Celebrities who earned millions from their second careers– One of the biggest problems with capitalism is that wealth accumulation seems to be easiest for those at the top of the tree, who already have comically large piles of cash hidden under their mattresses to begin with.
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This is a particularly pertinent point in the world of celebrity, where anybody with a famous face and an ounce of business sense seems to be cultivating very healthy secondary income streams. The bigger your name and bank balance, the easier it seems to be to start a business that can generate millions.
While many of the great and good have high-profile businesses that are never out of the showbiz and money pages – Kanye has his “luxury” (expensive) trainers and Dr. Dre is more famous for fronting Beats than for dropping them nowadays – there are many celebs that turn a tidy profit without necessarily remaining in the public’s consciousness. Many of these famous folk have been running their business for so long that we forgot what made them famous in the first place, while others have been quietly raking in the dollars and cents while going about their day jobs.
While it is easy to writhe in envy and bemoan that the 10 people on this list don’t really need another money-making avenue, it is hard to begrudge them their success. From farming avocados to becoming lifestyle gurus and renovating houses, it’s fair to say that they have at least worked hard to make their secondary careers a success. Well, almost all of them – feel free to gnash your teeth in jealousy at the bloke who was literally given a diamond mine for a knockdown price.
10. Tom Selleck
For a while, it seemed that Tom Selleck was just another 80s actor to fall victim to the curse of Steve Guttenburg, where anybody who worked with the hapless ‘actor’ suddenly found their careers in tatters. Whereas Selleck’s cheeky grin could once be spied nestling under the most famous mustache in Hollywood, illuminating the covers of magazines the world over, he has more or less disappeared from the screen in recent years.
Fear not, Magnum hasn’t been sulking in his mansion, combing his tach and dreaming of better days; he’s been busy selling avocados. Selleck owns a 63 acre farm in California, where he grows, picks and sells the little green fruits. Not only are avocados one of the most nutrient-packed foods in the world, they generate plenty of the other kind of green: Selleck makes enough cash from farming them that he doesn’t miss the Hollywood treadmill at all. He is far from the only celeb making money from avocados – Jamie Foxx has also dabbled in the farming industry.
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