At 18 years old, actress Jennie Garth had no idea how influential the acting gig she just booked would be: Beverly Hills 90210. Considered the TV show that defined the teen drama genre, it set the pace for series like Dawson’s Creek, One Tree Hill, The OC, Gossip Girl, and Riverdale, and achieved immortality through widespread syndication.
But unlike her 90210 character, Kelly Taylor, life for Garth proved more complicated than a 30-minute episodic arc. Shooting to fame as a teenager, Garth had to deal with navigating her extreme celebrity and the pressures to look perfect; later, she faced a tumultuous divorce, depression, and mental health struggles that led to a stint in rehab.
Yet Kelly Taylor’s idealism would serve as Garth’s own “North Star” in life. Referencing the time her character faced a love triangle with Dylan McKay (played by Luke Perry) and Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley), Taylor famously decided “I choose myself,” and left both behind.
The line became the name of Garth’s iHeart podcast and the title of her new memoir, I Choose Me, released April 14, 2026.
So, what’s her net worth now?
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Jennie Garth’s net worth in 2026
According to Celebrity Net Worth, the online authority for celebrity wealth, Jennie Garth has an estimated net worth of $8 million in 2026.
There’s a reason that number seems so low.
Like many TV stars of yesteryear, the original cast of 90210 did not secure royalty fees or a percentage of merchandising deals, which would prove priceless to later stars like Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson.
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So, although 90210 has been streaming in perpetuity on Paramount Plus and available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, Garth and her co-stars don’t make a nickel from reruns of their time as the most famous teens on Earth.
In fact, on an episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Garth admitted that she had a “serious adjustment” to make to her finances when 90210 ended in 2000 after its 10-year run, because the show had provided her with financial security.
It was the height of the housing boom, and her business manager told her to sell her house and the ranch she had just built for her three daughters. She took his advice, although she regretted both of those decisions, saying, “The minute you start worrying and holding on and attaching to the outcome of the money coming and going, that for me is when it stopped coming.”
2000 was the same year the Friends cast negotiated their salaries for syndication royalties, which minted each cast member roughly $20 million per year in residuals.
One can only imagine how much wealthier Garth would be today if such a deal had been made for 90210’s stars.
How much money did Jennie Garth make from Beverly Hills 90210?
Details on how much each cast member earned on the original Beverly Hills 90210 series are not publicly available, but Reddit threads estimate their paychecks at $5,000 to $10,000 per episode.
Considering that Garth appeared in every one of the show’s 292 episodes (and directed 2 of them), that means she could have made around $2.9 million from her work on the original series.
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Fans would give Garth the opportunity to make even more money than that, however. 90210 enjoyed not one but two reboots in the intervening years: one on the CW Network, simply entitled 90210, which aired for 5 years between 2008 and 2013. There was also a 6-episode “event series,” BH90210, that aired on Fox in 2019.
In the CW series, Garth reprised her role as Taylor, returning to West Beverly High as a guidance counselor and the mother of Dylan McKay’s son. Celebrity Net Worth reports that Garth received $50,000 per episode; she appeared in 20 episodes, which means she could have pocketed $1 million from the stint, although she later admitted to People that she wished she hadn’t done it, saying she didn’t know how to say no to the producer, who was a friend.
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In the 2019 reboot, the plot followed the original cast members as they decided whether or not to do a reboot (how meta). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Garth, along with the series’ original stars, Tori Spelling, Gabrielle Carteris, Shannen Doherty, Jason Priestley, Brian Austin Green, and Ian Ziering, made $70,000 per episode, which translated to a $420,000 “base salary” for the six-episode event (Luke Perry had passed away earlier in the year).
As the reboot’s co-creator, Garth received an additional $90,000 or $15,000 per episode.
Jennie Garth’s early life and acting career
Jennifer Eve Garth was born on April 3, 1972, in Urbana, Illinois. She grew up on a 25-acre horse ranch with her six siblings. When she was 13, Garth’s family moved to Glendale, Arizona.
Garth had always been interested in dance and modeling and was encouraged to pursue an acting career by Hollywood agent Randy James, who had seen her win a talent show. When she was a junior in high school, she moved to Los Angeles to work with James and later obtained her high school diploma.
90210 was not Garth’s first TV show: She guest-starred on Growing Pains and Teen AngelReturns before appearing in the short-lived NBC series Brand New Life in 1989.
After 90210 ended, Garth starred alongside Amanda Bynes in What I Like About You from 2002 to 2006. In addition, she has appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies, guest-starred in sitcoms like The Larry Sanders Show and Family Guy, and showcased her footwork in Dancing With the Stars (she and partner Derek Hough made it to the semi-finals in 2007).
Jennie Garth’s personal life
Garth has been married three times: Her first husband was Daniel P. Clark, a musician and drummer for a band called The Hoodwinks. They married in 1994 and divorced in 1996.
Next, Garth married Twilight actor Peter Facinelli in 2001. They share three daughters: Luca Bella (b. 1997), Lola Ray (b. 2002), and Fiona Eve (b. 2006). In 2013, Facinelli filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
Garth turned to alcohol and anxiety medication to dull her pain, and she overdosed, ending up in the hospital needing her stomach pumped.
She successfully completed a treatment program at Canyon Ranch rehab facility, and learned how to forgive her ex — and herself, telling People that forgiveness “has nothing to do with the other person. It has everything to do with you preserving yourself, your life, and wanting to move forward and wanting to be happy. Because you can never be happy when you’re holding onto that fear, that attachment to the anger and the resentment. It’s just self-sabotage.”
In 2014, Garth was set up on a blind date by friends with actor Dave Abrams. Four months later, they got engaged, and on July 11, 2015, they were married.
A few months into their union, however, the couple separated because Garth, who is nine years older than Abrams, had issues trying to conceive a child. The couple separated for a few months but eventually ended up back together, with Abrams crediting their marriage for having “changed us both into more patient, loving and understanding humans, not just with each other but with everyone around us” in an Instagram post.
Abrams added, “You make me a better person.”
Jennie Gath’s real estate portfolio
Garth may have sold her first homes too soon, but she certainly recouped her investments in recent years.
In 2014, she renovated a Studio City, California, home on HGTV’s The Jennie Garth Project, selling it for a $2 million profit in 2018.
According to Architectural Digest, she also recently offloaded another equestrian ranch for $1.9 million and picked up a Pasadena home for $3.3 million.
Her new home, another ranch, boasts 3,360 square feet of living space, four bedrooms, a chef’s kitchen, and an outdoor pool with barbecue pit.
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