Perry’s whopping pretax earnings of $135 million in 2015, places her at No. 3 on last year’s Celebrity 100 list, behind only the boxers Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao–who earned a one-night, once-in-a-generation payday for their snooze of a fight–and more than Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus combined. But unlike some of her fellow divas, she doesn’t shy away from her financial success. “I am proud of my position as a boss, as a person that runs my own company,” says Perry.  “I’m an entrepreneur. … I don’t want to shy away from it. I actually want to kind of grab it by its balls.”

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Source: Forbes.com