Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

"Top Gun: Maverick" has soared well above $1 billion at the global box office and therefore, so has Tom Cruise's payday.

Making $1 million (or more) per episode of a television/cable/streaming show used to be a fairly rare occurrence. Not anymore. With A-list film actors making the jump to the small screen, salaries have skyrocketed. Since 2017, 11 actors and actresses have joined the $1 million per episode or more club.

30 Years ago, Sting screwed his bandmates out of royalties for "Every Breath You Take". Now, thanks mainly to Diddy, Sting will make $2000 per day in royalties for the rest of his life (and then some) from that one song.

From monsters to Minions a lot of money has been made from animated movies. But there can only be one true… KING of the box office.

The disparity in wealth between the richest and poorest countries in the world can be absolutely mind blowing when you compare those countries' Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Maybe they can help these countries out.

Back in 2006, Floyd Mayweather took a very big gamble with his future. It paid off and enabled him to make hundreds of millions of dollars when he fights today.

Chinese-Mexican drug kingpin Zhenli Ye Gon blew away $125 million in a handful of Vegas casinos between 2004 and 2007. His story will absolutely blow your mind.

A decade ago, Channing Tatum took a huge risk with the semi-autobiographical film "Magic Mike." That risk paid off and today he is sitting on an XXXL financial empire.

It may be hard to believe, but Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov owes his entire $13.5 billion fortune to a private jet full of 20-year-old prostitutes and a debaucherous New Years party.

Bob Chapek spent less than three years as Disney CEO. But between salary and bonuses, he's walking away in great financial shape.

Vinnie Johnson was the longtime sixth man for the NBA's Detroit Pistons. He was a perennial fan favorite. He played 10 seasons in Detroit and was a part of the 1989 and 1990 NBA Championship teams. For most people, that career would be the pinnacle of success, but for Johnson, it was just the beginning.

On Wednesday, JP Morgan filed a lawsuit against the founder of a company it acquired for $175 million back in 2021. If true, the allegations JP Morgan has made are quite… ballsy.

A newly released court document filed as part of FTX's bankruptcy process revealed the company's biggest investors. Investors who will all soon be wiped out. Tom Brady and Gisele both made the cut. And it is a deep, painful cut.

Unlike many NBA players who end up broke within five years of retirement, Junior Bridgeman used his free time to launch one of the most successful franchise companies in the world…

Sam Bankman-Fried desperately seeks to prove that he PERSONALLY owns $450 million worth of publicly-traded Robinhood stock… not his bankrupt former company FTX.