How Victoria And David Beckham Amassed A Combined Net Worth Of $450 Million
Highlights
- David Beckham's career as a soccer player and his smart partnership deals have contributed to his massive net worth of $450 million.
- Victoria Beckham's successful music career with the Spice Girls and her fashion and cosmetics line have also played a significant role in their combined wealth.
- Investments, such as David's purchase of Inter Miami, have further increased their net worth, with the soccer club now valued at over $1 billion after signing Lionel Messi.
Thanks to their respective careers, investments, and smart partnership deals, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham's combined net worth has reached $450 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Those numbers, while staggering, are only likely to increase in the coming years.
David made most of his fortune from his heyday as one of the best soccer players in Britain, before he went on to sign an astounding $250 million deal with the LA Galaxy of the MLS, which saw him relocate to the U.S. with his family in 2007.
Victoria, on the other hand, was pulling in tens of millions a year from her booming music career as part of the '90s girl band, Spice Girls. To this day, the mother-of-four, who married David in 1999, makes a substantial amount from merchandise and record sales while also juggling her fashion and cosmetics line.
The duo has fronted some of the biggest endorsement deals in Hollywood, with David famously getting paid $20 million to take on the position as Giorgio Armani's global ambassador. But what other ways have seen David and Victoria's net worth reach $450 million? Here's the lowdown.
Updated October 2023: David and Victoria Beckham may not have changed their net worth over the past several years, but this appears to be because investments were being made for the future. The biggest of which was David's purchase of Inter Miami. A soccer club that he invested $25 million into that immediately boomed to a $600 million franchise worth after David became owner. The clue further became more successful when Lionel Messi was signed to the team, making it work $1 billion.
11 David Beckham Started Making A Fortune At A Young Age
Year: 2002
Age | 27 Years Old |
Income/investments | Manchester United paid David Beckham $1.25 Million/week |
By the year 2002, David Beckham was making plenty of money at the age of 27, pulling in a reported $1,250,000 a-week playing soccer for Manchester United. During his time there, David would go on to score 85 goals in 394 league appearances with the club. To the soccer club, David was worth every penny.
10 David Beckham Increased His Fortune By Joining Real Madrid
Year: 2003-2007
Age | 28 Years Old |
Income/investments | 4-year deal worth $41 Million with Real Madrid |
When David joined Spanish giant Real Madrid in the Summer of 2003, it was revealed that he had signed a four-year $41 million deal with the soccer club. It was a major move for David, who spent over a decade with Manchester United.
9 David And Victoria Beckham Made Real Estate Investments
Year: 2005
Age | 30 and 31 Years old |
Income/investments | Luxury real estate investment (including a $4.8 Million mansion) |
When it was time for David and his wife, Victoria, to relocate to Spain, they decided that investing in real estate would probably be a wise idea if they were going to be living there long-term.
By 2005, the couple owned two luxury homes, including a $4.8 million five-bedroom mansion in La Moraleja. To this day, the couple spends big bucks investing in properties around the world, including in London, the countryside in Cotswolds, a penthouse in Miami, and homes in Dubai.
8 David Beckham Signed A Contract To Join LA Galaxy
Year: 2007
Age | 31 Years old |
Income/investments | $250 Million deal with LA Galaxy of the MLS |
After Real Madrid, David proved he was still marketable and a great soccer player when he decided to move his family to Los Angeles after closing a deal with the LA Galaxy of the MLS for a reported $250 million in January 2007.
This lucrative deal lasted from 2007 to 2012, with David being loaned out to AC Milan of Italy for two seasons. This stint proved to be the last multi-year deal David signed with a soccer club before he announced his retirement in 2013.
7 David Beckham's Annual Salary Was Insanely High
Year: 2007
Age | 31 - 33 Years old |
Income/investments | David Beckham made $6.5 million/year playing soccer in the US |
David had an annual salary of $6.5 million a year, but that sum doesn’t include the percentage he also received from the franchise’s revenue.
Given that soccer wasn’t one of the major sports in the U.S., David was signing contracts that were unheard of for a soccer player at the time.
6 Victoria Beckham’s Successful Music Career
Year: 1994
Age | 20 Years old |
Income/investments | Victoria Beckham made $75 million/year from The Spice Girls |
Victoria, also known as Posh Spice, was part of one of the biggest girls bands of the 1990s with the Spice Girls.
