20 Insane Ways Celebrities Get (And Stay) Rich

Talent often pales in value to name recognition.
20 Insane Ways Celebrities Get (And Stay) Rich

When it comes to being famous, it turns out that being talented is only a tiny factor in accumulating your wealth, if it even has any bearing at all.

No, more often than not, celebrities make all their money in ways that don't involve how they got famous in the first place. For example ...

Aerosmith has been raking in more money from Guitar Hero video game song licenses than from their albums nowadays. The game sold 600,00 copies the fir
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20 Insane Ways Celebrities Get (And Stay) Rich
The Olsen twins started their acting careers back in the 90's, when they were only 9 months old, but these days you won't find the two on the silver s
George Clooney Made About $200 Million By Selling His Tequila CRACKED COM Company A British liquor company recently announced their purchase of Casami
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Nic Cage pocketed $2 million off a comic book. EUNIVEKERGNADE 0 9.0 Aao 1928 ISKE COMICS In 1997 he bought a near-mint copy of Action Comics 1 for $15
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Inspired by the Exxon Valdez spill, Kevin Costner invested in l-water separating technologies. During the BP oil spill, Costner's company sold 32 oil-
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Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa. I know for a fact that these are going to be selling forever. -Akon
Sofia Vergara made $41.5 Million last year. Her lifestyle brand puts her name behind a wide variety of products including scrubs, a coffee maker, a cl
Arnold Schwarzenegger gets over $200,000 every time he appears as a guest speaker. And a private jet to fly him to tHE location of tHE auditorium.
Susan Sarandon co-owns SPIN, a ping pong club. SPiN is a bar and a ping pong club in one. The first club was opened in New York in 2009, and today the
Mark and Donnie Wahlberg, with their brother Paul, opened a Boston burger joint named Wahlburgers in 2011. WAHLBURGERS In just 6 years they've expande
CRACKEDcO Jake Paul became one of the fastest rising stars on YouTube, just by trolling people. He makes an average of 10 million a year just from dai
In 2011, Dr. Dre earned approximately $175 million when HTC bought a 51 percent stake in his headphone company, Beats Electronics. Just a year later D
EVEN NOW THAT HE'S RETIRED, DAVid BECKHAM IS STILL ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SOCCER PLAYERS IN THE WORLD HOWEVER, HIS FORTUNE WAS MOSTLY ACCUMULATED FROM
Whose entire Scott Disick... claim to fame is being Kourtney Kardashian's baby daddy... made up to Has $80,000 for just showing up atta night club f

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