Net worth is a good starting point to judge how successful a celebrity has been in recent years, especially considering how the price tag of net worth can fluctuate over time. Even if a celeb goes from being worth $4 million to $3 million the following year, it suggests that their stock had gone significantly down in recent years.

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A celeb's net worth is especially helpful when trying to calculate how well a star from the 90s is doing today. For example, how well has Freddie Prinze Jr. being doing since the twilight of his years had wind down? What does his net worth in 2020 say about how he's been doing now 20 years after the 90s decade wrapped up?

10 Freddie Prinze Jr. - $30 Million

Let's kick this off with the star we mentioned at the start. Even before the Scooby-Doo franchise came along in the early 2000s, Freddie Prinze Jr. was enjoying a hot streak thanks to now revered classics like She's All That and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

In more recent years, he's enjoyed a quieter life by sitting on his cash at home next to wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, though he briefly got those legs moving again in the early 2010s by serving as a wrestling storyline writer for the WWE.

9 Sarah Michelle Gellar - $20 Million

Speaking of his wife, although she hasn't enjoyed the same kind of acting success that she had from being the title character of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for seven seasons, she has used her $20 million net worth to make some wise investments over the years.

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Among those investments include founding Foodstirs, a baking and cooking startup company founded on building baking kits. It is through this company that she authored and released her own cooking book, titled Stirring Up Fun With Food. 

8 Brendan Fraser - $20 Million

Whether it was because of The Mummy franchise, Encino Man, or the countless other projects he starred in during the decade, Brendan Fraser was one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood. Whether audiences just lost interest in him or if there's validity in Fraser's claim that he was blackballed after a groping incident, he disappeared.

He's now experiencing his own comeback - or, as his fans are calling it, the "Brenaissance" - thanks to his latest outings on shows like Doom Patrol and The Affair.

7 Elizabeth Hurley - $35 Million

Fraser's Bedazzled costar had just as much of a dazzling decade thanks to appearances in the Austin Powers franchise and co-starring with superstars like Wesley Snipes, Ben Stiller, and Matthew McConaughey.

At some point during the 2000s, Hurley took a bit of a break from the limelight in favor of raising a child with her then-husband, but now dedicates herself to starring in The Royals for E! and being an ambassador and supporter of numerous charities, like Hop Skip and Jump.

6 Wesley Snipes - $10.2 Million

Wesley Snipes dominated the 90s as the highly revered star of big hits like Blade, White Men Can't Jump, Demolition Man, New Jack City, and Passenger 57, among several others. His ride through fame came to a screeching halt during the 2000s when the 5th-degree black belt was arrested for tax evasion, for which he served three years.

He's now out of prison, and while it would be a stretch to say he had a comeback, he's had minor successes since his release, like critical acclaim for a supporting role in Dolemite is my Name.

5 Winona Ryder - $16 Million 

The late 80s and early 90s saw Winona Ryder emerge as Hollywood's latest starlet, but with every rise comes a fall as a 2001 shoplifting arrest - then a 2002 box office flop called Mr. Deeds with Adam Sandler - ended her career.

However, thanks to joining the cast of Stranger Things, Ryder has bolstered a career comeback. She often uses her $16 million net worth and dedicates much of her earnings to the American Indian College Fund ever since she was in her 20s. She is now 48.

4 Christina Applegate - $20 Million

Christina Applegate was a sex symbol for the 1990s. In 11 seasons of Married with Children, it was rare that she'd step into the frame without the sound of an audience hootin' and hollerin' at the sight of her. Plus, let's not forget that she not only previously dated Brad Pitt, but she ditched him at the 1989 MTV Awards in favor of someone better.

Applegate was the original 90s baddie and even now, as a married Cancer survivor with multiple Emmy nominations, she is still striving and surviving in Hollywood.

3 James Van Der Beek - $8 Million

James Van Der Beek may be unlucky enough to have the lowest net worth on this list, but that does not mean that the Dawson's Creek star is necessarily doing outright bad these days. He still gets steady work, including a hilarious turn as Diplo starring in Viceland's What Would Diplo Do?

On a more personal level, he entered a second marriage with Kimberly Brook in 2010 and the two are still together, happily married raising five kids.

2 Alicia Silverstone - $20 Million

Many readers may be clueless (pun intended) as to what Alicia Silverstone may be up to these days, but judging by the fact that she is still worth $20 million, she clearly is not doing too badly for herself. And we aren't just saying that because of what's in her bank account.

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The recently divorced vegan activist is currently signed on to perform in a slew of upcoming Netflix projects and now runs her own podcast that is exclusive for Audible listening subscribers, called Eat S-t Kenny Daniels.

1 Christina Ricci - $18 Million

Christina Ricci was something of a 90s icon in her heyday. First starring in teen movies like Casper and The Addams Family as a child actor, before quickly transitioning into more adult projects like The Ice Storm, Buffalo 66, and Sleepy Hollow.

She had a huge career during that decade, but the 2000s and the 2010s were a little less kind to her in terms of garnering major lead roles the older she got. In the last decade, she's focused more of her energy on starring in Lifetime Originals and being a spokeswoman for RAINN.

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