Before The Prince of Bel Air, the actor accumulated significant debts. Then he knew how to invest what he earned and now only in the cinema he earns 250 million
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In the 80s, if one was referring to the Smiths, one would surely be talking about that English pop band led by Steven Morrissey who stood out for his poetic lyrics and his endless melodies. Will Smith, while famous Smith, was still to be done. It is true that at the end of that decade the young prodigy of Philadelphia had already begun his career in music - in front of Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince , one of the commercial hip hop proposals for a general public (that is, white and middle class) that appeared at that time, bulging with MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice -, and it did not go wrong at first.
He sold a lot, won a Grammy Award and even had the honor of recording the first double album in rap history. But at the end of the decade, Smith was almost ruined : he owed money to the hacienda, the group's route stagnated, and it would have ended under a bridge if, by 1990, the fortune had not smiled at him with a unique opportunity in life.
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For six years, he was the absolute star of The Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996), and that rapper who did not finish curdling consolidated himself as a comedy actor. That thug version of the Bill Cosby TV show not only discovered a funny guy flanked by his delusional rich family - whose top was cousin Carlton Banks , an archetype of that specimen not so rare that he is the Republican black, Donald Trump's admirer (who He made a cameo in the series) and Secretary of State Colin Powell - but he also built the wicker so that Will Smith began to design a new career that not only took him forever from the economic hole he had known the first slope of the edge, but to make him a filthy rich man .
And that is how Smith in the singular became the Smiths in the plural, because although at first he designed everything, business and his big plans shot up from 1997, when he married his second wife, also actress Jada Pinkett -Smith, since then his partner in charge of a good number of companies and investments in start-ups. Today, the fortune of the family is incalculable because it implies individual income - also those of their children Jaden and Willow Smith, who from a very early age have already begun to enter the circuits of music, film and fashion, or be it, influencers in the 360º style, as strategic pieces of the ambitious plan of the family-, and thus Will Smith is comfortably installed among the top positions of technology and entertainment entrepreneurs around the world.
Only in the cinema has accumulated more than 150 million dollars of income only with the contracts for the films - it has starred around 20 -, without counting other income derived from their percentages at the box office. If we expand the field to its facet of entrepreneur, the minimum accumulated amounts to more than 350 million dollars in assets alone. His strategy since the 90s was very clear: taking advantage of the surge in popularity provided by The Prince of Bel-Air, he decided to enter Hollywood, but before the first offers, far from being guided by his instinct or personal taste, he studied the patterns that made up the hit movies: fantastic creatures, adventures, doses of humor and happy endings. This is how he agreed to be the protagonist of Men in Black and Independence Day , and although he has had the occasional setback at the box office - such as Bright , the worst movie of 2017 according to many critics -, the successes have only added money to his account.
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That penguin income has been known by Smith to invest wisely. Half with Jada Pinkett and other partners, he has invested in his own companies, such as his production company Overbrook Entertainment, which develops projects for film, television and internet, in addition to being his agency of representation, and on his own initiative, or half with partners of the American entertainment aristocracy - like Jay-Z or Scooter Braun , Justin Bieber's manager - has invested variable amounts of money, from 600,000 to two million dollars, in technology companies, social networks, perfume brands and even an initiative Private school for the wealthy elite of Hollywood, with a type of education based on liberal values and dining room in which only raw food was served.
Today, the thing is going well, and after 30 years since the beginning of The Prince of Bel-Air , it is clear that the prince has fallen small. Emperors in the world are only left in Japan and, as you see, so is he.
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