While it's a cliché that celebrities love to spend extravagant amounts of money (though it has a basis in truth), there are also many instances where celebrities took their initial fame and made smart business decisions. Those decisions are wide and varied, from investment firms to clothing and lifestyle brands to literally having ownership stakes in sports teams.
Each person on this list took their most marketable assets and parlayed them into unique kinds of success. There's no set playbook to celebrity business wealth, in other words, except that it includes a smart and individualized strategy (and, while they're not recognized as often, a really smart team of people helping bring it to execution).
