Rihanna Is Now Officially A Billionaire

How the singer turned the richest woman musician on the earth. Hint: It wasn’t from undertaking.

by Madeline Berg


When Robyn Fenty, recognised to the entire world as Rihanna, released Fenty Beauty in 2017, she sought to produce a cosmetics organization that produced “women all over the place (come to feel) incorporated.” A potentially unintended consequence: The natural beauty line has helped her enter a single of the world’s most unique ranks: Billionaire.

Rihanna is now truly worth $1.7 billion, Forbes estimates—making her the wealthiest feminine musician in the planet and second only to Oprah Winfrey as the richest woman entertainer. But it’s not her audio that’s produced her so wealthy. The bulk of her fortune (an approximated $1.4 billion) comes from the price of Fenty Beauty, of which Forbes can now ensure she owns 50%. A great deal of the rest lies in her stake in her lingerie company, Savage x Fenty, really worth an believed $270 million, and her earnings from her job as a chart-topping musician and actress.

Although Barbados-born Rihanna is not the only celebrity to capitalize on her social media presence—she has 101 million followers on Instagram and 102.5 million on Twitter—to create a natural beauty brand, she is the most effective beauty entrepreneur to do so. Fenty Beauty, which is a 50-50 joint venture with French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH (run by Bernard Arnault, the world’s second-richest person), launched in 2017 with the objective of inclusivity. Its products appear in a varied

Pussycat Dolls Singer Nicole Scherzinger Rejected This Rihanna Jam

Nicole Scherzinger is most effective recognised as one of the faces of The Pussycat Dolls, a pop tunes variation of a gifted team of wonderful gals who presently toured the state as a novelty act. Even so, Scherzinger’s audio career goes much past her former band. The songstress tried using to split out as a solo act and passed on several tracks that may have served her.

Scherzinger would make her name

Scherzinger very first thrust herself into the highlight as a portion of Eden’s Crush, a limited-lived female group fashioned on the WB’s small-lived songs competition Popstar. Although Scherzinger experienced plain vocal expertise, she had all the makings of a burlesque act, singing her tunes, dancing on beat, and earning the total efficiency one thing specific. 

At the pop group’s inception, The Pussycat Dolls were being by now a are living act when Scherzinger joined the mainstream take on the task. The team took a 2005 shot at the pop components laid out by the Spice Women. Though they were being, at first glance, a typical pop group with PG-13 songs about appreciate, intercourse, attraction, and lust, there was a thing larger brewing beneath the surface area. According to Scherzinger, the act’s signature intercourse charm was less about provocation and a lot more about female empowerment. 

“I rather much government-manufactured all those data. That music felt like my songs,” detailing the group’s accomplishment in higher element afterwards on. We experienced pretty a equipment at the rear of it, so