What Is Pat Benatar's Net Worth?
Pat Benatar is an American singer with a net worth of $40 million. This is a combined net worth with her husband of over 30 years, Neil Giraldo. Pat Benatar has produced 14 Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits: "Hit Me with Your Best Shot," "Love Is a Battlefield," "We Belong," and "Invincible." She became one of the most played artists in the early days of MTV and is an acclaimed mezzo-soprano, recognized as one of the leading female rock vocalists worldwide.
Early Life
Pat Benatar was born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, to a beautician mother, Mildred, and a sheet metal worker father, Andrew. The family later relocated to Lindenhurst, New York. She showed an early interest in music, performing her first solo at eight years old. She actively participated in her high school's musical theater department and originally aimed to study at Julliard but opted for health education at Stony Brook University, which she left after a year to marry her high-school sweetheart, Dennis T. Benatar.
Career
Pat Benatar's career took off after she left her job at a bank to sing at a Holiday Inn, later becoming a singing waitress at The Roaring Twenties nightclub. Here, she met pianist Phil Coxon and formed a duo. Eventually, Benatar moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue a solo career and gained attention for her rendition of Judy Garland's "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody". Pat signed with Chrysalis Records in 1978 and released her debut album "In the Heat of the Night" in August 1979, which peaked at #12 in the U.S. Her second album, "Crimes of Passion," featured the hit single "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." Benatar continued her success with her third album, "Precious Time," which hit #1 on the US "Billboard" 200 chart.
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In 1983, "Love is a Battlefield" proved to be one of the biggest hits of her career. Her fifth album, "Tropico," featured the top 10 hit "We Belong." Pat released several more albums over the years, and during her peak, she toured extensively worldwide. Since 1997's "Innamorata," Benatar has released one album of new material, "Go" in 2003. In 2017, she recorded "Dancing Through the Wreckage" for the documentary "Served Like a Girl," which peaked at #22 on the "Billboard" Adult Contemporary Chart and earned a Critics' Choice Award nomination.
Personal Life
Pat Benatar has been dedicated to raising funds for charitable causes along with her husband, Neil Giraldo, with whom she has two daughters. They have been married since 1982 and reside in Los Angeles, California.
Neil Giraldo and Pat Benatar Real Estate
In 2017, the couple sold their longtime Maui home for $3.2 million and an adjacent lot for $400,000. They own a large primary residence in Malibu, California, and have had several Malibu properties, with their real estate portfolio valued between $10-15 million.
