What Is Rihanna’s Net Worth?

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is just a machine that doesn’t seem to stop! The Barbadian singer, songwriter, fashion designer, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman has the type of work ethic that anyone who claims to like working would be envious of her efforts. She appeared on the scene with her debut album Music of the Sun (2005) and followed up with her second offering, A Girl like Me (2006), but her career really took off with the release of her third release, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). The third album is where she abandoned her more Caribbean sound and trended into a more dance, pop, R & B album where her smashing single, “Umbrella” took on a life of its own. Good Girl Gone Bad received seven Grammy Award nominations and won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella” in 2008. This started the successful runaway train that we know of today.

The Wealthiest Female Musician is what this singing beauty is according to Forbes. As the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house, she has made most of her fortune outside of her music. “Most of that comes not from music but from her partnership with LVMH, the French luxury goods giant run by billionaire Bernard Arnault. Rihanna and LVMH co-own the makeup brand Fenty Beauty. It launched in September 2017 at Sephora, another LVMH brand, and online at FentyBeauty.com, quickly becoming a viral success. Fenty Beauty racked up a reported $100 million in sales in its first few weeks, propelled by Rihanna’s fame and 71 million Instagram followers.” And that’s only a part of the story!

Most of her wealth comes from strategic partnerships, campaigns, and endorsement deals. She’s had deals with the likes of Puma, CoverGirl, Gucci, Clinique and most recently reported Amazon, which has shelled out $25 million for the rights to a documentary that features her.

In 2012, the superstar founded her own charity organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation, which supports health and education efforts in impoverished communities around the world. This young woman may become a billionaire sooner than we think!

Rihanna’s Net Worth:  $600M

 

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Christmas for One

There’s a Christmas song by Jackson 5-era Michael Jackson that appears on the 1973 double album—A Motown Christmas—that has been beautifully destroying me since I was a child. It’s called “Little Christmas Tree” and it is, by far, the most depressing holiday song in the Motown Christmas canon.

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Forever First Lady Michelle Obama Reveals Family Christmas Card, Dog Paws Included

Being a class act who’s all about the family is so “becoming” to her.

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What Is Rihanna’s Net Worth?

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is just a machine that doesn’t seem to stop! The Barbadian singer, songwriter, fashion designer, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman has the type of work ethic that anyone who claims to like working would be envious of her efforts. She appeared on the scene with her debut album Music of the Sun (2005) and followed up with her second offering, A Girl like Me (2006), but her career really took off with the release of her third release, Good Girl Gone Bad (2007). The third album is where she abandoned her more Caribbean sound and trended into a more dance, pop, R & B album where her smashing single, “Umbrella” took on a life of its own. Good Girl Gone Bad received seven Grammy Award nominations and won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Umbrella” in 2008. This started the successful runaway train that we know of today.

The Wealthiest Female Musician is what this singing beauty is according to Forbes. As the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house, she has made most of her fortune outside of her music. “Most of that comes not from music but from her partnership with LVMH, the French luxury goods giant run by billionaire Bernard Arnault. Rihanna and LVMH co-own the makeup brand Fenty Beauty. It launched in September 2017 at Sephora, another LVMH brand, and online at FentyBeauty.com, quickly becoming a viral success. Fenty Beauty racked up a reported $100 million in sales in its first few weeks, propelled by Rihanna’s fame and 71 million Instagram followers.” And that’s only a part of the story!

Most of her wealth comes from strategic partnerships, campaigns, and endorsement deals. She’s had deals with the likes of Puma, CoverGirl, Gucci, Clinique and most recently reported Amazon, which has shelled out $25 million for the rights to a documentary that features her.

In 2012, the superstar founded her own charity organization, the Clara Lionel Foundation, which supports health and education efforts in impoverished communities around the world. This young woman may become a billionaire sooner than we think!

Rihanna’s Net Worth:  $600M

 

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Baltimore on track to reach highest per-capita murder record as two women are slain

Carmen Rodriguez, 36, worked almost 16 hours every day of the week at the Kim Deli & Grocery near Patterson Park in Baltimore, Md., in an effort to support her children. But her life was cut short Sunday night when a gunman entered the store and opened fire, killing her, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Destiny Harris, 21, owner of Madam D Beauty Bar salon in Southeast Baltimore, was killed Saturday, when she was shot multiple times in the head, the report says.

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Two women were the latest names added to the list of murder victims in Baltimore, driving up the city’s per capita record to 338 homicides so far this year. The numbers, amid a widening population decline, has set a record for killings per capita, according to the news outlet.

The homicide numbers prompted the police union leader to call for police Commissioner Michael Harrison to take swift action to reduce crime, while City Council President Brandon Scott called for a complementary plan to help at-risk youth, the report says.

While the city grapples with ways to combat crime, friends and family mourned the loss of their loved ones.

Kim Deli & Grocery owner, Nidal Alshalabi, told The Sun that Rodriguez’s children were inside the deli when the shooting occurred.

A memorial continues to grow outside of Kim Deli & Grocery Store where 36 year old Carmen Rodriguez was killed Sunday night. One of her friends told me: “She used to give her heart out to a lot of people in this neighborhood.” @wjz pic.twitter.com/PSPh3xvijv

— Rachel Menitoff (@RachelMenitoff) December 24, 2019

Police said on the day Rodriguez lost her life, seven people were shot in Baltimore, including three teenagers outside of a downtown hookah lounge. Two people were shot and killed Saturday in East Baltimore.

Harris filed a police report saying she feared for her safety after her business was broken into twelve days before her death, according to Baltimore’s WMAR-TV. A couple was charged in the theft of $3,000 worth of hair bundles that Harrison sold at her salon, the report says. But there have been no arrests in her murder.

Police say a woman was fatally shot earlier tonight inside of a beauty salon in the 200 block of N Milton Ave, the Madam D Beauty Bar. Friends on social media are saying the victim was the owner … pic.twitter.com/r6Q2I9G4du

— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) December 22, 2019

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“She was my heart, loved her greatly… wonderful girl, entrepreneur, a go-getter. She built this [Madam D Beauty Bar] from the ground up,” her uncle Dewine McQueen told the television news outlet.

Harrison said, “Detectives are working tirelessly to identify the people responsible. We will continue through the holiday season with our planned, robust deployment throughout the city,” according to The Sun.

 

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