Articles | Celebrity Net Worth

Twenty years after "Laguna Beach" turned a group of Orange County teenagers into overnight celebrities, their financial lives have gone in dramatically different directions. From massive retail empires to quiet corporate careers, here's how the cast's net worths stack up today.

More than 20 years after "Laguna Beach," Lauren Conrad is back for the reunion, but her real story happened after the cameras stopped rolling. Here's how she quietly turned reality TV fame into an $80 million empire powered by one of the most successful retail licensing deals in the business.

Konnor Griffin is still a teenager, but he just signed the largest deal in Pittsburgh Pirates franchise history.

Back in 2021, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney paid $2 million for a Welsh soccer team called Wrexham. By spending aggressively, leveraging a hit documentary, and monetizing a worldwide audience, they rewrote the playbook for how a small sports team can scale. And now thay investment is paying off…

Magic Johnson didn't just turn a Hall of Fame NBA career into a fortune, he methodically stacked one deal on top of another to build a $1.6 billion empire. The most surprising part? The biggest engine behind his wealth isn't sports or endorsements, it's a quiet insurance company most people have never heard of.

Long before Starbucks became a $100+ billion global giant, it was a six-store Seattle coffee company looking for investors. Thanks to a tip from his uncle, Kenny G got in early—and that bet may have quietly turned into one of the most lucrative investments in music history.

A simple email list sent to friends in the 1990s quietly evolved into one of the most profitable and disruptive websites in internet history. Craig Newmark never set out to build a fortune, but Craigslist made him one anyway.

A 94-year-old businessman you've likely never heard of just pulled off one of the biggest deals in history, selling a low-profile warehouse chain for nearly $30 billion. Here's how Nathan Kirsh quietly built a food distribution empire that most Americans use without ever realizing it.

Most people think Pokémon is just a kids' game or a stack of trading cards, but it's actually the most lucrative media franchise in history, generating over $100 billion. This is the story of the creation of Pokémon, and the mysterious half-billionaire behind it all.

Michigan and UConn are facing off in the NCAA men's basketball championship. Learn their coaches' salaries, top-earning players, and more.

After signing Travon Walker to a nine-figure deal, the Jacksonville Jaguars are all-in on their No. 1 overall draft picks.

Tommy Lloyd and the Arizona Wildcats have agreed to a contract extension that makes the coach one of the highest-paid in college hoops.

A leaked OpenAI cap table reveals that Ashton Kutcher turned a $30 million AI bet into a $1.3 billion stake. When you factor in his broader investment track record, he's almost certainly on track to become a billionaire in the very near future.

No studio would touch Mel Gibson's literal "Passion" project with a 10 foot pole. So he put up $45m of his own money… and went on to earn the largest single windfall in Hollywood history.

Kirk Cousins is one of the highest earners in NFL history. He's inked a deal with the Las Vegas Raiders, though it's not quite what it seems.