Caroline Stanbury’s net worth is $30 million from all her endeavors, which include business, reality television, fashion, and more.
Though she is an heiress that had a solid cash foundation from her birth family, the reality television star started out as a personal stylist before going to launch her own company. Caroline’s debut business endeavor wasn’t successful, but she widened her horizon by venturing into other fields. Apart from this, she has made some brilliant marriages and has recorded one lucrative divorce.
How Much is Caroline Stanbury Worth?
According to reliable sources like Celebrity Net Worth, Caroline Stanbury has amassed a fortune in excess of $30 million. Though any source has never disclosed her monthly remuneration, she is said to be raking in around $5 million on an annual basis.
How Did Caroline Stanbury’s Net Worth Accrue?
Caroline Stanbury made her astounding fortune from different sources, from being born into wealth to business, modeling, reality television, and of course, brilliant marriages and relationships.
Part of Caroline Stanbury’s Net Worth Is From Her Inheritance
Stanbury is listed as a veritable heiress as a tidy portion of the entertainer’s money came from her birth family, which is also responsible for bestowing her with the status of a socialite.
Her mum’s name, Elizabeth Stanbury, rings a bell as a member of the affluent Vestey family. Reports from Hello! Magazine said Elizabeth was called Elizabeth Beale at birth and was the great-grandchild of the very 1st Baron Vestey. Britain’s Vestey Holdings functioned as a privately-held group of food and food-related firms. Caroline’s mum also owned and ran her own clothing line in London.
Her dad, Anthony Stanbury, was also a man of great wealth, as he is listed as a venture capitalist. Anthony was one of the top guns in Jaeger – a luxury fashion group where he wielded the big stick as its managing director.
As an upper-crust Brit, Stanbury attended a posh boarding school and was introduced into London’s high society as a debutante.
Elizabeth and Anthony had four children, which Caroline is part of. Talking about her birth family, the reality television star described it as one of England’s best families. Alongside her siblings, Caroline said she spent her growing up years in a mansion and had what she described as an “old school British upbringing.” She is actually the product of a debutant school and was raised by nannies with gloves.
What this means, in essence, is that the Dubai-based businesswoman had a strong cash foundation from her family. Although sources never mentioned the exact amount she inherited from her parents’ wealth, it was said to be quite substantial.
She got Started in the Fashion Industry
Caroline Stanbury Kickstarted her career in the fashion industry, working in her capacity as a personal stylist for A-list celebs – a skill she still has to date. Though she is no longer providing personal services to her high-end clients, the businesswoman still keeps in touch with the craft.
We saw her in a recent YouTube video sharing experience on how you can make 20 different outfits “out of the most simplest things.
Caroline became a Businesswoman by Launching the Company Called Gift Library
After she had put in productive years in the fashion industry as a personal stylist, Caroline Stanbury made a move to launch her own company; this was how the Gift Library firm came into existence in 2008.
Gift Library is listed as a luxury website specializing in curating swanky gifts for clients. We cannot place our fingers on how much the luxury gift shop pulled in throughout its seven years from 2008 to 2015, but it certainly hawked a plethora of expensive items. There was even a time when her dad, Anthony, was listed as the company’s Chief Operating Officer.
Caroline was already doing her first reality TV show as a cast member of Ladies of London when Gift Library shut down. The reasons for shutting down were said to be financial difficulties. Though her first venture proved to be a failure, Caroline Stanbury was not deterred from trying again. Besides, having learned insightful details of the day-to-day running of a business venture, the realty TV star considered herself good to go and before long, she established her second business known as The Wedding Shop.
We must also acknowledge that it was during this period that she collaborated with ECmyLIFE in running a furniture line, albeit briefly.
Caroline Co-Owns the Shoe Line, Black Suede Studio
Among Caroline Stanbury’s business ventures is a footwear company called Black Suede Studio x Caroline Stanbury. The line includes stuff like pricey pumps, boots, flats, and sandals. The company’s website says, “think: $300 for strappy tan heels”; the price tags are surprisingly affordable. Her footwear can be found at locations like Revolve, Nordstrom Rack, Nordstrom, and more.
