E.L. James (Author: Fifty Shades of Grey)

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Forbes 2018-12: $10.5 million Forbes 2017: $11.5 million Forbes Sept 2014: $10 million Forbes June 2013: $95 million DailyMail June 2012: E.L.James's salary is an estimate for this year. Her book "Fifty Shades of Grey" is grossing over $1 million (approximately £862,069) every week since last week. Just one month ago the sales total was 16 million. James has also just been paid $5m (£3.2m) from Universal/Focus Features for the film rights to the trilogy, so it really has been quite some year.

Sources

• Picture: Flickr.com
• Text: Dailymail
• Text: Forbes
• Text: Forbes
• Text: Forbes

Update: 2019-1

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