The septuagenarian who was named Forbes’ highest-earning country music artist in 2017 with an earning of $37 million is now worth about $500 million. Dolly has been in the entertainment industry professionally for well over 60 fruitful years. In these years, Dolly has earned from her singing career where she has sold over 100 million records and counting worldwide; acting – with appearances in Aunt Dolly on Disney’s Hannah Montana, etc, multiple endorsement deals as well as earnings from her businesses one of which is Dollywood Company.
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Some of Her Notable Earnings from Music
The bulk of Dolly’s earnings have come mostly from her music career. Some of her most notable earnings from music include her $10 million royalty from “I Will Always Love You”, her music tours one of which is her $34million earnings from her 2011 “Better Day” where almost 275,000 tickets were sold.
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Top Box Office Films
Though the exact amount the songstress has made individually from some of her movie roles is not publicly available, it’s however known that she has made over $300million from acting. Some of her most successful films include “Straight Talk,” “Rhinestone,” “9 to 5” which made about $103.3million at the box office.
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Dollywood Company and Other Businesses
One of Dolly’s investments through the Dollywood Company is the Dollywood theme park which she co-owns and invested about $300million into. The park which is located in her hometown, Pigeon Forge, East Tennessee, opened to the public in 2011 and now sees over 3 million visitors yearly. It has also been recognized as the 24th most visited theme park in America. From its ticket sales of $67 per adult, the park is projected to be making about $5,025,000,000 in gross profit yearly.
The ace musician also has a movie production company named Dixie Pixie productions. The company produced highly successful works like
- Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors (2015 TV Movie),
- Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016 TV Movie),
- Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (2019– ) Episode: Jolene (2019) and others.
Aside from these two ventures, Dolly has numerous other business investments she co-owns under her Dollywood Company like
- Dolly Parton’s Stampede – a dinner theater,
- Dollywood’s Splash Country which is a water park, and
- Dream More Resort and Spa
She Spends on Luxury and Charities
The country music star owns and has lived in a couple of homes which include her Willow Lake Plantation which is on a 63-acre lot in Brentwood, Tennessee where she currently lives. Before now, she lived in a 4,795-square-foot house in Glencliff Road, Nashville for 16 years, and also the The Tennessee “Smoky” Mountain Home which was her childhood home.
With regards to her automobiles, Parton drove her 1997 Cadillac D’Elegance for about a decade before she gave it out to be exhibited at the Hollywood Stars Car Collection in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Afterwards, she purchased a new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid.
Dolly has invested back to the community in various ways. For example, she set up The Imagination Library in 1995 which send books for free to children from the time they were born to the time they enroll in school at no cost.
She also set up The Dollywood Foundation which funded The Buddy Program aimed at curtailing the high rate of school dropouts in her home county in 1998, and in 2016, she opened the My People Fund to assuage the sufferings of families who lost their homes to wildfire. By 2017, the organization also donated $1 million to the Vanderbilt University Children’s Hospital in Nashville.
