With Danny Masterson’s recent sentencing of thirty years in prison after being found guilty of rape, we have to talk about his wife and mother to his 9-year-old daughter Bijou Phillips Masterson. She is an American singer, actress, and songwriter.
A radical vegan and Scientologist who was at the center of the public scrutiny that the public carried in light of Masterson’s rape charges, a woman stood by Masterson and defended him to the last of consequences.
So, what is Bijou Phillips’s trajectory? How did she meet Danny Masterson, and most importantly, what is Bijou Phillips’s net worth? How is this sentence going to impact her finances if that were the case? All these things are going to be examined further down the line.
Bijou Phillips Career
Bijou was born in Connecticut on 1 April 1980, she is an Aries and is the daughter of John Phillips, singer from the 1960s folk band “The Mamas and the Papas”. Her name means “Jewel” and has three siblings. After her parents split, she and her mom, Genevieve Waite moved to New York and studied there until her dad sued her mom for custody and had to move in with him.
Bijou’s life has been riddled with controversies and personal problems, at age thirteen she learned that her dad had been having an incestuous relationship with one of her half-sisters. Perhaps that traumatizing event made an imprint for her to seek in her personal relationships someone like her father, a man that’s both famous and a sexual predator like her current husband, convicted serial rapist Danny Masterson, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
Bijou started to act and model, making it to the covers of Italian Vogue, she did underwear modeling for Calvin Klein, and started to sing, managing to record an album in 1999 when she was seventeen years old. She kept on hustling and eventually landed a job on an indie movie called Sugar Town, the worked with Robert Downey Jr. and Jared Leto in Black and White under the direction of James Toback.
It was in the 2000s when she landed a big role on Almost Famous, opposite Kate Hudson under the direction of Cameron Crowe, that movie was a hit and earned four Oscars. She banked on that success and went on to film Bully, Octane, The Door in the Floor and A Widow for One Year. She later moved on to horror films like The Wizard of Gore and Hostel: Part Two.
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Danny Masterson
Bijou met her husband Danny Masterson at a poker game around 2004 in Las Vegas, she worked with him in three movies, they started to date, and they hit it off. The duo are both hardcore scientologists, they got engaged after dating for five years and married in 2011. They have a nine-year-old daughter.
Danny Masterson kept the appearances of a devout husband and strong Scientologist, he backed his wife when she was diagnosed with kidney disease and eventual transplant.
When Danny Masterson was charged with rape, tried, and then retried and found guilty, Bijou stood by him, gathering huge support from the Scientology crowd, who paid hefty retainer fees for the legal defense representation of Masterson in court. When Masterson was sentenced in early September 2023 to thirty years in two out of three counts of rape. She stood by his side.
Bijou Phillips Net Worth
After all has been said and done on Bijou’s trajectory, her modeling gigs, her acting career and her singing, we have to ask about her net worth. Considering that the Church of Scientology covered the entirety of Masterson’s extremely high-profile defense it is probable that her net worth isn’t impacted —yet. As there might be a civil case against Masterson on the works after his sentencing brought by his victims seeking damages, it is possible that Bijou’s $9 million net worth might go down as she would be forced to liquidate some assets she shares with Masterson to satisfy the damages that her husband’s victims seek.
In any case, Bijou Phillips’s net worth of $9 million comes from her work, any extras she might share with Danny are up for grabs, and given how Hollywood-y things can get, she might divorce Masterson to save some assets. The question isn’t as much as her net worth as to what is she going to do for the next three decades with the father of her daughter behind bars.
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