{"id":527389,"date":"2026-03-10T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:52:08","slug":"dr-dre-is-finally-a-billionaire-according-to-new-forbes-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/527389\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dre Is Finally a Billionaire, According to New Forbes List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNearly a dozen years after he declared himself \u201chip-hop\u2019s first billionaire,\u201d it seems Dr. Dre<\/a> finally is one, according to Forbes\u2019 2026 Billionaires list.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey need to update the Forbes list, shit just changed,\u201d Dre said in May of 2014, after he and Jimmy Iovine sold their Beats by Dre business to Apple for $3 billion<\/a> (which was eventually merged into Apple Music).<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, it\u2019s a very long list \u2014 and a vivid demonstration of the vast earnings gap between the 1% and the rest of the world \u2014\u00a0and Dre is tied for 3332nd on the world\u2019s richest list, with Jared Kushner, Rihanna, steel magnate Richard Teets Jr. and lots of others.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe also didn\u2019t make Forbes\u2019 splashy painting of some of the world\u2019s richest and most toxic people (many of whom presumably can\u2019t stand each other) gathered together at a party on a super-yacht, including President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg and others, with two of the three pictured Black people (Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9) off in the left corner, with Oprah relegated to the balcony. Beyonc\u00e9 is also new to the list, although her billionaire status was announced several months ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the announcement, Dre joins \u201can elite group of celebrities who have recently crossed the three-comma threshold\u201d \u2014 of the 22 billionaire entertainers Forbes has identified, nearly half were added in the last three years, and he becomes just the sixth musician, joining Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z, as well as Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen and Rihanna. The latter three do not appear in the illustration either.<\/p>\n

\n\tElon Musk tops the Billionaires list for the second year in a row and is the richest person ever recorded, worth an estimated $839 billion, the announcement states. His net worth skyrocketed by half of a trillion dollars from last year, thanks to a rise in the value of Tesla, and SpaceX which is aiming to go public in 2026. Musk is the first person ever recorded to reach the $800 billion mark, as he moves toward becoming the world\u2019s first trillionaire.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the year of the billionaire,\u201d said Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes Senior Editor, Wealth. \u201cThe planet added more than one billionaire per day over the past twelve months as the AI-powered stock market boom boosted fortunes to previously unimaginable heights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLarry Page, cofounder of Google, follows far behind Musk, in the No. 2 spot with an estimated net worth of $257 billion, followed by his cofounder Sergey Brin at No. 3 ($237 billion). Meanwhile, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos holds the No. 4 spot ($224 billion) and Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg ($222 billion) rounds out the top 5.<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Donald Trump\u2019s fortune increased by 27%, to an estimated $6.5 billion, thanks largely to crypto dealings and his New York fraud penalty being thrown out, according to the announcement. He ranks No. 645 worldwide, although that position may be imperiled by the growing global impact of his war of choice in Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly a dozen years after he declared himself \u201chip-hop\u2019s first billionaire,\u201d it seems Dr. Dre finally is one,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,120141,75,341],"class_list":["post-527389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dr-dre","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}