Bethenny Frankel is a longtime entrepreneur and businesswoman who started her profession within the public eye within the late aughts on Bravo’s “The Actual Housewives of New York.”

Frankel’s success has been partially on account of her “by no means settle” angle and never being afraid to talk up for herself when one thing feels off. That is why she’s “credited” with altering the scope of actuality tv contracts without end, with a clause extensively identified all through the business as “The Bethenny Clause.”

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In an Instagram Reel, Frankel answered a fan’s query about how a lot cash she was provided for her preliminary RHONY contract in 2008. Frankel mentioned the quantity was $7,250 and that she “didn’t dispute” it.

“I used to be a no person. That was some huge cash to me,” Frankel defined. “The one factor I did cross out was the factor that mentioned Bravo would take a share of something I made … Someplace down deep within me, I understood conceptually that that was improper, that I used to be going locations and I used to be going to do one thing and nobody was going to personal any a part of it.”

In 2011, Frankel bought the cocktail portion of her now-renowned Skinnygirl firm to Beam International for an estimated $100 million, which garnered the eye of the business at massive making TV execs squirm over “misplaced” cash.

Now there’s one thing referred to as the “The Bethenny Clause” in some actuality tv contracts, which requires casts member on sure reveals to signal away a share of their earnings to “the powers that be,” as Frankel places it.

“You’re smarter than you assume,” Frankel advised viewers. “I used to be not a enterprise individual. I had no institutional data or expertise in any of this. I learn a contract, one thing did not really feel proper to me, and I took it out. And it modified my whole life.”

Frankel advised Entrepreneur in 2021 that earlier than closing the preliminary take care of Beam International in 2011, the corporate needed to purchase the Skinnygirl firm as an entire, one thing she negotiated in opposition to and in doing so, was in a position to preserve the identify of the Skinnygirl model and its mental property.

“I mentioned, I am not doing that — you guys solely concentrate on liquor, so preserve the liquor,” Frankel defined to Entrepreneur on the time relating to the acquisition. “So [Beam] paid me and purchased a model, which is de facto unprecedented. That basically would not occur … I used to be simply pondering logically about that. And I’ve had so many issues in my profession which were like that.”

Frankel is price an estimated $80 million, in line with Superstar Web Value.