Barbadian singer, Rihanna has emerged as the youngest self-made billionaire woman in the United States of America after accumulating a net worth of $1.4billion by age 34, knocking Kim Kardashian to second place.
The 34-year-old pop singer made Forbes’ annual list of America’s richest self-made women for the third year in a row, ranking 21st overall. She’s the only billionaire under 40 on the list.
The next-youngest billionaire on the Forbes list is Kim Kardashian, 41, who has a net worth of $1.8 billion.
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According to Forbes, the Barbados native is a billionaire due to the success of her cosmetics line, which she co-owns with French luxury retailer LVMH, and which “generated more than $550m in revenue in 2020”.
While Fenty Beauty “comprises the majority of her fortune,” it is far from Rihanna’s only source of income, as the outlet notes that the nine-time Grammy winner also earns a significant amount from her music career and her lingerie brand, Savage x Fenty, which “raised money at a $1bn valuation in February 2021”.
Rihanna currently has a 30 per cent stake in the company.
As for her status as a self-made billionaire, Forbes has given Rihanna a “self-made score” of 10, a ranking the outlet explains ranges from one to 10 and indicates how much of one’s fortune they have inherited or built on their own.
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According to Forbes, a ranking of one through five indicates “someone who inherited some or all of his or her fortune,” while scores six through 10 “are for those who built their company or established a fortune on his or her own”.
