Wayne Newton – 79 – $50 Million

Wayne Newton is a singer and actor whose net worth sits at $50 million. He is best known for his musical hits such as Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast and Danke Schoen, as well as his best-selling Las Vegas performances, for which there have been more than 30,000 shows.

Newton made his debut into his prolific career in the early 1960s when he performed on the Jackie Gleason Show. He also won an acting credit in the classic western TV show Bonanza. By 1963, he had signed with Capitol Records and launched his first album, which was immediately a massive hit and landed the number 13 spot on the Billboard charts. Danke Schoen became Newton’s signature song and was even used as the official soundtrack in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, starring Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck.

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