George Clooney Is This Year's Highest Paid Actor with $239 Million — Thanks to Tequila!
George Clooney received the biggest payday in Hollywood.
The Oscar-winning actor, 57, topped Forbes‘ annual ranking of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors with $239 million, surpassing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” who came in at No. 2.
A large portion of Clooney’s cash flow comes from selling his Casamigos Tequila company for $1 billion which occurred in June 2017.
“We never planned on starting a tequila company,” Clooney told Good Morning America of how he and business partners Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman sold the company. “You know, we made Casamigos just for us to drink. Once we did launch the company, we thought, ‘Hey, if...
The Oscar-winning actor, 57, topped Forbes‘ annual ranking of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors with $239 million, surpassing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” who came in at No. 2.
A large portion of Clooney’s cash flow comes from selling his Casamigos Tequila company for $1 billion which occurred in June 2017.
“We never planned on starting a tequila company,” Clooney told Good Morning America of how he and business partners Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman sold the company. “You know, we made Casamigos just for us to drink. Once we did launch the company, we thought, ‘Hey, if...
- 8/22/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
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