How much is LeAnn Rimes worth?
| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | August 28, 1982 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.65 m |
About LeAnn Rimes
At the age of 13, LeAnn Rimes made waves in the music industry when she took a 30 year old honky tonk ballad “Blue,” to the Top 10 on the Billboard Country chart. Her incredible success was easy to call however as she made her first first onstage performance in a musical production of A Christmas Carol at age 7, and went on to land a spot on the TV reality competition show, Star Search. She was only 9 years old when the budding country songster was invited to sing ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at a Dallas Cowboys football game. At 11 years old, LeAnn’s debut album Everybody’s Sweetheart, which included her her signature song “Blue” was discovered by Curb Records and released in 1996.
Her hit single “How Do I Live” was released in 1997 and set a record for staying on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 69 weeks. That same year, Rimes also appeared as herself in the TV movie, Holiday in Your Heart. The screenplay was based on a book that she helped write. At only 15 years old, LeAnn won multiple awards including one American Music Award, two Grammys, three Academy of Country Music Awards and four BillboardMusic Awards for her album You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs.
In 1999, LeAnn released her eponymous album. A compilation of country covers including hits like ‘Born to Lose’ and ‘I Fall to Pieces.’ Then in 2000, after having followed up her initial acting debut by appearing in three episodes of Days of Our Lives, she appeared as a fictionalized character of herself in Coyote Ugly. The theme song from the dancing bartender movie “Can’t Fight the Moonlight,” gave her a pop hit and it is work that she would embrace again in dance music that she would release later in her career.
But the following year brought more bad than LeAnn was expecting. In 2000, LeAnn filed a lawsuit against her father, who was serving as her manager, for siphoning more than $7 million from the singe, according to ABC.
The proceedings went on for two years before the father-daughter duo reached an undisclosed settlement. But amid the family drama came a new love with backup dancer, Dean Sheremet. LeAnn and Dean dated for two years before they married in 2002.
In 2009, after seven years of marriage, LeAnn was spotted with her Northern Lights co-star Eddie Cibrian.
Considered just rumors, until soon after, she and hubby Dean filed for divorce and she and Cibrian became an official item.
The highly publicized affair was the source of much disapproval among industry gents and fans alike. As LeAnn was not the only one who dissolved a marriage to pursue another; Eddie also left his wife and two children for a relationship with LeAnn. Fast-forward however and it seems that the disapproval is majorly overblown considering to this day LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian remain happily married, and have been since 2011.
Hollywood rumors and drama aside, LeAnn went back to her country roots in her music and has enjoyed much success over the last decade.
While Rimes continued to release in pop, she kept country at her core and continued to place on Billboard’s Country Top 40. In 2005, from her This Woman album she place “Nothin’ ‘Bout Love Makes Sense,” “Probably Wouldn’t Be This Way,” and “Something’s Gotta Give” into the Top 10. She also continued to appear as an actress in TV movies and series, including Drop Dead Diva, It’s Christmas, Eve, and Country Comfort.
