Entertainment's Highest Top Ten Earning Women List

Entertainment's Highest-Earning Women

The ten ladies who top our list of Entertainment's Highest-Earning Women earned a total $739 million between May 2010 and May 2011. To compile our list of estimates we talked to agents, managers, lawyers and other folks in the know. Earning reflect income during the time period. Taxes and things like agent and manager fees were not deducted.

Oprah Winfrey:$290 million 

Winfrey beats her closest earning competitor on our list by a whopping $200 million. But with her show ending, how long will the queen of talk be able to maintain those kinds of earnings? Her cable network, OWN, has yet to take off.

 Lady Gaga:$90 million

Lady Gaga topped our Celebrity 100 this year (which measures money AND fame) but she earned a full $200 million less than Oprah. Gaga will have to stay relevant if she's going to continue to rank at the top of our lists.

 

Bethenny Frankel: $55 million 

The reality star banked big bucks over the past year with a savvy sale of Skinny Girl drinks to Fortune Brands. Frankel is planning to expand her brand with rumors flying about a possible talk show.

Gisele Bundchen: $45 million

The supermodel went back to work just weeks after giving birth to her first son with husband Tom Brady. In addition to her modeling fees, Bundchen earns big from endorsement deals and Gisele for Ipanema.

Ellen DeGeneres:$45 million
DeGeneres is more than just a talk show host. She owns part of a pet food company called Halo and she recently started her own record label, Eleveneleven.

Judge Judy Sheindlin:$45 million

Judge Judy may be more under-the-radar than Oprah Winfrey but her daytime show used to regularly beat the queen of talk in ratings. With Winfrey gone, look for Sheindlin's to be the syndicated show to beat.

Taylor Swift:$45 million
Swift may only be 21 but she's a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. Her latest album, Speak Now, sold five million copies globally.

Katy Perry:$44 million
Perry's second studio album, Teenage Dream, has had four singles hit the Billboard No. 1 spot so far but Perry isn't just earning from her music. She voiced Smurfette in the recent Smurfs movie and she has a best-selling perfume.

Beyonce Knowles:$35 million
The 30-year-old singer just announced that she is expecting her first baby with husband Jay-Z. Her latest album 4, sold 310,000 copies in its first week.

Portia de Rossi Is now modified Portia DeGeneres

Portia de Rossi has formally taken wife Ellen DeGeneres' last name. A Los Angeles higher incites chief granted De Rossi's ask for to take the last name of her partner during a closed inquiry Thursday. The television star will now officially be known as Portia Lee James DeGeneres.

The pair was married in August 2008. The 37-year-old Australian-born performer asked for the name modify last month.

CELEBS rejoice beat OF same-sex marriage ban

Stars as well as Ellen DeGeneres, Britney Spears, Christina Applegate and many more are tweeting their feelings about the news that a central judge has inverted Proposition 8, the California ballot that excluded same-sex marriages in the state.

"This just in: Equality Won!" Ellen tweeted.

"So happy today is a great day for love and parity. Congrats California!" Britney wrote.

"I am lament with complete joy! Thank you thank you thank you for letting parity win. All men are shaped equal! Period" Christina said.

"Prop 8 was struck down! This news is amazing ! It's about time! Congrats to each Kim Kardashian stimulated.

"So happy over the news on prop 8. It's about time!" Kelly tweeted

Singer Ricky Martin exclaim.

And Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said: "This decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves."

Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth's Red Carpet Entrance

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth completed their red carpet entrance as a couple tonight in Hollywood during—what else?—the opening of their new movie, The Last Song.But they were not by each other's side for long…

"I missing him so he is not being the best boyfriend right now," Cyrus quipped to me on her way into the Arc light Hollywood Cinema. "The entire deal was we were going to be walking jointly, but then I lost him first thing because he started saying hello to each one."

Hemsworth, decent in Calvin Klein, joked that life has gotten a bit tougher ever since Cyrus confessed to Ellen DeGeneres that she fell for him after he opened a door for her.

"There's so much difficulty for me to be opening doors for everyone now," he said. "It’s too much difficulty."

Hemsworth is silent regulating to the notice. As I opening told you about, he got a lot of notice during a tour previous this week to Toronto to help the flick. Female fans chased after him when he left a special viewing there, between other gears.

Ellen DeGeneres joining 'Idol' judges panel

She may not sing much, but Ellen is doing her little dance on over to the judges' table on Fox's American Idol.

Stand-up comic, talk-show host and rabid Idol fan Ellen DeGeneres will be the fourth judge on the new season starting in January, Fox announced Wednesday and DeGeneres revealed to her audience during the taping of a show to air today. DeGeneres takes the seat vacated by Paula Abdul, who left the show in a salary dispute last month.