Entertainment | Celebrity Net Worth

In 1965, a medical professor at The University of Florida was challenged by the school's football coach to find a better way to keep his players hydrated. The result? Gatorade. And hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties for both the school and the professor!

The US government is about to spend $1.65 billion to replace Air Force One. Here are some crazy secrets about the coolest private jet in the world!

Step inside the world of Mansa Musa–the richest and most powerful human being who ever lived.

Paul Newman took a bottle of salad dressing and launched one of the most successful charitable organizations in the world. $400 million later, Newman's Own is saving the world one food product at a time.

Howard Hughes was so wealthy he could do just about anything. This included buying an entire casino so he could turn off their flashing neon sign.

Pets.com might go down in history as the most disastrous public company of all time. The total time between IPO and liquidation was just 268 days. This is the shocking story of Pets.com…

John de Mol is the third richest person in the Netherlands. How'd he make his billions? Finance? Tech IPO? Nope and nope. John de Mol earned his fortune from reality TV.

By donating his billions from Star Wars to charity, George Lucas will become one of the biggest givers of all time.

There is no doubt that the cast members of the new Star Wars movie will earn more than they did in 1977, but how much was that?

Despite earning $15 million per year from HBO alone, George R.R. Martin still drives a beat up old Mazda. Other celebrities may want to pay attention and follow Mr. Martin. I'm looking at you Floyd Mayweather…

When you think of people with a net worth of more than half a billion dollars, I bet that there is one name that you've never thought of: Julio Iglesias. The Spanish singer has been around forever, yet we never imagined his net worth would be what it is.

To hear the neighbors talk about it – you'd think they are basically living through the apocalypse, such is the noise from the drilling happening on a previously quiet New York City residential block. It isn't the apocalypse though, it is just a millionaire couple that is renovating a $100 million brownstone.

Like many people, Tomohiro Ohno had no idea what he wanted to when he graduated from college in Japan. What he did know, though, was that he did not want to work for a traditional company. What he ended up doing was the wave of the future.

This is your Daily Double! For $800, can you tell us what's the most money ever won on Jeopardy? What's the most money won on a single day? What's the most money won cumulatively on all game shows? And who accomplished these remarkable feats, respectively?

Attention aspiring rappers, singers and entertainers from all genres! Before you set out to use your God-given talents to earn a massive personal fortune, please study the story of MC Hammer.