Celebrity Net Worth: How rich is Shah Rukh Khan as Jawan breaks records?
In our fortnightly celebrity investment and wealth round-up, Coco Gauff makes it into the top 10 highest-earning tennis players and Lionel Messi buys a $10.8m mansion in Florida
As Shah Rukh Khan's film Jawan breaks records with its international haul of 6.55 billion Indian rupees (about $78.9 million) in the first week after release, the Indian actor is having his most lucrative year yet.
Khan’s net worth is estimated at 63 billion rupees ($760 million), according to Indian TV stationTimes Now.
Jawan is expected to replicate that success, establishing Khan as the actor with the biggest box-office total within a single year.
The actor, 57, has probably had his richest year to date. Pathaan earned him an estimated 2 billion rupees ($24 million), largely from a 60 per cent profit-sharing deal with producers Yash Raj Films, according to The Times of India.
Khan has a similar 60 per cent agreement for Jawan, in addition to an upfront salary of 1 billion rupees, the Financial Express reports.
Watch: Shah Rukh Khan wows fans in Dubai
However, as an owner of the film’s production company, he will receive a further share of the profits, including income from TV and other rights.
In 2017, Forbes listed Khan’s annual income as $38 million.
Through Red Chillies Entertainment, Khan’s activities span video effects, creative development, marketing, distribution and merchandising.
Khan’s Knight Riders Group has stakes in Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, the Caribbean Premier League's Trinbago Knight Riders and the International League T20's Abu Dhabi Knight Riders, according to India Today magazine.
Earlier this year, the company invested in a $30 million cricket stadium in Los Angeles and formed the Los Angeles Knight Riders team, which was part of the first US major league cricket tournament this summer.
Khan commands a 6 per cent share of India's television advertising market, according to India Today. The brands he endorses include Reliance Jio, ICICI Bank, Hyundai, Lux, Dish TV and Coca-Cola.
He is also an ambassador for Dubai Tourism and Burjeel Holdings in the UAE.
Khan purchased Mannat, his home in Mumbai, in 2001. He also owns a villa on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai.
He has a stake in the amusement franchise KidZania, according to India’s DNA newspaper.
Coco Gauff became the second-youngest player in 24 years to win the US Open since Serena Williams in 1999. AFP
Coco Gauff
When Coco Gauff sliced the winning shot across the net at the US Open women’s singles final this month, she became the second-youngest player in 24 years to win the tournament since Serena Williams in 1999.
Gauff, 19, is already among the sport’s top 10 highest earners, netting $15.2 million in the 12 months to August 25 this year, according to Forbes magazine.
That includes $12 million from off-court income. New partnerships with Bose, UPS and accounting firm Baker Tilly added to existing endorsements for Rolex, Head and Barilla.
Last year, she launched Coco CG1, a line of trainers with New Balance.
The women’s No 3 tennis player one now has a net worth estimated at $3.5 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Her WTA career earnings have crossed $11 million. Slightly under half that amount came this year alone.
The Delray Beach native still lives at home with her parents but has said that she will consider buying a home and moving out once she turns 21.
“I don’t like to spend money,” Gauff said on a recent Tennis.com podcast. “When I had my first Grand Slam cheque, I wanted a car but my dad had already bought it and I don’t know what to buy now.”
However, she is interested in investing in business projects, but has yet to decide how she wants to go about it.
Lionel Messi has a net worth of $600 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. AP
Lionel Messi
Seven-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi has signalled his intention to stay in the US for now, with the purchase of a nearly $10.8 million waterfront mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The 975-square metre home has eight bedrooms, a three-car garage and a pool, property website The Real Deal reported.
The football star moved to Inter Miami earlier this year after signing a blockbuster contract that will see him earning between $50 million and $60 million a year, including a salary, a stake in the club and a signing bonus. The contract runs until December 2025.
Inter Miami is owned by Florida businessmen and brothers Jorge and Jose Mas.
Messi, 36, has a net worth of $600 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
He is one of the highest-paid footballers in the world, earning $130 million in the 12 months to May, according to Forbes. That is second only to Cristiano Ronaldo at $136 million.
Lionel Messi leads Inter Miami into US Open finals - in pictures
Lionel Messi celebrates with Inter Miami teammates after the victory over Cincinnati in the US Open semi-finals. Reuters
Lionel Messi celebrates with Inter Miami teammates after Leonardo Campana's goal in the US Open semi-finals. Reuters
Lionel Messi celebrates with midfielder Facundo Farias after defeating FC Cincinnati at TQL Stadium. Reuters
Lionel Messi scores his penalty kick for Inter Miami during the shootout against Cincinnati. Getty
Lionel Messi on the ball as Cincinnati defender Bret Halsey attempts to put him under pressure. Getty
Lionel Messi tries to avoid a tackle from FC Cincinnati defender Bret Halsey. AP
Lionel Messi celebrates after the game-tying goal in the 90th minute from teammate Leonardo Campana. AP
Inter Miami goalkeeper Drake Callender celebrates with teammates after defeating FC Cincinnati in a penalty shootout. Reuters
Robert Taylor of Inter Miami and Ray Gaddis of FC Cincinnati challenge for the ball. Getty
Sergio Busquets and Noah Allen celebrate a goal for Inter Miami against FC Cincinnati. Getty
Messi’s annual earnings are evenly split on and off the field.
