Chelsea Clinton Is Worth Big Bucks — Here’s How She Managed To Make All That Money

Before Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, got his strange but lucrative deal to sit on the board of energy company Burisma Holdings in Ukraine to the tune of $50,000 a month, there was Chelsea Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She was similarly rewarded with jobs and board positions that had absolutely no relationship with that young woman’s interests, life, education or any perceived expertise.

All of this has racked up to what the New York Post reported back in 2015 was an estimated net worth of $15 million for the then-34-year-old. More recently, Barron’s, the finance newspaper, revealed that Chelsea Clinton has now reaped $9 million from a corporate board position. In 2011, while her mother was still secretary of state, she was appointed to IAC/Interactive, an Internet investment company. She receives an annual $50,000 retainer and $250,000 worth of restricted IAC stock units, according to Barron’s.

Ironically, and something the Clintons would be loathed to admit, they like most other American families benefitted from President Donald Trump’s leadership and correlating economic renaissance.

The Hill reported, “IAC stock has risen 89%, 50% and 36% in 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively, a far steeper rise in the broader stock market.”

For time immemorial Americans have asked how it is that politicians manage to get filthy rich in “public service.” Now, their children are also getting rich riding those coattails and exposing just how money gets distributed among the swamp.

Consequently, Chelsea Clinton reported in December of last year her holdings ballooned to $8.95 million.

In 2017, Chelsea Clinton was also named to travel site Expedia’s Board of Directors. Because she’s a … business genius? A travel genius? An investment prodigy? The Hill reported that position “typically earned $250,000 in 2015. … Both IAC and Expedia are controlled by Barry Diller, the business and television mogul, who is a friend of Hillary Clinton.”

In 2011, the same year she joined the IAC board, Chelsea signed with NBC News as a “special correspondent.” Politico reported she was rewarded with $600,000 a year to do what ended up being occasional fluffy feature stories. The New York Post noted, “one was a creepy voiceover interview with the Geico gecko. Chelsea is such a special correspondent, she’s done just 14 stories in two years and seven months for a total of 58 minutes of airtime. …”

Vanity Fair crunched the numbers and found, after she parted ways with NBC News in 2014, she ended up making $26,724 per minute that she appeared on the network. But the corporate nepotism benefitting Chelsea Clinton wasn’t limited to Mrs. Clinton’s time as secretary of state and the lead-up to her doomed second run for president in 2016; it started much earlier — the lead-up to her doomed run for president in 2008.