Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

Jack Lord found a second home in Hawaii after starring in the series "Hawaii 5-0" for twelve years, so he left his surprisingly massive estate to local Hawaiian charities.

How on earth did Paul McCartney and John Lennon lose ownership of The Beatles catalog? And how did Michael Jackson turn those songs into a multi-billion dollar music publishing empire?

Chris Blackwell is one of the most influential producers in the history of music. And believe it or not, his entire music career never would have happened without a near-death experience on a shipwrecked boat off the coast of Jamaica.

When you take into account inflation and historical figures from a thousand years ago, who is THE RICHEST person of all time?

How rich is the Rothschild family? When you think of wealthy families, the name Rothschild is probably one of the first that springs to mind, but exactly how rich are they?

I'm not kidding. YouTube owes its existence to Janet Jackson and the 2004 Super Bowl.

In a few short years, Al Capone went from crime underling to raking in hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit money. He ended up a broken man. How did he get so high – and fall so hard?

George Jung was the man who invented the marketplace for mass-scale cocaine production, distribution, and consumption. This is his crazy real-life story…

Carlos Lehder transformed himself from a humble car smuggler to one of the richest and most powerful cocaine dealers in history. He owned a private island and a fleet of airplanes. And it all started from a chance conversation with his prison cellmate, George Jung.

Thanks to his "Three-Peat" trademark, retired NBA coach Pat Riley has an extra special reason to root for the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl…

Pat Riley will be rooting extra hard for the Kansas City Chiefs to win a third consecutive Super Bowl…

When the Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was arrested in 2013 he had 144,000 Bitcoin. At that time those 144k Bitcoin were worth $25 million at $180 per coin. Today they're worth a bit more…

When he moved from Pakistan to the United States, Shahid Khan had no money. He spent his first night in a $2 YMCA room. His first job was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour. Today, he is worth $10 billion. He also owns the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars. In other words, he is the ultimate example of the American Dream.

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.

Today Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil producer. In 1949, it was a barren desert that had never produced a drop. But that didn't stop Jean Paul Getty from acquiring the majority of the area's oil rights and subsequently becoming the richest person in the world!