Rihanna named world’s richest female musician
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- <span style="font-weight: 400;">Barbados and US outstanding entertainer Robyn </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/rihanna"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rihanna</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Fenty, popularly known simply as Rihanna, has just made another record.
- “I want to be as disruptive as possible,” </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/20/t-magazine/rihanna-fenty-louis-vuitton.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">she told the New York Times of the venture</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.
- Boots recently acquired UK distribution rights for the brand.
- “The money means that I can take care of my family.
- The money means that I can facilitate the businesses that I want to.
Barbados and US outstanding entertainer Robyn Rihanna Fenty, popularly known simply as Rihanna, has just made another record. But this time not a music record, but one that has to do with money.
Worth US$600 million
Last month Rihanna was been named the world’s richest female musician by Forbes magazine. Her worth is estimated at $600m including revenues made from her fashion and beauty lines in addition to those from her music career.
In May 2019, French luxury brand LVMH confirmed it would launch Rihanna’s fashion company, Fenty, making her the first black woman to lead an LVMH fashion house. “I want to be as disruptive as possible,” she told the New York Times of the venture. “The brand is not traditional.”
LVMH also backs Rihanna’s lucrative cosmetics company, Fenty Beauty, which launched in 2017 from which Rihanna has earned $570m, Forbes reports. Boots recently acquired UK distribution rights for the brand. She also designs an inclusive lingerie line, Savage x Fenty, in partnership with TechStyle Fashion Group.
Money is to help others
In May, Rihanna told the New York Times that she wasn’t driven by money but by her work. “The money means that I can take care of my family. The money means that I can facilitate the businesses that I want to. I can create jobs for other people. My money is not for me; it’s always the thought that I can help someone else or, in the future, for if I have kids.”
In 2012, Rihanna founded the Clara Lionel Foundation, which supports health and education efforts in impoverished communities around the world. In February 2017, she was named humanitarian of the year by Harvard University.
Forbes’s list of the top five richest female musicians finds Madonna in second place ($570m), Céline Dion in third ($450m), Beyoncé and Barbra Streisand tying in fourth ($400m) and Taylor Swift in sixth ($360m).
Kardashian scion Kylie Jenner was named America’s youngest “self-made” billionaire earlier this year by Forbes thanks to her cosmetics brand, Kylie Cosmetics.
The May issue of Forbes magazine also named Jay-Z, 49, as the world’s first billionaire rapper, with an empire “conservatively” totaling $1bn after valuing his various ventures as well as any real estate and his art collection.
