Here’s the list of 10 richest American celebrities:
1. Michael Bloomberg
2. Rupert Murdoch
3. Donald Newhouse
4. George Lucas
5. Ralph Lauren
6. Steven spielberg
7. Joao Moreira Salles
8. Sumner redstone
9. Clive Calder
10.Oprah Winfrey
- Michael Bloomberg
American businessman, politician, and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. From 2002 to 2013, he served as mayor of New York City. He is also the founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., a corporation that provides media and financial data services.
As of March 2021, his estimated net worth was $59 billion, and he owned 88% of the company.
Bloomberg was born on February 14, 1942, in Medford, a Massachusetts community in Middlesex County, northwest of Boston.
His parents were accountant and office manager Charlotte Rubens and bookkeeper William Bloomberg. Marjorie, his younger sister, is born.
His autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg, was released in 1997. The book was later updated and improved, and it was reissued in 2018.
In 2014, Bloomberg received the honorary designation of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Another book by him, titled Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet, was released in 2017. (written with Carl Pope).
2. Rupert Murdoch
One of the 10 richest American celebrities
An American media mogul with a net worth of $24.1 billion, Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia.
The Sun and The Times in the United Kingdom, The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Australian in Australia, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times in the United States, and numerous local, international, and foreign media outlets are all run by him through his firm News Corp.
Sky News Australia, Fox News, HarperCollins, and other media organisations as well as publishers of books (through the Fox Corporation). He also had ownership interests in 21st Century Fox (until 2019), Sky (until 2018), and News of the World (now defunct) (until 2018).
Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestors. Murdoch and his dad were both born in Melbourne.
The three Murdoch sisters were Helen Handbury, Anne Kantor, and Janet Calvert-Jones. He attended Geelong Grammar School, where he served as editor of If Revived and co-editor of The Corian, the school’s official newspaper.
He guided his school’s cricket team to the National Junior Finals. While he was a part-time employee at the Melbourne Herald, his father trained him how to take over the family business.
Murdoch attended Worcester College in Oxford, England, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. He was nicknamed as “Red Rupert” because he had a red beard.
3.Donald Newhouse
As of April 2022, the American media tycoon Donald Newhouse is worth $13.3 billion. The co-owner of Advance Publications who dropped out of Syracuse University is in charge of the newspaper division of the company, which publishes local publications in more than 25 American cities.
The journals published under the Condé Nast name are managed by his brother Samuel Irving.
The media company includes the enormously famous website Reddit, Florida-based cable and internet provider Bright House Networks, and magazines like The New Yorker, Vogue, and GQ.
His main source of income is Media. And he is 91 years old from New York, US.
4. George Lucas
George Lucas’s estimated net worth was $7.62 billion. Lucas is the director of Industrial Light and Magic and the creator of the Star Wars saga.
More than 4.3 billion dollars have been made at the box office globally thanks to his six Star Wars movies. Over $20 billion has been made from the sale of toys, merchandise, and video games.
On December 21st, 2012, Lucas sold Lucasfilms to Disney for $4.05 billion, with half paid in cash and half in Disney stock.
All profits went to Lucas because he never sold company stock and never resorted to capital funding.
His main source of income is from Films. And he is 76 years old from Modesto, US.
5. Ralph Lauren
The estimated net worth of American fashion designer and business leader Ralph Lauren was $5.41 billion as of March 2022.
The Bronx native quit school in 1976 to design ties for Beau Brummel after taking his first job at Brooks Brothers. Later that year, he invested $50,000 to start Polo. Clothing, shoes, jewellery, home items, and fragrances account for $5 billion in company sales.
Numerous exotic automobiles (Bugatti, Bentley, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari), as well as classic watches, are owned by a collector.
This 5.5-acre coastal mansion made of stone and wood was purchased by the fashion mogul in 1981. The charming, rustic house originally belonged to John Lennon and Yoko Ono and features a clay tennis court.
6. . Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg, an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio owner, had an estimated net worth of $5.41 billion.
