This Is Me...Rich! Inside Jennifer Lopez's Net Worth In 2024 and How She Made It

Jennifer Lopez's net worth is thanks to a lot of hard work that continues today.

J.Lo went from a Fly Girl to flying first class through a combination of hard work and a little luck. The singer, dancer, actress, producer, designer and all-around entertainment juggernaut has amassed so much wealth throughout her career that her net worth may be matched only by the number of tabloid headlines she's generated since breaking into stardom in 1997.

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However, that hard work comes at a price: J.Lo once revealed that she actually suffered a mental health crisis in 2001 from her schedule while filming Enough. "There was a time when I was very overworked and I was doing music and movies and so many things," she explained. "I was suffering from a lack of sleep. And I did have a kind of nervous breakdown. I froze up on a set. Well, not on a set, but in my trailer. I was like, 'I don't want to move. I don't want to talk. I don't want to do anything'... Yeah. I did. I had a nervous breakdown."

Since then, though, Lopez has flourished on stages and screens around the world. Find out Jennifer Lopez's net worth from her movie and television career, American Idol, music and business ventures, her 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance and more!

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What is Jennifer Lopez's net worth in 2024?

Jennifer Lopez's net worth is estimated to be a whopping $150 million, netting an average of $40 million per year.

How did Jennifer Lopez get famous?

A natural athlete, Lopez competed in track on a national level growing up, as well as participating in gymnastics and on her high school softball team. Her first bit part came in her senior year of high school when she appeared in the 1986 indie film My Little Girl and was bitten by the acting bug. The Bronx native attended one semester at Baruch College before dropping out to pursue a career as a dancer and actress.

Lopez appeared in regional productions of musicals Oklahoma! and Jesus Christ Superstar (starring as Mary Magdalene!) followed by a touring production of Golden Musicals of Broadway in Europe. Dissatisfied at being the only member of the production's chorus to never get a solo, Lopez left the show to became a choreographer, dancer and singer for the Japanese show Synchronicity.

Some of Lopez's dance career was as much luck as it was hard work: In 1991, Lopez was a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block, performing with them on tour as well as at that year's American Music Awards. During that time, she also auditioned for a role as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color. She made it to the finals, but was only cast after the dancer who'd originally won the slot was unable to take the job and backed out. During her tenure as a Fly Girl, Lopez was also briefly a backup dancer for Janet Jackson (you can see her in the video for "That's the Way Love Goes"). In 1993, Lopez left In Living Color to pursue acting full-time.

Check out much of J.Lo's early days in this video, featuring Lopez's Fly Girl audition as well as her singing "I Don't Know How to Love Him":

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How much did Jennifer Lopez make for Selena?

The title role of slain Tejano singer Selena in 1997 made Lopez a household name and a $1 million salary that made her the highest-paid Latina actress in history. Nava directed Selena but Lopez reportedly still had to go through a grueling audition process before being cast as the iconic chanteuse, almost losing the role to Danielle Camastra.

Lopez followed with Anaconda in 1997 alongside Jon Voight and Ice Cube, then U-Turn with Sean Penn and Billy Bob Thornton.

She had a star turn and sizzling chemistry with co-star George Clooney in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight in 1998.

The same year, she voiced Azteca in Antz.

After a brief reprieve from film to focus on her burgeoning music career, Lopez returned to the big screen in the psychological thriller The Cell in 2000, followed by the relatively under-the-radar Angel Eyes and hit The Wedding Planner in 2001.

Enough hit theaters in 2002, and Lopez's turn as a domestic violence survivor who gets revenge on her abusive ex became a cult favorite (though its box office at the time was middling).

Her Cinderella-inspired role in Maid in Manhattan was a hit, earning $154.9 million on a $55 million budget, making it the highest-grossing film of her career.

The following year was a tough one for Lopez. She co-starred with offscreen beau Ben Affleck in Gigli, which was such a critical and commercial bomb that it became a punchline for several years: The "Bennifer" star vehicle only earned $7.3 million worldwide on a $54 million budget. They each followed up with Jersey Girl in 2004, which was also a box-office disappointment. Lopez bounced back alongside Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon in Shall We Dance, earning $170 million on a $50 million budget.

In 2005, Lopez appeared in An Unfinished Life alongside heavy-hitters Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman, but the film didn't do well at the box office, making less than $750,000 on a $30 million budget. She had a major hit with Monster In Law, reportedly earning $15 million to star alongside Jane Fonda in the rom-com.

Lopez and then-husband Marc Anthony co-starred in El Cantante in 2006, a biopic of salsa singer Hector LaVoe, then in Bordertown with Martin Sheen. Neither did blockbuster numbers, with the latter going straight to video.

Lopez took a break from film until 2011, when she starred in the ensemble comedy What to Expect When You're Expecting, which earned $84 million on a $40 million budget. Lopez voiced Shira in Ice Age: Continental Drift, which made a whopping $877 million in 2012, then followed with 2013's Parker alongside Jason Statham, which had modest returns.

In 2015, Lopez starred in the pulpy The Boy Next Door, filmed on a small $4 million budget and earning $52 million globally. The same year, Lopez starred alongside Viola Davis in the independent drama Lila & Eve and voiced a character in the animated feature Home. In 2016, Lopez reprised the role of Shira for Ice Age: Collision Course, which brought in $409 million worldwide.

J.Lo transitioned to television as well, starring in Shades of Blue with Ray Liotta from 2016 to 2018.

The end of the 2010s brought big box office numbers back for Lopez: Second Act made $72 million on a $16 million budget in 2018, and Lopez's turn as stripper Ramona in Hustlers in 2019 raked in major moolah with $158 million on a $20 million budget (plus some serious critical acclaim).

J.Lo was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Golden Globes, Critic's Choice Movie Awards and Independent Spirit Awards for her stellar strip club performance.

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How much did Jennifer Lopez make for Hustlers?

Would you believe zilch? As she revealed to GQ in 2019, the year that movie came out, "I didn't get paid a whole bunch of money for Hustlers. I did it for free and produced it." Why work without pay? "I do what I love," she explained.

Hopefully, though, she negotiated some sort of back-end deal for herself in case the movie performed well at the box office—because it did, to the tune of $157 million in box office grosses on a $20 million budget.

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How much did Jennifer Lopez make selling photos to PEOPLE?

Lopez revealed that when she and Anthony welcomed their twins, Max and Emme, in 2008, she made a cool $6 million selling the first photos of the babies to PEOPLE. "I think one of the reasons that the price went so high is that we didn't want to do it for so long," she said. "We weren't into it. I was like, 'No, I don't really want to. No. No way.' But then it got to the point that you go, 'Well, now you're being stupid with these offers … I thought I can set them up. I can put this away just for them.'" Lopez put some of the cash away for the twins and gave a portion of the proceeds to charity.