Russell Brand estimated net worth

Net Worth:

15 Million USD

Source:

Comedian,TV/Radio presenter

Citizenship:

United Kingdom

The ex-junkie and alcoholic has earned millions despite being sacked from several jobs and courting controversy wherever he goes. Brand has an estimated net worth of $15 million. Brand first shot to fame presenting Big Brother’s Big Mouth from 2004 to 2007.

However, prior to that he’d enjoyed a stint on MTV which ended when he was fired for coming to work dressed as Osama Bin Laden the day after 9/11.

The controversies don’t stop there. Brand received death threats after referring to George W Bush as a ‘retarded cowboy’ while presenting the 2008 MTV video awards.

In the same year together with TV presenter Jonathan Ross, Brand enraged the nation with a prank telephone call to Andrew Sachs broadcast on Radio 2, boasting that he’d slept with the actor’s granddaughter.

Ofcom fined the BBC £150,000 for the incident, the biggest penalty in the broadcaster’s history.

In the aftermath Brand quit his £200,000 a year weekly radio show while Ross was suspended by the BBC.

The embarrassing incidents that litter Brand’s life and career have given him plenty of material for his stand-up tours.

Estimates put his earnings from comedy alone in 2008 at £1m after the successful Scandalous tour while other research (from The Sun newspaper) suggest he’s earned £4m from his comedy career.

Now a Hollywood star too, Brand has two new films hitting the big screen this summer: a remake of Arthur in which he’s aptly cast as the rich playboy, and The Tempest with Helen Mirren.

He’s already starred in several films including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and spin-off Get Him To The Greek.

Brand’s first book My Booky Wook was a best seller and led to a £1.8m two-book deal with Harper Collins for the sequel My Booky Wook 2 and Articles of Faith, a collection of Brand’s national newspaper football columns.

Despite his reputation as a lothario and being treated for sex addiction, Brand married singer Katy Perry on 23 October 2010.

The wedding in the Indian jungle cost the pair about £300,000 and incorporated tigers, elephants, a horse, and a live performance from rapper Diddy.

The couple booked all 10 of the £830-a-night tents at the luxurious Amani-Khas camp in Ranthambore National Park for their guests.

Brand refused to sell pictures of the wedding to newspapers or magazines and didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement.

‘I want to make our wedding just about me and her loving each other and we’re getting married in front of our friends and family and keeping it normal,’ he said at the time, ‘So it ain’t selling the pictures, ain’t doing no pre-nup.’

The couple were splashing the cash in the lead up to their ‘normal’ wedding, buying a £2.2m house in Los Angeles in December 2009 with Brand selling his £2.5m bachelor pad in London.

To celebrate his 35th birthday in August 2010, Perry bought her then husband-to-be a $200,000 (£123,000) ticket to space. Brand will have to undergo three days of intense training before he can go on his Virgin Galactic mission, which will see him travel 365,000ft into the atmosphere. In December 2011, Brand filed for divorce from popstar wife, Katy Perry.