Jenni Rivera Net Worth: How Rich was Jenni Rivera Actually?

By Cuzideas

Jenni Rivera was a singer, actress, composer, TV producer, and entrepreneur of Mexican descent. She was most renowned for her musical contributions to the Mariachi, Banda, and Norteno forms of regional Mexican music. Rivera was crowned the best-selling Latin artist of 2013, and during her career, she has generated 15 gold and five double platinum songs. Jenni Rivera’s net worth was believed to be around $25 million at the time of her death.

Full Name	Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra
Date of Birth	July 2, 1969
Place of Birth	Long Beach, California, U. S.
Occupation	Singer, Actress
Husband	Esteban Loaiza
Net Worth	$25 million
Death	December 9, 2012

Early life

Jenni Rivera’s full name is Dolores Janney Rivera Saavedra, and she was born on July 2, 1969, in Long Beach, California, to Pedro Rivera and Rosa Saavedra. Her parents raised her, together with her four brothers and sisters. Rivera’s family introduced her to traditional Mexican music. She received straight A’s in school and was pregnant with her first child before the age of 15.

Rivera was working at the time and supporting herself and her two children by selling CDs at flea markets. She was also finishing her education at the time, finally graduating as class valedictorian. She then enrolled at California State University, Long Beach, and earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She worked in real estate after graduating from university. After some time, she began working for Cintas Acuario, her father’s record company, which he founded in 1987.

Jenni Rivera Net Worth & Career

On Father’s Day in 1992, she recorded a song as a gift to her father. She continued to record songs after that and finally signed with Capitol/Latin EMI’s division. “Chacalosa,” her debut studio album, was released in 1995. Though she struggled to get her songs played on the radio because the market was controlled by men at the time.

She also had a horrible encounter when a radio DJ threw her CD into the trash in front of her. She didn’t give up, though, and independently recorded two more albums, “We Are Rivera” and “Farewell to Selena.”

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She was contracted to Sony Music in the late 1900s, and then to Fonovisa Records in 1999. In 1999, Rivera released her first commercial album, “Que Me Entierren Con la Banda.” Jenni was nominated for her first Latin Grammy when she released two albums in 2001, “Dejate Amar” and “Se las Voy a Dar un Otro.”

After releasing the album “Parrandera, Rebelde y Atrevida” in 2005, she had more major success. The song was a tremendous hit, charting in the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart’s Top 10 list.

Then, in 2007, she released “Mi Vida Loca,” her ninth major studio album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Regional Mexican Albums chart. Her ninth studio album, “Jenni,” was released in 2008 and debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart in the United States. “La Gran Senora,” her first full mariachi studio album, was released in 2009. Her album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album.

She has appeared on reality shows in addition to her music career. Chiquis, her oldest daughter, was featured in the reality TV show “Chiquis & Raq-C,” which she created. She then went on to star in the spin-off reality show “I Love Jenni.” She then became a coach on the Mexican talent show “La Voz… Mexico.”

Fenovisa Records released her compilation album “La Misma Gran Senora” in December 2012, which debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top Latin Albums Chart. By early 2013, Rivera had sold over a million albums globally.

Personal Life

Jenni Rivera’s three marriages resulted in five children. She had three children with her first husband, Jose Trinidad Marlin. The marriage terminated in 1992 due to physical and emotional violence. Juan Lopez was her husband when she married him in 1997. Lopez and her had two children, Jenicka and Juan Angel, before their marriage terminated in 2003. Esteban Loaiza, a baseball player, escorted her down the aisle in 2010. She divorced Esteban only a few months before her death in 2012. The divorce, however, was never formalized.

Jenni was killed in an airplane accident near Monterrey, Mexico, on December 9, 2012. Her funeral was held at All Souls Cemetery on December 31, 2012, after being postponed owing to legal concerns. A fresh painting honoring Rivera was recently unveiled at Jenni Rivera Fashion Boutique on January 12, 2022. Her artwork, which was created by her son Mike and other artists, served as a homage to her.