{"id":28436,"date":"2020-12-16T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T11:38:39","slug":"the-10-highest-paid-celebrities-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/12\/16\/the-10-highest-paid-celebrities-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 highest-paid celebrities of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This year has been a rollercoaster for many, but that didn’t stop the checks from rolling in for plenty of celebrities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kylie Jenner topped Forbes’ list of the year’s highest-paid celebrities, based on earnings from June 2019 through May 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenner earned $590 million, largely due to the sale of her lucrative Kylie Cosmetics line to Coty, while her brother-in-law, Kanye West, raked in $170 million in large part due to his Yeezy clothing and sneaker deal with Adidas.
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Athletes Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi nabbed the third, fourth and fifth spots, while Tyler Perry came in sixth, earning $97 million for his “Madea” film franchise. Last year, Perry opened the 330-acre Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some on this year’s list also made history. Tennis star Naomi Osaka brought in $37 million, the most any female athlete has ever made in a single year, according to Forbes, making the list at No. 90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the top 10 highest-paid celebs of 2020, according to Forbes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Kylie Jenner \u2014 $590 million<\/li>
  2. Kanye West \u2014 $170 million<\/li>
  3. Roger Federer \u2014 $106.3 million<\/li>
  4. Cristiano Ronaldo \u2014 $105 million<\/li>
  5. Lionel Messi \u2014 $104 million<\/li>
  6. Tyler Perry \u2014 $97 million<\/li>
  7. Neymar \u2014 $95.5 million<\/li>
  8. Howard Stern \u2014 $90 million<\/li>
  9. LeBron James \u2014 $88.2 million<\/li>
  10. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson \u2014 $87.5 million.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This year has been a rollercoaster for many, but that didn’t stop the checks from rolling in for plenty of celebrities. Kylie Jenner topped Forbes’ list of the year’s highest-paid celebrities, based on earnings from June 2019 through May 2020. Jenner earned $590 million, largely due to the sale of her lucrative Kylie Cosmetics line …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28439,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions\/28439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}