The last time Amanda Bynes’s finances appeared in a public record was August 2013, when a California court put her estate at $3.5 million. In 2017 her assets moved into a private trust, and trusts do not file public accounts. Everything published since is estimate, not record.
Amanda Bynes Net Worth: What the Sources Say
- We publish no current figure. None is verifiable
- $3.5 million — the estate value stated in court in August 2013, the last figure of record
- $1.5 million — her 2005 earnings, per Forbes’ Celebrity 100, where she ranked 99th. Forbes has never published a net worth for her
- Our take: a dated historical figure is honest; a current one would not be. See our methodology.
Two Circulating Figures, Both Wrong
The $5.7 million. This appears across dozens of pages as though it came from court documents. We traced it to a single aggregator article from October 2014, which presents a full breakdown — $2.8 million in property, $2.9 million in cash, $144,768 in annual income — and cites no outlet, no docket number and no document. Every subsequent repetition copies that cluster without independent sourcing.
The “$1.2 to $1.5 million estate at termination”. This one is a misdating. The $1.2 million figure comes from 2013 — it was her parents’ assertion, when seeking the conservatorship, about how much savings she had spent in under a year. It is not an estate valuation, and certainly not one from 2022.
There is a structural reason no 2022 figure exists. When the conservatorship ended, the judge noted that compelling a formal accounting would require a separate petition in the trust case — meaning no accounting was in the conservatorship record at all.
The Documented Record
Confining this strictly to what the court file shows:
- 9 August 2013 — Ventura County Superior Court granted her mother a temporary conservatorship of person and estate. The estate was valued at $3.5 million. Bynes, then 27, opposed it through court-appointed counsel
- October 2014 — conservatorship re-granted
- 2017 — the estate conservatorship ended; assets moved into a lifetime trust with her father as trustee. This is where the public financial record stops
- 22 March 2022 — the personal conservatorship was terminated, with both parents supporting it. No financial figures entered the reported record
Her Film Salaries Were Never Reported
She was a Nickelodeon child star and then a studio lead — What a Girl Wants, She’s the Man, Hairspray, Easy A. We found no salary reporting for any of them in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or Deadline.
The “$2 to $3 million a year at her peak” and “high six to low seven figures per project” lines that circulate are aggregator claims with no attribution. The single documented earnings figure of any provenance is the Forbes one: $1.5 million in 2005, attributed largely to her salary for the third season of What I Like About You.
Her clothing line, Dear, launched with Steve & Barry’s in August 2007, and died when the retailer did. What makes this the one part of her finances with a real paper trail is that it went through a bankruptcy court, so the contract itself is on the public docket. The amended asset purchase agreement of August 2008 lists it by name: an Endorsement and License Agreement dated 5 December 2006, signed through her loan-out company Chickiii Productions — the same instrument type used for Sarah Jessica Parker, Venus Williams and Muhammad Ali Enterprises. That settles a question the aggregators guess at: this was a fee-and-royalty deal, not an equity stake. The same agreement caps what the buyer would cover for defaults across the entire celebrity roster at $650,000 in aggregate — not her number, but a ceiling on the order of magnitude for all seven names combined.
And she was a creditor who fought. Chickiii Productions filed Proof of Claim No. 571 against the buyer’s estate; the debtors and the creditors’ committee objected in November 2009; she retained bankruptcy counsel and litigated for roughly eleven months, until a so-ordered stipulation of 7 October 2010 resolved the claim and settled potential avoidance actions — the estate’s theory that payments already made to her could be clawed back, which implies she had in fact been paid. The claim amount and the settlement terms are sealed behind PACER and are not in the free archive, so what she recovered is unknown. The context is not encouraging: unsecured creditors in the first case got roughly two cents on the dollar, and the second case converted to Chapter 7 five weeks after her settlement.
Since 2022
Three ventures are documented, all with published prices and no published revenue.
A podcast launched in December 2023 and ended after one episode. She joined Cameo in February 2024 at $100 per video, telling the site she used to be an actress and no longer was. And she opened an OnlyFans account in 2025 at $50 a month, stating it was for direct messages and that she would not post explicit content.
For none of these has any revenue, subscriber count or earnings figure been reported. She also took part in a fashion capsule collaboration and a West Hollywood pop-up show in late 2024; commercial terms were not disclosed.
That is the whole documented record. It is a short page, and deliberately so — the alternative would be padding it with figures nobody can source.
