How much is Lisa Rinna worth?
| Net Worth: | $10 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | July 11, 1963 (age 59) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.7 m) |
About Lisa Rinna
From model to actress to TV personality, Lisa Rinna has been vamping up the small screen since the late ’80s. She was born in Newport Beach, California and raised in Medford, Oregon to Lois Rinna & Frank Rinna. She inherited her beauty from her mother, her dark and angular look carved out a niche for her as she appeared in some of the most enduring television series of the last 30 years. Her father was an artistic director and Lisa grew up talented in the arts and in sports. She was highly athletic in her youth, playing tennis and possessed natural skills at skiing. Not to mention, she was a fixture on the Medford Senior High School cheerleading squad.
As she developed, she became interested in earning money and quite easily walked into a career in modeling after her graduation year. Starting in San Francisco, she modeled until the late ’80s. Then, after she appeared in John Parr’s 1984 Naughty Naughty music video, Lisa decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. She almost immediately was cast in several commercials, but it wasn’t until 1988 that she appeared in a film, her role as Lucy Delacorte in Blood Ransom was small but it later led to a TV series role in Valerie, for four episodes in 1990. She was also cast as a guest spot on Baywatch and a couple of TV movies later, she was appearing as Billie Reed, the scheming cosmetics magnate on the perennial soap opera Days of Our Lives.
In 1995, she left the daytime soap and joined the cast of Melrose Place in 1996. Rinna played the role of Taylor McBride for 66 episodes until 1998, it was during that time, that she would meet and fall in love with Harry Hamlin of L.A. Law fame. The two were married in 1997 and, after becoming pregnant, Rinna appeared in Playboy magazine.
In the year 2000, Rinna starred as Laurel McArthur in Another Woman’s Husband, one of the highest rated films the network had released in years. She also became a television personality that same year, she co-hosted Soap Talk for four years, appeared on Dancing With The Stars, filled in on Live with Regis and Kelly, starred in her own reality show Harry Loves Lisa, and took on Donald Trump in The Celebrity Apprentice.
After rejoining the cast of Days of Our Lives, in total, Rinna appeared in 679 episodes. In 2014, she joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and has since appeared in over 180 episodes. Rinna has also released three books, Starlit, The Big, Fun, Sexy Sex Book and The New York Times best-seller Rinnavation. She has also had many business ventures, including a fashion line for QVC named The Lisa Rinna Collection and the cosmetics collection Rinna Beauty.
Rinna’s Total Net Worth
Lisa Rinna has earned as an actress, as well as from her modeling work, books, and from her endorsements. She earned a reported $2 million dollars as the celebrity spokesperson for undergarment brand, Depend. She has also earned from her business ventures including her fashion and beauty lines. In total, from all of her endeavors, not including her investments, Rinna is estimated to have earned around $17 million dollars.
Of that amount, $1-2 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $15.5 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 43% as Rinna has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $8.83 million dollars, having paid $6.67 million dollars in taxes.
Lisa Rinna married Harry Hamlin in 1997 and they remain together. They have two children together, Delilah Belle and Amelia Gray Hamlin, and their personal lives have been mostly peaceful. In 2021, Lisa was sued for $1.2 million by a celebrity photograph agency for copyright infringement after she posted eight of their photographs on her Instagram. Other celebrities, including Ariana Grande, Gigi Hadid, and Jennifer Lopez have also been sued for posting paparazzi photographs on their Instagram accounts.
In her personal life, Lisa Rinna has likely spent $1-3 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $400,000, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of around $3 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Lisa Rinna has a net worth of around $10 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Lisa Rinna initially became successful from her roles as Billie Reed on daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives and Taylor McBride on television drama Melrose Place. She also earned four Emmy nominations for “Outstanding Talk Show Host” of Soapnet’s talk show Soap Talk (2002–2006). Since then she has released books, fashion and beauty lines, as well as added to her fame as a main cast member on Bravo’s hit reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, since 2014.
