30 Richest Adult Entertainment Stars [Gallery]

1. Tori Black

The adult entertainment business is a $15 billion per year industry that has made many people and corporations extremely wealthy. While actors and actresses don't frequently reap the benefits of that financial success, there are a few who have come out ahead after their long careers in the business.

We've put together a list of the top richest stars of the Adult Entertainment business, click next to check it out!

Net Worth – $1 million
Black started her career at age 18 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was on a summer vacation while attending college. At her parents' insistence on getting a job, Black saw an advertisement for an adult talent agency and sent in her pictures.

2. Sunny Leone

Black is the first person in history to win two AVN Female Performer of the Year Awards, winning back-to-back years in 2010 and 2011.She also won the 2010 and 2011 XRCO Awards for Female Performer of the Year.

Net Worth – $1.5 million
When picking a name for her adult career, she has said that Sunny is her real name and Leone was picked by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine. She posed for Penthouse magazine and was named Penthouse Pet of the Month for the March 2001 issue, followed by a feature in the Holiday 2001 edition of Hustler magazine as a Hustler Honey. She won the "Web Babe of the Year" at the 2008 Xbiz Awards.

3. Audrey Bitoni

Her websites and business interests are run under her banner company Leone L.L.C. She indicated in an April 2012 interview that 80 percent of the traffic on her website and 60 percent of her revenue comes from India.

Net Worth – $1.6 million
Audrey first began performing in explicit hardcore movies in 2006. Bitoni was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2008.

4. Jayden James

In addition, Audrey was the cover girl for and featured centerfold in the November 2008 issue of Club International magazine as well as the Pet of the Month in the November 2008 issue of Penthouse magazine.

Net Worth – $1.7 million
Jayden started out in the adult entertainment industry as an exotic dancer while attending college full time. She began performing in explicit movies at age 20. She was nominated for an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2009 and won an AVN Award for Best Group Sex Scene in 2010.

5. Belladonna

Moreover, Jaymes has appeared in a few mainstream pictures in small roles. Jayden runs her own official website and operates her own fiercely opinionated and controversial blog in which she candidly addresses the ups and downs of the adult business. She resides in New York City.

Net Worth – $1.9 million
Shortly after she turned 18 she was dancing at a strip club in Salt Lake City when a girlfriend told her that she could make good money working in adult magazines and videos in Los Angeles.

6. Sasha Grey

She took her girlfriend's advice, traveled to L.A., broke into the adult-film business and has been there ever since.

Net Worth – $2.5 million
Sasha Grey is a former adult entertainer who has since become a mainstream actress, model, author, and musician. She first made her name in mainstream media after appearing on several popular television programs and in pop culture magazines examining her willingness to enter the world of adult entertainment at a young age.

7. Gianna Michaels

She has also been featured in music videos and advertising campaigns.

Net Worth – $4 million
She has made over 200 adult films and has also appeared in amateur adult (aka "gonzo") websites.

8. Evan Seinfeld

She also sells videos and shoots exclusive content for her own personal website.

Net Worth – $5 million
Evan is an actor and director, known for Oz (1997). He has been married to Lupe Fuentes since 2011. He was previously married to Tera Patrick. Tera said, "I said to Evan, 'I'm your wife, and that is the strongest bond two people should have, and that should come first.

9. Jenna Haze

I've moved on from porn. And I want you to stop. You promised me you'd only do porn for a few years. Your few years are up." It would seem it wasn't so easy to put something down that was paying so well...

Net Worth – $6 million
Haze was ranked sixteenth on "The 50 Prettiest Porn Stars of All Time" and fifth on "The 10 Hottest Orange County Women."She was also ranked twentieth on "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars (Right Now)" in 2011. She was placed on CNBC's yearly list of "The Dirty Dozen: Porn's Most Popular Stars" for two consecutive years.

10. Lexington Steele

On February 7, 2012, Haze announced her retirement from performing via a homemade YouTube video, followed by a press release. She revealed that she had not shot a scene since April 2011, but she would possibly continue to direct and produce

Net Worth – $6.2 million
In a 2015 interview in AVN magazine, Steele commented about his transition into the adult industry, "Once I was licensed, it opened the door to a whole new recreational side of the industry. The guy who trained me invited me to a party in a hotel suite, and it ended up being a sex party like the ones in 'Wolf of Wall Street'. It wasn't long before a bigger director from Los Angeles gave me a job and suggested I attend the annual porn industry convention in Las Vegas" and with regard to his decision to switch careers and industries and in consideration for how lucrative securities trading can be, Steele stated, "I tell them it's not like I was already a master of the universe.

11. Katie Morgan

I was working 12 to 14 hours six days a week. I made six figures, but my quality of life wasn't commensurate".

Net Worth – $6.4 million
Katie Morgan was born on March 17, 1980, in Los Angeles, California as Sarah Lyn Carradine. She is an actress, known for Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) and TripTank (2014).

12. Bree Olson

She has been married to James Jackman since September 9, 2009.

Net Worth – $7 million
Bree Olson has been featured in such men's magazines as "Club," "Rockstar" and "Barely Legal." She won an AVN Award for Best New Starlet in 2008 and went on to win a second AVN Award for Best New Web Starlet the following year, in which she also won the title of Miss FreeOnes.

