With the rise of actuality reveals reminiscent of RuPaul’s Drag Race and its spin-offs, drag tradition has been thrust into the highlight. The collection has given a platform to many up-and-coming performers, serving to them construct up a following and make a residing.
The wealthiest stars have used a mix of their wardrobes and a flamboyant way of living to turn out to be celebrities. Their strategies and financial institution accounts are positively value analyzing, so let’s take a glimpse into the world of wealthy drag queens and see how they made their cash.
1. RuPaul – $60 million
To name RuPaul a drag queen, a transvestite or a feminine impersonator would do appreciable justice to her energy of superstar. It is perhaps higher to explain him as a trend icon and a actuality present superstar once you take a deeper dive into her distinctive historical past.
He’s additionally a pioneer. RuPaul started her journey by shifting to Atlanta from San Diego to turn out to be a backup singer for Glen Meadow, and the breakthrough gig occurred when she hosted The RuPaul Show, which was the primary speak present hosted by a homosexual man.
The present paved the way in which for the likes of Ellen Degeneres, however RuPaul was simply getting began. She hit her stride because the chief of RuPaul’s Drag Race, for which she reportedly earns $800,000 per episode taking part in ringmaster and head decide. Celebritynetworth studies that RuPaul is value $60 million!
2. Trixie Mattel – $10 million
Mattel owes portion of her wealth to RuPaul. She received season three of RuPaul’s Drag Race and went on to make her personal documentary and star in a number of TV reveals.
The supply of her ongoing wealth is a singular mixture of her musical profession, her make-up enterprise, and a profitable web-based collection, and whereas she is in second place relating to profession earnings, there’s little doubt that she’s a star in her personal proper.
3. Courtney Act – $5 million
An Australian native, Act made her title down underneath earlier than an Australian model of Drag Race surfaced. She additionally wowed the viewers of Australian Idol throughout an look early in her profession, and she or he’s gone on to turn out to be part of the American Apparel Ad Girls marketing campaign that’s performed to sold-out reveals all over the world.
Courtney additionally received Celebrity Big Brother UK and has had a gig internet hosting the UK’s first bisexual actuality relationship present, The Bi Life. Her range is each singular and admirable, and it units her aside on the planet of drag queens.
4. Bianca Del Rio – $4 million
Like Trixie Mattel, Del Rio is a former Drag Race winner, and she or he’s additionally an actor, comic, and costume designer, with the final of those three being the most important supply of her wealth.
The exotic-looking Del Rio can also be a legend in her native Louisiana, the place she’s received the Big Easy Entertainment Awards a complete of six occasions out of the 13 occasions the competition has been held.
5. Alyssa Edwards – $3 million
When it involves silver-tongue drag queens, Edwards is on the high of the pyramid, nonetheless sparse and underpopulated that pyramid could also be.
In addition to her quips and catchphrases, she’s additionally a choreographer and a really savvy businessperson, and she or he made her debut in a documentary concerning the Miss Gay America contest that was held in 2004.
She’s additionally been in a Netflix doc, Dancing Queen, and she or he, too, has completed prominently in a number of seasons of each Drag Race and its all-star extension. Edwards has realized to make use of stardom in addition to anybody within the enterprise, to the purpose the place some may think about her on the verge of being a family title.
6. Chad Michaels – $3 million
Michaels’ declare to fame is that he’s a lifeless ringer for Cher – when correctly outfitted with the proper wig and make-up, in fact.
Chad received the primary season of the all-star model of Drag Race, and her flamboyant impersonation of Cher even received him a slot within the Cher Tribute Concert on the Kennedy Center in DC again in 2018. We all have our destinies, and Michaels is unquestionably extra distinctive than most.
7. Raven – $2 million
One take a look at Raven will reveal precisely why she’s so rich – as a make-up artist of Russian descent, her look is actually particular, even on the planet of drag queens, the place uniqueness isn’t fairly as singular as it’s in different walks of life.
Not surprisingly, her work with make-up has given her a formidable backside line, and she or he’s been prominently featured in a number of seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race
8. Katya Zamolodchikova – $1.1 million
Not many drag queens can lay declare to the title of Miss Congeniality, however Zamolodchikova copped that exact award in season two of the all-star model of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
She’s additionally carried out in Russia underneath the stage title Katya, and she or he’s been featured in varied different tv reveals and movies. She now holds a web value of $1.1 in keeping with Slice.ca.
9. (*10*) Laquifa Wadley – $1 million
Wadley, too, has crossed over into the world of mainstream leisure, having appeared in A Star is Born along with the same old array of awards on Drag Race.
Her TV credit additionally embrace X-Files, Glee, Bones and a couple of Broke Girls, and one different facet of her profession that has made her really particular is the truth that she was really a cheerleader again in highschool in Texas.
10. Latrice Royale – $1 million
Royale is extremely fashionable on the planet of drag queens, and she or he additionally gleans a part of her community from her different work as a recording artist and actuality TV persona.
In 2019, she was ranked among the many high drag race performers in New York Magazine, which stands out as the best marketplace for drag queens other than LA and San Francisco.