Sources
- CBS News — The 2013 conservatorship and the $3.5 million estate
- CBS News — Termination, March 2022
- Forbes Celebrity 100, 2005 — $1.5 million, ranked 99th
- Steve & Barry’s — The 2008 bankruptcy that ended her clothing line
- The Daily Beast — Joining Cameo at $100 a video
- Los Angeles Times — The OnlyFans account, April 2025
Money Timeline
| Date | Type | Event | Amount | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Payday | Forbes Celebrity 100: $1.5 million, ranked 99th | $1.5M | Attributed largely to her salary for the third season of the WB sitcom What I Like About You. It is the only documented earnings figure of any provenance in her career - no salary was ever reported by the trade press for any of her films. source |
| 2008-07 | Bankruptcy | Steve & Barry's collapse ends her clothing line | Her line Dear had launched in August 2007 under an Endorsement and License Agreement dated 5 December 2006, signed through her loan-out company Chickiii Productions - a fee-and-royalty deal, not equity, as the bankruptcy docket shows. The purchase agreement capped the buyer's exposure for defaults across all seven celebrity licences at $650,000 combined. source | |
| 2010-10-07 | Settlement | Settles her creditor claim against the estate - terms sealed | Chickiii Productions filed Proof of Claim No. 571 against the buyer's estate. The debtors and creditors' committee objected in November 2009; she retained bankruptcy counsel and litigated eleven months until a so-ordered stipulation resolved the claim and settled potential avoidance actions - implying she had already been paid something. The amount is behind PACER. Unsecured creditors in the first case recovered about two cents on the dollar. source | |
| 2013-08 | Lawsuit | Court values her estate at $3.5 million | $3.5M | Ventura County Superior Court granted her mother a temporary conservatorship of person and estate on 9 August 2013, stating the estate at $3.5 million. Bynes, then 27, opposed it through court-appointed counsel. This remains the last figure of record. source |
| 2022-03 | Lawsuit | Conservatorship terminated - with no financial accounting | The personal conservatorship ended on 22 March 2022 with both parents supporting termination. No financial figures entered the reported record: the estate had already left court supervision in 2017 for a private trust, and the judge noted that compelling an accounting would require a separate petition in the trust case. source | |
| 2024-02 | Deal | Joins Cameo at $100 a video | $100 | She told the platform she used to be an actress and no longer was. A podcast launched in December 2023 had ended after one episode, and in 2025 she opened an OnlyFans account at $50 a month for direct messages. No revenue or subscriber figure has been reported for any of them. source |
Key financial events, aggregated from the sources cited above. See our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions
Short answers to the most common questions about this profile. For our sourcing and update method, see our Methodology page.
What is Amanda Bynes's net worth in 2026?
We publish no current figure, because none is verifiable. The last time her finances appeared in a public record was August 2013, when a California court put her estate at $3.5 million. In 2017 her assets moved into a private trust, and trusts do not file public accounts - so everything published since is estimate rather than record. Forbes has never published a net worth for her, though it did list her 2005 earnings at $1.5 million on the Celebrity 100, where she ranked 99th.
Where does the $5.7 million figure come from?
A single aggregator article from October 2014. It presents a full breakdown - $2.8 million in property, $2.9 million in cash, $144,768 in annual income - as though it came from court documents, but cites no outlet, no docket number and no document. Every subsequent repetition copies that same cluster without independent sourcing. It should not be treated as a court figure.
How much was Amanda Bynes's estate worth when the conservatorship ended?
No figure exists, and the ones circulating are misdated. The $1.2 million often attached to the 2022 termination actually comes from 2013 - it was her parents' assertion, when seeking the conservatorship, about savings she had spent in under a year. There is a structural reason no 2022 valuation exists: the estate left court supervision in 2017 for a private trust, and at the termination hearing the judge noted that compelling a formal accounting would require a separate petition in the trust case.
How much did Amanda Bynes earn from her films?
Nothing is documented. We found no salary reporting for What a Girl Wants, She's the Man, Hairspray or Easy A in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter or Deadline. The '$2 to $3 million a year at her peak' and 'high six to low seven figures per project' claims that circulate carry no attribution. The single documented earnings figure of any provenance is Forbes' $1.5 million for 2005, attributed largely to her salary for the third season of What I Like About You.
Does Amanda Bynes earn money now?
Three ventures are documented, all with published prices and no published revenue. A podcast launched in December 2023 and ended after one episode. She joined Cameo in February 2024 at $100 per video, telling the site she used to be an actress and no longer was. And she opened an OnlyFans account in 2025 at $50 a month, stating it was for direct messages rather than explicit content. No revenue, subscriber count or earnings figure has been reported for any of them.
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