Oprah And Michael Jordan Among Forbes' List Of Top 50 Highest-Paid Entertainers

Jet, March 22, 1999

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey and retired basketball great Michael Jordan are among the list of 50 Highest-Paid Entertainers named by Forbes magazine this year.

Winfrey was named fourth on the list, raking in $125 million, while Jordan came in seventh on the list, earning $69 million.

Other noted Blacks on the list included:

11. Master P/Rapper-music mogulentrepreneur ($56.5 million)

16. Sean "Puffy" Combs/Rapper music mogul-entrepreneur ($53.5 million)

21. Spice Girls/Female group that includes Black member Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown ($49 million)

23. Eddie Murphy/Actor-comedian ($47.5 million)

38. Will Smith/Actor-rapper ($34 million)

44. Tiger Woods/Golf phenom ($26.8 million)

48. Grant Hill/Basketball star ($21.6 million)

Forbes created estimates based on figures compiled from interviews with attorneys, managers, agents, executives and entertainment insiders. It counts pretax gross income when it is earned, not when the celebrities are paid.