Jamie Lee Curtis's Net Worth Is Huge, Despite Being Disinherited by Her Famous Father
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National hero Jamie Lee Curtis has been acting since she was a kid (yes, she's technically a nepo baby) and stars in one of Hollywood's most successful movie franchises, so yeah: she's rich. So rich, in fact, that Jamie Lee Curtis has a reported net worth of $60 million (combined with her husband Christopher Guest) thanks to starring in films like the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All At Once, Freaky Friday, and Knives Out, and guesting in acclaimed TV shows like The Bear.
Plus, she has some very fancy real estate and happens to be a bestselling author. Let's dive into Jamie Lee Curtis's net worth.
Inside Jamie Lee Curtis's Halloween Salary
Jamie Lee Curtis has been in seven Halloween movies, solidifying her position as the ultimate Scream Queen. According to Celebrity Net Worth, her earnings for the first few Halloween movies were relatively small: She made just $8,000 for Halloween, $100,000 for Halloween II, and then kicked things up to the millions for Halloween: Resurrection (specifically, $3 million).
Curtis spoke about her Halloween salary to Variety, saying, “The truth of the matter is, I didn’t really make much money off of the horror movies. Look, we’re actors, so we already make more money based on the little work we do. It’s hard to ever say, ‘I didn’t make a lot of money.’ Tell that to a teacher or nurse. But as a young actress, I did not. I did not have ownership in the movies. There was no profit participation. There was no back end.… There was no large amount of money made.” She added, “Obviously someone was making a lot of money—it was not me and it was only in the latter years—the H2O, the 2018 Halloween, which, by the way, we made for scale.”
Curtis also made it clear that she now self-advocates for a piece of that pie:
“The industry has no problem when a man makes millions of dollars on something that’s a franchise. We as a society go, ‘Good on ya!’ But then if a woman says, ‘Well, I would like that same piece of the pie,’ I think people would think you’re being greedy, or you’re not being grateful. As if somehow we as women have to be just grateful for the opportunity. Which we already explained we are!”
So, What About Her Other Movie/TV Earnings?
Again, Curtis has had an extremely successful career and made a ton of movies and TV shows (remember Scream Queens?). But there isn't much publicly available information about her paychecks. We do know, however, that she made $70,000 for Trading Places thanks to this oral history of the film from Insider.
Jamie Lee Curtis Is a Best-Selling Author
In case you weren't aware, Curtis has written multiple best selling children's books! Though we don't know what she made from the books, it's definitely not nothing.
Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day
$11.89
amazon.com
She Owns Some Fancy Real Estate
Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest have reportedly owned their Santa Monica home for over two decades and bought the lot next door in 2016 for $2.2 million. The current value is unconfirmed at this time, but it's likely a lot more than what they paid for it.
She Didn't Inherit Anything From Her Father
Jamie Lee Curtis's father was actor Tony Curtis (of Some Like It Hot fame), and apparently he re-wrote his will before dying, leaving her and her siblings nothing. As Forbes reported in 2011, "Tony Curtis redid his Will and Trust in May of last year, a few months before he died from cardiac arrest. When he did so, he cut out all of his children. His will lists all five by name–including Jamie Lee–and states that he intentionally disinherited them. No reason was given in his will."
Jamie Lee's sister gave an interview to Inside Edition saying the siblings were "all blindsided" by the decision.
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