How Much is Loni Anderson Net Worth in 2025?
As of 2025, Loni Anderson estimated net worth is $12 million. A couple sources say $13 million, but the consensus right across the board Celebrity Net Worth, major news outlets, financial pages is $12 million at the time of her passing on August 3, 2025. That’s a sum built not just on television salaries, but also some pretty clever real estate deals and, let's not forget, a very public divorce settlement from Burt Reynolds that kept the tabloids buzzing for years.
The thing with net worth numbers they’re never just from a single income stream. Loni’s money came from her golden run on WKRP in Cincinnati, but also later gigs, TV movies, and a voice role in All Dogs Go to Heaven. There’s a Beverly Hills mansion that sold for millions post-divorce, and another Sherman Oaks property that fetched a tidy profit. A lot of people only remember her for comedy, but her earnings outlasted her sitcom era by decades.
Twitter blew up the morning of August 4, with tributes and headlines like:
“Loni Anderson, best known for her role on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' has died. She was 79 years old.”
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Who Was Loni Anderson?
Loni Kaye Anderson, born August 5, 1945, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was the classic definition of a TV icon. Audiences first really noticed her as Jennifer Marlowe the sharp, dazzling receptionist who pretty much ran the show (even if her boss didn’t know it) on CBS’s WKRP in Cincinnati from 1978 to 1982.
Loni tanked the bimbo stereotype and turned her character into something sly, comic, and weirdly empowering for late ’70s TV.
She nabbed three Golden Globe nods and two for the Emmys, and her platinum blonde style made her a pop culture fixture.
But Loni wasn’t stuck in one lane she did drama (often channeling Jayne Mansfield or Thelma Todd), family comedies, and tons of made-for-TV movies stretching right through the ’90s.
In recent Instagram fan club circles, she’s still getting the love:
“#OnMyWalk to memories of lovely Loni Anderson, one of the genuinely nicest ladies I've ever worked with...”
Loni Anderson Career Earnings
A lot of Anderson’s fans remember her as “just” Jennifer Marlowe, but honestly, that would be selling her earning power short by a mile. Her paycheck per episode of WKRP in Cincinnati started off respectable, but got bumped as her star rose.
Then came mini-series and an endless cascade of Lifetime movies; none of these were A-lister paydays, but Loni had hustle and kept working through the ’80s and ’90s.
Her deal with CBS, plus syndication reruns and guest appearances, padded her income long after she’d left the sitcom set.
One talking point that follows her everywhere: the divorce from Burt Reynolds. When the marriage crashed, Burt was ordered to cough up $15,000 a month in spousal support a figure shy of her career-highs, but a steady flow after their split.
Loni also orked the real estate circuit, flipping high-end homes for millions. That, plus a couple decent endorsements, and you’ve got the backbone of that $12 million figure.
The reaction wasn’t just about her career, though. Even former co-stars have chimed in on social media:
“The news just came through that my dear friend Loni Anderson has passed. Like many, I am absolutely stunned and heartbroken.”
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Loni Anderson Early life
Pulling back from the glitter, Loni started in very Midwestern circumstances. Daughter of an environmental chemist (Klaydon) and a former model (Maxine), Loni grew up in Roseville, Minnesota.
She was crowned Valentine Queen at her high school winter dance (1963), ran for Miss Minnesota, and started college at University of Minnesota with plans to study art, not acting.
Beauty pageants paid the bills, but there was grit behind the glam her first marriage fizzled by age 21, and she worked as a teacher while raising her daughter Deidra and grinding through school.
What’s wild: It wasn’t L.A. or New York that shaped her, but Minnesota. Local theater, college shows, and a bunch of regional pageants. She went platinum blonde only after college.
No one hands you a sitcom on a platter out there. Loni carved her own way, then owned her moment on one of TV’s weirdest, smartest comedies.
Last week, as posts like these popped up on Instagram:
"I'm so sad to hear that the beautiful powerhouse Loni Anderson has passed away."
You can sense that for so many, her journey means something more than just TV fame.
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