48. Judy Sheindlin ($47 million)

Personality

The chief justice of daytime TV, better known to fans as Judge Judy, still rules over the courtroom that made her a centimillionaire. Despite getting a late start--she first appeared on camera at age 52--her Judge Judy show has been on the air for 20 seasons and is watched by an average of 10 million viewers a day; she won her second daytime Emmy in 2016.