Jeffree Star Net Worth Reveal | Income Sources, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, House, Cars, Controversies, Nathan Schwandt, Kylie Jenner, Youtube/Instagram/Music/Makeup Earnings, Endorsements, Age 33

Jeffree Star dished on Kylie Jenner [net worth: $1 billion] and her products from Kylie Cosmetics so much so that she removed him from the brand's PR list. But with a net worth like his, he was always going to be buying it himself and doing more videos as per his fans' request. Like that, he's gotten himself in a lot of controversies, some quite understandably in a good way, some in a not-so-good way. But he has made attempts at making things right by himself.

Born Jeffree Lynn Steininger Jr. in Orange County, California, on November 15, 1985 [age 34], his father, Jeffrey Steininger Sr. committed suicide when he was just six years old, and thus, was raised by his model mother Marra Shubyann Lindstrom Steininger. He always had that knack as a makeup artist since he was a child, experimenting on his mother's easily accessible beauty products and would go on to wear makeup to his school.

There are few people who could compare to his makeup business.
Photo Source: Jeffree Star, Instagram

Star continued on to maintain his interest in makeup and modeling after his Pacifica High School (BTW, his yearbook picture is awesome) days and first collected enough money from his music interest to start his own line of beauty products, Jeffree Star Cosmetics in 2014. His YouTube channel exploded ever since, carrying on his fame from MySpace.

Jeffree Star's Net Worth of $180 Million Is Not Just Because of Focusing on the Beauty Industry

As of March 2020, Jeffree Star controls a staggering net worth of $180 million with multiple sources of income. As he said in a video with Shane Dawson, the money comes from the investments of his earnings collected by his beauty brand in various other business opportunities. The capital for his Jeffree Star Cosmetics was obtained from his early music career, which he unknowingly left behind.

Star never stops flaunting his net worth.
Photo Source: Jeffree Star, Instagram

Well, he's focused on his blooming YouTube channel, which is, in all fairness, is the highest-rated beauty channel around. Of course, it comes with the proof that Forbes named him the fifth-highest paid YouTuber in 2019, and he was the only beauty vlogger in the list. So, in effect, he also earns a major amount from his social media pages, through sponsorships as well as endorsements and merchandise sales, like every other YouTuber.

Early MySpace Years: He Now Knows He Was Racist and Regrets Everything

After graduating from high school in 2003, Star moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of gaining traction in the fashion industry. He thus had to make ends meet and worked at several makeup counters, starting out in a MAC store, slowly working his way up with connections to celebrities. When he joined MySpace in 2003, he didn't imagine his videos there would pop all over the world with fame.

He was using MySpace to further his music career, but outside the camera, he recalls, he was using a fake ID to attend those Hollywood events to get the work as the higher-profile celebrities' makeup artist for a while. He posted makeup tips and songs, while blogging about his life.

His makeups were popular when he was on MySpace as well.
Photo Source: MySpace Archives

Soon enough, he gathered a huge loyal following with thousands of comments in his photos and clips and thus became the most connected MySpace user by 2006. He was an exquisite thing on the early social media platform, with so many tattoos and unique makeup styles easily amusing his followers. He was also consoling some distraught fans with image problems in their own lives, telling them it's okay to be different when they randomly messaged him.

However, he was a typical out-of-control kid back then, around 2005. He was unbelievably racist and threw derogatory slurs about marginalized and minority communities. This was something that was brought up time and again, years after MySpace went defunct. He was lashed out at times, but he's repeatedly addressed these things, horribly regretting every such thing he did and said back then.

In a media tour, he apologized in a YouTube video giving shoutout at millions of his fans. "It's upsetting. It's nasty. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch those old videos. I'm embarrassed as a person because that's never what I stood for."