The List CELEBRITY 100

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In one of the biggest celebrity cash-outs of all time, Kylie Jenner agreed to sell 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics to beauty giant Coty in November. Her cut: $540 million before taxes, by Forbes' estimates—more than Wall Street thought it was worth, and more than enough to crown her this year's top-earning celebrity. Right behind her at No. 2 is brother-in-law Kanye West, who brought in all but $10 million or so of his estimated $170 million in pretax earnings from his high-end sneaker brand, Yeezy. But this cash-grabbing clan would rather talk about their "billions" than their millions. "It's fair to say that everything the Kardashian-Jenner family does is oversized.... To stay on-brand, it needs to be bigger than it is," says Stephanie Wissink, a consumer product analyst at Jefferies. That's what led Kanye to open his books to Forbes in April to prove he's a billionaire. America's hip-hop genius sent over documents outlining the massive royalty checks Adidas sends him, plus an accounting of his assets, all the way down to $297,050 worth of livestock on his Wyoming ranches. We pegged his net worth at $1.3 billion. (Kanye maintains he's worth well more than double that.)