June 23, 2002 at 2:02 pm
The full list:
The pay column below gives earnings in millions of dollars, as estimated by Forbes. The Web hits column, one of the factors Forbes used to calculate media buzz, shows the number of links returned by a search for the celebrity’s name in Google ( news – external web site)’s Internet search engine. Other factors included press clippings, magazine cover stories and television and radio mentions.
NAME PAY ($ mln) WEB HITS
1) Britney Spears 39.2 997,000
2) Tiger Woods 69.0 378,000
3) Steven Spielberg 100.O 237,000
4) Madonna ( news – web sites) 43.0 627,000
5) U2 69.0 669,000
6) ‘N Sync ( news – web sites) 42.3 306,000
7) Mariah Carey 58.0 327,000
Oprah Winfrey 150.0 120,000
9) Michael Jordan 36.0 384,000 10) Tom Hanks 45.0 193,000 11) George Lucas 200.0 327,000 12) Jennifer Lopez 37.0 563,000 13) Julia Roberts 20.0 371,000 14) Stephen King 52.4 381,000 15) Ben Affleck 40.0 178,000 16) Mel Gibson 40.0 323,000 17) Bruce Willis 46.0 288,000 1 Bill Clinton 25.0 895,000 19) Backstreet Boys ( news – web sites) 36.8 383,000 20) Cameron Diaz 40.0 265,000 21) Michael Schumacher 67.0 245,000 22) Tom Clancy 47.8 155,000 23) David Letterman ( news – Y! TV) 32.0 127,000 24) Dave Matthews Band 50.0 152,000 25) Elton John 30.0 315,000 26) Adam Sandler 47.0 114,000 27) Nicole Kidman 15.0 312,000 2 Jennifer Aniston 24.0 139,000 29) Arnold Schwarzenegger 35.0 191,000 30) Shaquille O’Neal 24.0 111,000 31) Kobe Bryant 22.0 126,000 32) Rosie O’Donnell 25.0 294,000 33) Harrison Ford 30.0 284,000 34) J.K. Rowling ( news – web sites) 41.8 144,000 35) Mike Tyson 23.0 148,000 36) Robert DeNiro 40.0 49,400 37) Samuel L. Jackson 34.0 152,000 3 Lennox Lewis 28.0 57,300 39) Meg Ryan 25.0 168,000 40) Rush Limbaugh 32.0 83,700 41) Jay Leno ( news – Y! TV) 20.0 116,000 42) Sandra Bullock 30.0 222,000 43) Rudy Giuliani 6.0 453,000 44) Aerosmith ( news – web sites) 25.0 508,000 45) Howard Stern 31.0 133,000 46) Alex Rodriguez 25.0 61,800 47) Mary Higgins Clark 43.6 37,600 4 Jerry Bruckheimer 40.0 32,200 49) Keanu Reeves 30.0 116,000 50) Derek Jeter 18.5 70,000 51) Brian Grazer/ Ron Howard 45.0 7,630 52) Eric Clapton 22.0 251,000 53) Andre Agassi 18.5 85,400 54) Dean Koontz 44.2 34,000 55) Sammy Sosa 18.0 95,900 56) Jeff Gordon 20.0 79,900 57) Michael Bay 36.0 39,600 5 Reese Witherspoon 18.0 65,100 59) Lisa Kudrow 26.0 51,300 60) Venus Williams ( news – web sites) 11.0 100,000 61) Kevin Garnett 23.0 46,100 62) Paul Harvey 30.0 12,300 63) Grant Hill 24.0 44,000 64) Martina Hingis 9.0 113,000 65) Arnold Palmer 17.0 105,100 66) Manny Ramirez 19.0 37,000 67) Anna Kournikova ( news – web sites) 10.0 242,000 6 Courtney Cox-Arquette 24.0 40,200 69) Jack Welch 5.3 119,000 70) Jennifer Capriati 6.0 56,000 71) Katie Couric 13.0 27,400 72) Serena Williams ( news – web sites) 8.0 62,900 73) Regis Philbin 20.0 29,300 74) Jacques Villeneuve 20.0 95,100 75) Ken Griffey, Jr. 16.5 59,800 76) Scottie Pippen 18.0 37,700 77) Alonzo Mourning 18.0 29,700 7 John Madden 13.0 66,600 79) Wolfgang Puck 15.0 46,800 80) Emeril Lagasse 6.7 32,400 81) Bill Cosby 3.0 73,100 82) Jamie Sale and David Pelletier
0.5 20,100 83) Gisele Bundchen 12.5 36,800 84) The Olsen Twins 15.0 45,400 85) The Osbournes 1.6 38,600 86) Mandy Moore 2.6 101,000 87) Heidi Klum 4.5 64,700 8 Christy Turlington 6.2 31,700 89) Frankie Muniz 3.3 26,400 90) Martin Short 2.5 34,300 91) Milla Jovovich 4.3 67,000 92) Lil’ Bow Wow 3.2 73,600 93) Carolyn Murphy 5.8 1,690 94) Ashleigh Banfield 0.2 1,610 95) Alain Ducasse 5.0 7,420 96) Todd English 5.0 3,050 97) Melissa Joan Hart 2.5 41,600 9 Orlando Jones 2.0 20,100 99) Nobuyuki Matsuhisa 2.3 597 100) Ben Curtis 0.2 1,070
source: Reuters
By: mongu - 24th June 2002 at 21:44
RE: Forbes’ ‘Celebrity 100’ List
Oh come on, Kabir!
You need to have a healthy scepticism when reading anything that is printed…
Imagine if you were in charge of compiling this list. What would your approach be? What problems might you encounter? How would you ensure accuracy?
By: Hand87_5 - 24th June 2002 at 11:01
RE: Forbes’ ‘Celebrity 100’ List
Didn’t find my name : is it a mistake ???? -:)
By: KabirT - 24th June 2002 at 05:58
RE: Forbes’ ‘Celebrity 100’ List
well its Forbes so i recon its quite acurate!
By: mongu - 23rd June 2002 at 21:14
RE: Forbes’ ‘Celebrity 100’ List
How accurate do you think this is? Wealthy people (quite rightly) stash their money all over the place, usually not in the US!