Tyler Perry's amusement empire made him a billionaire.
The actor, director, writer, and manufacturer joined the billionaire ranks of Oprah Winfrey, George Lucas, John de Mol, and Steven Spielberg in 2020.
In 2022, Perry was the third highest-paid entertainer in the world at $175 million, Forbes reported.
As of October 2026, his net value is $1.4 billion, according to his Forbes profile.
Perry's earnings streams contain his movie and TV library, investments, his ongoing satisfied agreement alongside BET, and Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
Here's a appearance at how he makes and spends his fortune.
Perry, 57, was delivered Emmitt Perry, Jr. in 1969 and raised in New Orleans.
Perry shared a near association alongside his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, who died in 2009, The Seattle Times reported. He is estranged from his begetter and, to extend himself from him, Perry changed his name to Tyler at 16.
Perry did not complete elevated academy but afterward completed his GED.
He is now based in Atlanta and has a son alongside his erstwhile partner, example and advocate Gelila Bekele.
In December 2020, Perry revealed in an Instagram post that he and Bekele had split.
"I'm 51, sole and wondering what the next division in my existence volition appearance like," he wrote.
Perry got his commencement in theater.
When his archetypal play, "I Know I've Been Changed," debuted in Atlanta in 1992, it opened to a mostly bare theater, according to his authoritative website.
Thirteen years and many another plays later, he released his archetypal film, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," in 2005, jumpstarting his Madea franchise. The movie made $22.7 myriad its beginning weekend.
One of Perry's best-known projects is the Madea movie franchise, in which Perry himself dresses as a female and plays the titular role.
In a 2017 appearance on the "Today" show, Perry stated that playing the function happened by accident. When the actor playing a grandma in his 2000 phase display "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" didn't display up, he had to obtain complete her lines, and Madea was born.
"That two minutes of Madea ended up being most of the show," he said.
Perry made 13 center Madea movies complete 2 decades.
The final theatrical publish in the franchise, "A Madea Family Funeral," made $27 myriad in its March 2019 beginning weekend, Variety reported. In July 2025, the latest movie, "Madea's Destination Wedding," was released on Netflix.
The highest-grossing Madea movie, "Madea Goes to Jail," brought in $90 myriad in total box-office earnings in 2009, Forbes reported.
Perry's Madea franchise has grossed complete $660 million.
His broader movie gathering has brought in complete $1 milliard in ticket sales.
Perry and Lionsgate had a "first look" agreement for 6 years from 2008 to 2014.
Many of Perry's Madea movies were distributed by studio elephantine Lionsgate; afterward Madea movies were released on Netflix.
In a first-look deal, the creator owns the copyright to his material. Perry maintains ownership of everything he has produced, including 1,200 TV episodes, complete 20 films, and at smallest two dozen phase plays.
Since parting ways alongside Lionsgate, Perry has inked partnerships alongside the Oprah Winfrey Network and Viacom, the genitor business of BET.
Perry created shows specified as "The Have and Have Nots" and "If Loving You Is Wrong" for OWN during his seven-year alliance alongside the network, which ended in 2019.
In 2017, Perry signed a agreement alongside BET's genitor company, Viacom (now Paramount Skydance Corporation), to create exclusive first satisfied for BET and another Viacom networks following his alliance alongside OWN.
BET, abbreviated for Black Entertainment Television, was launched in 1980 to concentration on programming for Black audiences.
In a September 2020 profile, Forbes estimated that concerning $60 myriad of Perry's billion-dollar net value came from his interest in BET+.
At the time, the business reportedly gave Perry a 25% equity interest in its streaming service, BET+, and paid him $150 myriad annually to create new films and TV shows.
Paramount Skydance acquired his interest in 2026 whenever BET+ was folded into Paramount+. Perry continues to create first programming for BET, although the conditions aren't public.
Perry's shows "Sistas" and "The Oval" were the top two cable sequence for Black audiences in 2021.
Forbes estimated that his 330-acre manufacturing studio in Atlanta, Tyler Perry Studios, is value $280 million.
In 2015, Perry paid $30 myriad for a storyline of district on the evidence of the historic Fort McPherson armed forces base, anywhere he built his manufacturing studio.
The district was formerly a basis for the Confederate Army, a item Perry has acknowledged. In a 2019 BET Awards speech, he said, "While you're fighting for a place at the table, I'll be downward in Atlanta construction my own."
The studio evidence characteristic 12 audio stages and 200 acres of greenspace.
Marvel megahit "Black Panther" was among the archetypal movies attempt at the studio's new stages.
Perry took Architectural Digest on a tour of the asset in 2019, which includes neighborhoods, mansions, and a replica of the White House.
Perry has built an notable real-estate portfolio complete the years that consists of multiple multimillion-dollar properties in Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Wyoming.
Perry bought a 34,000-square-foot home in Atlanta in 2007 for $9 million. It has seven bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a helipad, an infinity pool, and a tennis court, Architectural Digest reported.
He sold the residence to David Turner, an entrepreneur and evangelist, nine years afterward in 2016 for $17.5 million. Steve Harvey bought the home for $15 myriad in June 2020.
In September, Perry listed his Beverly Hills mansion for $57 myriad and stated that he was preparing to move to Puerto Rico.
Perry bought the asset for $4.3 myriad in 2004 and expanded it to 24,592 quadrate feet in a 2012 renovation, Realtor.com reported.
Perry hosted Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the nine-bedroom mansion following they were cut off by the regal family in 2020.
"We needed a house, and he offered safety as well. So it gave us breathing area to try to fig out what we are going to do," Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in a 2021 tell-all interview.
Perry revealed in the Netflix docuseries "Harry and Meghan" that he had written Meghan a letter onward of her wedding, saying he was praying for her.
When Meghan afterward called him, crying, Perry validated her feelings concerning how she was being treated by the media.
"To inform Meghan that I felt her feelings were valid hurt," he stated in the docuseries. "I didn't desire to have to say that to her — I didn't desire her to awareness that. But I didn't desire to lie to her. She was fearful of them destroying her, or going crazy, or them making her think she was crazy."
In the docuseries, Harry and Meghan revealed that they had named Perry godfather to their daughter, Lilibet.
Architectural Digest reported in November 2019 that Perry additionally owns a log division in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and asset in the Bahamas.
Perry purchased his Wyoming holiday residence in 2005.
In the Bahamas, White Bay Cay and the isle next entrance were listed together for $7 myriad before Perry purchased them in 2009, although the amount he paid has not been reported.
Real asset isn't his lone important investment. Perry additionally owns a $150 myriad personal jet, which he has used for humanitarian aid.
Perry used the jet to fly h2o and another necessities to the Bahamas in the consequence of Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, CNN reported.
Perry is known to be generous alongside his wealth.
Perry founded The Perry Foundation in 2006, which supports initiatives in areas including education, individual rights, health, and agriculture.
In July 2020, he gifted about $50,000 in market shop current cards to those in need in Atlanta, the "Today" show reported.
