Rank #2238
Joop van den Ende
Net worth $1.9B
TV shows · Netherlands
- Born
- Feb 23, 1942
- Age
- 84
- Source
- TV shows
- Residence
- Baarn
- Citizenship
- Netherlands
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Joop van den Ende is a Dutch entertainment mogul and theatrical producer who founded Amsterdam-based Stage Entertainment in 1998.
- Advance Publications acquired Stage in 2018 for a reported price of about $1.1 billion.
- Van den Ende was Stage's sole owner until 2015, when CVC Capital Partners reportedly bought a 60% stake for $550 million.
- Stage's original productions have included Rocky, Sister Act and Ice Age Live.
- In 2021, van den Ende sold his 50% stake in the venture capital firm he created in 2006 to its two other cofounders.
- Van den Ende partnered with John de Mol, also a billionaire, to create reality TV production company Endemol in 1994.
- The duo scored big with worldwide hit Big Brother before selling Endemol to Spanish telecom company Telefonica in 2000 for $5.3 billion.