Maria Shriver Net Worth

Net Worth Watch estimates the fortune at $200 million in November 2026. Maria Shriver is a Kennedy on her mother Eunice’s side and a former first lady of California. Her money comes from family holdings and from decades of television work.

Most of the total sits in assets that are not priced daily, so the figure is a considered estimate rather than a bank balance. The profile below sets out each component and how firm it is.

The fortune divides into three main parts: kennedy family trusts and her own media career.

• Kennedy family trusts Holdings passed down through the Kennedy and Shriver families.
• Television and publishing NBC news career and bestselling books.
• Divorce settlement Assets divided after the 2021 separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Shriver worked as a news anchor at NBC from the 1980s, then left full-time broadcasting when her husband Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003. She later wrote bestselling books on Alzheimer’s care and on women’s roles.

The larger share of the total is Kennedy family money, held in trusts created by Joseph Kennedy’s descendants, along with proceeds from her 2021 divorce settlement from Schwarzenegger.

Family trusts are private, so published estimates vary more than for fortunes built on public stock.

We start from the best available record of what the person owns: company filings, stock exchange positions, property registers, investigative reporting and, for historical figures, reconstructions of the assets they controlled. Where a holding is private we compare it with listed peers, and where the record is thin we say so in the profile.

Figures are shown in US dollars and reviewed on the date at the top of the page. A net worth is not the same as annual income, and it can move sharply when markets or currencies move.