Jan 19 2007Top 20 Richest Women in Entertainment

Forbes has compiled a confusing list of the Top 20 Richest Women in Entertainment. To put together the list they ruled out "non-working celebs who essentially live off royalties (Barbra Streisand, for example), and we also excluded 'old Hollywood" types like Elizabeth Taylor.'" So basically it's the 20 richest women in entertainment that you'd be familiar with, and not your mom. Here's their list in order from richest to poorest:
1. Oprah Winfrey
2. J.K. Rowling
3. Martha Stewart
4. Madonna
5. Celine Dion
6. Mariah Carey
7. Janet Jackson
8. Julia Roberts
9. Jennifer Lopez
10. Jennifer Aniston
11. The Olsen Twins
12. Britney Spears
13. Judge Judy
14. Sandra Bullock
15. Cameron Diaz
16. Gisele Bundchen
17. Ellen DeGeneres
18. Nicole Kidman
19. Christina Aguilera
20. Renee Zellweger
There's a lot of names on there I just don't understand. Why is Jennifer Aniston number 10? And how did Renee Zellweger make the list? This is supposed to be the Top 20 Richest Women in Entertainment, not Most Likely To Be Confused for a Homeless Person.

Reader Comments
1. BarbadoSlim - January 19, 2007 8:00 AM
Funny, all who are in that least are worthless to me.
2. BarbadoSlim - January 19, 2007 8:01 AM
*list
alcohol and posting don't mix
3. Danner - January 19, 2007 8:02 AM
How many on that list have been in rehab or a "spa" in the last couple of years? Better add and which should have been as well. lol
4. ScottInFlorida - January 19, 2007 8:05 AM
Since when is Britney Spears considered an entertainer?
Calling BS an entertainer is like calling a car wreck with severed heads rolling on the pavement "entertainment".
5. misanthrope - January 19, 2007 8:06 AM
Judge Judy? Wha? And, does Britney 'work' anymore? Did she ever?
6. ScottInFlorida - January 19, 2007 8:07 AM
Judge Judy is richer than Ellen DeGenitals?
Thats fucking outragious!!!!!
7. BarbadoSlim - January 19, 2007 8:08 AM
It depends on who's head ends up in the pavement.#4
think Paris Hilton
8. ScottInFlorida - January 19, 2007 8:09 AM
Ummm, I mean, "fucking outrageous".
Friggin spellchecker screwed me again.
9. p0nk - January 19, 2007 8:09 AM
celine dion? get the fuck outta here!
10. ScottInFlorida - January 19, 2007 8:11 AM
Ummm, I mean, "fucking outrageous".
Friggin spellchecker screwed me again.
11. wedge1 - January 19, 2007 8:11 AM
Mariah Carey at number six in "entertainment" is misleading - a lot of her wealth is from that signing bonus she got with the Chicago Bears.
12. NipsyHustle - January 19, 2007 8:14 AM
judge judy has to be a typo. nicole kidman is the highest paid female in hollywood. julia roberts isn't working right now. wtf?
13. Adult Underoos - January 19, 2007 8:15 AM
seriously.. judge jewy is on the list?!
14. XeoRad - January 19, 2007 8:17 AM
Watch Spears slip down the list on spot per month. In a couple of years she'll be the poster girl for poor, white trailer trash has-beens. Olsen twins? Rich? Yes. Hot?
No way - they look like octegenarians
15. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 8:24 AM
The following people I cannot consider "women", under my strict code of ethics based on the devout belief in REALITY:
The Olsen Twins
Ellen DeGeneris
Nicole Kidman (no boobs, no woman)
Celine Dion (part horse)
Giselle Bundchen (pictures last week proving she is morphing into a dude)
Cameron Diaz (circus clown)
Britney Spears (pig)
Oprah Winfrey (buffalo)
Madonna (hermaphrodite)
16. wedge1 - January 19, 2007 8:26 AM
Judy Judy's contract for this year alone pays her $35 million. It's not a typo.
