8Peggy Fleming – Net worth: $8 million
Another great American figure skater with the same net worth as Yamaguchi is Peggy Gail Fleming.
The 66-year-old athlete has been a television commentator on figure skating for over 20 years. She is the 1968 Olympic Champion in ladies’ singles and a 3-time World Champion (1966-1968).
Behind Olympians Mary Lou Retton and Dorothy Hamill, Fleming was named the 3rd most popular athlete in U.S.
And after her retirement in 1968, she went on to serve as a TV commentator and played the role of a judge in the 2007 movie ‘Blades of Glory’.
On February 22, 2011, Trey Anastasio Band performed a song about her titled ‘Peggy’ and she was also mentioned in the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Peggy Fleming has been a great charity support and breast cancer activist, being herself diagnosed with this tumor in 1998.
Fortunately, it was detected in its early stages and was successfully removed.