According to Forbes, Caroline collaborated with Kris Avakian in launching the shoe line, and the duo recently unveiled their 2nd collection.
Avakian has also narrated how he got connected to Stanbury through a friend, and he went to enquire if his wife had ever heard of her name. Kris’ wife wasted no time in identifying Caroline from the “Ladies of London” reality television show as the “realest and coolest of them all” and this was how the footwear business got started.
Talking to Forbes, Avakian said they created the brand in a bid to fill the void in what he described as “the advanced designer contemporary level”. Kris also describes how their brand comes with the promise to deliver elevated and high-quality style at a reasonable price-point
Stanbury has not specified the portion of her annual receivables that comes from the footwear business but the heiress once narrated how a psychic she encountered in Dubai foretold that she would one day establish her own range. Though some may describe it as a prediction that came true, the businesswoman thinks the fortune-telling was what helped in planting the idea in her head in the first place.
Caroline Stanbury Earns a Tidy Sum from Reality TV
Though Caroline Stanbury gained popularity for her appearance in the Real Housewives” franchise from Bravo, her first port of call was another Bravo show, “Ladies of London”. It was on the set of the show, which aired between 2014 to 2017, that Caroline was introduced to reality TV audiences.
Ladies of London was centered on the life of six high-profile ladies resident in London and was invented as the British version of the popular “Real Housewives” franchise
Reports from Bravo said the reality star was receiving a massive $10k per episode of Ladies of London, and when you consider the fact that Stanbury was part of all three seasons, the total amount she got at the end of the show is bound to be huge.
The year 2017 saw the cancellation of the Ladies of London reality show, and Caroline was left without any regular television series until 2021 when she was invited into the Real Housewives Of Dubai. However, in the meantime, the businesswoman recorded appearances in a plethora of projects, including Face to Face with David, which aired in 2020, Watch What Happens, This Morning, Stay Home with Kris Fade & Friends, Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, and TV documentary, entitled Inside Dubai.
Caroline Stanbury joined the cast of Real Housewives Of Dubai in 2021, and in no time, she gained massive popularity. She has already concluded her run for the first season, and according to the businesswoman, she is set to join the cast for the upcoming second season.
Since she debuted on the show, fans have expressed curiosity regarding the amount she collects per episode, but this piece of info is not forthcoming. However, reports from The Tab said other cast members, such as Nene Leakes, take home over $2.85 million per season, and as one of the show’s frontwomen, Stanbury may be earning more.
Her Social Media Handles are also Money Making Ventures
Caroline also earns from social media. She is present on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, where she shares info about her podcast, day-to-day life, and some stuff about her business.
Her Instagram handle @carolinestanbury accumulated 662K followers with 1,394 posts shared. She joined the Twitter platform in July 2010, and currently, her handle @C_Stanbury can boast 58.7k followers with 27k tweets.
Alongside her husband, Carrallo, Carolyn joined YouTube on the 30th of June 2020 under the username @meetthecarrallos, and so far, their channel has garnered 1,599,976 views and 13.6K subscribers.
The socialite is equally doing great on TikTok @carolynstanbury where she has 211.6k fans with 2.6 million likes.
She Got a Handsome Divorce Settlement
Caroline Stanbury’s ex-husband, Ceb Habib, is listed as a Turkish multi-millionaire investment banker. In fact, it was the lucrative job he scored in Dubai that led Caroline to relocate with him to the United Arab Emirates, which she now calls home.
Habib, who is currently with CIS Private Equity as one of its board of directors, is said to be worth above $50 million. No doubt, divorcing a man of such great wealth is bound to be lucrative, especially when you consider the fact that they were together for 17 years and share three children.
The tabloids could not capture exactly how much Caroline got as a settlement from the divorce as it was a highly amicable one and devoid of scandals. However, they described it as lucrative, which means a lot of money was involved.
