Forget the old cliché of the broke adult film star. The women on this list turned their fame into subscription empires, production companies, Bollywood careers, jewelry brands and even law school plans, and most of them now keep a much bigger slice of the money than the studios ever intended.
Our ranking is based on the latest net worth estimates from Celebrity Net Worth (checked September 2026). Think of them as educated guesses rather than bank statements, because nobody here is publishing audited books. Here are the 10 richest, counting down from #10 to the richest at #1.
10) Maitland Ward – Net Worth $4 Million
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Yes, that Maitland Ward. Long before adult film, she played Rachel McGuire on “Boy Meets World” and Jessica Forrester on “The Bold and the Beautiful,” and she even had a part in “White Chicks.” When Hollywood cooled off, she built a huge following through cosplay and social media, then made the leap in 2019 with “Drive,” released on Deeper, the studio run by Kayden Kross, who’s up next at No. 9. The pivot paid off. Ward has said she makes six figures a month from OnlyFans and her film work, and she’s been blunt that it beats her old network paychecks. In 2022 she told the whole story in her memoir, “Rated X: How Porn Liberated Me from Hollywood.” Not a bad second act.