Celebrities are made to kill everybody’s boredom. While we enjoy each one’s performances, let us feed our curiosity about who are the top 4 highest earning celebrities of today and how much they paid in making our lives a lot livelier.  Here are the best rewarded personalities of show business according to Forbes.com:

Top 4.  Madonna ($110 million)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is presently the highest paid recording artist as dated. Recording artist/ actress/ entrepreneur gained title Queen of Pop due to successful album series of Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986). According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Madonna has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. Wikepedia reiterates she is ranked by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century, and the second top-selling female artist in the United States (Barbra Streisand as #1) with 64 million certified albums. Guinness World Records listed her as the world’s most successful female recording artist of all time. Listed among the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century (by Ladies’ Home Journal), Madonna continues her legacy in contributing much in the field of contemporary music. After the launch of her latest album, Hard Candy, she proved the world she’s a never ending super star.

Top 3. Steven Spielberg ($150 million)
American movie director Steven Allan Spielberg made it to top 3.  Born December 18, 1946), aside from directing films of different themes and genres, Speilberg is also a screenwriter, who by the way, produces his own films. In a career spanning six decades, his science- fiction and adventure films never failed to rule the modern Hollywood blockbuster lists. In his later years, his films began dealing with sensitive issues such as the slavery, war and terrorism. He is well thought-out to be one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Winning numerous awards for box office hits Speilberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998), Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993) are believed to sale billions. His rumored future plan in making a motion capture film trilogy based on The Adventures of Tintin, with Peter Jackson, is expected to be as great as his previous masterpieces. The first part of the trilogy film, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which will be released later by 2011 due to the necessary computer animations.

Top 2. George Lucas ($170 million)
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is a great film producer, screenwriter, director. He is the founder/ chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. And have had multiple Academy Award nominations. One of the most financially successful directors and/or producers of today, despite independence, he is by no doubt a one lucky guy. Famous because of the science fiction based Star Wars and joint creation of the adventure based Indiana Jones, Lucas keep on hitting top movie charts, gaining millions with his God given talent.

Top 1. Oprah Winfrey ($275 million)
Born January 29, 1954, Oprah Gail Winfrey made a big name in American history as a veteran host, producer, and philanthropist known for hosting slef- titled multi- awarded talk show that made her the richest African American woman of the 20th century. Her rugs to riches story inspired a lot of blacks to do well and be recognized. Hardships like being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14 made Winfrey strong. Branded as the most influential female in the world, Winfrey continues to wow the world with her sensational ventures on television, radio, film, and even on books and magazines.

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