With over 85 million records sold worldwide, RollingStone claimed the girls were earning $75 million a year from merchandise, music, album, movie, and ticket sales.
Despite not joining the rest of the girls on their 2019 reunion tour, The Sun reports that Victoria still walked away with $1.2 million generated from licensing deals, endorsements, and, as previously mentioned, music sales.
Fortunately for Spice Girls' fans, Victoria has tentatively agreed to rejoin the group for their upcoming tour in 2024. If all goes well, the complete quintet will be reunited for a Spice Girls tour like no other. If this comes to fruition, Victoria will be increasing her and David's net worth by a pretty penny, given how much money is made via ticket sales and from merchandise. The concert dates are already projected to sell out, even though nothing has been officially announced to date.
5 Victoria Beckham Released A Blockbuster Hit
Year: 1997
Age | 23 Years old |
Income/investments | Spice World Grossed $100 Million |
Together with her former band members, Geri Halliwell, Mel C, Mel B, and Emma Bunton, the girls released their 1997 blockbuster flick, Spice World, which went on to gross $100 million in combined DVD and cinema ticket sales.
Domestic Box Office | $29,342,592 |
International Box Office | $26,700,000 |
Worldwide Box Office | $56,042,592 |
DVD Sales | $43,957,408 |
It’s assumed that the Spice Girls earned a generous amount from the film’s success.
4 Victoria Beckham Has Her Own Fashion Line
Year: 2008
Age | 34 Years old |
Income/investments | Victoria Beckham's Fashion Line is worth $50 Million |
In September 2008, Victoria launched her clothing line, 'Victoria Beckham' which has since been showcasing its latest collection of apparel at New York and London Fashion Week.
By 2012, Victoria had expanded her line from dresses to handbags that were being sold for up to $25,000. The year prior, she was the most talked-about designer on Twitter during New York Fashion Week, which is an achievement in itself.
Victoria's clothing line continues to perform well. If this is the case in the future, that will bring in more wealth for the couple as well.
3 David Beckham's Massive Endorsement Deals
Year: 2003-2006
Age | 28 Years old |
Income/investments | $20 Million deal with Giorgio Armani |
Income/investments | $150 Million Adidas deal (since 2003) |
Throughout his career, David has fronted some very lucrative endorsement deals with major companies such as Adidas, Samsung, Pepsi, and H&M’s menswear.
David's 2006 deal to become the global ambassador of fashion house Giorgio Armani came at an astounding price of $20 million alone. However, that paled in comparison to his lifetime endorsement deal with Adidas, which came to nearly $150 million.
2 David Beckham Also Partnered With Calvin Klein
Year: 2006
Age | 31 Years old |
Income/investments | Undisclosed deal |
In 2006, David has also teamed up with Calvin Klein for several of their campaigns, which has seen him pose in nothing but his underwear for some of the campaigns held by the fashion house, all of which came about because David claimed to never wear a pair of Calvin Klein underwear twice. As such, he was spending $1,700 per month, according to The LA Times, just on underwear alone.
It was never disclosed how much he was paid for his ongoing work with CK, but if he’s pulling in $20 million with Armani, those numbers should be relatively the same.
1 David Beckham Owns A Majority Of Inter Miami
Year: 2014
Age | 39 Years old |
Income/investments | David Beckham helped Inter Miami grow to be worth $1 Billion |
David has retired from playing soccer himself, but he now owns a majority of Inter Miami, an MLS expansion franchise, which made its debut in March 2020. If all goes well and the sport of soccer continues to gain interest from Americans, Inter Milan could see David make hundreds of millions in the long run.
When David bought Inter Miami, he paid $25 million. With his buy into the soccer club, the valuation quickly rose, according to The Free Press Journal, to $600 million. And with the addition of Lionel Messi in 2023, the valuation now stands at over $1 billion.
The retired athlete has always been business-savvy, with most of his deals leading to longtime partnerships, so there's little to no doubt that David will make a great amount of profit from his involvement with Inter Miami.
Source: Celebrity Net Worth, RollingStone, The Sun, The LA Times, The Free Press Journal
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