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What Is Darren Star’s Net Worth?
Darren Star is a wealthy American writer, producer, and director with a net worth of $140 million. He amassed his fortune by creating numerous popular television shows, such as “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Melrose Place,” “Sex and the City,” “Younger,” “Emily in Paris,” and “Uncoupled.”
Star served as executive producer and writer for many of the shows he created. He also produced several other series, including “Kitchen Confidential,” “Runaway,” “Cashmere Mafia,” and “GCB.”
In addition to producing, Star has directed episodes of several of his shows and had an uncredited role in a “Beverly Hills, 90210” episode. He also wrote the films “Doin’ Time on Planet Earth” and “If Looks Could Kill.”
In October 2020, Star signed “an expansive overall deal” with ViacomCBS.
Darren Star’s Background
Darren Star was born on July 25, 1961, in Potomac, Maryland, and grew up in a Jewish household. He attended Wyngate Elementary, Cabin John Junior High School, and Winston Churchill High School, where he began writing plays as a child. Star then attended the University of Southern California before transferring to UCLA to study creative writing and English.
His mother, Deborah, was a freelance writer, and his father, Milton, was an orthodontist. He has two siblings, Bonnie and Marc.
Darren Star’s TV Career
Darren Star’s first TV series, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” aired on Fox from 1990 to 2000. He executive produced the series from 1992 to 1995, directed the 1991 episodes “Spring Dance” and “A Walsh Family Christmas,” and wrote several episodes. “Beverly Hills, 90210” aired nearly 300 episodes over 10 seasons and earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Television Series – Drama in 1992 and 1993.
Star’s next show, “Melrose Place,” aired from 1992 to 1999 on Fox, and he executive produced the series during the same period that he produced “Beverly Hills, 90210.” “Melrose Place” ran for seven seasons, and Darren wrote numerous episodes. In 1993, the show won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Drama Series and a People’s Choice Award for Favorite New TV Dramatic Series.
Next, Star created, executive produced, and wrote seven episodes of the primetime soap opera “Central Park West,” which aired on CBS from 1995 to 1996. In 1998, he created HBO’s “Sex and the City,” and he executive produced the series from 1998 to 2000, directed the episodes “The Monogamists” (1998) and “Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women” (1999), and wrote 12 episodes.
Star then created The WB sitcom “Grosse Pointe” and co-created the Fox drama “The $treet” with Jeff Rake. Each show lasted one season, and Star executive produced and wrote for both of them. In 2003, he co-created the NBC series “Miss Match” with Rake, and he executive produced the show and directed the episodes “Pilot” and “Matchmaker, Matchmaker.”
In 2015, he created “Younger,” which aired 84 episodes over seven seasons on TV Land, and he served as the show’s executive producer during its entire run. Darren also directed the 2015 episodes “Pilot,” “Liza Sows Her Oates,” and “IRL,” and he wrote nearly 20 episodes of the series.
He then created two shows for Netflix, “Emily in Paris” (2020–present) and “Uncoupled” (2022–present), and he has executive produced and written for them as well. In 2021, “Emily in Paris” received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.
Darren Star’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Philanthropy
Darren Star, openly gay, is proud of creating “Melrose Place’s” Matt Fielding, who was “the only gay character on TV” at the time. According to Star, there was a hypocritical stance in Hollywood where gay people were living their lives openly, but advertisers were afraid of dramatizing the truth of their lives.
Star has served on the board of directors of Project Angel Food, a nonprofit organization that delivers meals to people who are seriously ill.
Primetime Emmy Nominations and Awards
Star’s work has garnered four Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series, with a win for “Sex and the City” in 2001. The series was also nominated in 1999 and 2000, and “Emily in Paris” received a nomination in 2021.
Additionally, in 2001, Star won a PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy for “Sex and the City.” The following year, he was honored with the Austin Film Festival’s Outstanding Television Writer Award.
Real Estate Holdings of Darren Star
In 2012, Darren Star listed his Manhattan condo, which spanned over 3,000 square feet, for $15 million. However, he accepted an offer of $13 million for the property in the following year.
Darren also owns properties in the Hamptons and Bel Air neighborhoods of Los Angeles. He bought his Bel-Air mansion for $2.95 million in 1997, which is now estimated to be worth between $15-20 million.
