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The Net Worth Of These 15 Celebrities Is Unbelievable

1. George Lucas – $5.4 Billion

Networth GEORGE min

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The lesson here is that you only have to do something right once to be really successful.

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have a lot in common. They both attended the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. They’re both native Californians who still live in the state. They created Indiana Jones together, and they’re both remembered as legendary directors.

The big difference, however, is that while Spielberg has directed almost 30 feature films over his career, George Lucas has directed six.

SIX. And three of those movies were the universally hated Star Wars prequels. Yet his net worth is almost twice that of Spielberg. But how did this happen?

Did you see the words Star Wars up there? That’s how it happened. Although Lucas has not directed very many films, he created the Star Wars universe, which is one of the biggest cultural touchstones of the modern era. It’s spawned action figures, comics, animated TV shows, and a whole host of merchandise. It’s so popular that Disney just bought the rights to make more movies forever for about $4 billion.

and that $4 billion? It’s not even counted in Lucas’s net worth. He’s already so rich that he gave all that money away to California public schools. He doesn’t need it.

And do you know the cruel irony? After Lucas finished “Star Wars,” he took one look at the final cut and decided that it was going to be a flop. He didn’t even want to release it, but a close friend made a bet with him that it would be a hit. If indeed it was, this friend would get 2.5% of Lucas’s “Star Wars” earnings. The name of that friend?

Steven Spielberg.

I’d write out some kind of congratulations, but I actually just took a look at my own bank balance and I’m crying so hard that it’s getting hard to type.

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