According to Forbes.com – here is what your favorite female entertainers made last year from May 2010 – May 2011. Nobody has been able to dethrone Oprah Winfrey in a very very very long time.
1. Oprah Winfrey – $290 Million
2. Lady GaGa – $90 Million
3. Bethenny Frankel – $55 Million
4. Gisele Bundchen – $45 Million
5. Ellen Degeneres – $45 Million
6. Judge Judy – $45 Million
7. Taylor Swift – $45 Million
8. Katy Perry – $44 Million
9. Beyonce Knowles-Carter – $35 Million
10. Danielle Steele – $35 Million
That Judge Judy brings home some serious Ca$h!
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i simply cannot believe the money (and i guess ratings) that Judge Judy gets. that is INCREDIBLE.
i remember being shocked years ago when she was making like $4MM a year. $45MM…as much as Ellen too????
syndication. it will make you rich as shit.
the surprising shit to me is giselle bundchen and bethany frankel.
i know giselle is a model. but it’s amazing that she makes so much money – does she have her own line of products or something? it can’t be just from modeling – what are her fees like?
and bethany frankel? who the fuck is that? what does she do?
Bethany Frankel was on Housewives of NY for a couple seasons. She has her own show on Bravo now. She recently sold her Skinny Girl margaritas to a large distributor for like $100 million this year, she’s an author with several books on the NYTimes bestsellers list and she sells health-conscious baked goods. She EARNED that 3rd place.
(btw, I had no idea I stalked Bethany this much. I love that chick)
Aparantly Bethany lied to forbes: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/bethenny-frankel-skinnygirl-120-million-lie-forbes-magazine_n_1008764.html
that very same report says they misread the financial report and the 8.1 was the amount given to goodwill not the entire sell amount. You have to watch those HuffPost peeps.
Giselle has me stuck too. How is she making that much money. From taking pictures and runways… what is it I’m missing.
Beyonce goes as “Knowles-Carter” now? Nice.
I don’t understand how Gisele makes so much money?
lol @ that $200 mil difference between #1 and #2
How is Judge Judy making that much money?
syndication. it’s basically the same way Oprah made a lot of her money.
Judge Judy cant be making that much money? Who the hell is watching her show?
the same people that made Dr. Phil, Oprah, Ellen super rich – stay at home moms, grandmas, etc. There are MILLIONS in this country & they loooove TV, haaa
That gap between 1st & 2nd place tho -___- DAMN lol
These lists always seem bogus to me. I remember Britney Spears used to top these lists with 8 figure amounts but when she got divorced her paperwork showed she was actually earning somewhere around 10 million annually.
I don’t think these lists are accurate grosses, unless celebrities submit their taxes, which I doubt they do. I think these numbers are based on tour grosses, book sells, album sells, revenue etc not actual income grosses.