How much is Riley Reid worth?
Net Worth: | $6.5 Million |
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Profession: | Professional Actress |
Date of Birth: | July 9, 1991 |
Country: | United States of America |
Height: | 1.63 m |
About Riley Reid
Riley Reid is the stage name of Ashley Matthews. She’s an American pornographic actress, director, producer, and writer that entered the adult film industry in 2010 when she was just 19 years old. Prior to that, she worked in strip clubs as both a stripper and dancer in venues based around the Florida area. Over the past decade, the young porn actress has starred in hundreds of films and videos and has won numerous awards, including an AVN Award for “Female Performer of the Year” for 2016.
Riley Reid achieved international popularity when she became a pornographic actress in 2010. Her real name is Ashley Matthews (although there are many records that state it’s Paige Riley, which she first used as her stage name). She was born on July 9, 1991, in the small Palm Beach County community of Loxahatchee, Florida. Not much is known about her personal life except the fact that she’s of Chickasaw, Cherokee, Dutch, Dominican, German, and Puerto Rican descent.
Shortly after her high school graduation (it’s unspecified which institution she studied at), in 2008, Ashley moved to Florida and enrolled at the Florida International University. She initially signed up to study sociology and had the aspirations to become a teacher, however, plans didn’t work out and she dropped out during her first year.
She worked for a few months as a store helper at the Journey footwear store. Eventually, she was contacted by well-known porn companies (such as Smash Pictures, Evil Angel, and Jules Jordan) that offered her contracts worth a lot of money and that’s how she decided to enter the adult film industry.
“I don’t think porn necessarily is a problem until u make it a problem,” Riley Reid has said. Her career in the pornography business started in 2011. At the age of 19, she shot her first pornographic movie, and back then, she was using the pseudonym Paige Riley. By the end of the year, she not only achieved mainstream recognition but also became one of the most demanded pornographic stars in the United States.
Starting in 2012, she changed her professional name to Riley Reid. That year, she had six nominations and won her first major award – Nightmoves Award in the category of “Best New Starlet”. Her momentum continued towards the mid-2010s when she was ranked eighth in LA Weekly magazine’s list of “Ten Porn Stars That Could Be The Next Jenna Jameson”.
Besides that, she also appeared for several consecutive years in The Dirty Dozen list named “Porn’s Most Popular Stars”. In 2014, she won her first AVN Award in the category of “Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene” for her role in Mandingo Massacre 6 – her first interracial sex scene.
In addition to working as a pornographic actress, in 2015, she tried herself as a director, producer, and scriptwriter in the film My Stepbrother Sucks where she also played the main character as well. By 2017, the talented actress has collaborated with some of the highest-paid companies in the industry – FM Concepts, Elegant Angel, Mile High, and New Sensations. She has also starred in over 560 films and videos, partnering with the likes of Lily Carter, Ramon Nomar, James Dean, Remy Lacroix, and Sara Luvv.
Since 2017, she’s been named one of the most popular actresses by Pornhub and other websites. She has won dozens of awards, including AVN, NightMoves, and XBIZ.
Also, she’s on the verge of hitting the 1,000 mark when it comes to her film and video appearances. Outside of her very successful acting career, she’s a very active social media personality that has accumulated millions of followers on all of her social media platforms.
Riley’s Total Net Worth
Riley has perhaps earned $18 million dollars in her career. While female adult film stars may start out earnings between $100,000 to $250,000 per year, there are many other factors involved. In the case of Riley, she has earned far more because she has taken control of her own business. With over over 1 billion views on PornHub, she is one of the most popular stars. She has converted that into a business where she charges an average of around $25 per month for a subscription to her videos.
It has been reported in 2021 that Riley Reid earns around $500,000 per month from the adult subscription service, OnlyFans. After a percentage that OnlyFans takes, Riley’s end is over $5 million per year. She has also earned from her social media channels, including YouTube and her many appearances.
Of her $18 million dollars income, around $1 million will have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $17 million, will have been taxed at 49% as Riley has been residing in the state of California. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $8.67 million dollars, having paid $8.33 million dollars in taxes.
It is speculated that Riley may have had some challenges hanging on to her new found wealth at first, yet would have begun to recoup losses in the form of investment gains.
In 2019, Riley purchased a $2.1 million property in Altadena, California. She later sold the property in 2021 for $2.6 million. In May that same year, she bought a 3.6-acre property in a sprawling 5,000 square feet of living space, for $4.8 million.
In her personal life Riley has likely spent $4-5 million dollars of her career earnings but also probably possesses assets valued at around $1 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, she may have earned investment returns of $1-2 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Riley Reid has a net worth of above $6.5 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Riley Reid is known internationally for being one of the most famous pornographic actresses in the world. She began her career in the industry just a decade ago and ever since then, she has been consistently gracing the covers of many magazines, winning prestigious awards and topping a variety of website charts.