Janet Jackson has been a force in the music industry for decades, but new reports say she has just crossed the line into billionaire territory.
The sister of the late Michael Jackson has worked her way up to being worth a massive $1 billion, thanks to multiple hit albums, tours, and even some hit movies.
According to a report in Variety, Jackson made $458 million from touring, over $81 from sponsorship deals, $304 million from acting and $260 million from her albums. Jackson, 47, has been in such films as Nutty Professor and For Colored Girls.
But she’s not the only one who makes the big bucks in her household, as her husband Wissam Al Man is also a billionaire thanks to smart investments in the Middle East. Jackson, however, burst out on to the music scene and made a name for herself apart from her famous brother after 1986’s “Control.”
Yahoo! notes that Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, J.K. Rowling are other self made billionaires.
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