Caitlyn Jenner Net Worth, Olympic Gold Medalist & Career

Caitlyn Jenner is an American Olympic Gold Medalist and American television personality. Caitlyn Jenner also known as Bruce Jenner, she is a former Olympic athlete and as well as transgender rights advocate. She started her athletic career in college , where she expert in track and field and also earned a position on the U.S. Olympic team.

Jenner broke the previous world record when she won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Following her athletic retirement, Jenner entered the world of television and media, making many appearances in TV series, films, and commercials. She also introduced a range of accessories and fitness tools.

If you are wondering about Caitlyn's Gold medalist journey then read this article where you can find numerous things to read related to her personal life, decathlon career and much more.          

Caitlyn Jenner Net Worth 2024

Caitlyn Jenner’s net worth is estimated to be $25 million. As part of her campaign to become California's governor, Caitlyn disclosed many year’s net worth of tax returns in July 2021. These documents showed the following annual incomes:

• The second season of her reality show "I Am Cait" brought in $2.5 million in 2016
• 2017: $1.9 million the year she launched the biography "The Secrets of My Life"
• 2018: $550,000
• 2019: $550,000

When his marriage to Kris was in doubt in 2013, Caitlyn who was still living under the name Bruce bought a beach house in Malibu for $14,500 a month. The house was put up for sale in 2018 for $7.99 million. The location was highlighted on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." A year after Kris filed for divorce, in March 2015, Bruce spent $3.575 million for a house located high in the Malibu hills.

Biography and Personal Life

Jenner had three marriages before her gender transition. Her first marriage, from 1972 to 1981, was to Chrystie Scott. Son Burt and daughter Cassandra "Casey" Marino are their two children. The divorce between Jenner and Scott became official during the first week of January 1981.

Jenner wed songwriter Linda Thompson in Hawaii on January 5, 1981. Together, they are parents to two sons, Brody and Brandon. Jenner and Thompson divorced in February 1986 after separating. Later, their sons starred in The Princes of Malibu, a reality show, while Brody had a role in The Hills, another reality show.

Fatal Car Collision

Jenner was a part of a deadly multi-vehicle crash on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, in February 2015. Actress and animal rights activist Kim Howe was murdered when Jenner's SUV crashed with her vehicle. The order of the collisions and the number of victims have been reported in different ways. While Howe's stepchildren and the drivers of the other automobiles involved in the incident filed three civil claims against Jenner, prosecutors decided not to bring criminal charges.

The Hollywood agent Jessica Steindorff, who was struck by Howe's vehicle, settled in December 2015. The stepchildren of Howe settled in January 2016. In all situations, no financial information was released.

Early Life

William Bruce Jenner, known as Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born on October 28, 1949, in Mount Kisco, New York, was his given name until June 2015. Her parents are Canadian arborist William Hugh Jenner, originally from New Brunswick, and Esther Ruth. Her family history includes Welsh, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and English.

Burt Jenner, Jenner's younger brother, died on November 30, 1976, in an automobile accident in Canton, Connecticut, not long after Jenner's Olympic victory. Jenner had a dyslexia diagnosis as a young child.

Education

Jenner studied during his first and second years at Sleepy Hollow High School in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and then for his junior and senior years at Newtown High School in Newtown, Connecticut, before graduating in 1968. Jenner attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, on an athletic football scholarship, but he was forced to give up the sport due to a knee injury.

Decathlon career

Before Jenner changed her gender, she competed in men's events in the Olympics. In the men's decathlon at the 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, Jenner started the competition ranked eleventh after the first day and moved up to fifth place, behind only Andrew Pettes and Steve Gough, with one event left on the Fourth of July.

Jenner finished first in the 1500 meters, 22 seconds ahead of the rest, and qualified for the Olympic team while needing to close a 19-second gap behind Gough.

Olympic success

In 1974, Jenner won the men's decathlon championship for the United States, and the magazine Cover Story of Track & Field News included an article about him in the August issue. While on tour in 1975, Jenner won the Pan American Games gold medal with 8,045 points, breaking a tournament record, and the French national championship.

Some Impact

Jenner began a winning athlete tradition by taking an American flag from another person and carrying it during the victory lap. Jenner declared, "In 1972, I made the decision that I would go four years and dedicate myself to what I was doing, and then I would move on after it was over." She left the vaulting poles in the stadium and had no plans to compete again.

International competitions

Caitlyn Jenner Honors and Awards :

• 94 seconds for 100 meters (1976)
• 51 seconds, 400 meters (1976)
• 4:12.61 min: sec for 1500 meters (1976)
• Hurdles of 110 meters: 14.84 seconds (1976)
• Peak leap: 2.03 meters (6.7 feet) in 1976
• Pole vault (1976): 4.80 m (15.7 ft.)
• Long jump: 23.7%, or 7.22 meters 1976
• Shot put: 15.35 meters (50.4 feet) in 1976
• Throwing discus: 50.04 meters (164.2 feet) (1976)
• Throwing javelin (old): 68.52 meters (224.8 feet) 1976
• 8634 points for Decathlon (1976)

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who is the first kid of Caitlyn Jenner?
   American businessman Burton William Jenner was born on September 6, 1978. He is the owner of West LA Dogs and a professional off-road racer. He is the eldest child of Olympic gold medalist and TV personality Caitlyn Jenner and her first spouse, Chrystie Scott.
2. Who is the mother of Kylie Jenner?
   On August 10, 1997, in Los Angeles, California, Kylie Jenner was born into the family of athlete Caitlyn Jenner and Kris Jenner, née Kristen Mary Houghton. Kendall Jenner is the only sibling Kylie has in full.
3. Are Caitlyn Jenner and Sophia still together?
   Demanding to the New York Times that she and Caitlyn were never romantically connected while living together, Sophia said. Sophia and Caitlyn had a professional relationship; Sophia took over as manager when Caitlyn's ex-wife Kris Jenner left the position.