17. BarbadoSlim - January 19, 2007 8:27 AM
@14...agree on the twins, give'em two more years and those two germophobes will be flinging cats at passersby up and down Park Avenue.
18. BarbadoSlim - January 19, 2007 8:31 AM
I'd like to add Fergie to your list Jrz, categorize and file under: Iguana
19. misanthrope - January 19, 2007 8:35 AM
Julia Roberts = Venus Flytrap. Or Pez dispenser.
20. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 8:37 AM
Iguana. hee hee.
21. misery - January 19, 2007 8:38 AM
Olsen Twins? when have they entertained anyone? And I also agree with #14.
22. Dean - January 19, 2007 8:39 AM
Judge Judy has more money than Christina Aguilera? WTF?
Remember folks, this isn't the highest paid list - it's the rich list. As in, overall wealth. As in, they could buy you and trade you around like Pokemon cards.
23. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 8:45 AM
22--Yes if this was the 17th and 18th century and they were rich plantation owners, they could buy and sell and trade us. But it's not so they can't.
24. misanthrope - January 19, 2007 8:48 AM
@22... Oh, so that makes them worthy. I keep forgetting... extreme wealth means *better than*.
25. CDob - January 19, 2007 8:48 AM
Yeah, this list does seem strangely outdated. I can think of several, if not half, of the people on this list who are a little washed up by now (Mariah, Janet, Julia, Olsens)...I guess the moral is that they were established enough over the last few years to have a large amount of wealth, as opposed to the new, flash in the pan celebs like ScarJo, Lindsay, et al.
26. danielle - January 19, 2007 8:52 AM
What happened to Bill Gates? Dude looks like a lady. Hell, he could pass for a woman far better than any of those "things" listed above.
Excluding Oprah.
27. DrunkBlogger - January 19, 2007 8:53 AM
Damn, women suck at making money if this is the top list. Oh that's right....they make less than men! Awesome!
28. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 8:55 AM
Mariah and Janet at least have done something in the last 5 years. Albeit the stuff they've done has caused me to grind my teeth in my sleep and has brough on fits of uncontrollable GI spasms.........but at least they've worked. Sandra Bullock?
29. chippedbeef - January 19, 2007 8:55 AM
I love that the Olsen twins are considered one person. They should have listed them as Michelle Tanner instead.
30. anothershityear - January 19, 2007 9:03 AM
judging by list-entry 16, this list also includes post-operatives
and about list-entry 11, what have the chimps done lately? aren't they living off royalties too?
31. HollyJ - January 19, 2007 9:03 AM
lol @ 15
29- I was just thinking "Twins? Twins are two people. Shouldn't they take up two slots?" I bet they get sooooo tired of being referred to as The O Twins
That's ok - One will be dead from starvation soon, and then it will be The Olsen ::::silence:::::
32. anothershityear - January 19, 2007 9:07 AM
#29 lmao
thx for pointing that out, they're even more pathetic than i initially realized
they also could have been listed as
"bubbles' siamese-twin sister"
(sorry, conjoined, fucking political-correctness)
33. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 9:08 AM
ps--Oprah is showing us how big Rich's Chorizo is!!!!!!!
34. RichPort - January 19, 2007 9:12 AM
#17 - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... You fucking rule, Slim.
#33 - Jrz, I'd blush, but I hear it's impolite to blush at the truth so I'll just say thanks. Oh yeah folks... Oprah swallows like a fluffer at a gangbang.
35. XeoRad - January 19, 2007 9:18 AM
This list is pathetic. Soon enough we'll be seeing "The wife of the Geico caveman"
36. XeoRad - January 19, 2007 9:19 AM
And she would be hotter than most of this list......
37. Jenna - January 19, 2007 9:26 AM
Judge Judy's contract is for 35 mil? Damn, I always liked her but I dodn't know she was that cool. Not to mention she's probably the most entertaining person on that list.
