Keeping up with the numbers
Here’s a look at the kind of empire the Kardashian clan actually dominates
You know the drill — Kim Kardashian first married at age 19, she was 27 when she joined the haloed group of personal video stars and made a rumoured $5 million (Dh18 million) upfront. That was ten years ago.
Today, a single Instagram post banks Kardashian West a neat $500,000;
after all, she’s got a following of 103 million.
In comparison, sisters Khloe and Kourtney can earn up to $250,000 per post.
Younger sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner boast 76.4 million and 89.1 million followers each, so it’s safe to assume they earn in the $400,000 region.
As for the laziest Kardashian, Robert Jr, he is rumoured to have earned $6 million last year — and is now paying his baby momma Blac Chyna $20,000 per month for child support. This means,
ten-month-old Dream Kardashian will make her mommy at least $4 million by the time she’s 18. That is quite a promotion for the former stripper who reportedly got no child support for her son with Tyga; King Cairo turns five this month.
Kim’s second child, son Saint, will be two in December and her third child, a girl, should arrive in January. The surrogacy will set them back about $100,000, but that should not bother Kim, who made $45.5 million last year.
The women’s collective worth stands at a cool $122.5m; Kim of course, sits pretty at the top of that pyramid.
Kim and Kanye married in 2014; North West was 11 months old. Kim’s Givenchy wedding gown came at an eye-watering $500,000. Her heels were worth $40,000. A glam squad for guests was booked at $65,000. The
six-metre wall of white flowers featuring roses, peonies and bushels of tuberose was worth $136,000. Kanye even ordered a $478,000 70-metre Calacatta Vaticano table for the reception.
Last February Kanye shocked fans, announcing he was in a debt of $53m. Clearly, the 2.1-metre tall, $7000 wedding cake could not have saved the situation.
2016 was for the Reality TV royalty what 1992 was for Queen Elizabeth II, an annus horribilis, or a horrible year. In August, after a cringeworthy two seasons, Caitlyn Jenner’s attempt at reality TV resurrection came to an abrupt halt. Bruce was tepid tea water at best even in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, but Caitlyn lost favour, seeming out of touch with the everyday struggles of most trans people. So she returned to the mother ship franchise.
The real storm came on October 3. Five men stormed into Kim’s temporary Paris residence and robbed her of jewels initially rumoured to be worth $10 million, at gunpoint.
Later, celebrity gossip site TMZ uncovered insurance claims that valued the loot at $5m, attributing a significant $4m to a 20-carat diamond ring.
In November 2016, in the middle of no-shows, curtailed concerts and onstage rants, Kanye was placed under a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold in California. The hold, which usually lasts 72 hours, led to the cancellation of the Saint Pablo Tours with more than 20 shows left.
Yeezy sued his tour insurers for nearly $10m in payouts.
This stunt was met with a watertight countersuit.
Eleven months later, things are looking up for the Kardashian-Jenners again. Blac Chyna is banished from the kingdom, and Khloe and Kylie are pregnant. Kardashian West’s mobile phone game has brought in $100 million since its launch in 2014. Her KKW Beauty launch sold out all 300,000 kits within three hours, bringing in an estimated $14.4 million, and despite being absent from social media for almost three months, she’s still holding up at no. 47 on the
Forbes Top 100 Earning Celebrities list. Kourtney’s brood hasn’t grown from three. And Kendall has recovered from the Pepsi fiasco to be the thirdhighest paid model.