Vanessa-Mae tops young entertainers' rich list
(Friday April 21, 2006 06:43 AM)

LONDON (Reuters) - Electric violinist Vanessa-Mae Nicholson, famed for her wet T-shirt album covers as much as her music, was named on Friday as the wealthiest young entertainer in the Sunday Times' annual rich list.

The 27-year-old, Singapore-born violinist, a new entry in the millionaires' chart, was worth 32 million pounds thanks to album sales and concert revenues, according to the paper.

Second in the list of young entertainers aged under 30 was Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter Kiera, who has a 30 percent stake in the Hollywood production company Limelight Films. The 23-year-old is worth 30 million pounds.

Third place was shared by the four members of the rock supergroup Coldplay who were valued at 25 million pounds each.

In its overall list of music millionaires, the Sunday Times gave top place to Clive Calder, the former record label boss of Britney Spears.

Calder, valued at 1.3 billion pounds, made most of his money selling his Zomba label to BMG in 2002.

Second in the music millionaires' list was former Beatle Paul McCartney. Other rock veterans to make the Top 10 were Mick Jagger, Elton John, Tom Jones and Sting.

The film and television millionaires list was strictly no contest.

The paper said JK Rowling has amassed a 520 million pound fortune with her Harry Potter books, putting her 220 million pounds ahead of former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, whose fortune was swelled by the huge success of the X-Factor TV talent show.

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MikeMatronik said:

Oh... My... God.

When I was young my mom brought home a CD of hers from when she was 15 or 16. It was alright, but I'm a violinist and I wasn't exactly blown away by it either. But, at that time, she was small. I don't think her CD even had a bar code on it (for sale only at the concert, which my mom went to, at a hall that maybe held 1000).

Never in my life did I think she would amount to anything big. Hell, I didn't think any concert violinist would ever be worth 30 million pounds, much less her?

There are tons of prodigious violinists out there with far more talent than Vanessa-Mae, it's sad that she has drawn such a level of fame. I guess the wet shirt covers did well.

Vanessa is Hawt...



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PurpleRein said:

you're right, but was that the best pic you could find????