New Yorkers Making The Big Bucks

Forbes has put out their list of the Top 100 Most Powerful Celebrities, something to bicker about at the water cooler, no doubt. Here are some of the top-ranked New Yorker's and their earnings:

Jay-Z at #9 with $83M
David Letterman at #17 with $40M
Donald Trump at #19 with $32M
Sean Combs at #43 with $23M
Derek Jeter at #50 with $28M
Bill Clinton at #55 with $7M
Regis Philbin at #64 with $21M
Barbara Walters at #75 with $12M

The top 5 overall were (in order): Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Madonna, Rolling Stones and Brad Pitt (Angelina made #14 making $15M less than Brad). "Earnings estimates are for June 2006 to June 2007," and their figures are generated by "Billboard, Pollstar, Adams Media Research, Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BookScan. Rankings generated by combining earnings with other metrics: Web mentions on Google press clips compiled by LexisNexis; TV/radio mentions by Factiva; and number of times a celebrity's face appeared on the cover of 32 major consumer magazines."

If Andy Warhol was right, and "Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art," then we've got a lot of non-starving artists on our hands. Maybe they'll be the future clientele of the "new" Hotel Chelsea.

(Note: beware the loud video ads on Forbes' site when clicking the link.)

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events, News on June 18, 2007 5:35 PM

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guest

New Yorker is what?

Please, together we can end the scourge of apostrophe abuse.

guest

Derek - call me!

guest

Then I apologize Lady Jen for my cranky post. Cary on!!

Jen Carlson

Yes, there are more New Yorkers in the 100 celebrities listed in the article that is linked to. If you read the post, it says:

"Here are some of the top-ranked New Yorker's and their earnings."

Some, not all. I felt like listing all of them would have been too much, and you can click on the link to read the entire list.

guest

How can Howard Stern @70 million be left out of wealthy Ny'ers?? I swear it seems like Gothamist is written by everyone BUT real New Yorkers, you guys are unreal sometimes. I guess this column is about as NY authentic as Times Square is now. What next an article on how authentic NY pizaa can be had @ Sbarro's? yikes

guest

It's not top 100 earnings, its top 100 most powerful. You missed A-Rod at number 29, and a former president being ranked 46 spots below Jay-Z seems just a little... off base.

guest

i Blame Jay Z for making Hip Hop and rap gay. The guy started wearing those fitted faggot suits and now all the gangsters wear those superhomo Printed Hoodies with rainbow flowers on them. GAY!!!!