20 Celebrities Who Managed to Mint Millions and How (4 of 5)

Celine Dion

Celine Marie Claudette Dion recorded a song alongside her mother and sent it to the manager and producer Rene Angelil when she was 12. Upon hearing it, Rene invited her to perform for him and even mortgaged his residence to finance Celine’s debut album, La Voix du Bon Dieu!

In 1990, she stepped her foot into the American market with tremendous success through her first album in English, ‘Unison’. The song ‘My Heart Will Go On’ which was certified gold in the United States, hit number five on the charts. Her popularity and success attained absolute triumph with her song in a Walt Disney film, ‘Beauty, and the Beast.’ It was a melodious duet which she performed alongside Peabo Bryson. It hit number one on charts worldwide and won her a Grammy too!

Today she has the net worth of $800 billion and we’re not surprised, after all, she has the voice of an angel.

Steven Spielberg

One of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and the most popular directors and filmmakers in history, Steven Spielberg is the co-founder of Amblin Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures. He served as an exceptional producer and co-producers to a lot of film trilogies and tetralogies and is the single most popular producers in modern history.

By the time he finished his teens and was stepping into adulthood, he had already made numerous 8mm films on World War II narrated by his father. In 1993, he successfully directed two of the greatest movies of his career-’Jurassic Park’ and ‘Schindler’s List’. The former grossed about $900 million and the latter won him his Academy Best Actor award.

From here, his career became to skyrocket and he went onto directing the ‘Indiana Jones’ series which grossed a combined total of $2 billion. His net worth as of today amounts to $3.6 billion.

Joanne Rowling

The author of the beloved book series ‘Harry Potter’– known as JK Rowling is admired by all. Her writing if the book was halted midway by the devastating death of her mother. She gave up her whole idea and opted for a job of teaching English in Portugal instead.

She finished writing her book and sent it to numerous publishers, all in vain. Finally, the editor of Bloomsbury Publishing company sat to read her writing, and along with him did his eight-year-old daughter who fell in love with the characters. From being jobless and living off unemployment benefits, Rowling’s career shooted right into the sky and she became the bestselling author.

Her net worth as of today is $60 billion!

Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone is infamously known as “The Queen of Pop.” Madonna had a rough childhood. Her mother passed away in the year 1963 when she five. Madonna told CNN,” You walk with an empty hole inside of you. A feeling of emptiness and longing. And I think a lot of times that’s what makes you an overachiever.”

Madonna and her old boyfriend Steve Bray wrote a few songs together, and this is when she came up with the song ‘Everybody’. In 1982, Sire Records agreed to give Madonna her first record deal. The upcoming year she released a self-titled album, and the third track ‘Holiday’ on it- gained a lot of attention.

From that point on, her career took off, and now our queen’s net worth is $575-$800 billion!