Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Author James Patterson has a net worth of $470 million. He made $94 million in 2016, making him the third highest-paid celebrity of the year. Unlike other writers, the bulk of those incredible earnings isn't from TV or movie deals, it is from the sheer volume of Patterson's book sales…

Recently, we profiled a number of celebrities that run empires separate from their chosen creative crafts. We left one off the list: Kenny Chesney launched Blue Chair Bay rum in 2013. But unlike other celebrities who license their name and image, country crooner Chesney does it his way, overseeing everything…

A very lucky man in Perth, Australia turned a Texas Hold 'Em bet of only $10 into an incredible $2.7 million jackpot.

Officials say that if The Met doesn't act quickly, their budget deficit could go from $10 million to $40 million in 18 months! See their plans to fix it.

Microsoft recently pondered purchasing Slack, one of its chief competitors, for $8 billion. But Bill Gates believes it would be better for Microsoft to funnel money into Skype and take down the competition.

Things were tough for Michael Fox this summer, so much so that he had to seek a part-time job in order to make ends meet. But he still dropped $10 on a scratch-off ticket, and got a million-dollar jackpot in return.

Bernie Ecclestone is the King of Formula 1 racing. But his billions are a long way from the small fishing village he was born in. Find out how Ecclestone went from rags to Formula 1 riches.

The former Fox News anchor has received not only an incredible $20 million settlement from the Fox News Channel's parent company 21st Century Fox, but an official apology as well.

Remember that scene in "The Godfather" where the guy wakes up next to the horse's head? Well now you can be a partial owner of the mansion where that scene was filmed… if you have at least $125k lying around.

The list of the richest people in the world is full of bankers, oil tycoons, trust fund babies and a slew of other profitable but boring career paths. But did you know you could get insanely rich off of a very weird idea? Let's look at some examples…

The 108M is a new mega yacht concept that was engineered with the beauty and power of the surrounding environment as the central focus.

The lists of the highest-paid actors and actress of the past year are out and there are some familiar names and some surprises.

Sony executives desperately want Daniel Craig to come back for two more Bond movies. How desperate? Around $150 million worth of desperate.

If someone were to tell you that all you had to do to receive $22 million was pass some information to the SEC, would you do it? Of course you would. And that's just what this person did.

Not every e-commerce site gets the $1 billion payday that Dollar Shave Club did or the $3.3 billion one that Jet is about to get. Just look at what happened to One Kings Lane for proof of that…