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Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have cracked the list of America’s billionaires.
According to The Wall Street JournalOf the 1,135 billionaires in the US, around 86 percent are men – who leave a little more than 150 women, or around 14 percent, to make the rest.
Among those women are Swift and Gomez, who have succeeded in making their pop culture known in billions of dollars. Whether they won their fortune after a record-breaking tour or through a makeup brand, they broke barriers.
Selena Gomez wears nothing but satin lingerie in sultry selfie
Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez are just a few celebrities who have announced their pop culture in billion dollars. (Getty Images / Getty Images)
Here, some of the famous women who have succeeded in breaking and achieving a billionaire status.
Taylor Swift
Forbes estimates that Taylor Swift is worth $ 1.6 billion. (Gilbert Flores / Billboard via Getty Images / Getty images)
Taylor Swift Shot to staring when she released her titllless debut album in October 2006 and her star continued to rise with every new album release.
She reached the status of billionaire in 2023, then, according to ForbesShe made “an estimated $ 190 million after taxes for just the first stage of her famous era tour.” The Tour ran almost two years, from March 2023 and ended in December 2024, and reportedly raised more than $ 2 billion.
In combination with album sales, its earlier tours, her real estate investments and the income from the theatrical release of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”, Forbes estimated the net value of Swift about $ 1.6 billion.
Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez turned her acting career into a successful beauty brand company. (JC Olivera / Getty images for rare Beauty / Getty images)
Selena Gomez started to create her fortune at a young age, starring in the children’s show “Barney & Friends” when she was only 10 years old. She later became a household name like the star of the “Wizards of Waverly Place” of Disney Channel, in which she appeared four seasons, from 2007 to 2012.
She continued to perform in adulthood and earned an Emmy nomination in 2024 for her role in ‘Alone murders in the building’. During the COVID-19 Pandemie she also launched the cooking show “Selena + Chef” on HBO Max. After setting up her acting career, Gomez also made a name for himself as a singer,
In September 2020, Gomez transformed its fame into a successful company when she launched rare beauty, with products that are available online and in Sephora stores. After he went viral on Tiktok, weird beauty soon became one of the most successful beauty brands in celebrities that are there, seen as inclusive and affordable.
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The estimated value of the company reached $ 2 billion in 2023, and with a 51% interest in the brand owned by Gomez became a billionaire. Combined with her income as a singer, actress and business owner, Bloomberg Estimated her assets in 2024 around $ 1.3 billion, with rare beauty the most important contributing factor.
Rihanna
Rihanna became a billionaire in 2021 thanks to her lingerie and makeup brands. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/Filmmagic/Getty images)
Rihanna started her start as a musician and released eight albums between 2005 and 2016.
After the release of her last studio album, Rihanna launched Fenty Beauty In 2017. The brand was celebrated as one of the first with an inclusive range of Foundation tones. Later she launched the Savage X Fenty lingerie line, “who picked up $ 125 million in a financing round of 2022”, According to Forbes.
The singer and businesswoman first landed on the Forbes billionaire list In 2021, the exhaust report was that she was worth $ 1.7 billion. At the time, it made her the richest female musician in the world and second only for Oprah Winfrey as the richest female entertainer.
In 2025 Forbes mentioned Rihanna’s assets at $ 1.4 billion, largely driven by its lingerie and beauty companies.
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Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian’s Shapewear Company, Skims, is the driving force behind its billionaire status. (Dia Dipasupil / Filmmagic / Getty images)
Kim Kardashian First shot to become known when she and her family started to appear on the E! Reality show “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, which premiered in October 2007.
Since the premiere of the show, Kardashian has succeeded in turning her reality star into business success, starting with different scents and an app, and later expand with a make -up line, KKW Beauty. In 2021, KKW Beauty was closed and after a huge makeover in 2022 it was re-launched as SKKN by Kim, a high-end skin care line.
The reality star officially made the Forbes Billionaires list in April 2025 and the magazine estimated its assets at $ 1.7 billion.
Forbes Credits Kardashian’s Shapewear Company, Skims, as the driving force behind its billionaire status, which states that the company was appreciated at $ 4 billion in 2023.
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