- Who
- Rihanna
- What
- 1,400,000,000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- Not Applicable ()
- When
Rihanna (Barbados, b. Robyn Rihanna Fenty) was worth $1.4 bn (£1.13 bn) in 2023, according to the 37th publication of Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List on 4 April of that year. The singer/entrepreneur/actress, who became America’s youngest self-made female billionaire in 2022, owes the bulk of her fortune to her cosmetics brand FENTY BEAUTY. Launched in 2017, the company is co-owned by French luxury retailer LVMH and doubled its revenue in 2022. Rihanna also has a 30% stake in the lingerie brand she founded in 2018, Savage X Fenty. The multiple-Grammy-winning artist, who has released eight studio albums since 2005, picked up her first Academy Awards nomination in 2023, for Best Original Song (“Lift Me Up”, from Marvel Studios’ 2022 superhero movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever). On 12 February 2023, she headlined the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, USA. Rihanna’s first live performance in more than five years was watched by a Super Bowl record 121.017 million concurrent viewers.
Rapper, music producer and entrepreneur Jay-Z (USA), the only other musician on 2023’s World’s Billionaires List, had amassed a fortune of $2.5 bn (£2.02 bn) as of the same date.
The planet’s 2,640 billionaires (down from 2,668 in 2022) were worth $12.2 tn (£9.87 tn) in 2023. Forbes also reported that nearly half of them were poorer than they were in 2022, and that 254 people (including rapper/producer/fashion designer Ye, aka Kanye West, with a net worth of $400 m, or £323.7 m) had lost their billionaire status altogether.
