The 20 richest musicians of all time – You’ll never guess the billionaires (+Pics)

19. Sting: $290 million
The five platinum albums he oversaw as the leader of the Police were followed by a yuppie-beloved solo career netting the ex-schoolteacher sales of 14 million more. Then there’s the Jaguar S-Type’s lucrative reappropriation of “Desert Rose,” and the 2007-08 reunion gigs with his old mates, which constituted the seventh-highest grossing tour of all time, pulling in $377 million. The man born Gordon Sumner was so rich in the late 1980s that his accountantstole £6 million from him, and it took him four years to notice.