Which one’s Kylie? At age 20, she’s the youngest sibling of the Kardashian-Jenner reality TV dynasty. She’s also the richest. Kim Kardashian West’s net worth is $350 million. Kendall Jenner is the world’s highest-paid model. She made $22 million in 2017. But Kylie Jenner is keeper of the most-liked Instagram post ever. And, apparently, because of her line of lipsticks, liners, glosses and more, she’s on track to become the youngest self-made billionaire. Last week, Forbes tallied up the value of Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics empire, combined with her earnings from TV shows and product endorsements. Her estimated net worth is a cool $900 million. The sticker shock stands out given Kylie Jenner’s age and the hard-to-parse secret sauce that vaulted her family into its own celebrity stratosphere. But the figure also serves as the latest — and one of the largest — examples of how celebrities can leverage their fame to take on another job title: business mogul. If Forbes stuck Kylie Jenner in its 2017 lineup of America’s 10 wealthiest celebrities, she’d fit somewhere between David Copperfield, who is ranked No. 5 and worth $875 million, and Michael Jordan, ranked No. 4 and worth $1.4 billion. She is richer than Jay-Z. She is richer than Diddy. Kylie Jenner’s feat, experts say, took a careful mastery of name recognition mixed with social-media influence. Kylie Cosmetics debuted two years ago with $29 “lip kits” and, according to Forbes, has ballooned into a beauty industry titan valued at nearly $800 million. Forbes wrote that the company has sold more than $630 million worth of makeup, including roughly $330 million in 2017 alone.
Yvette Nicole Brown is filling in for Chris Hardwick as host of The Walking Dead and Talking Dead while AMC Networks reviews sexual-assault allegations against Hardwick. AMC announced Friday that Brown will be “interim guest host” of The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special on Aug. 5. Brown also will host Talking Dead on Aug. 12. Brown starred in the NBC comedy Community and already was stepping in for Hard-wick as moderator of Walking Dead panels next week at San Diego Comic-Con. Hardwick has acknowledged that an online post by his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra alleging that she had been sexually assaulted and emotionally abused referred to him. He has denied the allegations but has said the couple’s three-year relationship was imperfect and included arguments.
