11. Laura Schlessinger Earnings Go Up To $40 Million
Laura Schlessinger is an American radio and television host, socially conservative commentator and self-help books author. Her program Dr. Laura is described on her website as a show that “preaches, teaches, and nags about morals, values, and ethics”. Dr. Laura was non-religious until she began practicing Conservative Judaism in 1996. In 1998 during her talk show Schlessinger declared skateboarding magazine Big Brother to be “stealth pornography”, the store owner publicly denied she found pornography in his store and she sued him for lying, claiming that his denial had hurt her reputation, the case went to court and the judge dismissed her suit. Bill Ballance added to Dr. Laura’s involvement in controversies when selling nude photos of Schlessinger to a company specializing in Internet porn, the photos were taken in the mid-1970s when Schlessinger was involved in an affair with the then-married Ballance. Schlessinger has publicly expressed racist comments and has been portrayed in many fictional tv shows as a woman who has dogmatic and fundamentalist social views promoting social conservatism, criticizing her views on homosexuality, and pointing out she’s actually not a doctor in any field. Some her most popular books are Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives, The Proper Care And Feeding Of Husbands, and Good People And Where You Fit In.
