Sunny Leone Net Worth: $15 Million (Rs 120 Crores approx)
Born | Karenjit Kaur Vohra May 13, 1981 (age 41) Sarnia, Ontario, Canada |
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Other names | Karen Malhotra |
Citizenship | CanadaUnited States |
Occupation | Actress,former pornographic, actress |
Years active | 2001–present |
Known for | Bigg Boss 5 Jism 2 Ragini MMS 2 Ek Paheli Leela Raees |
Spouse(s) | Daniel Weber (m. 2011) |
Children | 3 |
Sunny Leone Net Worth is $15 Million (Rs 120 Crores) in 2023.
In 2009, Sunny Leone net worth increased when she launched her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel. Along with acting in 56 adult films, Sunny Leone has also written and directed 59 films under her banner.
However, after a while, she declared that she would work only with one actor, Daniel Weber, whom she later married in 2011.
Daniel Weber Net Worth 2023:
Daniel Weber is a guitarist from Los Angeles, and currently works as a business manager for Sunny. Daniel also heads their joint production company, Suncity Media And Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Sunny once confessed that all her scripts are approved by Daniel. Reportedly, Daniel Weber’s net worth is more than ₹34 crores.
She is the face of a number of reality shows and hit item numbers of the Hindi movie industry. Here’s looking into the details of Sunny Leone Net Worth and the various sources of her income.
Sunny leone House, Cars:
As per fresh news reports, Sunny’s net worth was nearly up to ₹90 crores in 2021.Apart from movies, Sunny also impressed masses with her dance numbers in movies and various television appearances. she owns an Audi A5 and BMW 7 Series Cars and a big bungalow in Los Angeles.
All this has led to a huge growth in Net Worth of Sunny Leone. After featuring in a number of lists of the top pornstars, Leone announced her retirement from the industry in 2013.
Sunny Leone Income:
Sunny Leone net worth is $15 million because she has ventured into a number of fields. Though her major net worth is sourced from her porn films and Hindi films.
She has also featured in Hollywood films like The Girl Next Door, Pirate’s Blood, and The Virginity Hit.
Apart from movies, Sunny’s salary also increases by her television appearances in shows like Bigg Boss, Splitsvilla, and Comedy Nights With Kapil. She has also written an e-book of love stories, titled Sweet Dreams and has a perfume named after her, titled Lust by Sunny Leone.
- Sunny Leone Husband / Boy Friend – Daniel Weber
- Sunny Leone Sister/Brother – Sandeep Vohra
- Date of Birth / Birth City – 13 May 1981 / Ontario(Canada)
- Sunny Leone Height Feet – 5’4
- Weight – 50
- Sunny Leone Age – 35
- Sunny Leone House Location – Mumbai
Google lists Sunny Leone as one of the most searched people on the internet. Former pornographic actress, Sunny Leone has moved on and is currently working towards being one of the top Bollywood actresses.
Sunny Leone Biography:
Karenjit Kaur Vohra was born on May 13, 1981, in Sarnia, Ontario, to Sikh Indian Punjabi parents.As a young girl, she was a self-described tomboy,very athletic and played street hockey with the boys.
She was born in Canada to an Indian Sikh family. She has Canadian and American citizenship. Her pet name is Karen.
Although the family was Sikh,her parents enrolled her in Catholic school as it was felt to be unsafe for her to go to public school.When she was 13, her family moved to Fort Gratiot, Michigan, then to Lake Forest, California, a year later, fulfilling her grandparents’ dream that the family be together in one place.
She had her first kiss at 11,lost her virginity at 16 with a basketball player, and discovered her bisexuality at 18.
Sunny is the brand ambassador of Manforce and is a regular face for magazine covers. Sunny Leone House is a lavish apartment in Mumbai where she lives with her husband, which shows how huge her earnings are.
She has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series. Her first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she worked as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Video Music Awards on MTV India.
She has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series. Her first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she worked as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Video Music Awards on MTV India. In 2011, she participated in the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss. She also has hosted the Indian reality show Splitsvilla.
In 2012, she made her Bollywood debut in Pooja Bhatt’s erotic thriller Jism 2 (2012) and shifted her focus to mainstream acting which was followed up with Jackpot (2013), Ragini MMS 2 (2014), Ek Paheli Leela (2015), Tera Intezaar (2017), and the Malayalam film Madhura Raja in 2019.
Apart from her acting career, she has been part of activism campaigns including the Rock ‘n’ Roll Los Angeles Half-Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society and has also posed for a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ad campaign with a rescued dog, encouraging pet owners to have their cats and dogs spayed and neutered.
