He weighs 5.5 billion dollars: here is the richest person in Hollywood!

Being a millionaire in Hollywood is ultimately very overrated. Many of the industry’s top talents are at the helm of assets worth tens and hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, not all of them are experienced managers and sometimes squander their hard-earned fortunes by buying absolutely everything, and especially everything like Nicolas Cage. That’s because it costs a fortune to maintain a lavish lifestyle while displaying outward signs of wealth in the realm of appearances that is Hollywood.

And, very, very upstairs, there is the VIP room, an ultra-closed club for real billionaires. They are certainly not at the helm of a colossal legacy like Bernard Arnault, officially the richest man in the world, whose fortune is estimated at more than $220 billion. But whose bank account are you giddy about anyway?

Dick, Tyler and Peter are in a boat…

Forbes magazine has just published its 2014 ranking of billionaires. Many names are active in the entertainment industry. For example, Dick Wolfe is in 13th place. A name that does not speak at all to the general public, but which is a legend in audiovisual production, to which we owe the series New York District, New York Criminal Section or the anthology mini-series Law & Order True Crime. According to Forbes, he is worth 1.2 billion dollars.

Director, screenwriter, producer and actor, Tyler Perry is a jack of all trades. And quite an entrepreneur, at the helm of $1.4 billion in assets. In front of him is none other than Peter Jackson, who made his fortune thanks to his company Weta Digital.

In November 2021, he sold the special effects arm of his company to a company in the world of video games for a whopping 1.6 billion. After taxes and miscellaneous charges, Peter Jackson received $1 billion in cash and stock options.

In 4th place is the queen Oprah Winfrey who needs no introduction. At the age of 70, he is worth an estimated $2.8 billion. The bronze medal goes to basketball legend Michael Jordan, who was the first athlete to officially become a billionaire in 2015. His fortune is $3.2 billion.

Annual and Perpetual Annuity

Steven Spielberg is on the second step of the podium. This legend of the 7th art is at the head of a fortune estimated by Forbes at 4.8 billion dollars. A property largely built on his very well-negotiated contracts. He receives almost nothing in salary, but he demands a percentage of participation in his films. and also receives 2% of the profits from ticket sales at the Universal theme park in Orlando, Florida. An annuity not only annual, but above all perpetual.

And the gold medal in the ranking, then? It’s George Lucas! The 79-year-old Star Wars star is the richest father in Hollywood, with an estimated net worth of $5.5 billion. He also entered the billionaires club in 1997, notes Forbes, apparently recalling the huge check he received when he sold his Lucasfilm empire to Disney in 2012: $4.05 billion. In addition to remaining a very important shareholder of Disney. He then received 37.1 million Disney shares. A little pear for thirst.