Realization... No TS Millionaires...

[Vicki Richter]

I can't think of a single TS and only one TG (Ru Paul) who is a millionaire. To be honest, I don't even know if Ru Paul is a millionaire. I guess the few that have made successes of themselves aren't very public about their success. What's everyone think about this.

[lurker]

I think that means you aren't working hard enough!

But seriously.... probably like most other millionaires, it's just part of life and nothing to make noise about. We only know who you are because of your chosen career and path in life. When you become a multi-millionaire will you still be in this career path?

[Ecstatic]

I think it depends upon many factors: your fortune (I mean luck and circumstance, not financial base), your priorities (fast life vs. saving and investing), investments, etc. You're not going to get rich doing porn--only the guy owning the business has a chance to get rich at it--or by escorting, but those seem to be the two top fields for publically visible TS. Who knows if a TS who lives outside of the adult entertainment world--as in a "normal" life working as an ad exec or computer programmer or whatever--with smart investments might not be a millionaire? But we would never know it. Only those TS (what percentage of the community is this?) who either escort or do porn or some other form of public adult entertainment are "known" as it were.

I've often wondered how much a successful escort makes, for instance. Ana of Miami claims to pull down $2000/day or something like that; if she does that consistently, five days a week, 50 weeks a year (like most "real" jobs), that's a half a million a year. If a girl earns $300/hour and has just three clients a day, that's $900/day, $4500/week, $225,000/year. Now I doubt that any escort works that hard or consistently, but it does seem like it could pay a lot better than most jobs. As an IT professional, my contract rate is between $40 and $65/hour, depending on the job. If an escort sees 10 clients a week at $200/hour, she could pull down 100 grand a year. Does this happen? Are any escorts this financially successful? If so, do any of them save and invest the money, or does it all go to the fast life?

I don't know what a TS actress makes for each movie, but I would imagine you'd have to make a helluva lot of movies each year to hit that income level.

[rvince]

Look at the bright side of things:
ie: don't say "I'm not millionaire", but rather "I'm multi-thousandaire!!!".

[TrueBeauty TS]

I can't think of a single TS and only one TG (Ru Paul) who is a millionaire. To be honest, I don't even know if Ru Paul is a millionaire. I guess the few that have made successes of themselves aren't very public about their success. What's everyone think about this.

I think that for some people, money is not EVERYTHING. I could be making a lot more money by escorting, but I guess I have other priorities because I don't do that. (Although I wrestle with that everyday!)

It all goes back to your definintion of success. To some, it's how much money you have. To others, it something else. Don't get me wrong, I love money!!! But I also have to be true to myself.

[Chica]

There is two i know of, both Arabic.

One got a sex change, didn't like it so changed back.

The other is in a legal battle after a sex change to get her fathers' inheritance.

[Danielle Foxxx]

Of corse like many rumors I hear that "Ivy" from LA is the dauighter of a really important guy in the country where she is from and she has tons of money, but then again...it's a rumor...why would she escort if she was a millionaire???? I am not sure...
But it would be kinda juicy if she was LOL

[d]

Big Head Ivy with the "baseballs?" LOL. I never heard theat rumor

I know of one girl who lives in upstate new york who has a couple of real estate properties, I'm sure total value of them has to be close to at least 800Gs. She still escorts but she's moving into the buying and fliping part of the real estate game

[anothervoyeur]

How many millionaire adult industry performers are there anyway? It's just not a high money-making industry, although I'm sure there are quite a few who are comfortable.

There may well be millionaire transgenders out there, but because they don't call attention to themselves as transgendered, we have no way of knowing.

[Vicki Richter]

I think a high profile rich TG person would be somewhat public about it. It's good PR. I am not just saying sex performers. I am talking about TG's in general. We have a mainstream thread and none of those mainstream people are wealthy.

One interesting thing that TG's have going for them is access to other TG's. Making money should be no problem in an adult industry sort of way. However, I would say that TG's have an inherent distrust for one another which is why you don't see this happening.