Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, June 7th. Today on Forbes, America's

richest women celebrities 2025. In business, timing is everything, even for the rich and famous.

The boom time for celebrity entrepreneurship took off like a rocket around the end of 2020, and the pop stars,

actors and talk show hosts, who best took advantage minted fortunes in the hundreds of millions

of dollars, even billions in a few cases, by putting their name on everything from cosmetics

brands to TV and movie production companies. But now they, like many others, are feeling the effects of a cooling economy.

On Forbes's list of America's richest self-made women this year, which was released earlier this week,

16 celebrities rank among the 100 entrepreneurs, executives, and entertainers.

In order to make the cut, candidates had to be worth

at least $350 million, up from $300 million last year, and $225 million in 2023.

These stars of the stage and screen are collectively worth $14.1 billion, up from $13.3 billion last year,

thanks to the addition of actress Selena Gomez, at number 48 on the list,

who isn't yet a billionaire, but whose estimated $700 million net worth,

makes up almost the entirety of that difference.

Most of the other 15 stars fortunes are

little changed from a year ago. Gomez launched her cosmetics company Rare Beauty at the start

of the celebrity business boom in September 2020, and it disclosed $367 million in revenue

by 2023.

Similarly, Judy Shindland, aka Judge Judy, at No. 61 on the list, signed a.g. Mega deal in late 2020 to move her eponymous TV arbitration show to Amazon Prime.

Pop star Rihanna, at No. 35 on the list, raised money for her savage fentee lingerie brand

at a $1 billion valuation in early 2021. Madonna, at number 42 on our list, signed a lucrative

new deal with Warner Music that summer. And perhaps most notably, movie star Reese Witherspoon, at number

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