Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

You might be surprised to learn that Bikram yoga is NOT an ancient spiritual practice. It's a copyrighted business empire owned by one insanely rich yogi who may or may not be kind of creepy with his students.

Joe Ianniello, the acting CEO of CBS has been confirmed to be the man to lead the network. He will stay on at CBS after the merger of CBS and Viacom, however, and get $100 million in severance.

Eric Carle, the author and illustrator of beloved children's books 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'The Very Busy Spider' has sold his company to Penguin Random House, the world's largest book publisher.

Dieter Meier has never seen the movie that made his song famous. Don't feel too bad for him, though. The film has helped him earn a LOT of money.

Who was the first actor to earn $1 million for a movie? How about $5 million? $20 million? $100 million???

Princess Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa is one of the richest people in Hawaii and also the last remaining Hawaiian princess. Now, a hearing is scheduled to determine whether or not she needs a conservator to oversee her vast fortune.

Edward Norton is one of the best actors of his generation. He has a versatile career that has ranged from big-budget blockbusters to indie films and everything in between. These days, however, he's more involved in tech investing than acting.

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.

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.