Taylor Swift is worth an estimated $1bn dollars (£792m) and her cats aren’t doing too poorly, either: According to Cats.com, Swift’s cat, named Olivia Benson, after Mariska Hargitay’s Law and Order: SVU character, is worth an estimated $97m (£77m). That’s more than Swift’s much-discussed beau Travis Kelce’s estimated net worth of $40m (£32m).
Benson has earned her keep, appearing in TV commercials and in Swift’s music videos for Blank Space and Me!. As for Swift’s two other felines, Meredith Grey and Benjamin Button? There’s no publicly-available numbers for their earnings, so it’s possible Benson’s and Swift’s accumulatd wealth are what’s keeping them well-fed.
Swift’s alleged millionaire cat isn’t even the wealthiest pet ever, according to the report: She ranks behind both a German shepherd named Gunther VI – reportedly worth a cool $500m (£396m) – and Nala Cat, who has 4.5 million followers on Instagram. And then there’s Choupette, the cat belonging to the late fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld – Lagerfeld once told The Cut that Choupette had earned €3m (£2,558,207) in one year.
But are these online net worth calculators at all accurate – and where does their data even come from?
In their report, Cats.com claims to have used “data from Instagram” to come up with the net worth of celebrity pets – an approach that finance experts say is far from accurate.
