Johnny Knoxville is a nickname of Philip John Clapp, also known as PJ Clapp, PJ Knoxville, Lance the man, Johnny Jackass and P. J. Clapp. PJ Clapp is an American comedian, actor, TV producer, voice actor, stunt performer and film producer who has estimated net worth as amazingly high as $75 million. Clapp was able to build his net worth mainly because of the “Jackass” show which he created together with Spike Jonze and Jeff Tremaine. This reality show was aired on MTV and Johnny even appeared there himself.
Johnny Knoxville Net Worth $75 Million
Johnny Knoxville was born on March 11, 1971, in Knoxville, Tennessee, U. S. As a teenager he attended South-Doyle High School and graduated in year 1989. Then John Clapp already knew he wants to earn his net worth and popularity as an actor and in order to start his career moved to California, where head an ability to appear in several commercials. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the great idea as Johnny didn’t become well-known or popular, and that’s why he had to think about some different way to rise to fame. And then was the first time when he has got an idea to create a “Jackass” show. This show increased Knoxville’s net worth extremely high as it was aired on one of the best known channels in United States. There Johnny together with other “Jackass” actors were performing any crazy and dangerous stunts and often were injured while performing them. Show has become popular and many other stars in show business appeared here, such as famous skater Bam Margera, Ryan Dunn and Chris Pontius.
Of course, the main show which allowed PJ Clapp’s net worth to increase and take a place in show business is “Jackass”, but he is also known for the appearances in “Coyote Ugly”, “Daltry Calhoun”, “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “The Ringer”. However, many of these shows are forgotten nowadays, but the famous “Jackass” is still well known even for the younger viewers. Talking about the personal life of Johnny Knoxville, in year 1995 he married his former wife Melanie Lynn Cates. Together the couple had a daughter Madison, born in year 1996. However, in year 2006, after 11 years of living together, the couple separated and officially divorced just one year late. All the process was finished only in July 2009. Nowadays Johnny is married to Naomi Nelson. The couple had their firstborn in year 2009, but they married only in September 2010. Their second child, girl Arlo Lemoyne Yoko Clapp, was born in year 2011, in Los Angeles.
Today Clapp lives in LA together with his wife and still remains one of the greatest personalities on MTV, known for his extremely funny and sometimes devilish behavior with many crazy ideas and pranks appearing in his head. He is being loved by the people of different age, race and culture as the person who performs dangerous stunts in order to make his show even more funny and interesting. And that’s how Johnny Knoxville’s net worth increased to be this huge. So now you know how rich is Johnny Knoxville.
Someone paid him more than I would have.
Hard to figure, there’s a lot of dopey boys out there with money to spend.