How rich is “unique” businessman Lady Gaga: Has a fortune of more than $320 million, spends money on real estate, expensive cars, spends more than $600,000 to buy 27 Koi fish
It is estimated that Lady Gaga’s car collection has a total value of more than $1.8 million
Lady Gaga’s career is going from one level to the next and so is her bank account. Starting out as a Pop star, Lady Gaga has been proving her ability to branch out into other fields.
It’s no surprise that Lady Gaga was able to build a fortune of more than 3.4 trillion VND from her career, according to Forbes. However, some other financial reports estimate the total value of her assets to be more than Forbes’ figure, specifically more than 7.3 trillion VND.
With her career flourishing, Lady Gaga’s net worth will grow even more. But the question is, in what ways has Lady Gaga accumulated her huge fortune and how does she spend it?
Bumper income from music
The majority of Lady Gaga’s net worth comes from her successful music career. Since bursting onto the scene in 2008 with her iconic first album “The Fame,” Lady Gaga has been considered one of the best-selling artists ever. She has released five solo albums along with collaborations and soundtracks.
This brought the 36-year-old singer a lot of money. According to RIAA, Lady Gaga has earned at least 80.5 million USD (more than 1.8 trillion VND), counting digital singles alone.
As of 2020, the 11-time Grammy Award-winning artist has sold more than 145 million singles worldwide, more than 26 million albums. Her second studio album “Born This Way” helped Lady Gaga pocket no less than 182 billion VND, in 2011 alone.
The 6th album titled “Chromatica” released in 2020 helped increase Lady Gaga’s net worth to tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions of dollars, thanks to huge sales.
Lady Gaga at the 75th British Academy Film Awards in London, England. Photo: AP.
Lady Gaga also earns a huge amount of money from her tours around the world. She earned 3.5 million USD (more than 80 billion VND) from her first world tour – The Fame Ball.
Subsequent tours, including Born This Way and Monster Ball, respectively helped Lady Gaga earn 167 million USD (more than 3.8 trillion VND) and 227 million USD (more than 6.3 trillion VND).
In 2017, Lady Gaga had a 2-year residency agreement in Las Vegas, USA. Here, she had 74 performances at the MGM Park Theater. Tickets for shows range from 1.8 to 11.5 million VND.
According to reports, the female singer has earned more than 22.8 billion VND per performance, bringing her total career revenue for live performances to more than half a billion USD (more than 11.4 trillion VND). copper). Currently, only 4 other female singers can do this, including Madonna, Celine Dion, Britney Spears and Beyoncé.
This year, Lady Gaga continues to announce her residency in Las Vegas from April 14 to May 1. Ticket prices range from 3.3 million VND to more than 45 million VND per trip.
World tours help Lady Gaga earn a lot of money. Photo: Elle.
Cosmetics business
Lady Gaga also makes a lot of money from merchandise, including her perfume line. Her debut perfume, Fame, was released in 2012. As of 2013, it has grossed more than 22.8 trillion worldwide.
Lady Gaga has dipped her toes into a successful cosmetics career working with brands like MAC. Following in billionaire Rihanna’s footsteps, Lady Gaga created her own makeup line with longtime makeup artist Sarah Tanno in 2019.
A year later, the revenue report said the brand had earned more than 3.2 trillion VND and became the third best-selling celebrity makeup brand, after Rihanna’s Fenty and Kylie Jenner’s Kylie.
Lady Gaga’s cosmetics brand launched in 2019. Photo: Lady Gaga.
Acting talent
Along with her beauty products business, her acting ability is also what drives Lady Gaga’s net worth.
After the movie “A Star is Born” in 2018, the multi-talented female artist’s net worth increased by more than 1.1 trillion VND. Most recently, she played the lead role in a movie about a fashion family called “House of Gucci”.
Previously, she appeared in “American Horror Story” season 5. Her performance in this film helped her win the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
Besides, with her popularity, Lady Gaga also has lucrative collaboration contracts with brands.
Lady Gaga’s appearance in “House of Gucci”. Photo: House of Gucci.
Lady Gaga plays actor Bradley Cooper in “A Star is Born”. Photo: Warner Bros Pictures.
Luxury real estate portfolio
Recently, reports said that Lady Gaga owns an eclectic Tudor-style mansion in the Hollywood Hills worth no less than 120 billion VND. It was once owned by Frank Zappa and had its own recording studio.
Lady Gaga spent more than 514 billion VND on a large property in Malibu (USA) in 2014, a place she fondly called the “gypsy palace”. The 954-square-meter mansion features an ocean-view infinity pool, horse stables, and a bowling alley.
In 2012, she also bought an apartment in London’s wealthy Fitzrovia neighborhood and a Chelsea townhouse for nearly 700 billion VND in 2018.
Lady Gaga now owns this Malibu complex that was previously owned by Warner Bros. executive Dan Romanell. Photo: Google Map
Famous fashion memorabilia
The American singer attracted attention in 2012, when he spent nearly 23 billion VND to buy 55 of Michael Jackson’s most famous memorabilia items. Those memorabilia include the crystal gloves and jacket the late legend wore in the iconic music video “Bad.”
That’s not all. Lady Gaga also paid more than 3 billion VND for the dress of the late fashion designer and close friend Alexander McQueen in a charity auction.
Michael Jackson and the crystal glove. Photo: Handout, AP.
Billion dollar collection of cars
While many celebrities like to drive the latest supercars, the 36-year-old stylish superstar buys rare, classic cars. She was seen driving a refurbished 1965 Lincoln Continental Convertible, estimated worth more than 7.5 billion VND.
The female singer was also seen holding the steering wheel of a 1969 Chevrolet Nova SS, worth more than 6.2 billion VND. Hot Cars said other car models that Lady Gaga owns include a 1967 Ford Bronco (nearly 1 billion VND), a Rolls Royce Phantom VIII worth more than 10 billion VND, and a 2017 Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 Coupe (nearly 6 billion VND). ..
SCMP said the total value of Lady Gaga’s car collection could reach 41 billion VND.
Lady Gaga poses next to the Lincoln Continental. Photo: Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga drives a Lamborghini down the street. Photo: Hot Cars.
Pets are expensive
The stable that comes with Lady Gaga’s Malibu villa came in handy when she bought her first horse named Arabella in 2015. She also bought 3 French bulldogs for nearly 230 million each.
Notably, Lady Gaga also spent more than 1.3 billion VND for 27 Koi fish imported from Japan.
In addition to Arabella, Lady Gaga also bought another horse named Trigger. Photo: Lady Gaga.