13. Traci Lords

Olson lived for a while with Charlie Sheen as one of his "goddesses" and has reportedly retired from the adult entertainment industry.

Net Worth – $7.2 million
Her stage name is a combination of Traci, from a former school friend, and Lords, in honor of her favorite male actor, Jack Lord from Hawaii Five-O.

14. Ron Jeremy

Traci made somewhere between 80 and 100 X-rated movies between 1984 and 1986.

Net Worth – $7.5 million
Beginning in 1979, he has appeared in well over 800 adult feature films. In March 1988, the short, mustachioed, heavyset Ron Jeremy has assumed the mantle as the number one U.S.

15. Maria Takagi

male star of adult cinema. His "regular guy" appearance and amazing endurance in front of the camera have undoubtedly contributed to his phenomenal success in an industry notorious for dumping those men who can't perform on cue.

Net Worth – $8 million
In late 2003 Takagi was the winner of five awards at the Kuki Inc.-owned XCity's Adult Video Grand Prix Awards.

16. Jesse Jane

The biggest adult site in Japan at that time, XCity conferred upon Takagi both the Best New Actress and Best Actress awards, and the Best Video Title, Best Conversation, and Prettiest Face awards of 2003.

Net Worth – $8 million
Jane read an article on Tera Patrick that said that Patrick worked for adult-film production company Digital Playground. She contacted them and was quickly signed to a contract. Jane has hosted several adult industry award ceremonies throughout her career including the AVN Awards in 2006 and 2013, the F.A.M.E.

17. Jenna Jameson

Awards in 2008, and the XBIZ Awards in 2008 and 2011. In January 2017, Jane announced that she would retire from the adult industry and that the 2017 AVN Awards would be her last.

Net Worth – $10 million
by the time she was 18 the bright lights were already drawing her in. She studied ballet, but it was stripping that started her on her road to superstardom. Dancing led to nude modeling, and by her 20th birthday she had appeared in dozens of top men's mags, including "Penthouse", "Hustler", "High Society" and "Cheri".

18. Peter North

A visit to a porn set piqued her interest in a hardcore career, and Wicked Pictures signed her to an exclusive contract after a bidding war. It took only a few releases for Jenna to become the most popular young starlet around.

Net Worth – $11 million
He was "discovered" while modeling athletic wear at a private party in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. North began his adult film career in 1983. Initially, North performed in gay pornography under the name Matt Ramsey. As Matt Ramsey, he starred in about 20 gay porn movies, making nine in 1984.

19. Tera Patrick

North has appeared in over 2000 adult films and also directed more than 70 movies, most of them between 1998 and 2007. He also produced over 20 movies. In 2001, he successfully launched his own production company, Northstar Associates.

Net Worth – $15 million
Patrick retired from shooting scenes in the adult industry in 2008 but continues to operate her website, production company, and pursue other business ventures. She licenses her movie catalog worldwide.

20. Stormy Daniels

Patrick has appeared in Playboy and Penthouse, where she was the "Pet of the Month" for February 2000 and was selected as "Pet of the Year" runner-up. In January 2013, Patrick hosted the annual XBIZ Awards.

She began her career as a stripper in her hometown at the age of 17 before entering the porn industry. Her adopted stage name is a combination of the Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx's daughter Storm, and Jack Daniels whiskey, which hails from Louisiana.

21. Shyla Stylez

The 38-year-old has had a contract with the porn studio Wicked Pictures since 2002 and has directed for the company since 2004. That year, she won the Best New Starlet Award from Adult Video News and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2014.

21. Shyla Stylez

22. Evan Stone

On November 9, 2017, Stylez’s mother found her unresponsive in her bed. She was pronounced dead shortly after, aged 35. Her cause of death is unknown.

22. Evan Stone

23. Riley Reid

He is also a great stand up comic.He can be seen almost nightly on some TV channel.

24. Carter Cruise

23. Riley Reid

Two years ago, this 24-time nominee was a college student, but she knew the academic life wasn't for her.

25. Aidra Fox

After taking a semester off to reassess life, she came up with the Carter Cruise brand - and launched it with a topless photo shoot.

Fox started her career in porn as soon as she turned 18, becoming Penthouse's Pet of the Month less than a year later. Now 20, she was nominated for 13 awards this year.

26. Mick Blue

As her career progresses, she has mentioned she's interested in getting into directing. But for now, she's busy in front of the camera.

Last year's AVN Male Performer of the Year, Blue has more than 30 nominations this year.

27. Keisha Grey

Born in Austria, he has been part of the industry since 2000 and in 2014 married fellow performer Anikka Albrite.

A two-year veteran of the industry, Grey amassed seven nominations this year.

28. Romi Rain

A music lover, she says she plays both the cello and bass guitar.

Adult entertainment is a family tradition for Rain. Her mother, while not a performer, posed in Hustler many years ago.

29. Vicki Chase

Rain stuck with nude modeling at first as well, performing occasionally as a Webcam model. Curiosity about the industry led her to give it a try and this year she has accrued seven award nominations.

Perhaps the only performer to take her stage name from a major banking institution (where she was a teller before entering the porn world), Chase has had a fairly low profile for the past six years.

Her star began to rise when she had a cameo on Sons of Anarchy in 2014 and this year she has seven nominations.