It was the deal of the week - maybe not on Wall Street, but definitely in Hollywood: The world's largest wealth manager, Blackrock, is paying around $ 500 million for the majority of the shares in the production company of actress

Reese Witherspoon

(45).

A handsome sum for a company that has only been around for five years.

But Witherspoon, who was once awarded an Oscar for her role in the Johnny Cash film “Walk The Line”, and her founding partners came up with the perfect idea in 2016 to focus on films and series from, about and for cinema, TV and streaming services to produce with women.

That earned her respect in the industry;

entrepreneurial success does not just depend on the popularity of the entrepreneur.

Sebastian Balzter

Editor in the economy of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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With her business even more successful than Witherspoon, the singer

Rihanna

(33), with 250 million records sold, is one of the greats in her field.

But according to the latest calculations by Forbes magazine, she did not become the wealthiest pop musician in the world with records, CDs and Spotify clicks.

But above all thanks to their fashion and cosmetics companies.

Its stake in Fenty Beauty, a joint venture with French luxury goods group LVMH, alone is valued at $ 1.4 billion.

It sounded a bit old-fashioned as LVMH boss

Bernard Arnault

recently praised his business partner as a “real entrepreneur”, but was intended as a kind of accolade. At the same time, he signed her as a designer for his fashion empire with brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Givenchy.

Female role models for the new ranks of glamor entrepreneurs, including the reality show sisters

Kylie Jenner

(23) and

Kim Kardashian

(40), who got

rich with make-up companies,

as well as the wellness and lifestyle capitalist Actress

G

wyneth Paltrow

(48) has enough. American talk show host

Oprah Winfrey

(67), who became the first African American woman to become a billionaire in the United States with her production company, has been there

longest

. Even

Victoria Beckham

(47), once a "Spice Girl", has all prejudice established in defiance as a fashion designer.

How well the actress

Jessica Alba

(40) will succeed in the long run, however, remains to be seen. She went public in May with her company Honest, which offers baby diapers and cosmetics for customers with particularly high ethical and ecological standards. On the first day of trading, the company was valued at just under $ 1.5 billion, but is now only worth a little more than half of that.