Jennifer Lopez Is Worth Over $150 Million! Here’s How She Built Her Wealth

Jennifer Lopez has had a storied career as a singer, actress and businesswoman.

The award-winning artist started her career as a dancer in 1991’s In Living Color before becoming a successful actress, kickstarting her career with in movies like 1997’s Selena and 1998’s Out of Sight. The pop star also debuted her first studio album, On the 6, in 1999.

Her career has taken her through several eras, from starring in popular romantic comedies in the early 2000s to serving as a judge on American Idol and World of Dance. Her multi-faceted career has also included a number of endorsements and projects, including longstanding deals with Versace and DSW.

According to Forbes, Lopez was worth over $150 million as of 2020, with recent projects including her 2024 album This Is Me…Now and the subsequent film and documentary that accompanied it. She also signed a 2021 multi-year deal with Netflix to produce a number of TV shows and movies in collaboration with her Nuyorican Productions company.

From her artistic career to her charity work and business pursuits, here’s everything to know about what makes up Jennifer Lopez’s worth.

How much is Jennifer Lopez worth?

As of October 2020, Lopez was worth $150 million, according to Forbes. However, since then, she has embarked on a number of lucrative ventures, including a multi-year producing deal with Netflix that has already spawned three projects: 2023’s The Mother, 2024’s Atlas and The Cipher.

In 2023, she also launched a number of businesses, such as her spritz brand, Delola, a collaboration between her lifestyle brand, J.Lo by Jennifer Lopez, and retailer Revolve and a footwear line, JLO Jennifer Lopez.

The “On the Floor” singer also released her ninth studio album in 2024, accompanied by a documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and a musical movie, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story. Determined to make her vision come to life, Lopez contributed $20 million of her own money to get the musical off the ground until Amazon picked it up.

What are Jennifer Lopez’s record and movie sales?

As of 2022, Lopez had sold more than 80 million records with 15 billion streams worldwide, according to her Halftime documentary. She also starred in over 40 movies that grossed over $3 billion.

Even with her breakout film role, Lopez was already breaking records, becoming the highest-paid Latina actress at the time after earning $1 million for Selena, according to Variety. She also reportedly took home $20 million in season 11 as a judge on American Idol, per Forbes, and a similar amount when she returned for season 13.

Since Forbes calculated her net worth, Lopez also starred in The Mother, which she co-produced and became Netflix’s most-watched movie in 2023. The success came off the back of her 2022 theater release, Marry Me, which earned $50 million at the box office and became the most streamed day-and-date movie on Peacock.

She has even more projects coming up that she will co-produce with Netflix, including the adaptation of Emily Henry’s novel Happy Place and a Bob the Builder movie, the latest of Mattel’s products to make it to the silver screen, according to The Guardian.

What are all of Jennifer Lopez’s businesses and endorsement deals?

Lopez has been involved in a number of business deals and endorsements throughout her career while also starting her own ventures.

Perhaps her most lucrative business venture is her fragrance brand which started with the release of Glow by JLo in 2002 and quickly became the top-selling fragrance in the U.S. She released another perfume in 2003, as well as a clothing line, which grossed $300 million in revenue throughout 2004, per TIME. By 2012, sales exceeded $2 billion.

As far as collaborations, Lopez launched a 2018 makeup collection with Inglot Cosmetics, became the face of Coach in 2019, released a shoe collection in partnership with DSW in 2021 and created a lingerie collection with Intimissimi to promote her album in 2024. She also invested in companies including Hims & Hers Health, Bodyarmor SuperDrink, Goli nutritional supplements and meal delivery service Wonder.

In 2023, she started a number of companies after also launching JLo Beauty in December 2020.

“I think I’ve been thinking about it for about 20 years. Everywhere I went, I felt like everybody was always asking me about my skin. And as I got more mature, the questions came more often,” Lopez said during a December 2020 appearance on PEOPLE (The Show!). “It was actually very nice, but I realized that it was almost like an obligation. Like I had to put out a skincare line for everybody who was asking.”

How much real estate does Jennifer Lopez own?

Since achieving fame, the Hustlers star has owned several properties. From 2000 to 2004, she owned a mansion in Los Angeles called The Summit, which was later bought by Gwen Stefani.

When she was married to singer Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014, Lopez lived in a Long Island home which was sold for $4.5 million in 2017, per Newsday. That same year, she also sold a $10 million house in Hidden Hills, Calif., according to the Los Angeles Times.

Most recently, Lopez sold her Bel Air mansion in October 2023 for $34 million and her New York City penthouse in April 2024. The apartment was on the market for seven years and was asking for nearly $25 million, but her agents didn’t confirm how much she ultimately sold it for.

Lopez put her Beverly Hills mansion that she shared with Ben Affleck, from whom she filed for divorce in August 2024, for sale in July 2024. The 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom was purchased for $60 million in May 2023 and is listed for $68 million.

How much does Jennifer Lopez donate to charity?

The fashion mogul has been active in her philanthropic efforts throughout her career. She’s been a longtime supporter of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and has often donated proceeds from her concerts or tours to charitable causes, such as $1 million from her Las Vegas residency profits to humanitarian aid in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017, per Billboard.

In September 2021, Lopez started her own philanthropic company, Limitless Labs, which supports and bolsters Latina entrepreneurs. She partnered with Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses initiative in an effort to raise Latina business owners’ platforms.

Six months later, Lopez partnered with micro-finance nonprofit Grameen America to distribute $14 billion in loans to 600,000 Latina-owned small businesses by 2030.

“We’re changing lives,” she said on TODAY in September 2022. “We want to take the Latino entrepreneur and empower them, give them opportunity where there wasn’t. That opportunity can change your life.”

What has Jennifer Lopez said about her worth?

As she was rising in the 1990s, Lopez was colloquially known as “Jenny from the block,” branding herself as just a girl raised in the Bronx who came from a less privileged childhood and built an empire for herself. The singer doesn’t take the privilege she now has for granted.

“For me even in my own business, I was an artist who has making billions of dollars for other people and not really realizing it, just happy to be in the room,” she said on TODAY of how she started out. “And then I started to realize, like, ‘Wait a minute, I can make my own perfume, I can do this in my own way. I can own a part of this business.’ ”

She explained that her parents’ support and the confidence they instilled in her to own who she is contributed to her success — as did her tenacity to keep going.

“I don’t have any kind of formula for success, what I’ve learned is if you can follow your heart, you can be true to yourself, and you can work really hard,” she said on the show. “The difference between being successful and not being successful is not giving up and I just didn’t give up.”