While you may not hear much nearly Rosie O'Donnell these days, trust and believe that she still has an enormous fortune worth $120 million, and so even if she was to retire today, the former talk testify host has made more than than plenty coin to retire.

The 59-yr-one-time, who's been feuding with Howard Stern for years, began her career in comedy every bit a teenager before landing her breakthrough when she was discovered on the Tv serial Star Search back in 1984. It wasn't long after before O'Donnell would find herself cast in a number of television and film roles, which introduced her to an even bigger audience than what she was used to on Star Search.

What actually started making the self-proclaimed "Queen of Nice" a lot of coin in the '90s was her syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Bear witness, which ran from 1996 to 2002, spanning six seasons and a whopping ane,193 episodes, and, of form, multiple Daytime Emmy Awards.

From in that location, equally nosotros all know, O'Donnell went on to join the panelists of The View in 2005, where her reputation had taken quite a striking thanks to her public feud with Donald Trump and disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies concerning the Iraq War.

But how exactly has this New Yorker managed to accumulate such a hefty fortune and where is she making her money from these days? Hither'due south the lowdown…

Rosie O'Donnell's Net Worth

O'Donnell had a lengthy on-again, off-again run on the talk testify The View, where reports claim she was making a whopping $v million a year just to share her views on politics and celebrity gossip (no pun intended).

In Feb 2015, only v months after returning, a source close to product told The Wrap that O'Donnell was stepping away from the talk show in gild to focus on her personal life following her split with wife Michelle Rounds, whom she was married to for iii years.

"I can confirm that Rosie and her wife Michelle split in November," a rep for O'Donnell shared. "Rosie has teens and an baby at home that need her attention. This has been a very stressful situation. She is putting her personal health and family start. ABC has been wonderfully understanding and supportive of her personal decision to leave 'The View.' Side by side calendar week will exist her last."

A follow-up statement from ABC read, "Rosie is an immensely talented star who comes in each and every morning time brimming with ideas, excitement and passion for the bear witness.

When she told us that she wanted to leave 'The View,' we respected and understood her desire to put her well-being and her family first. We're delighted she's withal part of the ABC family with upcoming guest appearances on 'The Fosters.' And we know she'll return to 'The View' oft with her unique point of view and updates on her piece of work and her family."

As mentioned by ABC, O'Donnell continued working on the TV series The Fosters, which she joined in 2014, playing Rita Hendricks. She departed the show in 2016.

O'Donnell too appeared on the Tv prove Mom for two episodes that year before signing on for the Tv musical, Hairspray Live!.

A year later, the mother of 5 made a triumphant return with a recurring function on the hit series SMILF where she played Tutu between 2017 to 2019, and in 2020, she joined the cast of HBO's I Know This Much Is Truthful.

While the coronavirus pandemic has been crude for all of us, 2020 proved to be another great yr for O'Donnell, who was appear to join Get-go'south American Gigolo, which is currently filming and expected to air by the year'southward end.

Conspicuously, interim is at the forefront of O'Donnell's career, despite the fact that she made a fortune from her stint on daytime tv.

There's no word on how much she made while fronting her ain talk prove, simply considering that the lasted for six seasons, it'southward fair to assume, she made at least $3-v million a twelvemonth — particularly since The Rosie O'Donnell Show was syndicated.

Equally for a potential return to The View, O'Donnell says she absolutely has no interest because she believes that her old co-host Whoopi Goldberg has never actually liked her.

"Whoopi Goldberg was every bit mean as anyone has ever been on television set to me, personally," she previously shared in the 2019 book,Ladies Who Dial: The Explosive Within Story of The View.

"When people say, 'Well, what happened?' I say, 'Become dorsum and watch them.' It's not like a mystery. Watch the way it went downwardly, and I don't need to say anything."

The View remains one of the highest-rated daytime talk shows, so making a return and earning upwards to $5 1000000 a year wouldn't be so bad, just it seems O'Donnell is perfectly happy focusing on her interim career over arguing with a panel of women from day-to-day.

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