Lauren Southern Net Worth

What Is Lauren Southern's Net Worth?

Lauren Southern is a Canadian political activist, internet celebrity, YouTube personality, writer, and documentary film director who has a net worth of $500 thousand. Lauren Southern has been described by some as a white nationalist, but she has denied it. She ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in 2015 for the Canadian federal election. Southern has worked for The Rebel Media, Spiked, The Libertarian Republic, and the International Business Times. In 2017, she was detained by the Italian Coast Guard for blocking a ship that was embarking on a search-and-rescue mission while supporting the white Identitarian group Defend Europe. She was questioned under the UK Terrorism Act in 2018 and was denied entry to Britain. Lauren embarked on a speaking tour of Australia in 2018 and attempted to speak in New Zealand, but she was blocked. Her self-titled YouTube channel was created in 2015 and has more than 600,000 subscribers and 50 million total views. Southern has directed the documentaries "Farmlands" (2018), "American Mirage" (2022), and "Empty Love" (2024), and she published the memoir "This Is Not Real Life" in 2025.

Early Life

Lauren Southern was born Lauren Cherie Southern on June 16, 1995, in Surrey, British Columbia. She spent two years at the University of the Fraser Valley, where she studied political science. Southern ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in the 2015 Canadian federal election, representing the Langley–Aldergrove district. The party briefly removed her as a candidate, but after she received support from The Rebel Media and Breitbart News, she was reinstated. Lauren finished in last place with 0.9% of the vote.

Career

Southern has been described as right-wing, far-right, and alt-right, but she prefers to be described as conservative. The Southern Poverty Law Center has referred to Lauren's videos as "anti-feminist, xenophobic, Islamophobic diatribes," and when the London Times interviewed her in 2019, the publication stated, "When we speak, Southern flatly denies being racist or even far right, then ends our conversation by predicting a race war and quoting Enoch Powell." Before leaving college, Lauren met Ezra Levant, the founder of the website The Rebel Media, at a conference. Levant was impressed by the questions Southern had asked some of the speakers, and he invited her to audition for The Rebel Media. Lauren then moved to Toronto and worked in The Rebel Media's offices. Her first video for the company was titled "Why I Am Not A Feminist," and it premiered in April 2015. At The Rebel Media, she made several videos with Faith Goldy and Milo Yiannopoulos. In 2016, Southern self-published the short book "Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation," which received a cover endorsement from conservative media pundit Ann Coulter. In March 2017, Lauren announced that she was leaving The Rebel Media, and she was invited to begin attending White House press briefings.

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In June 2019, Southern announced that she was retiring from political activism to pursue "fulfillment in a more private capacity," but she returned a year later, stating that she had "realigned" her beliefs and felt that "people are multidimensional, complex beings and they are worthy of trying to understand." Lauren co-wrote, directed, and executive produced the 2018 documentary "Farmlands," which is about South African farmers. Next, she wrote and executive produced the 2019 documentary "Borderless," which follows "the migrant crisis occurring in Europe and the consequences on both refugees and natives." She wrote and produced 2020's "Crossfire," which is about "policing, brutality, race, law and order," then she wrote and directed 2022's "American Mirage," which "chronicles the illegal migration and caravan crisis throughout Mexico en route to the United States." In 2023, Southern co-wrote and produced the documentary "Infringed: Gun Rights in America," and the following year, she directed "a thought-provoking exploration of modern romance in the digital age" titled "Empty Love." In 2025, Lauren self-published the memoir "This Is Not Real Life," which she has described as "a candid, introspective account of her experiences, offering an unfiltered look at the highs and lows of political fame, personal transformation, and the disillusionment that comes with life online."

Personal Life

In her 2025 memoir, Lauren revealed that she met with controversial social media personality Andrew Tate in 2018 to try to convince Andrew and his brother Tristan to invest in a right-wing media project. She said that after spending some time with the Tate brothers at a nightclub, Andrew took her to her hotel room and kissed her. Southern wrote in her memoir, "I wasn't expecting it, and I wasn't looking for it, but I kissed him back briefly and then told him I wanted to sleep. I was extraordinarily tired. He wanted to go further. I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me. He put his arm around my neck and began strangling me unconscious. I tried to fight back. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms." In 2022, the Tate brothers were arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking and rape, and in 2025, the U.K. brought 21 charges against them, including rape, human trafficking, and actual bodily harm. Lauren has said that her experience with Andrew Tate was one of the reasons she left right-wing politics.

Southern has a son with her ex-husband, who is Australian. In 2023, she said of her ex, "We genuinely did deeply care for one another, and if anything our lives were just made a living nightmare due to the unorthodox pairing of an activist with someone who required a security clearance for work." Lauren and her son lived with her parents for seven months after the split, and she stated, "They gave my son and me what we desperately needed: community, role models, unconditional kindness and love." Southern also said that in the two years since her husband had filed for divorce, he had provided no financial support for their son.

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