He earns an estimated $20 million annually from a deal with the blockchain-based fan platform Socios. In addition, he endorses brands such as adidas, Pepsi, Ooredoo and the Saudi Tourism Authority.
Last year, the footballer launched a sports, media and technology investment company called Play Time with Silicon Valley executives Razmig Hovaghimian and Michael Marquez.
Messi owns other homes in Miami’s Sunny Isles Beach area, including a $7.3 million full-floor condo and an apartment in the Porsche Design Tower.
He has earned an estimated $1.15 billion in his career so far, Forbes estimates.
Rapper and singer Post Malone has joined a $12 million series A funding round into celebrity snack brand SkinnyDipped. Ruel Pableo for The National
Post Malone
Sunflowerrapper and singer Post Malone has joined a $12 million series A funding round into celebrity snack brand SkinnyDipped.
The round, which closed in August, was led by Miami-based nightclub entrepreneur David Grutman. Other investors include comedian Amy Schumer, actor Mark Wahlberg, TV’s Tan France, musician Becky G and athletes Frances Tiafoe and Odell Beckham Jr.
The brand, founded by the mother-daughter duo of Val and Breezy Griffith in 2016, offers healthy plant-based snacks, including nuts dipped in chocolate.
Malone has a net worth of $45 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
Born Austin Richard Post, the 28-year-old American shot to fame with the 2015 track White Iverson, and has since released a string of top-10 hits. These include Rockstar (featuring 21 Savage), Psycho (with Ty Dolla Sign), Circles, Better Now, and Sunflower with Swae Lee.
Earlier this year, Malone became the artist with the most diamond-certified singles as determined by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Eight of his songs have been streamed 1.5 billion times – or sold 10 million times. Overall, he has sold the equivalent of 55 million records, according to music data website ChartMasters.
Touring accounts for a significant chunk of his income. Before Covid lockdowns cut short his Runaway tour in 2020, Malone was grossing more than $1.3 million per city, according to Forbes.
Among his brand partnerships are endorsements for Doritos, Crocs and Postmates, and a line of headsets with HyperX.
Malone has been building a portfolio of equity investments. In 2020, he joined a $45 million funding round into Toronto’s Flow Alkaline Spring Water, alongside singer Shawn Mendes and others.
The same year, he became a partial owner of the Texas-based e-sports organisation Envy Gaming. Last year, he invested in California-based creator marketing company Pearpop.
He owns a seven-bedroom, five-bathroom home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is converting the $3 million property into a doomsday bunker, according to the New York Post.
UAE currency: the story behind the money in your pockets
The idea of pound parity now seems less far-fetched as the risk grows that Britain may split away from the European Union without a deal.
Rupert Harrison, a fund manager at BlackRock, sees the risk of it falling to trade level with the dollar on a no-deal Brexit. The view echoes Morgan Stanley’s recent forecast that the currency can plunge toward $1 (Dh3.67) on such an outcome. That isn’t the majority view yet – a Bloomberg survey this month estimated the pound will slide to $1.10 should the UK exit the bloc without an agreement.
New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said that Britain will leave the EU on the October 31 deadline with or without an agreement, fuelling concern the nation is headed for a disorderly departure and fanning pessimism toward the pound. Sterling has fallen more than 7 per cent in the past three months, the worst performance among major developed-market currencies.
“The pound is at a much lower level now but I still think a no-deal exit would lead to significant volatility and we could be testing parity on a really bad outcome,” said Mr Harrison, who manages more than $10 billion in assets at BlackRock. “We will see this game of chicken continue through August and that’s likely negative for sterling,” he said about the deadlocked Brexit talks.
The pound fell 0.8 per cent to $1.2033 on Friday, its weakest closing level since the 1980s, after a report on the second quarter showed the UK economy shrank for the first time in six years. The data means it is likely the Bank of England will cut interest rates, according to Mizuho Bank.
The BOE said in November that the currency could fall even below $1 in an analysis on possible worst-case Brexit scenarios. Options-based calculations showed around a 6.4 per cent chance of pound-dollar parity in the next one year, markedly higher than 0.2 per cent in early March when prospects of a no-deal outcome were seemingly off the table.
