What Is Adam Rippon’s Net Worth?
Adam Rippon, a former American figure skater, has a net worth of $4 million. He won several championships, including the World Junior Championships, Four Continents Championships, and U.S. National Championships. In 2018, he became the first openly gay athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics, taking home a bronze in the figure skating team event.
After retiring from competitive figure skating in 2018, Rippon won the reality television competition “Dancing with the Stars” and has since appeared on several TV shows, including “Will & Grace,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and “Sugar Rush.” He also co-hosts MTV’s “Messyness” and is developing a figure skating comedy series for NBC.
Rippon is also a published author, with his memoir “Beautiful on the Outside” released in 2019. He has received a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Athlete: Male.
Early Life and Skating Beginnings
Adam Rippon was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1989. He grew up in Clarks Summit and attended Our Lady of Peace, a Catholic elementary school. Rippon had corrective ear surgery as a baby after being almost deaf. At the age of 10, he became interested in skating after attending an ice-skating themed birthday party. Within a few months, he started taking skating lessons in Philadelphia twice a week. When he was 11, he was cast as young Scott Hamilton in “Stars on Ice.”
Adam Rippon’s Figure Skating Career
Adam Rippon started working with coach Yelena Sergeeva from 2000 to 2007. In 2005, he won a silver medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and a gold medal at the Triglav Trophy in Slovenia. He then moved to coach Nikolai Morozov in 2007 and won several medals during the 2007-08 season. He won the Junior title at the 2008 U.S. Championships and a gold medal at the 2008 Junior Worlds. He began competing at the senior level in 2008-2009 and won the 2009 Junior World Championships, making him the first single skater to win the World Junior title twice. He placed fifth at both the 2010 U.S. Championships and Four Continents Championships and was chosen as a second alternate for the 2010 World Championships and Winter Olympics. He won a silver medal at the 2012 U.S. Championships and started training with Rafael Arutyunyan in 2012. He won several medals in 2016, including a gold medal at the U.S. Championships and bronze medals at the U.S. Classic, Trophée de France, and Skate America. He won a bronze medal at the 2017 CS Finlandia Trophy and silver medals at the 2017 Skate America and NHK Trophy. He retired from figure skating on November 19, 2018, after winning a bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, with the U.S. figure skating team and placing tenth overall in the individual men’s event.
Adam Rippon’s Personal Life and Activism
Adam Rippon publicly came out as gay in “Skating” magazine in 2015 and married Jussi-Pekka Kajaala in 2021. He revealed in his memoir that he briefly dated Olympic champion Yuna Kim before coming out.
In 2018, Rippon criticized Vice President Mike Pence for leading the U.S. delegation to the Winter Olympics, citing Pence’s support of gay conversion therapy. He campaigned for Senator Elizabeth Warren during the 2020 presidential primaries and donated to The Okra Project, a charity supporting Black Trans People.
Russian skater Alexei Yagudin made abhorrent comments about Rippon, prompting him to donate $1,000 to The Okra Project in Yagudin’s name. In 2022, Rippon criticized the International Olympic Committee’s decision to host the Winter Olympics in Beijing, citing human rights concerns in Communist China.
