ELLEN DEGENERES – EST. $490 MILLION

The comedienne and host is loved the world over, thanks to The Ellen DeGeneres Show through which she has managed to help plenty of people. It’s quite easy to forget that before this, she also starred in the successful sitcom, Ellen, and had experienced struggles due to her sexuality. Fortunately, that’s all behind her now, and the host is able to focus more on her business ventures and various advocacies. Ellen’s net worth is estimated at $490 million, which makes her one of the richest self-made women in the United States.

Ellen DeGeneres is best known for the sitcom Ellen created from 1994 to 1998, and the joint talk show Ellen DeGeneres show aired in 2003. Today, it is one of the highest-rated talk shows on daytime TV. More than half of Allen’s income comes from talk shows. She owns her own record company called Eleventeen. On top of that, she also owns A Very Good Production, and even has investments in her own lifestyle brand, ED Ellen DeGeneres.