8 showbiz celebrities who made Forbes’ 2022 billionaires list: Rihanna debuted while Kim Kardashian, Ye, Jay-Z and more returned … but who has the highest net worth?

Apr 7 , 2022

Find out which celebs made their Forbes’ billionaire list debut. Photo: Handout; AP; @kimkardashian, @beyonce/Instagram

Rihanna, the world’s richest female musician, grew her billions with Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty; Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson made the list for the first time too

Returning also are Tyler Perry, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, while Skims owner Kardashian became a billionaire last year, and her ex-husband Kanye West in 2020

Forbes’ annual list of worldwide billionaires is chock full of celebrities this year, including Kim Kardashian, Kanye “Ye” West and Rihanna.

The American business magazine released its annual report on billionaires around the world on Tuesday, April 5, which included some returning billionaires and entrepreneurs who made the cut for the first time.

Rihanna, 34, is among the freshman class of billionaires, becoming the first billionaire of her home country of Barbados, according to Forbes.

Rihanna arrives for the Off-White Ready To Wear autumn/winter 2022-2023 fashion collection, unveiled during the Fashion Week in Paris, on February 28. Photo: Invision/AP

Declared the world’s richest female musician, the pop star has leveraged her Fenty Beauty cosmetics line and her Savage X Fenty lingerie business to a net worth of US$1.7 billion, the magazine says. She ranked No 1,729 on this year’s list.

Another entertainment mogul who made the list for the first time this year is director Peter Jackson, who helmed the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies.

With a net worth of US$1.5 billion, filmmaker Peter Jackson made the list for the first time this year. Photo: AP

Jackson, 60, became a billionaire in November after selling his stake in his Weta digital film effects shop to Unity Software for US$975 million, Forbes says. He’s No 1,929 on the list with a net worth of US$1.5 billion.

And, of course, the list was full of returning billionaires too.

After becoming a billionaire last year, Kardashian, 41, landed at No 1,645 on the Forbes’ billionaires list on Friday, April 1, with a net worth of US$1.8 billion.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at the 2021 Vanity Fair party. Photo: @kimkardashian/Instagram