Caroline Stanbury also made a Brilliant Second Marriage
Caroline Stanbury’s second marriage took her into another rich family. Her current spouse, Sergio Carrallo made a name as a professional footballer for the elite Spanish club known as Real Madrid. However, Sergio never made the football team’s highest level, though he equally played professional soccer in America before going to business school.
Sergio, who is two decades younger than Stanbury, is now a highly successful businessman. The duo met in Dubai a short while after Caroline and Ceb Habib’s divorce was finalized.
According to Sergio, his affluent father did his best to dissuade him from going ahead with his wedding plans with Caroline. In fact, the senior Carrallo offered to give his son a huge son of money to dump his fiancée, but he obviously refused the lucrative offer, the Daily Mail reported.
Talking about the incident, the reality television star said she thinks her father-in-law saw her as a crazy old woman who was desperate to get married to his son and perhaps keep him as a sex slave. Caroline said she reassured her father-in-law that his son was free to leave anytime and on a lighter note, the reality star asked if the old man has any money on offer for her to leave too.
The senior Carrallo’s worries notwithstanding, Caroline and Sergio eventually tied the knot in November 2021 and have been living together as man and wife.
The Businesswoman also Earns a Lot From her Podcast
After she came through an amicable divorce from Habib, Caroline launched a divorce-themed podcast in 2020 in a bid to share the wisdom and knowledge she’d acquired through the experience. In the podcast named “Divorced Not Dead,” Habib’s ex-wife aimed to disprove the myth that a lady who becomes single in her forties is bound to remain single forever. Her message is that life post-divorce may well end up being better than what you enjoyed in marriage.
Caroline Stanbury said people’s constant inquiry about how they managed to divorce elegantly contributed to her launching the podcast. Again, there was a particular set of fans that came all out feeling sorry for her and constantly checking to make sure she was all right. Caroline said she leveraged the podcast to make them understand that there was absolutely nothing to be sorry about. Getting a divorce is never a loss but a conscious decision that made her feel great after announcing it to the world.
Though the podcast was initially started to reach out to fans about her divorce, it soon turned out to be a money-making venture, and today, it is listed as Apple’s positively rated podcast.
Listen to my last PODCAST! 🎙
Link below: #podcast #RHODubai https://t.co/VxHjbMWE6i pic.twitter.com/TtDD5gy5F6— Caroline Stanbury (@C_Stanbury) January 25, 2023
Caroline Stanbury has Encountered some Financial Issues in her Climb up the Financial Ladder
Following the failure of her first business venture, Gift Library, Mark Simon Reynolds – a former partner in the business, sued Caroline in a UK court for allegedly siphoning funds and assets from the business into her personal accounts.
However, after the case was tabled in court in 2021, the allegations were found to be untrue as the authorities declared Caroline to have acted responsibly, reasonably, and with the utmost integrity.”
The Lifestyle Caroline Stanbury’s Net Worth Affords Her
Given the magnitude of wealth she controls, it comes as no surprise that Caroline Stanbury lives her life like money is no object. The lavish lifestyle she displays on the set of the Real Housewives of Dubai is quite enviable. Alongside her husband, Carrallo, Carolyn owns one of the choicest real estates in Dubai.
She was formerly living in the 20,000-square-foot home she shared with Habib but had to move out in 2020 following their divorce. She is now living in what she calls her dream home, built together with Carrallo. The abode, which was completed in 2022, is said to be the last word in luxury.
Bravo once did an inside survey of the plush dwelling, and according to the media outlet, Caroline could be making thousands of US dollars just by posting photos of the house on Instagram.
Their plush home is just one aspect of the couple’s luxury life as they are jet setters, always traveling around the globe in private jets and splurging around town in the best of automobiles.
Caroly is always sighted on social media platforms sharing pictures and images of their travels, and she is constantly posing with luxury goods.
What’s more, the British socialite wears the best of apparel, jewelry, handbags, footwear, and accessories.
