{"id":1047972,"date":"2022-04-07T09:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/07\/rihanna-debuts-on-forbes-billionaires-list\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:21:32","slug":"rihanna-debuts-on-forbes-billionaires-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/07\/rihanna-debuts-on-forbes-billionaires-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Rihanna debuts on \u2018Forbes\u2019 Billionaires list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rihanna, the good girl gone bad, has done better than most.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old pop star, entrepreneur and expecting mum is a fully paid-up member of\u00a0Forbes\u2019<\/em>\u00a0billionaire club, joining the ultra-wealthy ranks alongside\u00a0Jay-Z\u00a0and\u00a0Kanye West.<\/p>\n

Rihanna is said to be\u00a0Barbados\u2019 first billionaire\u00a0worth a cool $1.7 billion, thanks to her stake in the Fenty Beauty cosmetics line and the Savage X Fenty lingerie business.<\/p>\n

RiRi comes in at No. 1,729 on the 36th annual list, and is the world\u2019s richest female musician.<\/p>\n

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JAY-Z has 99 problems, but assets ain\u2019t one.<\/p>\n

Hip-hop\u2019s first billionaire follows at No. 2,076 with a $1.4 billion portfolio that includes his Roc Nation empire, and factors-in the 2021 sales of TIDAL to Square and Armand de Brignac champagne to LVMH.<\/p>\n

Ye continues to make headlines, not all for the right reasons. Despite it all, his bank balance should be tidy.<\/p>\n

With an estimated net worth of $2 billion, the hip-hop star comes in at No. 1,513 in the rankings, thanks to his lucrative Yeezy partnership with Adidas and long-term arrangement with Gap. Ye advances more than 200 positions on the\u00a0Forbes<\/em>\u00a0tally in just one year.<\/p>\n

RiRi, JAY-Z and Ye are among the world\u2019s super-rich musicians, entering the pool of 2,668 billionaires that\u2019s constantly shifting.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve positively skint compared with the world\u2019s top earners.<\/p>\n

At the very top of the\u00a0Forbes<\/em>\u00a0list is Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who this week bought a\u00a0chunk of Twitter, valued at about $2.89 billion. The South Africa-born entrepreneur\u2019s net worth is estimated at $219 billion.<\/p>\n

Amazon chief Jess Bezos is almost $50 billion adrift in second place, raking in a cool $171 billion.<\/p>\n

The billionaires\u2019 list is apparently shrinking (2,755 folks made the list last year), and collectively, they\u2019re worth $12.7 trillion, down from a record $13.1 trillion.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is the boss of the three-comma club, with 735 billionaire citizens, 11 more than last time.<\/p>\n

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