Simon Cowell has an estimated net worth of $350 million
Simon Cowell is a British television producer, television personality, and entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $350 million. Cowell is most known for being a judge on the American Idol judgment panel. Cowell is 5’9″ and weighs 160 pounds. Simon Phillip Cowell was born on October 7, 1959 in London, England. Cowell’s mother was a ballet dancer and socialite and his father a music industry executive. He has a younger brother and four half-siblings. After his schooling, Cowell took an assortment of jobs – notably as a runner on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining – until he landed a job in the mail room of a recording company thanks to his father.
After moving his way up the music and television industry latter, Cowell landed his first high-profile job as a judge on Pop Idol in the United Kingdom. The show was an immediate hit and raised the profile of the relatively unknown Cowell. His brash and straightforward criticism of contestants made him a lightning rod for viewers. The popularity of the show led to his being tapped to reprise the judge role in American Idol in 2002. As well as being a judge on the show his record company would sign the winners and top acts providing a lucrative revenue stream well after the show was finished. American Idol exploded onto the pop culture scene early in the decade and would become one of the most successful shows in the history of American television. Cowell’s stature and affluence would grow accordingly.
Cowell parlayed the unparalleled success of American Idol into his own projects like The X Factor in Britain and America and later into America’s Got Talent in 2006. All the shows would become hits and even his less popular creations, like American Inventor, Rock Rivals, Celebrity Duets and the game show Red or Black, still garnered attention and increased his notoriety. He was voted as one of the “100 most influential people in the world” by Time magazine in 2004 and 2010 and No. 10 on TV Guide’s list of “The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time.” Cowell has never been married but has dated several celebrities and in 2013 it was announced that he was expecting his first child with Lauren Silverman, the former wife of a good friend.
Simon Cowell’s Net Worth Could Buy:
Simon Cowell has enough net worth to give every person in the United States $1.10.
