JAMES PATTERSON: AUTHOR – $750M
If you wish to understand how successful an author James Patterson is, then just think that his net worth is the biggest on this list. Patterson has a huge fortune, estimated to be around $750 million. He has sold millions of copies, and Forbes Magazine has stated that between 2014 and 2016, he was the highest-paid author. In just a decade, he managed to accumulate $700 million. The picture above depicts his massive Palm Beach real estate, and with all this money, he must have a team of bank and wealth management experts at his beck and call.