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Director:Josephine Decker
Stars:Grace Kaufman, Pico Alexander, Jacques Colimon
Suspend strict budget rules to allow member countries to step up defence spending
Create new "instrument" providing €150 billion of loans to member countries for defence investment
Use the existing EU budget to direct more funds towards defence-related investment
Engage the bloc's European Investment Bank to drop limits on lending to defence firms
Create a savings and investments union to help companies access capital
Ultra processed foods
- Carbonated drinks, sweet or savoury packaged snacks, confectionery, mass-produced packaged breads and buns
- margarines and spreads; cookies, biscuits, pastries, cakes, and cake mixes, breakfast cereals, cereal and energy bars;
- energy drinks, milk drinks, fruit yoghurts and fruit drinks, cocoa drinks, meat and chicken extracts and instant sauces
- infant formulas and follow-on milks, health and slimming products such as powdered or fortified meal and dish substitutes,
- many ready-to-heat products including pre-prepared pies and pasta and pizza dishes, poultry and fish nuggets and sticks, sausages, burgers, hot dogs, and other reconstituted meat products, powdered and packaged instant soups, noodles and desserts.
The company offers payments/bribes to win key contracts in the Middle East
May 2017
The UK SFO officially opens investigation into Petrofac’s use of agents, corruption, and potential bribery to secure contracts
September 2021
Petrofac pleads guilty to seven counts of failing to prevent bribery under the UK Bribery Act
October 2021
Court fines Petrofac £77 million for bribery. Former executive receives a two-year suspended sentence
December 2024
Petrofac enters into comprehensive restructuring to strengthen the financial position of the group
May 2025
The High Court of England and Wales approves the company’s restructuring plan
July 2025
The Court of Appeal issues a judgment challenging parts of the restructuring plan
August 2025
Petrofac issues a business update to execute the restructuring and confirms it will appeal the Court of Appeal decision
October 2025
Petrofac loses a major TenneT offshore wind contract worth €13 billion. Holding company files for administration in the UK. Petrofac delisted from the London Stock Exchange
November 2025
180 Petrofac employees laid off in the UAE
Ibrahim's play list
Completed an electrical diploma at the Adnoc Technical Institute
Works as a public relations officer with Adnoc
Apart from the piano, he plays the accordion, oud and guitar
His favourite composer is Johann Sebastian Bach
Also enjoys listening to Mozart
Likes all genres of music including Arabic music and jazz
Enjoys rock groups Scorpions and Metallica
Other musicians he likes are Syrian-American pianist Malek Jandali and Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou Khalil
US tops drug cost charts
The study of 13 essential drugs showed costs in the United States were about 300 per cent higher than the global average, followed by Germany at 126 per cent and 122 per cent in the UAE.
Thailand, Kenya and Malaysia were rated as nations with the lowest costs, about 90 per cent cheaper.
In the case of insulin, diabetic patients in the US paid five and a half times the global average, while in the UAE the costs are about 50 per cent higher than the median price of branded and generic drugs.
Some of the costliest drugs worldwide include Lipitor for high cholesterol.
The study’s price index placed the US at an exorbitant 2,170 per cent higher for Lipitor than the average global price and the UAE at the eighth spot globally with costs 252 per cent higher.
High blood pressure medication Zestril was also more than 2,680 per cent higher in the US and the UAE price was 187 per cent higher than the global price.
Five ways to get fit like Craig David (we tried for seven but ran out of time)
Start the week as you mean to go on. So get your training on strong on a Monday.
Train hard, but don’t take it all so seriously that it gets to the point where you’re not having fun and enjoying your friends and your family and going out for nice meals and doing that stuff.
Think about what you’re training or eating a certain way for — don’t, for example, get a six-pack to impress somebody else or lose weight to conform to society’s norms. It’s all nonsense.
Get your priorities right.
And last but not least, you should always, always chill on Sundays.
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Top tips to avoid cyber fraud
Microsoft’s ‘hacker-in-chief’ David Weston, creator of the tech company’s Windows Red Team, advises simple steps to help people avoid falling victim to cyber fraud:
1. Always get the latest operating system on your smartphone or desktop, as it will have the latest innovations. An outdated OS can erode away all investments made in securing your device or system.
2. After installing the latest OS version, keep it patched; this means repairing system vulnerabilities which are discovered after the infrastructure components are released in the market. The vast majority of attacks are based on out of date components – there are missing patches.
3. Multi-factor authentication is required. Move away from passwords as fast as possible, particularly for anything financial. Cybercriminals are targeting money through compromising the users’ identity – his username and password. So, get on the next level of security using fingertips or facial recognition.
4. Move your personal as well as professional data to the cloud, which has advanced threat detection mechanisms and analytics to spot any attempt. Even if you are hit by some ransomware, the chances of restoring the stolen data are higher because everything is backed up.
5. Make the right hardware selection and always refresh it. We are in a time where a number of security improvement processes are reliant on new processors and chip sets that come with embedded security features. Buy a new personal computer with a trusted computing module that has fingerprint or biometric cameras as additional measures of protection.
