Net Worth: | $25 Million |
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Date of Birth: | February 11, 1972 (52 years old) |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.75 m) |
Profession: | Surfer, Musician, Actor, Film Producer, and Voice Actor |
Nationality: | United States of America |
What is Kelly Slater’s Net Worth?
Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer who has a net worth of $25 million. No other surfer has matched Slater’s record of 11 World Surf League championships.
He became the youngest surfer to win the tournament at age 20. By winning his fifth world championship in 1997, Kelly overcame Australian surfer Mark Richards to claim the title of surfing’s most successful champion.
Ten years later, he won the Boost Mobile Pro event at Lower Trestles to be the sport’s all-time leader in career event victories.
At the Billabong Tahiti Pro competition in May, Slater made history by becoming the first surfer to receive two perfect scores under the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) two-wave scoring system.
Kelly Slater had been predominantly sponsored by the surfwear brand Quiksilver since 1990, but in 2014 he parted ways with the company to work with Kering and launch Outerknown, an eco-friendly clothing company. In 2016, he introduced a line of surfboards. Purps, his own beverage company, is another business in which he diversifies in.
Slater played Jimmy Slade in 27 episodes of “Baywatch” from 1992 to 1996, in addition to his competitive surfing career.
Formative Years
Robert Kelly Slater was born on February 11, 1972, in Cocoa Beach, Florida. At the age of 5, Kelly learned to surf.
In 1984, Kelly won the age-division U.S. championship. By the time he was ten years old, he had won a number of Atlantic coast age-division competitions.
He finished third in the 1986 World Amateur Championships held in England, and the following year, he took first place in the Pacific Cup Junior Championship held in Australia.
Surfing Career
Slater turned professional in 1990 and won the Body Glove Surfbout that year. He is referred to as King Kelly, The GOAT, and the Michael Jordan of surfing.
In 1992, he took home his first victory at the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii, and in the following year’s rankings, he was ranked No. 6.
He won the Triple Crown of Surfing in 1995, 1998, and 2019 and was the World Surf League Champion starting in 1994.
Kelly has triumphed in a number of Championship Tour competitions. He won the Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco in 2011, earning him the ASP world title for the eleventh time.
Other Creative Projects
With Peter King and Rob Machado, Kelly was a member of the band The Surfers, which went on tour and released the album “Songs from the Pipe” in 1998 .In 2006, he performed with Pearl Jam in San Diego and with Ben Harper at a concert in Santa Barbara. Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer, a video game featuring Slater, was released by Treyarch in 2002.
Personal Relationship
Kelly Slater has Beena in romatic relationships with lots of celebrities. He has a daughter named Taylor.
Real Estate
It was revealed in 2020 that Slater and Michael Schwab are working together to construct a $400-acre, $250 million surf resort in La Quinta, California. A 150-room hotel, 600 houses, and an 18 million gallon wave pool are all designed for the Kelly Slater Surf Resort.
In 2017, Kelly paid $7.8 million for an 8,009 square foot beachfront mansion in Oahu, Hawaii, with 7.5 bathrooms and seven bedrooms.
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