ELTON JOHN—EST. $500 MILLION

Elton John was born in Middlesex, England on March 25, 1947. He began to play the piano on his grandmother’s piano at the age of three and won a scholarship from the Royal College of music in London at the age of 11. His father failed to guide him into a more traditional banking business.

Elton “The Rocket Man” John will always be one of the biggest musical acts in history, as well as one of the world’s richest performers. Anyone interested to learn about this inimitable man’s rise to the top can do so by watching his box-office biopic, Rocketman, which he happened to co-produce. He said it will give fans a transparent look into his life, and we bet that, to some degree, it really is an honest view of his life, given that he rejected studio calls to tone down hedonism a notch so the film would get a PG-13 rating.