38. GeannaSparrow - January 19, 2007 9:28 AM
...Jennifer Aniston? Wtf? Well, I shall throw myself into self-pity, ta see if I make some money, too.
39. anothershityear - January 19, 2007 9:35 AM
#15 concur with #28, lmao and it's an accurate assessment
amazing that most of these women are either manly or just plain old unattractive
how the FUCK is g. bunch-in-her-pants making more than a. lima or a. ambrosio?
are supermodels being paid in ugly-bucks now??
and judge judy is categorized as a "woman"???? there's gotta be a more appropriate list that she can go under..
gotta disagree with n. kidman though #15
10 years ago, she was smokin'!!
40. anothershityear - January 19, 2007 9:36 AM
oops #31 not 28.
dealing with too many fucking numbers today.
41. 86 - January 19, 2007 9:57 AM
When is Oprah going to do something wrong?
42. jesseeca - January 19, 2007 10:06 AM
now is the wealth of the twins combined, because then the should be spilt up and moved down the list. if not, then they should be tied at #11 and the SF would be correct...Renee Zellweger would get bumped.
and who really knows if Oprah is a woman with all that make-up & fake hair. Then again, that could be any celebrity.
43. Lowlands - January 19, 2007 10:15 AM
Insane Bitch!!
44. karifarrell - January 19, 2007 10:19 AM
I LOVE that Paris Hilton is not on the list. She does NOT entertain me, well except for the ridiculously stupid things she does that gets her on this site....
Well, maybe they don't consider her rich since most of her wealth is family money? But then again didn't I just read somewhere that she was getting a couple million dollars just to APPEAR AT A PARTY?!? And she apparently has an album out and she's been in movies, and that retarded reality tv show, so I just figured she'd be on the list. I mean they put Giselle on there, and how is she an "enertainer"? I'm confused...
45. ResidentX - January 19, 2007 10:34 AM
This list is BS. MONEY IS MONEY not matter how you get it or how old you are. We need to see the really female powers...not just the "working" ones.
46. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 10:36 AM
What kind of really female powers? Like, the super dooper eyelash-batting powers of Betty Boop?
47. cole007 - January 19, 2007 10:48 AM
jrzmommy, you are Hilarious, and comic genius. The Olsen Twins are (Gelphlings!!!)
48. Lowlands - January 19, 2007 10:52 AM
All gay-people luv jrzmami.
49. Lowlands - January 19, 2007 10:53 AM
(48)I'm surprised this wasn't censored!
50. jrzmommy♠ - January 19, 2007 11:00 AM
Who the fuck is jrzmami?
51. veggi - January 19, 2007 11:12 AM
bitches betta have my money
52. F-Sucker - January 19, 2007 11:49 AM
I'd do most of them.
53. Priceless6549 - January 19, 2007 12:06 PM
To those who have commented before me-
Those people not only work there ass off but they have to deal with the likes of people like you talking crap about them on a daily basis. Have you even met any of those women you are so obviously jealous of?! You should be happy that there are people in this world that are so successful...that go beyond sitting on the couch day after day eating ice-cream on the couch getting fat. I say "You go Girls"
54. TurdFerguson - January 19, 2007 12:33 PM
I'm confused - how the hell is Judge Judy in there?
No Paris Hilton. You'd think she'd be rich as hell from all those blow jobs she gives in her daddy's hotels.
55. misanthrope - January 19, 2007 12:39 PM
@53... Um, what? I should be happy that Celine Dion 'works' to lure idiots like you to not only listen to her, but to pay her money for it? I am happy, come to think of it. It keeps the sheep like you busy with worshiping them while people who can think for themselves are off doing interesting things like... hmmm, say listening to *actual* music and doing actual work and reading actual books and being inspired by actual people doing actual things instead of listening to Celine screaming her fucking head off and calling it *singing* and then getting rich, famous and apparently, therefor, successful. Holy run on sentence. Anyway, I think you're jealous. After all, *celebrity work* seems to be what you so adamantly look up to.
