Tyler Perry Is Hollywood's Newest Billionaire

Tyler Perry, who was once homeless, is unmistakably a billionaire, according to Forbes. The 51-year-old entertainer has earned $1.4 billion in pre-tax income since 2005, the money outlet reports. <br /><br />He owns the entirety of his creative output, including more than 1,200 episodes of television, 22 feature films and at least two dozen stage plays, as well as a 330-acre studio lot at the edge of Atlanta’s southern limits,” the outlet claims. “He used that control to leverage a deal with ViacomCBS that pays him $150 million a year for new content and gives him an equity stake in BET+, the streaming service it debuted last September.<br /><br />"I love when people say you come from 'humble beginnings,' " Perry said in his Forbes billionaire interview. "[It] means you were poor as hell." It also makes success sweeter. "Ownership changes everything."