Charlie Sheen used to be one of the most talked-about celebrities in the early 2000s. But after being away from the spotlight, he’s back to tell his side of the story with a new memoir and documentary out.
He’s regarded as one of the most successful actors (also nepo baby as the son of Martin Sheen and brother of Emilio Estevez), but in the past couple of decades, a life full of controversy has cast him to the sidelines. “It’s not about me setting the record straight or righting all the wrongs of my past,” Sheen told People about releasing The Book of Sheen and his Netflix documentary aka Charlie Sheen, consecutively.
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“Most of my 50s were spent apologizing to the people I hurt. I also didn’t want to write from the place of being a victim,” he continued. “I wasn’t, and I own everything I did. It’s just me, finally telling the stories in the way they actually happened. The stories I can remember, anyway.”
Those stories have shaped his legacy and also have affected where his net worth is today.
What is Charlie Sheen’s net worth?
Charlie Sheen’s net worth is currently $3 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. The site also reported that his net worth peaked at $150 million when he starred in Two and a Half Men. He had a 5% stake in the show, until he sold his profit participation rights in 2016 for nearly $27 million, meaning he could no longer earn residuals from the show. Court documents showed that he owed $12 million in debts.
After he was fired from the CBS sitcom, he made a 10/90 deal to star in the FX show Anger Management. The deal discloses an unusually large percentage of syndication ownership points, and if 10 episodes of the show had good ratings, then 90 more would be ordered. TMZ reported that Sheen had not received a single payment from his syndication deal, and he was owed $50 million.
Sheen lost an abundance of his net worth during his several controversies, divorce fees, and other legal battles. In 2019, his second wife, Denise Richards, claimed that Sheen owed her $450,000 in support payments. At the height of his drug addiction, he revealed to Good Morning America that he had sex with men, and that they extorted him for their silence. “It did come with a tremendous amount of extortion,” Sheen told GMA host Michael Strahan. “And so at the time, I was just like, ‘Alright, let’s just pay to keep it quiet. And just hope it just stays over there, make it go away, you know? Make it go away.’”
Sheen was also a regular at betting. A 2006 sworn declaration from Denise Richards alleged that the actor bet on sports “every day,” admitted losing “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in money.
How much did Charlie Sheen earn on Two and a Half Men?
Charlie Sheen reportedly earned $800,000 per episode from season 1 and earned his way up to $1.8 million during his final season. At the height of its success, it would total to about $40 million per season. That would make him the fourth-highest-earning actor of all time, behind Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon.
Sheen was fired from the show after drug abuse and a long battle against the show’s creator Chuck Lorre. At the time, he told TMZ: “This is very good news […] now I can take all of the bazillions, never have to look at whatshisc–-k again and I never have to put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension.”
However, things between the two eased, with Sheen returning to work with Lorre on his show Bookie. “We had a wonderful relationship for over eight years on Two and a Half Men. And then things happened,” he told People. “And so to find our way back to having that friendship again, and I’m a big admirer of his work, I always have been. It’s never been about the work. The work is impeccable.”
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