56. wedge1 - January 19, 2007 12:48 PM
#55 you forgot to end by saying "And with that, I bid you good day Sir.
...I said GOOD DAY!"
57. outoftown - January 19, 2007 1:58 PM
forbes listed the olsen twins as one person.
58. wedge1 - January 19, 2007 2:37 PM
to be fair, you really have to look at where their income came from. for example, due to a court clerk's error, oprah actually managed to claim her 40 acres and a mule, and it turned out to be downtown NYC real estate. she spent a lot of the money on gold-studded dog collars for steadman, doubledongs made out of endangered species for gayle, and of course lots and lots of fried chicken, but still, she's pretty rich.
59. spunkbubble on J.alba's face - January 19, 2007 3:41 PM
#53
SHUT THE FUCK UP CUNT BEFORE I FUCKSTART YOUR MOUTH!
60. pixel killya - January 19, 2007 5:57 PM
Aniston is an entertainer? I guess if you get laughs from watching laughably bad movies and acting, then yes I suppose. Nah, she sucks.
61. RichPort - January 20, 2007 10:36 AM
HAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAHAAAAA, ... I'm gay.
62. RichPort - January 20, 2007 10:45 AM
HAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAAHAAAA, ... I'm gay.
63. Team OJ - January 20, 2007 9:09 PM
Damn it is a horrible list when Judge judy is the only one I'd do twice. Or perhaps the list is normal I'm just horrible.
64. DIANA - January 22, 2007 1:56 PM
I don't understand why people are so surprised that Jennifer Aniston is on this list. She earned 1 million per episode when she was on friends.
65. sigmanu - January 22, 2007 9:58 PM
YOU TELL THEM #64. I'D BANG HER SHE IS THE HOTTEST ONE ON THAT LIST.
66. HollywoodSnark - March 26, 2007 9:00 AM
yeah, well, i guess they're...uh...rich
67. EdwardSmith102.3 - July 8, 2007 2:04 AM
Hello,
I just want to know why singer Beyonce` Knowles wasn't on the list, As of Today Modanna's net worth is not $225 Millon but it is $600 million and Beyonce should have been number 5 because her net worth is about $315 million. I just think they should have looked at that more carefully. I hope somebody reads this and if they ever decide to do another top 20 that they should add Beyonce` Knowles. Not based on love but based on FACTS.
68. Bill_FL - July 26, 2007 7:20 PM
Read the post on www.bgctoday.com What do you think about Oprah making 10,000 times more than someone working for minimum wage?
69. mr irreaplceable - August 6, 2007 5:20 PM
wheres beyonce at???
70. hot Michelle Rodriguez cameron Diaz Beyonce Gwen stefani jessica alba paris hilton britney spears ho - September 19, 2007 6:35 AM
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71. typical - October 4, 2007 7:31 PM
Only one jew on the list i'm very shocked. 19 is the only one that is even married to a jew and she has the money. There goes that idea.
72. Tekalign - October 27, 2007 9:58 AM
It is very important to list thier address.
I want to know tthe 5 best richest women address of email, po.box, to write perosonally how they change their life and requiest how they succesed thier life? I thank in advance.
1. Oprah Winfrey
2. J.K. Rowling
3. Martha Stewart
4. Madonna
5. Celine Dion
6. Mariah Carey
7. Janet Jackson
73. dog collar addict - November 19, 2007 8:50 PM
this is NOT a list that interests me..
74. Damian maxwell - March 23, 2008 10:58 AM
Celine Dion is the BEST singer in the world.She has the voice of 10 thousand angels.
75. Damian maxwell - March 23, 2008 10:58 AM
Celine Dion is the BEST singer in the world.She has the voice of 10 thousand angels.
76. Anexio - November 17, 2008 11:03 PM
Last!
Suck it losers!