In 2011, she participated in the Indian reality television series Bigg Boss. She also has hosted the Indian reality show Splitsvilla.
In 2012, she made her Bollywood debut in Pooja Bhatt’s erotic thriller Jism 2 (2012) and shifted her focus to mainstream acting which was followed up with Jackpot (2013), Ragini MMS 2 (2014), Ek Paheli Leela (2015), Tera Intezaar (2017), and the Malayalam film Madhura Raja in 2019.
She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment, and was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010.
Apart from her acting career, she has been part of activism campaigns including the Rock ‘n’ Roll Los Angeles Half-Marathon to raise money for the American Cancer Society and has also posed for a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ad campaign with a rescued dog, encouraging pet owners to have their cats and dogs spayed and neutered.
Sunny Leone Pornographic career:
Before working in the porn industry, she worked at a German bakery, a Jiffy Lube store, and later a tax and retirement firm.She was also studying to become a nurse.A black-haired woman wearing a yellow top and jeans sitting behind a table looking up at the camera.
Leone at the 2002 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo, one of her earliest promotional appearances.When picking a name for her adult career, she has said that Sunny is her real name and Leone was picked by Bob Guccione, former owner of Penthouse magazine.
She posed for Penthouse magazine, and was named Penthouse Pet of the Month for the March 2001 issue,followed by a feature in the Holiday 2001 edition of Hustler magazine as a Hustler Honey. She has also appeared in other magazines including Cheri, Mystique Magazine, High Society, Swank, AVN Online, Leg World, Club International and Lowrider,while her online credits include ModFX Models,Suze Randall, Ken Marcus and Mac & Bumble.
In 2003, she was named “Penthouse Pet of the Year” and starred in the video Penthouse Pets in Paradise alongside Tera Patrick and Kyla Cole. In 2005 Adam & Eve appointed her as their West Coast Internet Sales Representative.
In 2005 itself, Leone signed a three-year contract with Vivid Entertainment with which she transitioned into the world of hardcore pornography, stating that she would only do lesbian scenes.Her first movie released was titled Sunny and was released in December 2005.
Her next movie, Virtual Vivid Girl Sunny Leone, was the first interactive title for Leone, who was the first Vivid Girl to make such a movie.
Taking only four days to film,the movie won her her first AVN Award (Best Interactive DVD). She followed this with Sunny Loves Cher, which featured her first on-screen squirting, and The Female Gardner co-starring Mikayla Mendez and Daisy Marie.
Leone’s last two movies under her contract with Vivid were It’s Sunny in Brazil, which was filmed in Brazil,and The Sunny Experiment also starring Monique Alexander and Brea Lynn.
The movies were released in October and December 2007 respectively.
In May 2007, upon re-signing her contract with Vivid for another six films, Leone agreed to perform for the first time with men on camera, but exclusively with her fiancé, Matt Erikson.That summer she also received breast augmentation, and shot her first movie under the new contract titled Sunny Loves Matt.
The movie led to her being nominated for three (out of six) AVN awards in 2009 in addition to being a choice for Female Performer of the Year.She followed up her first boy-girl title with The Other Side of Sunny in October 2008, which would be the last time she would perform with Erikson.
In January 2008, Leone revealed that she was no longer exclusive to Erikson, and had done scenes with other actors, most notably Tommy Gunn, Charles Dera, James Deen and Voodoo.
In 2009, Vivid released her only adult movie performing with multiple male actors, titled “Sunny B/G Adventure”. Her final release under contract with Vivid – “Undress Me”, once again made her exclusive to performing with just one male actor, Daniel Weber (he performed under the stage name Ariel King), who subsequently became her husband.
In August 2009, she announced the launch of her own studio, Sunlust Pictures, with Daniel Weber as her partner. With her new venture Leone announced her plans to write, direct and create her own brand of adult movies with Vivid Entertainment as her distributor.
Her first independent production, The Dark Side of the Sun, was released in March 2009, and was debuted at the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas.In June 2009, she held a casting call in Las Vegas for her second independent production titled Sunny Slumber Party (released September 2009).
She followed up with three other self-produced features Gia Portrait of a Porn Star (2010) which was nominated for multiple AVN awards, Roleplay (2011) and Goddess (2012) which featured her first anal sex scene.
No longer exclusive to Vivid, Leone began working with other studios and performers since 2009. She leveraged her online popularity by striking deals with firms like PPPcard,AdultPokerParty.com, Brickhouse, Flirt4Free, Totemcash and Imlive to sell and distribute her content over the internet and other media.
