It is round 6:40 am PST as I start typing this text. Only a few miles from the place I am sitting, Dr. Dre might be nonetheless asleep in his Brentwood mansion. A mansion he purchased from Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen again in 2014 for $50 million that is doubtless price nearer to $75 million at the moment.
In a number of hours, Dre might be picked up by a fleet of SUVs and maybe even a police escort to whisk him 12 miles south to SoFi stadium in Inglewood, California to headline the Tremendous Bowl halftime present.
I’ve a sense it will likely be an emotional drive for Dre. Probably the most full-circle, “how did I get right here?” moments any particular person has ever skilled. Think about touring by motorcade out of your $75 million gated mansion on a hilltop in Brentwood to headline the Tremendous Bowl halftime present just some miles from the tough streets the place he grew up. I simply seemed up Dre’s childhood dwelling. It is an 18 minute drive door-to-door to SoFi Stadium.
Dr. Dre might be turning 57 in a number of days (Feb 18). Let’s fake he had a time machine and went again 40 years. Of the next accomplishments, which might be most difficult-to-fathom for a teenage Andre Younger?
- That he finally grew to become one of many richest and and most-famous celebrities on the planet.
- He is six-time Grammy winner who has bought a whole lot of tens of millions of information as a performer and producer.
- He is an entrepreneur who bought an organization for $3 billion.
- He is a philanthropist who has a complete college named after him at USC.
- That the Compton Excessive College performing arts heart is called in his honor after he made a $10 million donation.
- He’s headlining the Tremendous Bowl halftime that includes the Rams at a their dwelling stadium in Los Angeles… a lavish stadium situated a mere 18 minutes from his childhood dwelling in Compton.
Frankly, any a type of accomplishments would have melted a teenage Dr. Dre’s thoughts.
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We now have been monitoring Dr. Dre’s internet price longer than every other outlet on-line or in print media. That is a reality. We have been the primary publication to estimate Dr. Dre’s private fortune, launching his internet price web page in September 2009.
Again then Forbes was nonetheless a print journal that primarily reported on random German industrial magnates. Bloomberg did not have an editorial web site in any respect. Bitcoin was just some months previous. Invoice Gates was the richest individual on this planet with a internet price of “simply” $40 billion. That internet price at the moment would not crack the highest 30. Steve Jobs was nonetheless alive. Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t a billionaire.
After we first added Dre’s internet price to CNW in 2009, we pegged his fortune at $75 million. That quantity grew slowly for a number of years. As you recognize, Dre’s largest windfall got here in Could 2014 when he and Jimmy Iovine bought Beats by Dre to Apple for $3 billion. On the time of the sale, Jimmy and Dre each owned 25% of Beats by Dre and subsequently they every earned $750 million pre-tax from the deal.
We realized a complete lot about Dre’s fortunes in December 2021 when he was within the midst of a heated divorce battle along with his wife of 24 years, Nicole Younger. In response to Dre’s courtroom filings, at that time he managed liquid belongings price between $450 and $500 million. The submitting confirmed that Dre earns a mean of $230,000 per 30 days, he bought $73 million price of Apple shares within the earlier 12 months, held $183 million in checking and managed $270 million price of non-public property.
Ultimately Dre agreed to pay Nicole $100 million, with $50 million upfront and one other $50 million a yr later.
When it is all stated and carried out, even after the $100 million settlement, at the moment we estimate Dr. Dre’s internet price at…
$500 million
That fortune simply makes Dre the richest performer on the Halftime present (and possibly one of many richest folks in SoFi stadium), however let’s take a fast have a look at the fortunes of his fellow performers:
Dr Dre internet price: $500 million
Eminem internet price: $230 million
Snoop Dogg internet price: $150 million
Kendrick Lamar internet price: $75 million
Mary J. Blige internet price: $20 million
