NEW YORK: American model, businesswoman and social media star Kylie Jenner has been crowned the world’s highest-paid celebrities of 2020 by Forbes.
According to Forbes, the top-earning stars in the world earned a combined USD 6.1 billion in 2020. Bringing in $590 million, Jenner’s payday came from selling a 51 percent stake in her cosmetics firm.
“While she had exaggerated over the years about the size of her business, the money she pulled in from the deal was real,” reported the American business publication.
Jenner’s brother-in-law, Kanye West, came in at second place with $170 million, collecting most of his earning from his Yeezy sneakers deal with Adidas. Roger Federer with a net worth of $106.3 million came third, being the first tennis player to earn the top spot among athletes on the list.
Cristiano Ronaldo with a sum of $105 million and bagging fourth place, became the first team player to earn $1 billion during his career, with Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi following in fifth.
Director Tyler Perry ($97 million), Neymar ($95.5 million), world’s highest-paid radio host Howard Stern ($90 million), and Four-time NBA MVP LeBron James ($88.2 million) came in sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth on the list respectively.
Three streaming giants doled out $300 million to stars on the list, including Ryan Reynolds (No. 18, $71.5 million), Billie Eilish (No. 43, $53 million) and Jerry Seinfeld (No. 46, $51 million), with Netflix paying out more than two-thirds of that.
Number ten was none other than Dwayne Johnson, better known as ‘The Rock’ and who is the world’s highest-paid actor thanks to big paydays for forthcoming films Black Adam and Red Notice.
