Suzanne Somers’ Net Worth Reveals the Giant Fortune She Leaves Behind

Lea Veloso
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A beloved figure on screen, Suzanne Somers’s net worth reflects the hard work that she put in during her acting and business ventures.

Somers began her acting career with small roles and one of her breakthroughs was starring as “Blonde in the white Thunderbird” in American Graffiti which led to many more appearances on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. She gained prominence on Three’s Company where she played Chrissy Snow.

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Suzanne died a day before what was supposed to be her 77th birthday. In an interview with People, she talked about what she would have done with her family for the celebration. She said she was planning to be with her “nearest and dearest” on her special day, including her “beloved husband Alan [Hamel], our three children, Leslie, Stephen, and Bruce, [his wife] Caroline, plus our six wonderful grandchildren. I heard Caroline is making her famous short rib tacos and I have asked for copious amounts of cake,” she said.

So what was Suzanne Somers’s net worth? Read more to find out.

What was Suzanne Somer’s net worth?

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What was Suzanne Somers’s net worth? Suzanne Somer’s net worth was estimated to be around $100 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

After the success of the show Three’s Company, Somers demanded a salary increase from $30,000 to $150,000 to match lead actor John Ritter’s pay — as well as 10% of the show’s profits, per The Guardian. She left the show once her contract expired and was written off the show. She sued ABC for $2 million in damages after stating that her reputation had been damaged, but she was awarded just $30,000.

However, a majority of Suzanne Somer’s net worth comes from the popular exercise product Thighmaster. Somers highlighted the product in informercials in the 90s.

“Well, I grew up poor, and I live a good life,” she told Dax Holt and Adam Glyn on the “Hollywood Raw” podcast. Somers then provided what she would have earned from Thighmaster. “It’s $19.95 x 10 million [products sold], so you kind of do the math, and we’re probably at 15 million now.” It turned out to be a huge bestseller and Somers owned the rights to the product “outright.” She earned $300 million from the produce.

“We had partners—50/50—and they got drunk on money when it all started selling. They overspent to the point where they could no longer afford to be in their side of the business so we bought them out,” she said. “We have 100%.”

In 2021, Somers and her husband Alan Hamel sold their Palm Springs house for $8.1 million in favor of a greener option . “It sold because I finally let it go — emotionally, spiritually and physically.” She told the New York Post of the home with five villas and over 100 stairs, “it was not the right home anymore.”

She also wrote over 25 books, and became a New York Times Bestselling Author.

How did Suzanne Somers die?

According to her daughter-in-law Caroline Somers to The New York Times, Suzanne Somers’s cause of death was breast cancer.

Her longtime publicist  R. Couri Hay also confirmed her death to People. “Suzanne Somers passed away peacefully at home in the early morning hours of October 15th. She survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years,” Hay wrote in a statement.

“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,” the statement continued. “Her family was gathered to celebrate her 77th birthday on October 16th. Instead, they will celebrate her extraordinary life, and want to thank her millions of fans and followers who loved her dearly.”

Hay wrote a separate statement to People that the actress died in her “beautiful house” as spending her final moments in there was “one of her dreams.”

“There were all these plans and she was always working and dreaming and had brought her family into the business, and the grandchildren and step-children were all part of the business,” her publicist said, adding that she was “very engaged right to the end.”

Hay also wrote that Somers’s husband Alan Hamel gave her peonies and a poem as a birthday gift. The two married in 1977 after ten years of dating. He gave the poem to her “a day early and she read the poem and went to bed and later died peacefully in her sleep.”

The poem reads in all caps: “LOVE I USE IT EVERY DAY, SOMETIMES SEVERAL TIMES A DAY. I USE IT AT THE END OF EMAILS TO MY LOVING FAMILY. I EVEN USE IT IN EMAILS TO CLOSE FRIENDS. I USE IT WHEN I’M LEAVING THE HOUSE.”

“THERE’S LOVE, THEN LOVE YOU AND I LOVE YOU!! THEREIN LIES SOME OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS WE USE LOVE. SOMETIMES I FEEL OBLIGED TO USE LOVE, RESPONDING TO SOMEONE WHO SIGNED LOVE IN THEIR EMAIL, WHEN I’M UNCOMFORTABLE USING LOVE BUT I USE IT ANYWAY.”

“I ALSO USE LOVE TO DESCRIBE A GREAT MEAL. I USE IT TO EXPRESS HOW I FEEL ABOUT A SHOW ON NETFLIX. I OFTEN USE LOVE REFERRING TO MY HOME, MY CAT GLORIA, TO THINGS GLORIA DOES, TO THE TASTE OF A CANTALOUPE I GREW IN MY GARDEN. I LOVE THE TASTE OF A FRESHLY HARVESTED ORGANIC ROYAL JUMBO MEDJOOL DATE. I LOVE BITING A FIG OFF THE TREE. I LOVE WATCHING TWO GIANT BLACKBIRDS WHO LIVE NEARBY SWOOPING BY MY WINDOW IN A POWER DIVE. MY DAILY LIFE ENCOMPASSES THINGS AND PEOPLE I LOVE AND THINGS AND PEOPLE I AM INDIFFERENT TO.”

Hamel wrote: “I COULD GO ON AD INFINITUM, BUT YOU GET IT. WHAT BRAND OF LOVE DO I FEEL FOR MY WIFE SUZANNE? CAN I FIND IT IN ANY OF THE ABOVE? A RESOUNDING NO!!!! THERE IS NO VERSION OF THE WORD THAT IS APPLICABLE TO SUZANNE AND I EVEN USE THE WORD APPLICABLE ADVISEDLY.”

“THE CLOSEST VERSION IN WORDS ISN’T EVEN CLOSE. IT’S NOT EVEN A FRACTION OF A FRACTION OF A FRACTION. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE DOES NOT DO IT. I’LL TAKE A BULLET FOR YOU DOESN’T DO IT. I WEEP WHEN I THINK ABOUT MY FEELINGS FOR YOU. FEELINGS… THAT’S GETTING CLOSE, BUT NOT ALL THE WAY.”

“55 YEARS TOGETHER, 46 MARRIED AND NOT EVEN ONE HOUR APART FOR 42 OF THOSE YEARS,” he shared. “EVEN THAT DOESN’T DO IT. EVEN GOING TO BED AT 6 O’CLOCK AND HOLDING HANDS WHILE WE SLEEP DOESN’T DO IT. STARING AT YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE WHILE YOU SLEEP DOESN’T DO IT.”

He concluded: “I’M BACK TO FEELINGS.  THERE ARE NO WORDS. THERE ARE NO ACTIONS. NO PROMISES. NO DECLARATIONS. EVEN THE GREEN SHADED SCHOLARS OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS HAVE SPENT 150 YEARS AND STILL HAVE FAILED TO COME UP WITH THAT ONE WORD. SO I WILL CALL IT, ‘US’, UNIQUELY, MAGICALLY, INDESCRIBABLY WONDERFUL ‘US.’”

Somers will have a private burial on the week of October 16, 2023 and a memorial service in November, her publicist confimed.

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