Tyler Perry Tops Forbes's List Of Entertainment's Highest-Paid Men
Posted on Mon Sep 12, 2011 04:40 PM PDT
Tyler Perry has topped Forbes Magazine’s newly released list of Entertainment’s Highest-Paid Men.
The writer/director/producer/actor earned an estimated $130 million from film and television projects between May 2010 and May 2011.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer was the second highest earning man in Hollywood this past year, raking in $113 million from film and television projects, including Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and the CSI franchise.
Leonardo DiCaprio is the only dedicated actor on the list, having earned $77 million from blockbuster films Shutter Island and Inception.
Here is Forbes’s full list of Entertainment’s Highest-Paid Men:
- Tyler Perry - $130 million
- Jerry Bruckheimer - $113 million
- Steven Spielberg - $107 million
- Elton John - $100 million
- Simon Cowell - $90 million
- James Patterson - $84 million
- Dr. Phil McGraw - $80 million
- Leonardo DiCaprio - $77 million
- Howard Stern - $76 million
- Tiger Woods - $75 million








