Sylvester Stallone Net Worth 2026: Rocky, Rambo and a $2M-an-Episode Tulsa King Deal

Sylvester Stallone’s net worth is about $400 million, according to widely reported estimates as of October 2026. Forbes and Bloomberg do not publish their own figure for him, so that number should be read as a reasonable estimate rather than an audited total.

Sylvester Stallone: quick facts

Net worth

$400 Million

Salary / earnings

$20 Million per year

Source of wealth

Films, Tulsa King, real estate

Profession

Actor, screenwriter, director

Nationality

American

Place of birth

New York City, New York, United States

Date of birth

July 6, 1946 (age 80)

Stallone built his fortune the hard way. He wrote Rocky while nearly broke, refused to sell the script unless he could star in it, and turned the film into a Best Picture winner. Within a decade he was one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood, earning eight-figure fees for Rocky and Rambo sequels.

Now 80, he is having one of the best late-career runs in the business. His Paramount+ series Tulsa King reportedly pays him about $2 million per episode, and he has added tens of millions more through real estate deals in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Palm Beach and the Hamptons.

Sylvester Stallone at a glance

• Net worth: about $400 million (widely reported estimate, 2026)
• Born: July 6, 1946, in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City
• Profession: actor, screenwriter, director and producer
• Franchises: Rocky/Creed, Rambo, The Expendables, Tulsa King
• Biggest payday: about $2 million per episode for Tulsa King season 3 (reported), or roughly $20 million for the season
• Box office: his films have grossed more than $7.5 billion worldwide
• Awards: three Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe for Creed (2016)
• Spouse: Jennifer Flavin (married 1997)

His net worth over time is charted at the end of this article.

Where Sylvester Stallone’s money comes from

Source	Details	Estimate
Film acting fees	Rocky, Rambo, 1990s action films, The Expendables, Creed	Largest share over his career; peak fees of $15–20 million per film
Writing and directing	Wrote or co-wrote most Rocky and Rambo films; directed several	Fees plus back-end profit points
Television	Tulsa King (star and executive producer), The Family Stallone	About $20 million a season at the reported rate
Real estate	Palm Beach estate, East Hampton home, past sales in Beverly Park and Hidden Hills	Homes bought for about $60 million since 2020
Art and collectibles	Paintings, luxury watch collection	Watch sale raised $6.7 million in 2024
Endorsements and business	Planet Hollywood, vodka promotion, production companies	Smaller share

Sylvester Stallone’s film and TV salaries

Stallone’s pay tells the story of his career: a few hundred dollars at the start, eight-figure fees at the peak, and a big television payday in his late 70s. The figures below are reported fees, not including back-end profits unless noted.

Project	Year	Reported pay
The Party at Kitty and Stud’s	1970	$200 for two days’ work
Rocky	1976	About $35,000, plus 10 net profit points
Rocky II	1979	About $75,000 fee
Rocky III	1982	$120,000 upfront, plus back-end profits worth millions
Rocky IV	1985	$12 million
Rambo III	1988	$16 million
Rambo IV (offer, declined)	1988	$34 million pay-or-play offer
Savoy Pictures deal (never made)	1994	$20 million
Assassins	1995	$15 million
Daylight	1996	$17.5 million
Universal three-picture deal	1995	$60 million ($20 million per film); scrapped in 2000
Tulsa King season 1	2022	About $1 million per episode (9 episodes)
Tulsa King season 2	2024	About $1.5 million per episode (10 episodes)
Tulsa King season 3	2025	About $2 million per episode (10 episodes)

The Rocky figures come from Stallone’s own account to Variety in 2019. The Rocky IV fee was reported by Parade in 1986, the Rambo IV offer was described by Stallone to The Hollywood Reporter, and the Tulsa King figures were reported by Variety (season 1) and Puck (season 3).

Early life

Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. His father, Frank Stallone Sr., was a hairdresser who had emigrated from Italy. His mother, Jackie Stallone, later became an astrologer and a promoter of women’s wrestling.

Complications during his birth damaged a nerve in his face, leaving the lower left side partly paralyzed. That injury explains his trademark snarl and slurred speech. He was bullied as a child and turned to bodybuilding and acting.

The family moved to Washington, D.C., and later Philadelphia, the city that would become Rocky’s home. Stallone spent two years at the American College of Switzerland and studied drama at the University of Miami from 1967 to 1969. He left without a degree, though the university later awarded him one in 1998.

Struggling years in New York

Early 1970s New York was rough for Stallone. He worked as a zoo cleaner and a theater usher, and he later said he slept in the Port Authority bus terminal for a time.

His first starring role was in the low-budget 1970 film The Party at Kitty and Stud’s, which paid him $200. He played small parts in films such as Bananas and had his first proper lead in The Lords of Flatbush (1974).

