One more year, Forbes USA Write the list of the richest women in the United States made this year. 16 celebrities are among the 100 entrepreneurs, executives and artists who compose it. To be selected, the candidates had to have a assets of at least 350 million dollars, an increase with respect to the 300 million that were requested last year and the 225 million of 2023.
These cinema and theater stars have a net assets set of 14.1 billion dollars, an increase with respect to the 13,300 million last year, thanks to the incorporation of actress Selena Gomez (No. 48), who is not yet multimillionaire, but whose estimated net worth of 700 million dollars represents almost all of that difference. The fortune of most of the other 15 stars has barely changed with respect to last year.
In business, the right time is everything, even for the rich and famous. The rise of entrepreneurship among celebrities took off as a rocket at the end of 2020. Pop stars, actors and presenters of interview programs that best used to amassed fortunes from hundreds of millions, including billions in some cases.
These great fortunes prospered by putting their name, from cosmetics brands to film and television producers. But now, like many others, they are feeling the effects of an economy in deceleration.
Oprah Winfrey
Net Heritage: $ 3.1 billion | Fountain: TV programs | Age: 71 | Change in Net Heritage from the 2024 list: +3%
His homonymous interview program has been broadcast for almost 15 years, but Winfrey still has a constant presence on our screens, appearing in the Netflix movie » The Six Triple Eight » and presenting three television specials last year. He also invested 75 million dollars in a new private jet last year and maintains important real estate properties in Hawaii. Weightwatchers, whose board of directors left in May 2024, declared bankruptcy in May.
Kim Kardashian
Net Heritage: 1.7 billion dollars | Fountain: Girdles, skin care | Age: 44 | Change: Equal
In February, Skims, the Kardashian molding belt company, with estimated sales of almost 900 million dollars, presented Nikeskims, a new brand of the footwear giant and sportswear; The product is expected to reach stores in the coming months. The beauty company Coty sold its 20 % participation in Skkn By Kim, the Kardashian skin care line, in March, registering a loss of 71 million dollars as a result of divestment.
Taylor Swift
Net Heritage: 1.6 billion dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 35 | Variation: +23 %
After 149 concerts in 54 cities, its Eras Tour tour concluded in December as the most successful in the history of music, raising more than 2 billion dollars in ticket sales, twice the previous record. The world’s largest star has found numerous ways to monetize its devotee hobby, in addition to ticket sale, including movies, books and refrabations of its albums, all of which has reported more than 200 million dollars in the last two years.
At the end of May, he repurred the master recordings of his first six albums to the private capital firm Shamrock Capital, which granted him the total property of his entire catalog for the first time. In a letter published on his website, he described him as “my biggest dream come true.”
Rihanna
Net Heritage: 1,000 million dollars | Fountain: Music, cosmetics | Age: 37 | Variation: -29 %
The fortune of the pop star was reduced by 400 million dollars due to the setbacks in their key businesses. The executive director of his lingerie brand, Savage X Fenty, resigned in August 2024 to take care of Victoria’s Secret. It is estimated that the sales of its Fenty Beauty cosmetics line, of which it is co -owner together with the LVMH luxury conglomerate, will remain stable. Fenty Beauty threw himself in China last year in a context that LVMH described as a “complex environment.” In even more festive news, Rihanna revealed that she was pregnant with her third child at the MET gala in May.
Madonna
Net Heritage: 850 million dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 66 | Change: Pair
He has not finished more than 40 years and has not yet finished. He revealed on social networks last December that has been in the study: “Who wants to listen to new music in 2025?” This advance comes just after finishing its celebration tour last May, which raised almost 230 million dollars, the sixth to exceed 100 million since 2001.
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Net Heritage: 780 million dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 43 | Variation: +4%
At the end of April, the pop star began its Cowboy Carter tour, which will include 32 concerts in stadiums from nine cities in the United States and Europe this summer. The conversations about a residence in the Sphere de Las Vegas failed last year, and the tensions with the owner of the enclosure, James Dolan, intensified this spring when a video generated by Beyoncé was shown by collecting the Sphere in its first concerts, which led Dollan to send him a cessation and withdrawal letter.
Selena Gómez
Net Heritage: 700 million dollars | Fountain: Cosmetics | Age: 32 | Change: Newcomer
Five years ago, Gomez launched Rare Beauty, baptizing him in honor of his third solo studio album. The Cosmetics Company, known for its body and powerful liquid blush, which are sold through its website and Sephora, generated approximately 370 million dollars in revenue last year. Forbes estimates that it has a value of 1300 million dollars and that Gomez has at least 51 %. The former Disney Channel star, as reported, earns $ 600,000 per episode (40 to date) as an actress and co -producer of the successful Only Murders in the Building series. In December, she was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Distributed Actress by the movie Emilia Pérez. In March, Gomez released a new album with his fiance, producer Benny Blanco.
