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What Is Roseanne Barr’s Net Worth?
Roseanne Barr, the multifaceted American comedian, actress, writer, television producer, and director, has accumulated a substantial net worth of approximately $70 million. This financial success is largely attributed to her career in television, particularly her role in and creation of the hit sitcom “Roseanne.”
Roseanne Barr: Earnings from Television and Stand-Up
Barr’s financial breakthrough came with “Roseanne,” which originally aired from 1988 to 1997. The show’s success earned her significant income, with her salary peaking at $21 million for the final season. This figure made her the highest-paid television actor in the world at the time. Barr also secured a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy for Best Actress. She also hosted the talk show “The Roseanne Show,” which was on air from 1998 to 2000. In 2018, when “Roseanne” was revived, Barr was slated to earn $250,000 per episode.
However, following a controversial tweet, the revival was canceled, and Barr lost a considerable amount of potential income. Specifically, she forfeited $3.25 million from the unaired episodes of that season. More significantly, Barr relinquished her ownership equity points in the reboot, a decision that cost her an estimated $100 million.
Before her sitcom success, Barr made a name for herself in stand-up comedy. She appeared on “The Tonight Show” in 1985 and Rodney Dangerfield’s comedy special in 1986. In 1987, she had her own HBO special, “The Roseanne Barr Show,” which earned her an American Comedy Award. The success of her stand-up led to the development of her own series on ABC.
Roseanne Barr: Real Estate Assets
Barr has invested in real estate throughout her career. In 2000, she purchased a 10,000-square-foot home in Rolling Hills, California, for $6.5 million, later selling it in October 2003 for $8.2 million. In 2003, she acquired a home in El Segundo, California, for $1.17 million, placing it on the market in September 2020 for $3.5 million. She expanded her holdings in El Segundo by purchasing the house across the street. Additionally, in 2005, she bought a home in Playa Del Rey for $1.5 million, followed by another Playa Del Rey property for approximately $2 million two years later.
In 2007, Barr purchased a 2,212-square-foot ranch-style house and a 46-acre property sight unseen on the Big Island of Hawaii for $1.78 million. The property, known as Hidden Hamakua Farm, is located in Honokaa/Hamakua. She moved there from Los Angeles full-time in 2010. Barr’s property has 2,000 macadamia nut trees, an organic garden, and a beehive.
Barr and her then-husband, Tom Arnold, began constructing a 28,000-square-foot mansion in southeast Iowa in 1993. After their divorce in 1994, construction was halted, and the half-finished mansion sat crumbling for decades. In 2018, Barr and Arnold donated the 1,338-acre property to the Indian Hills Community College Foundation, which sold it to MJW Hawkeye LLC.
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Roseanne Cherrie Barr was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in November 1952. She is the oldest of four children. When Barr was 16, she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Due to the drastic change in her behavior as a result of the TBI, she was institutionalized for eight months. She had a baby when she was in the institution. She put the baby girl, Brandi Ann Brown, up for adoption. At 18, in 1970, she left home to pursue her career.
Barr began her career in stand-up comedy, performing on “The Tonight Show” in 1985. This appearance led to other opportunities, including a stand-up routine for one of Rodney Dangerfield’s specials in 1986 and an appearance on “Late Night with David Letterman” that same year. These early performances helped establish her comedic persona and set the stage for her later success in television.
Personal Life and Controversies
Barr married Bill Pentland in February 1974 and had three children: Jessica, Jennifer, and Jake. They divorced in early 1990. Four days later, Barr married Tom Arnold, whom she met in 1983 in Minneapolis. They divorced in 1994. In 1992, Barr received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In November 1994, she had a son named Buck with Ben Thomas, whom she married in 1995 and divorced in 2002. Barr elicited criticism in July 2009 when she posed as Adolf Hitler in a feature for the satirical Jewish publication Heeb magazine called “That Oven Feelin.'”
Barr ran for president in 2012 as part of the Green Party. Although she did not win the nomination, she went on to be nominated by the Peace and Freedom Party and came in 6th in the popular vote for President. In 2020, Roseanne took to Twitter to post a video in which she said: “You know what I think — discuss amongst yourselves if you don’t agree — you don’t really have to burn me at the stake for not agreeing with me — but let me just throw out one idea. And I hope that the hungry dogs in the street have enough meat as to not come after me for thinking and speaking. I’m tired of it. I’m tired of being monitored and corrected and s–t, ya know, f–k it. I’ll say what I’m gonna say. Trump — hear me when I say this — Trump is, in my opinion, the first woman president of the United States.” The video then abruptly ended with no explanation. It was later deleted, but not before plenty of people screengrabbed the latest bizarre rant from Barr.
