AJ Lee Net Worth
Popular former professional wrestler AJ Lee recently retired. She announced in April 2015 that she’s quitting. However, Lee already amassed an incredible fortune duting her career. As of 2015, her net worth is astonishing $6.3 million. Her latest WWE annual salary was $320,000. A record among female wrestlers.
AJ was born March 19, 1987 in Union City, New Jersey into a poor Puerto Rican family. She remembers living in motels and sometimes even in a car. Lee has a college degree in film and television production and writing from Tisch School of the Arts in NYC. Right after college, Lee enrolled into a wrestling school, determined to become next female wrestling legend.
In 2009, she paid $1,500 to attend WWE tryout camp. Soon after that, AJ Lee signed her first contract with WWE. Originally, she appeared in the ring under the name April Lee but later changed it to AJ Lee. She dated fellow wrestlers Jamar Shipman and Trent Barreta. In 2013, she started a relationship with Phil Brooks who’s known under his ring name CM Punk. They married in 2014 and now live together in Chicago, Illinois.
Lee perceives herself as a tomboy and says her childhood was heavily influenced by her brother hobbies. She often stands up for animal rights and equal wages for both genders. Her net worth was never higher than in 2015 but we are cutious to see how she’ll be financially doing in her “retirement”.
