Born James Newell Osterberg on 21 April 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan USA, of English, Irish, Danish and Norwegian descent, Iggy Pop is a popular actor and singer, perhaps best known because he doesn’t restrict himself to one music genre, but performs various music styles from pop and jazz to hard rock. James has been called Iggy since high school, where he was a member of a local blues band The Iguanas in which he played the drums. In 1967 he co-founded The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges.
So just how rich is Iggy Pop? Sources have estimated that Iggy’s net worth is $20 million, accumulated during his long career in various aspects of the music industry.
Iggy Pop Net Worth $20 million
The Stooges was an American band which played rock, punk jazz, punk blues, garage rock and protopunk. Iggy Pop was the lead vocalist of this band, whose other members included James Williamson, Steve Mackay, and Mike Watt. There were more members in the former team, which was active from 1967 to 1974. In 2003 they reunited, and in total The Stooges released five albums, with the sales certainly benefitting Iggy Pop’s net worth. They were unique and well known for their comedic and antic performances, which image brought fame and a lot of money to Iggy Pop’s net worth. What is important, The Stooges were inducted into Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Iggy`s best known songs are considered to be such as Candy, Real Wild Child, The Passenger, Nightclubbing, Lust for Life, , I Wanna Be Your Dog, Search and Destroy, and China Girl.
As regards Iggy`s solo career, his debut album was The Idiot (1977), since which he has released 15 more albums, including Zombie Birdhouse (1982), American Caesar (1993), Naughty Little Doggie (1996), Skull Ring (2003), Apres (2012) and some others. Collectively many albums have been sold, and sales considerably boosted the current Iggy Pop net worth.
Iggy Pop’s further main contribution to the entertainment industry is that he established the journal of classical scholarship, Classics Ireland. Moreover, there is a movie about Pop`s early career with The Stooges, entitled “The Passenger” and directed by Nick Gomez and Elijah Wood, which again increased Iggy Pop’s net worth. In total, he has performed in 16 films, some of them being “The Crow: City of Angels”, “Sid and Nancy”, “The Color of Money”, “Dead Man”, “Tank Girl”, “Snow Day”, “Coffee and Cigarettes” and many others. He also voiced-over in “Hardware”.
Iggy Pop has appeared not only as an actor in movies, but also as a singer. He recorded soundtracks for such movies as “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Crocodile Dundee II”, “Arizona Dream”, “Repo Man”, and “Black Rain” among others.
Iggy Pop has also appeared in several television series’, including “The Adventures of Pete & Pete”, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”, “Beavis and Butthead”, and “Tales from the Crypt”.
In his personal life, Iggy Pop has been married three times, firstly to Wendy Weissberg (m. 1968–1968), then Suchi Asano (m. 1984–1999), and since 2008 to Nina Alu. He also has a son, Eric Benson, born in 1970 to Paulette Benson.