She won the “Web Babe of the Year” at the 2008 Xbiz Awards. Her websites and business interests are run under her banner company Leone L.L.C. She indicated in an April 2012 interview that 80 per cent of the traffic on her website, and 60 per cent of her revenue comes from India.
In addition to her film career, Leone has been part of the Vivid Comedy Tour, and has modelled for the Vivid Footwear collection.Leone has also participated in events like the Vivid/ClubJenna Lingerie Bowl and Vivid’s Hot Rod Night. Doc Johnson launched a pocket pal in 2006 moulded to her vagina, and in 2008 released the Sunny Leone Exciter vibrator.
Control MFG currently uses Leone’s image along with other Vivid girls to market their line of skateboards. She is paired with Gab Ekoe, one of the Team Control riders.She also indicated that she plans to launch her own line of lingerie and other Sunny-branded products including a diamond jewellery line
In September 2009, an iPhone application consisting of a collection of non-nude photos, some videos and a porn star-penned blog was approved by Apple for sale in the iTunes store, making it the first officially sanctioned application featuring a porn star. By February 2010, the app had been removed by Apple from the store.
Leone was voted number 13 (up from number 41 in 2007 on Genesis magazine’s “Top 100 Porn stars” list, number 34 on Desiclubs.com’s Top 50 Coolest Desis of 2004,and one of the “40 under 40” ranking on AVN Online magazine.
In 2010, she was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top female stars in porn.She was voted number 82 in the Top 99 Women for 2012 in AskMen.com’s list.
In 2013, she announced her retirement from the adult industry stating “I am lucky that the audience is accepting me. I have come my way from there (porn industry). I don’t have any plans as of now to go back there.
In 2016, she was chosen as one of BBC’s 100 Women.The tech magazine Exhibit chose Leone for their cover girl of the October 2016 issue.
Interesting facts about Sunny Leone:
- Sunny Leone was born in Canada to Sikh parents, who later mirated to the USA.
- Sunny Leone was athletic in her youth and used to play street hockey and ice skating.Sunny Leone in Her Childhood
- Sunny Leone completed her schooling from a Catholic school, as her parents felt it unsafe for her to go to public school.
- Sunny Leone first kissed someone at the age of 11 and lost her virginity to a basketball player at the age of 16.
- When Sunny Leone was 18 years old, Sunny realized that she is bisexual. Sunny Leone confeesed this to her brother.
- Sunny Leone joined the adult film industry when she was 19, and in 2001, Sunny changed her name to “Sunny Leone” on the advice of former owner of Penthouse magazine. She had posed for an adult men’s magazine called Penthouse.
- Sunny Leone brother’s nickname is Sunny.
- Sunny Leone made her debut in Bollywood with a cameo in the film Kalyug (2005), but due to her demand of $1 million, director Mohit Suri backed-off.
- 7 years later, Sunny Leone made her Bollywood debut with the film Jism 2 (2012).
- Sunny Leone is the 1st Indian adult film star to make it into Bollywood films.
- Sunny Leone was said to be one of the top female porn actresses in the world in 2010.
- Sunny Leone loves rescued dogs that are in danger of death and has 2 of them, Lilu and Chopper.Sunny Leone with rescue dogs Lilu and Chopper
- Sunny Leone has a phobia with insects.
- Sunny Leone has her personal perfume range called “Lust”.
- Sunny Leone made her entry into Bollywood in 2012 with filmmaker Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2. Before this, Sunny Leone was a participant on a reality television show in 2012.
- Sunny Leone was the Penthouse Pet of the Month in March 2001 and Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003
- Sunny Leone is a foodie by nature. Her favourite dish is steamed lime fish with sliced chillies. She enjoys Delhi’s street food and gol-gappas and dahi chaat are her favourites. She cheats on her diet with chocolates and parathas
- Sunny Leone is a nature loving person
- Sunny Leone does charities for cancer and is also an animal-rights supporter.
- Sunny Leone has revealed that she is shy and introvert by nature and only learned to open up during the promotions of her film Raees in 2016.
- Sunny Leone has expressed her desire to work with actor Aamir Khan and has also hired his acting coach to help her hone her skills.
- Dilip Mehta (Toronto-based filmmaker) made a documentary on her that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. Sunny Leone doesn’t want this documentary to release in India.
- Before working in the porn industry, Sunny Leone worked in a German bakery, at Jiffy Lube, and later at a tax and retirement firm.
- Sunny Leone first apperared on Indian TV in 2005 as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Awards on MTV India.
- Sunny Leone happens to be the first Indian adult film star to make an entry into mainstream Bollywood films.