Kylie Jenner
Net Heritage: 670 million dollars | Fountain: Cosmetics | Age: 27 | Variation: -6 %
Although Coty sold her participation in the skin care line of her stepsister, Kim Kardashian (No. 20), she is satisfied with Kylie Cosmetics, citing her successful global expansion to new markets, such as India and Singapore. Jenner’s new Cosmic fragrance also seems to be promoting sales. While it is a positive point for Coty, the assessments of beauty actions have dropped considerably, and Coty’s shares have collapsed 50 % since last year. Kylie, the youngest daughter of Kris Jenner, launched a vodka with can -called Sprinter separately last year.
Judy Sheindlin
Net Heritage: 580 million dollars | Fountain: Television programs | Age: 82 years | Variation: +4 %
Last January, the television judge, known as Judy Judy, renewed her contract with Amazon and still produces the impressive figure of 120 annual episodes of Judy Justice, which are not only broadcast online, but also broadcast on 100 television channels. It has properties in Florida, California, Rhode Island and New York, where it currently sells an attic for almost 10 million dollars.
Céline Dion
Net Heritage: 570 million dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 57 | Variation: +4%
Dion took a prolonged rest of interpreting his emblematic powerful ballads after revealing in 2022 that he had been diagnosed with the rigid person syndrome, an incurable autoimmune disease. A documentary about your disorder, » I AM: Celine Dion » premiered in June on Amazon Prime Video. The star surprised the world in July when she returned to sing a song at the Paris Olympic Games.
Barbra Streisand
Net Heritage: 510 million dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 83 | Variation: +11%
The star singer will launch a new duet album in June with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande. It has a house of 127 million dollars in Malibu that was threatened by January forest fires, but survived.
Ellen Degeneres
Net Heritage: 450 million dollars | Fountain: Television programs | Age: 67 | Change: Equal
After the presidential elections of 2024, the expressing of an interview program dedicated himself to selling his huge American real estate portfolio and, as reported, moved to the United Kingdom with his wife, actress Portia de Rossi. He sold his largest property, a mansion of 4 hectares near Santa Bárbara, California, for 96 million dollars, as reported, the mining billionaire Robert Friedland.
Dolly Parton
Net Heritage: 450 million dollars | Fountain: Music, investments | Age: 79 | Change: Equal
Her husband of almost 60 years, Carl Dean, died in March. Dean, famous for his discretion, had spent decades discreetly supporting Parton, staying away from the public eye. On Valentine’s Day, the iconic singer and Sabrina Carpenter launched her version of “Please, Please Ple In 2024, he collaborated with Beyoncé in another success, “Tyrant.”
Reese Witherspoon
Net Heritage: 440 million dollars | Fountain: Entertainment | Age: 49 | Change: Pair
Witherspoon sold most of its producer, Hello Sunshine, in 2021, in the rise of what turned out to be a bubble for content producers backed by celebrities. Now it is worth less than a third of its sales valuation of 900 million dollars. Even so, the actress is still very requested. He starred You’re Cordially Invited, a romantic comedy for Amazon Prime Video released in January, and will return for the fourth season of The Morning Show in Appletv+ at the end of this year. She is also Elle’s executive producer, Legally Blonde’s prequel, currently in production.
Katy Perry
Net Heritage: 360 million dollars | Fountain: Music | Age: 40 | Variation: +3%
Perry’s last album, 143, was harshly criticized after its launch last September. In April, he was mocked for participating in an exclusively feminine spatial trip of Blue Origin and then announce that “he would put his ass in astronaut.” Without flinching, the pop star began his tour Lifestimes Tour days after returning to Earth and will spend the next eight months of tour. He sold the rights of his musical catalog in 2023 for 225 million dollars, as reported.
Serena Williams
Net Heritage: 350 million dollars | Fountain: Tennis, investments | Age: 43 | Variation: +3%
The newly incorporated into the US Olympic Fame Hall. UU., Who withdrew from tennis in 2022, has remained active. His producer Nine Two Six Productions launched a Docuserie in ESPN last July that highlights her legendary career as a player. This year he collaborated with the Janie And Jack children’s clothing brand and joined the owner group of Toronto Tempo, a WNBA expansion franchise, which will begin operating next summer.
