Kylie Jenner, Kanye West top Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities list for 2020

Kylie Jenner, Kanye West top Forbes’ highest-paid celebrities list for 2020

Forbes has released its annual Top 100 Highest-Paid Celebrities List, with the stars collectively raking in a reported $6.1 billion before taxes, a $2

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Forbes has released its annual Top 100 Highest-Paid Celebrities List, with the stars collectively raking in a reported $6.1 billion before taxes, a $200 million drop from 2019.

The list published on Monday, August 31, saw Kylie Jenner and her brother-in-law, Kanye West, topping the list, raking in $590 million and $170 million respectively.

The 23-year-old Kylie Cosmetics CEO made US$590 million thanks to the 51 percent sale of her Kylie Cosmetics company to Coty Inc. 43-year-old West who is already a billionaire earned a cool $170 million. He made most of his earnings from his Yeezy sneakers deal with Adidas.

Rounding up the Top 5 is tennis player Roger Federer who earned $106 million, soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo who raked in $105 million, and fellow soccer player Lionel Messi $104 million.

Here is the complete list of top 20 stars who made Forbes’ Highest-Paid Celebrities List 2020: 

  1. Kylie Jenner: $590 million
  2. Kanye West: $170 million
  3. Roger Federer: $106 million
  4. Cristiano Ronaldo: $105 million
  5. Lionel Messi: $104 million
  6. Tyler Perry: $97 million
  7. Neymar: $95.5 million
  8. Howard Stern: $90 million
  9. LeBron James: $88.2 million
  10. Dwayne Johnson: $87.5 million
  11. Rush Limbaugh: $85 million
  12. Ellen DeGeneres: $84 million
  13. Bill Simmons: $82.5 million
  14. Elton John: $81 million
  15. James Patterson: $80 million
  16. Stephen Curry $74.4M
  17. Ariana Grande $72M
  18. Ryan Reynolds $71.5M
  19. Gordon Ramsay $70M
  20. Jonas Brother $68.5M