Billie Eilish’s web value after donating $11.5m and telling billionaires to provide away their money

Billie Eilish would possibly simply have ruffled a couple of feathers after suggesting that billionaires ought to donate their wealth to people who find themselves extra in want, as a substitute of retaining their billionaire standing.

The Grammy winner was accepting the Music Innovator Award on the WSJ Innovator Awards earlier this week when she took a swipe on the ultra-rich, in entrance of an viewers that included the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, who presently holds the title of world’s third-richest particular person.

Addressing the group, the 23-year-old, who lately donated $11.5 million of her personal cash to charity, mentioned: “We’re in a time proper now the place the world is actually, actually unhealthy and actually darkish and other people want empathy and assist greater than, type of, ever, particularly in our nation.

“I would say you probably have cash, it could be nice to make use of it for good issues, perhaps give it to some those who want it.”

She then went that step additional by immediately calling out the billionaires within the room, including: “Love you all, however there’s a couple of folks in right here which have much more cash than me. If you happen to’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, however yeah, give your cash away, shorties.”

Moments earlier than Billie stepped on the stage, host Stephen Colbert introduced the Birds Of A Feather singer had donated the proceeds from her most up-to-date tour to help ‘organisations, tasks and voices devoted to meals fairness, local weather justice, decreasing carbon air pollution and combating the local weather disaster’.

What’s Billie Eilish’s web value?

Many individuals have been left questioning how a lot cash Billie does even have, after such a beneficiant donation to worthy causes.

As is all the time the case with these conditions, it is not possible to know for certain, however given the musician’s sudden rise to fame on the age of simply 16 and unending success during the last seven years, we all know Billie is doing fairly nicely for herself.

Along with being a famous person in her personal proper, Billie comes from a household of entertainers, having been homeschooled by her actor dad and mom, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell. Her older brother, Finneas Baird O’Connell can also be a musician, who has written and produced for a lot of artists, together with Billie, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber and lots of extra.

Billie has beforehand confessed to ‘feeling like an fool’ for not having a grasp on what is pricey, having grown up with no cash to being a multimillionaire earlier than turning into an grownup.

“I do not know what issues price as a result of I’ve by no means been an grownup earlier than. And, you realize, I grew up with no cash. It is a actually bizarre place I am in. I really feel type of silly as a result of I am like, I do not understand how a lot Froot Loops are,” she advised Vanity Fair.

“I attempted to order one field of Froot Loops and I used to be like, ‘Oh yeah, certain. It is $35.’ I didn’t know that that’s costly. I ordered 70 packing containers.”

In 2025, Billie is estimated to have a web value of round $50 million in accordance with Celebrity Net Worth, with half of that coming from Apple paying to make a documentary about her life.