He also kept writing. He once sold a script, Paradise Alley, for just $100. He would later get to make it himself.

Rocky: the bet that made his career

On March 24, 1975, Stallone watched journeyman boxer Chuck Wepner go nearly 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. He wrote the first draft of Rocky in about three and a half days.

Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff loved the script and offered as much as $350,000 for it, but they wanted a bigger star such as Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds. Stallone, who reportedly had about $106 in the bank, said no. He would only sell it if he played Rocky.

The studio agreed after cutting the budget. Stallone was paid about $35,000, mostly for the screenplay, plus 10 net profit points. Rocky (1976) became the year’s top-grossing film and won three Oscars, including Best Picture. Stallone was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, a double only Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles had achieved before him.

There was one catch. Stallone has said he has “zero ownership of Rocky.” The rights stayed with the producers and the studio, now part of Amazon MGM. He told Variety in 2019 that he made about $2.5 million in total from the original film, and he has publicly pushed, without success, to win back a share of the rights.

Peak stardom: Rocky, Rambo and the 1980s

Stallone wrote and directed Rocky II (1979), which grossed about $200 million worldwide. His fees climbed with each sequel. By Rocky III (1982) he earned $120,000 upfront plus back-end profits worth millions.

In 1982 he launched a second franchise with First Blood, playing Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) was a global smash, and Stallone co-wrote it.

By the mid-1980s he was among the best-paid actors in the world:

• Rocky IV (1985): a reported $12 million fee
• Rambo III (1988): a reported $16 million
• Rambo IV offer (1988): producers Carolco offered $34 million pay-or-play, which he turned down

He also starred in Cobra (1986), Over the Top (1987) and Tango & Cash (1989). Not every film was a hit, but his name could open movies around the world.

The 1990s: $20 million deals

After flops such as Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992), Stallone came back strongly with Cliffhanger ($171 million worldwide) and Demolition Man ($159 million), both in 1993. The Specialist (1994) added another $170 million.

Studios responded with huge offers. Savoy Pictures agreed to pay him $20 million for a film in 1994. He earned a reported $15 million for Assassins (1995) and $17.5 million for Daylight (1996).

In August 1995, Universal signed him to a three-picture deal worth $60 million, or about $20 million per film. Only Jim Carrey had reached that rate before him. But his films began to underperform, and Universal scrapped the deal in 2000, well short of the three films planned.

In 1997 he took a big pay cut to play a small-town sheriff in Cop Land, a role that earned him some of the best reviews of his career.

The comeback: Rocky Balboa, Rambo and The Expendables

After a quieter stretch in the early 2000s, Stallone revived both of his classic characters. Rocky Balboa (2006) cost about $24 million and grossed $155.7 million. Rambo (2008) grossed $113 million.

In 2010 he co-wrote, directed and starred in The Expendables, an ensemble of action stars. It opened to $34.8 million, the best opening weekend of his career, and spawned three sequels. The fourth, Expend4bles (2023), was the weakest of the series.

Creed and a second Oscar nomination

In Creed (2015), Stallone played an aging Rocky training the son of his old rival. The role won him the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and his third Oscar nomination, nearly 40 years after the first.

He returned for Creed II (2018). The Rocky and Creed films together have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide. He also appeared in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 and voiced King Shark in The Suicide Squad (2021).

Tulsa King and his television payday

Stallone made his streaming TV debut in Tulsa King, created by Taylor Sheridan and Terence Winter, in November 2022. He plays Dwight Manfredi, a New York mobster exiled to Oklahoma, and is also an executive producer.

The show became one of Paramount+’s biggest hits. Its season 2 premiere set a streaming record for the most viewers on a series’ premiere day. His pay rose accordingly:

• Season 1 (2022): at least $1 million per episode, per Variety
• Season 2 (2024): about $1.5 million per episode (reported)
• Season 3 (2025): about $2 million per episode, per Puck, or roughly $20 million for 10 episodes

Season 4 premieres on Paramount+ on October 16, 2026, and the show has been renewed for a fifth season set in New York. His daughter Scarlet Rose Stallone has been promoted to a series regular. The terms of his newest contract have not been made public.

He also starred with his wife and daughters in the reality series The Family Stallone (2023) and was the subject of the Netflix documentary Sly (2023).

Business ventures and endorsements

Stallone has backed several businesses over the years, though none rivals his film income:

• Planet Hollywood: he was one of the star investors and promoters when the restaurant chain launched in 1991, alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. The company went public in 1996 but later filed for bankruptcy twice.
• Production companies: he has run White Eagle Enterprises and, since 2018, Balboa Productions, which develops film and TV projects.
• Boxing: in the 1980s he ran Tiger Eye Productions, a boxing promotion company.
• Endorsements: in 2008 he signed a reported $1.15 million one-year deal to promote Russia Ice vodka.

