Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

On September 20, a federal judge sentenced 41-year-old Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman to six years and nine months in prison. She is the first defendant to be sentenced in the investigation into the NXIVM cult.

The divorce battle between Dr. Dre and his estranged wife Nicole Young is heating up.

Lawrence Welk parlayed being an accordion player from North Dakota into a television and real estate career that made him at least $150 million by the time he died. Adjusted for inflation, that would be equal to $277 million today. He was the richest celebrity of his time.

And here we go again. A certain publication has reported that soccer player Lionel Messi has EARNED a billion dollars in his career and bested Cristiano Ronaldo to become the second footballer to earn a billion. The key word here is EARN.

In 2006, Tyler Perry made an incredible deal with TBS to air his show, "House of Payne." This deal ultimately netted him $140 million and guaranteed his show would have enough episodes to go into syndication.

Tyler Perry is an incredibly wealthy man, and he did change show business forever. He is not, however, a billionaire, at least not yet. We have all the faith in the world that he will become a billionaire in the next few years, but for now – and we will explain – his net worth is $800 million.

Filmmaker Tyler Perry is building an enormous mansion 20 minutes outside of Atlanta. The 35,000-square-foot estate is situated on 1,200 acres of land not far from Perry's film studio. TMZ flew a drone over the property and revealed some truly epic details about the estate.

College coaching legend Lou Holtz has put his Orlando mansion on the market for $4.5 million. He bought the house for a mere $254,000 in 1997, the year after he left his coaching job at Notre Dame.

Jordan Adlard Rogers is sitting pretty as the new lord of the $65 million Penrose Manor in the U.K. Jordan grew up nomadic and penniless with his mother and her series of inappropriate and often abusive boyfriends. His journey to his riches has had quite a few twists and turns.

Since Whitney Wolfe Herd left Tinder, she founded her own dating app, Bumble, in 2014. Now, the app in which women make the first move is prepping for its IPO as soon as early 2021 and reports say the company is seeking a valuation between $6 billion and $8 billion.

When Pablo Picasso died in 1973 at the age of 91, he left behind about 45,000 works of art, so many that it would take the entire Empire State Building to display them all at the same time – and yet he didn't leave a will.

The top 10 players made a combined $340 million, which is up from last year's $312 million. This year's list is made up of four women, two of whom are playing in this year's U.S. Open (Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams) and six men.

The earth's total landmass contains 36.8 billion acres of inhabitable land. A large amount of this is owned by just a handful of landowners. Most of the names may not be familiar, but they are mostly the leaders of their countries, including Queen Elizabeth.

The world appears to be cracking down on kleptocrats and their ill-gotten funds. Secretive tax havens are turning on their clients amid pressure from governments.

Armie Hammer is a successful actor. He's also descended from Armand Hammer, who was the head of Occidental Petroleum, which he ran from 1957 until his death in 1990. He was worth $800 million at the time of his death, which is equivalent to $1.6 billion today.