The renowned Hollywood director received $325 million from India’s Reliance Industries (down from a hoped-for $1.5 billion), pulled another $325 million from a syndicated bank deal, and signed a distribution agreement with Disney after seizing control of his DreamWorks studio from Viacom’s Paramount Pictures in 2009. “I am number 4” (authored by disgraced memoirist James Frey), the studio’s first Disney film, was released in February 2011.
Spielberg is still a very successful producer, bringing in money from movies like “Real Steel,” “Super 8,” and the most recent “Transformers” movie. Spielberg is making a significant move into television.
7. Joao Moreira Salles
The estimated net worth of Brazilian documentarian Joao Moreira Salles as of 2021was $5.33 billion. He was the 442nd richest person in the world that year, according to Forbes.
Director, screenplay, and producer are all titles held by Mr. Salles. One of the greatest filmmakers of the new Brazilian generation, he is most known for that. News from a Private War (1999), Nelson Freire (2003), Entreatos (2004), and Santiago are a few of his well-known works (2007).
Joao Moreira Salles and his brother Walter launched VideoFilmes in 1987, specialising originally in producing television documentaries. China,
The Center of the Empire (1987), and America (1989) are only a handful of his early works. The Network series Headline featured them.
Mr. Salles is involved in banking in addition to filmmaking. He comes from one of the most prestigious financial families in Brazil. Banco Itau and the family-owned Unibanco amalgamated in 2008. As a result, he became one of the biggest individual shareholders in Itau Unibanco SA, Brazil’s second-largest bank.
Walter Moreira Salles established the non-profit organisation known as Instituto Moreira Salles in 1990, and Joao Moreira Salles serves as its president. It is produced.
8. Sumner redstone
Sumner Redstone, a media tycoon in the United States, is worth $5.1 billion. Sumner Redstone, a veteran of World War II and Harvard Law graduate, is the primary owner and chairman of the board of the National Amusements theatre chain, which his father, Michael Redstone, created.
Edward and Sumner ran the business together until Edward passed away in December 2011. 80% of the business is owned by Sumner. His ownership of major holdings in CBS and Viacom accounts for the majority of his wealth. Sumner M. Redstone’s organisation made a $1.5 million donation to end severe poverty in September 2011.
The End of Polio Concert was supported by the foundation and raised more than $100 million in donations from all over the world, including $40 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
9. Clive Calder
Record label tycoon of South African descent began his musical career at the age of 18 to help his mother and sister when his father
passed away.
In 1975, he relocated to London and established Zomba Recordings, whose flagship label is Jive Records.
the Cars, Billy Ocean, and later Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, and ‘N Sync, before making a trip to the United States in 1978.
sold Zomba Recordings to BMG in 2002 for a price of $2.7 billion.
Currently, he resides in the Cayman Islands.
He also devotes some of his time to Elma Philanthropies, a philanthropic organisation that aims to improve the health and education
of children in nine African nations.
According to Forbes, Clive Calder’s net worth was estimated to be $4.5 billion as of January 2017.
10. Oprah Winfrey
With a net worth of $2.7 billion as of March 2021, Oprah Winfrey is an American media mogul, television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She became one of the richest Black women in the world and the owner of one of the most valuable businesses in the world; she is the only Black woman to appear on Forbes’ list of billionaires for 2011.
She was also included on Forbes’ list of the richest women in the world who are self-made.
Winfrey was raised in the inner city of Milwaukee after being born in rural Mississippi to a destitute young mother. She was molested while she was in her early teens, and at 14, she got pregnant.
Her son was delivered prematurely and passed away when he was just weeks old. After relocating to Tennessee to live with her barber father Vernon Winfrey, Winfrey.
As of this writing, Oprah has received nominations for two Academy Awards: one for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Color Purple” and another for Best Picture for her work as the director of “Selma.” In 2011, she received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award.
From a total of 26 nominations, Oprah won 18 Daytime Emmy Awards. She also won a Tony Award, a Golden Globe, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Winfrey’s new channel, debuted in 2011. She paid Discovery Inc. about $36 million for the majority of her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) stock. Winfrey will continue to serve in these capacities as CEO and chief creative officer despite the deal increasing Discovery’s ownership of OWN to 95%, according to Bloomberg. Additionally, Winfrey owns a magazine.