How much is Dolly worth?
While she has never confirmed it publicly, estimates by financial experts around 1991 placed her personal wealth at more than $100 million. At that time, she was ranked as the fifth wealthiest female entertainer in the world (behind Oprah, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Striesand and Madonna). Since then, she has seen several millions of dollars in songwriting royalties for the many re-recordings of “I Will Always Love You” (most notably Whitney Houston’s version), she’s continued to release profitable albums, her business interests have soared in popularity, she’s earned performer’s and songwriter’s royalties not only from her new albums but countless re-issues of older material, and her production companies have made some fairly successful films and television programs, so her worth would have grown significantly since then. In 2003, press reports referred to her estimated net worth to be in excess of $300 million. However business magazine Nashville Business in 1998 ranked her as the wea