He is also a serious painter and collector. In June 2024, Sotheby’s sold 11 watches from his collection for $6.7 million. The top lot, a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime, went for $5.4 million.

Real estate

Stallone has made some of the biggest celebrity property moves of the 2020s, shifting his family from Los Angeles to Florida and New York.

Property	Year	Reported price
Beverly Park, Beverly Hills mansion (listed)	2021	Asked $110 million, later cut to $80 million
Beverly Park, Beverly Hills mansion (sold to Adele)	2022	About $58 million
Palm Beach, Florida lakefront estate (bought)	2020	About $35.4 million
Hidden Hills, Los Angeles (bought)	2022	About $18 million
Hidden Hills, Los Angeles (sold to John Fogerty)	2023	Just over $17 million
East Hampton, New York estate (bought)	2024	About $25 million, in cash

Beverly Park

For decades Stallone’s main home was a Mediterranean-style mansion he built in Beverly Park, a gated enclave in Beverly Hills. It had about 21,000 square feet of living space, eight bedrooms and a bronze Rocky statue by the pool.

He listed it in January 2021 for $110 million, then cut the price to $80 million. Singer Adele bought it for about $58 million, one of the priciest Southern California sales of the year, though well below the original ask.

Palm Beach

In December 2020, Stallone and Jennifer Flavin paid about $35.4 million for an estate on Palm Beach’s Lake Worth lagoon. Built in 2014, it sits on about 1.5 acres with more than 250 feet of waterfront, a main house, a guesthouse and a pool pavilion. They bought it through a trust named “Southpaw,” a nod to Rocky, and later renovated it.

The couple has made Palm Beach their primary residence, and the family made the move from California permanent in 2023.

Hidden Hills and the Hamptons

Stallone bought a ranch-style home in Hidden Hills in spring 2022 for about $18 million, then sold it to rock singer John Fogerty in October 2023 for about $1 million less. In late 2024 he paid a reported $25 million in cash for a newly built East Hampton estate for the family, especially his three daughters.

Personal life

Stallone has been married three times. His first marriage, to Sasha Czack (1974–1985), produced two sons, Sage and Seargeoh. Sage, an actor and film distributor, died of heart disease in 2012 at age 36.

He was married to Danish actress and model Brigitte Nielsen from 1985 to 1987. In 1997 he married former model Jennifer Flavin, whom he had met in 1988. They have three daughters: Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet. Flavin filed for divorce in August 2022, but the couple reconciled about a month later.

He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Philanthropy

Stallone’s charity work is mostly done through auctions and appearances rather than a big foundation. Examples include:

• An original painting, Knocking Heads, sold for $410,000 at an amfAR charity gala in Las Vegas.
• In February 2025, two sports cars packaged with a day on the Tulsa King set raised $1 million for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.
• He helped campaign for a posthumous pardon for boxer Jack Johnson, which was granted in 2018.

How Sylvester Stallone compares

Actor	Estimated net worth	Main source
Jackie Chan	About $400 million	Action films, production, endorsements
Sylvester Stallone	About $400 million	Film fees, Tulsa King, real estate
Mark Wahlberg	About $400 million	Films, producing, business ventures
Harrison Ford	About $300 million	Star Wars, Indiana Jones, TV
Kevin Costner	About $250 million	Films, Yellowstone

Figures are widely reported estimates as of October 2026. Like Costner and Ford, Stallone has used a late-career TV role to earn some of the biggest paychecks of his life. See more in our actors net worth section.

Frequently asked questions

How much is Sylvester Stallone worth?

About $400 million, according to widely reported estimates in 2026.

How much does Sylvester Stallone make for Tulsa King?

A reported $2 million per episode for season 3, or about $20 million for a 10-episode season. He earned about $1 million per episode in season 1.

How much was Sylvester Stallone paid for Rocky?

About $35,000 for the 1976 original, mostly for the script, plus profit points. He has said he made about $2.5 million in total from the film.

Does Sylvester Stallone own the rights to Rocky?

No. The rights stayed with producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff and the studio, now Amazon MGM. Stallone has said he has “zero ownership” of the character.

Who bought Sylvester Stallone’s Beverly Hills mansion?

Singer Adele bought his Beverly Park estate for about $58 million after he first listed it for $110 million.

Where does Sylvester Stallone live now?

Mainly in Palm Beach, Florida, where he bought a lakefront estate for about $35.4 million in 2020. The family also owns a home in East Hampton, New York.

Sources: Variety (2019 Stallone interview; 2022 Tulsa King salary report), Puck (2025 Tulsa King salary report), The Hollywood Reporter, Parade, The Real Deal, Los Angeles Times, Robb Report, Sotheby’s results via National Jeweler, Film Stories, TMZ, Wikipedia. All net worth figures are estimates.