Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

In 2007, Stone and Parker's contract with Comedy Central was up for renewal. Ten years into South Park, it was a cultural icon. The new contract that Stone and Parker signed is still considered unprecedented in Hollywood.

Kleptocracy is still alive and sometimes even well. Even just a decade or so, again, corrupt leaders in non-Western nations could get away with looting their countries for their own benefit. An example of that is in the West African nation of Equatorial Guinea and Teodorin Obiang.

With streaming rights valued in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars, South Park is part of a select club of big ticket TV streaming favorites.

It would be pretty great to be a member of one of the 10 richest royal families in Europe. I mean, castles and private jets and superyachts and never having to think twice about buying a pricey handbag – that would be the life.

Peggy Ann Fulford claimed to have graduated from Harvard and had a Wall Street career that netted her millions before becoming a money manager for some of the biggest names in pro sports. Now, Fulton is in a federal prison in Alabama for swindling her clients out of millions of dollars over just a few years.

Wow. Not only did Fleabag, win six Emmys last weekend, but the one-woman show that became a critically acclaimed television show has also landed its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, an overall deal with Amazon studios that is worth $20 million a year.

The top 20 acts in hip hop made a combined $860 million, which is up 33% from last year's $648 million. Pitbull is the 20th-highest earning hip hop artist on the list, with an $18 million haul, the highest the minimum earnings has ever been.

On Monday, Netflix announced that it had acquired the digital rights to Seinfeld for more than $500 million. How much of that money do Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David get?

The current Fed Chair, Jerome H. Powell, is one of the richest people to ever serve in that position. He has a reputation in Washington D.C. as a consensus builder who operates behind the scenes.

Re-runs of Seinfeld make so much money in syndication, licensing deals, and formerly in DVD sales that Jerry Seinfeld could live off the never-ending paychecks from that sitcom, alone.

We recently reported on JJ Abrams and his wife Katie McGrath's huge new $250 million deal to bring all of their Bad Robot productions – TV, film, video games, and digital content – under the same roof at WarnerMedia. Let's look at three other TV producers with enormous deals.

In 1989, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld sat down to write a pilot for NBC. That pilot was titled, as you may have guessed, Seinfeld, and it went on to run for nine seasons from 1989 to 1998. It is the most profitable and popular half-hour television series in the history of TV.

Paris Hilton's billionaire grandfather was reportedly so embarrassed by how she has acted in public, that he changed the terms his will to leave 97% of his fortune to charity.

It isn't farfetched to say that Seinfeld – the show about nothing – is the last best pop culture phenomena to come out of the 20th century. That got us thinking: How much did the Seinfeld cast members make off the show?

Jimi Hendrix is one of the many musicians who died way too young. He was just 27 years old when he asphyxiated on his own vomit in September 1970. He didn't have a will when he died, he owed back taxes and other debt, and he had just $20,000 in the bank.