TOP 5 RICHEST CELEBRITIES

 

1.  Dannine Avara Net Worth: Dannine Avara is a billionaire heir to the Duncan family fortune who has a net worth of $6.3 billion. Born Dannine Duncan in 1974, she is the daughter of Lee Ellis and Dan Duncan who co-founded Enterprise Products Partners LP, a natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. It went public in 1998, and by 2010, it included over 48,700 miles of onshore and offshore pipelines, as well as nearly 220 million barrel equivalents of natural gas and natural gas liquids of storage capacity. Also a head of mid-stream energy firms Duncan Energy Partners LP and Enterprise GP Holdings LP, Dan Duncan left his wealth to his four children upon his death on March 28, 2010. Dannine Avara inherited $3.1B and due to a temporary loophole in the estate tax law in 2010 she became the first American billionaire to pay no estate tax since its enactment. Avara, who resides in Houston with her husband, still ranks well on the America's richest list.

 2.  Dina Merrill net worth: Dina Merrill is an American socialite, philanthropist and actress who has a net worth of $5 billion. Dina Merrill is famous for her acting career on stage, screen and television, as well as her many positions in businesses such as Lehman Brothers. She was born in New York City, New York, the only daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post and promnient investment banker Edward Francis Hutton. Her mother Marjorie was the heir to the CW Post fortune which at one time the richest woman in America. Dina's father was the founder of stock brokerage firm E. F. Hutton. Dina Merrill was married three times, once to an heir to the Colgate-Palmolive fortune named Stanley M. Rumbough, Jr, then to academy award winning actor CLiff Robertson and finally to another actor named Ted Hartley.

3. George Lucas net worth: George Lucas is a director, writer, producer and businessman who has a net worth of $4.9 billion. Born and raised in Modesto, California, George Lucas initially had his eye on a career in racing cars, but after a potentially fatal accident in high school Lucas' interests shifted considerably. During his time at Modesto Junior College, Lucas became enthusiastic about photography and film making. He eventually transferred to University of Southern California where he befriended fellow filmmaker Steven Spielberg and won accolades during his post-graduate studies, including a Warner Brothers student scholarship. His 1967 student film, Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, was eventually made into his 1971 premier full-length feature film, THX 1138. Though it was poorly received, the project led to a more successful venture in American Graffiti, which garnered five Academy Award nominations and grossed $115 million in domestic revenue alone. His biggest box-office hit and what came to seal Lucas as a Hollywood film legend is the epic Star Wars franchise, which has earned well over $5 billion in worldwide revenue from all six films. Though he only directed six films in total, Lucas has acted as producer, executive producer and writer on several films including: Body Heat (1981), Labyrinth (1986), The Land Before Time (1988), and The Indiana Jones film franchise. Additionally, Lucas founded THX, Skywalker Sound, Industrial Light and Magic and LucasArts as subdivisions of his parent company, Lucasfilm Ltd. In 2005, Lucas received The Lifetime Achievement Award from The American Film Institute.

On October 30th 2012, George Lucas announced that he signed a deal to sell his entire Lucasfilm company to Disney for a staggering $4 billion. Lucas owned 100% of the company which means the entire $4 billion went into his pockets. His net worth more than doubled from $3.3 billion to $7.3 billion, overnight!

4. Tom & Judy Love Net Worth: Tom & Judy Love are American husband-and-wife entrepreneurs who have a net worth of $3.6 billion. The couple owns Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, known as 'Love's', a chain of more than 30 truck stops and convenience stores. In 1964, the Love duo started Musket Corporation, with only $5,000 to lease an abandoned station in Watonga, Oklahoma. Within a period of eight years, they opened about 40 gas stations that operated under the Kerr-McGee brand. Because of the gasoline shortage, Tom expanded the business for the sake of company by adding a grocery line to their gas stations. Later in 1972, the couple set up the first Love's Country Store in Guymon, which was very revolutionary because it was a combination of convenience store and self-service fuel station. The success was growing vastly; therefore Love's was operating 90 stores across Oklahoma and surrounding states, and it began offering food services. Soon, the couple started the First Love's Travel Stop on Intestate 40in Amarillo, Texas, which was one-of-a-kind travel stop serving both truck drivers and motoring community. In addition to their company, Tom and Judy opened gift and novelties shops. Today, the Love family operates with 300 stores across 39 states.

 5. Steven Spielberg net worth: Steven Spielberg is an American director, screenwriter and producer who has a net worth of $3.1 billion and annual salary of $150 million. Steven Spielberg's name is synonymous with film and his career spans over four decades. Spielberg had humble beginnings when he was just a boy with a huge imagination and a dream. Steven Spielberg was born on December 18th 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adherer was a concert pianist and his father Arnold Spielberg was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. Steven's childhood was spent in Haddon Heights, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona. It was in Scottsdale, as a teenager, where a young Spielberg would create 8mm short films. Even back then Spielberg had the gall to charge 25 cents for the local kids to come and watch his many epics.