

Alec Guinness thought "Star Wars" was clunky "fairy tale rubbish." He took the job anyway — but only after demanding points. That one decision turned less than 20 minutes of screen time into an enormous windfall that's still raking in money for his estate 25 years afer his death.

Paul Newman never set out to build a business empire — let alone a charitable one. But a holiday batch of homemade salad dressing, a friend's offhand suggestion, and Newman's radical pledge to donate 100% of profits turned into Newman's Own, a brand that has now given more than $600 million to charity.

Before he was a movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a millionaire — not from acting, but from real estate deals in Los Angeles. By 25, he had flipped his way into a fortune, and decades later, he may have quietly made even more from a stake in an $800 billion investment firm.

In 1929, J. M. Barrie secretly gave Great Ormond Street Hospital the rights to "Peter Pan." Nearly a century later, that extraordinary gift has kept the hospital in the spotlight, fueled celebrity support, and generated millions for sick children.

From humble state college track coach to extremely wealthy accidental entrepreneur. This is the story of Nike co-founder, Bill Bowerman.

Who are the richest porn stars in the world? It's a $15 billion dollar per year industry but which actors and actresses have gotten extremely rich doing porn?

Lou Pearlman went from leasing blimps in Queens to creating the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, two of the biggest pop groups in history. At his peak he looked like a billion-dollar music mogul. Behind the curtain, though, he was running one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history.

In one of the wildest contracts in Hollywood history, Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a staggering fortune to come back for 2003's "Terminator 3." But it still might not even be his biggest single film payday…

Forget grinding through 100+ shows across the globe for a relatively measly payout, the Backstreet Boys have cracked the code on the greatest gig in music history.

From trillion-dollar oil dynasties to centuries-old European monarchies with secretive fortunes, these are the richest royal families in the world today. Their palaces, private jets, and sovereign wealth funds make even billionaire CEOs look modest by comparison.

"My next goal is $100 million." Sophie Rain made more than double LeBron James' NBA salary last year.

Charlie Chaplin rose from poverty in London to become the most famous entertainer in the world. But behind the bowler hat and mustache was a shrewd businessman who buried cash in his backyard, outsmarted exile, and left his wife a fortune worth $500 million today.

Seann William Scott may have been paid just $8,000 for his very first movie role as Stifler in "American Pie," but over two decades of steady paydays, royalties, and smart investments quietly earned him an impressive fortune…