Ashanti Net Worth (Updated 2023)

Ashanti net worth is $20 million dollars: Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas better known as Ashanti is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the first female artist to occupy the top two positions on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her song “Foolish” and “What’s Luv?” ranked first two positions on Billboard.

Ashanti Early Life

Douglas was born on October 13, 1980, in Glen Cove, New York, United States. Her father Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas and her mother name are Tina Douglas. Both of them are African-American. So, it can be said that she is a pure woman of color.

Ashanti’s mother was a dance teacher and her father was a singer by profession. She is her parent’s oldest child and has a younger sister. Her name is Kenashia “Shia” Douglas. Ashanti was named after Ashanti Empire in Ghana. Her mother named her Ashanti because it was a nation where women had power and influence, and Tina wanted Ashanti to follow that ideology.

Name	Ashanti.
Real Name	Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas.
Birth Date / Age	October 13, 1980/42 Years Old.
Birth Place	Glen Cove, New York, United States.
Source of Income	Music.
Height	5 feet 2 inches.
Net Worth	$20 million dollars.

When Tina overheard Ashanti singing Mary J. Blige’s “Reminisce” at the age of twelve, she realized how talented her daughter was. She started writing songs when she was attending high school. She also performed in a local talent show and at several small festivals as a teenager.

Ashanti also started acting at a very early age. Her first work of acting as a child extra in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and in Ted Demme’s Who’s the Man?

Ashanti Music Career

As a teenage girl, Ashanti stepped foot into both her musical and acting career. She also started writing songs at a very early age. But it took her a while to get the fame. Irv Gotti first noticed her and asked her to pen hooks for his rap artists and to perform with them in duets.

In the beginning, Ashanti worked as a background vocalist on rapper Big Pun’s song “How We Roll”. Then in 2001, she worked on The Fast and the Furious soundtrack as a featured artist on Vita’s 2001 hip-hop remake of Madonna’s “Justify My Love” and on the solo track “When a Man Does Wrong”.

Ashanti became famous after her two hit songs in 2002 titled “Foolish” and “What’s Luv?”. After that, there was no looking back. She gave many songs like “Baby”, “Rock wit U (Awww Baby)”, “Only U”, “Say Less”, etc. So far, Ashanti has released six studio albums.

Ashanti has worked in many films. She started as a child artist in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X and in Ted Demme’s Who’s the Man? She has acted in films like The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz, Resident Evil: Extinction, Mothers and Daughters, A Christmas Winter Song, Honey Girls, etc. Douglas has also done many television shows.

Ashanti Net Worth

As of 2023, Ashanti net worth is $20 million dollars. She mainly earns from the music industry including album sales, live concerts, and music streams. She earns more than two million dollars per year.

Her biggest income comes from album sales. She has sold over fifteen million albums worldwide now. She also performs in live concerts and charges 40k to 74k dollars per concert. Ashanti also earns from other resources like acting. She is an excellent actress since she was a teenager. She has been able to earn from acting as well.

Ashanti earns 200k dollars a month. Sometimes she earns more. She is the brand ambassador of many popular brands. As a social media influencer, she has managed to earn a huge sum of money for brand promotion.

Ashanti loves to live to the fullest. She loves showing off her lifestyle. That’s the reason she is the owner of many luxurious assets. She has a huge house in Las, Vegas. Douglas also owns houses in Los Angeles and New York. She is the owner of many expensive cars like a Corvette, Mercedes Maybach, Rolls Royce, etc.

Ashanti Instagram And Twitter

Ashanti has great influence in the virtual world. She has set her footstep on every single social media platform and she is followed by millions of followers. Her fans and followers love stalking her on the internet. She uses her social media accounts to keep her fans updated on her work and personal life.

Ashanti has a verified Facebook account and more than 3.6 million people follow her. Her Instagram account is also verified and has double the followers on Facebook. It has reached 7.3 million followers. She is available on TikTok as well and uploads videos there too. Her account has been verified there with almost 354k people following her. She is about to reach a million likes on her videos that were uploaded on TikTik.

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Ashanti has a YouTube channel. It contains 50 videos with 951k subscribers. She uses Twitter as well to interact more with fans and share her thoughts with them. Her verified Twitter account has 2 million followers.

Ashanti Personal Life

Ashanti has dated many men. But only one relationship in her past was confirmed by her. She briefly dated rapper Nelly from 2003 to 2014. They met at the 2003 Grammy Awards on January 1, 2003, and began dating and they officially broke up on March 6, 2014.

Ashanti then dated Darnell Dockett in 2015. He even admitted it on social media. Then she hooked up with James Harden in 2018 and Micheal Blackson in 2019. But those were never confirmed. It is rumored that she has been in a relationship with Joyner Lucas, but none of them admitted it.