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American recording artist, lead vocalist, and lyricist Jani Lane had an estimated net worth of $500 thousand. Jani Lane embodied the spirit of a decade of excess, hedonism, and rock & roll. As the lead singer and main songwriter for the glam metal band Warrant, he helped to propel the band into the upper stratosphere with such hits as "Heaven," "Down Boys," and "Cherry Pie."  Lane wrote several top 40 songs for the band including their biggest hit “Cherry Pie” which shot to #7 on the Billboard charts. Warrant sold over 10 million albums during their career with 1990′s “Cherry Pie” going 2X platinum, meaning it sold over 2 million copies.

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Jani Lane had a mildly successful solo and songwriting career and was most recently seen on VH1's reality series Celebrity Fit Club. He was born John Kennedy Oswald on February 1, 1964, in Akron, Ohio, United States, died on August 11, 2011, at the age of 47 at a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, California.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

1992

Record Sales

Record sales of the album Dog Eat Dog with the American rock band Warrant (approximately 500 thousand copies sold)

$650,000

1991

Record Sales

Record sales of the album Cherry Pie with the American rock band Warrant (approximately 2 million copies sold)

$2,600,000

1991

Others

Sales of the video Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich Live with the American rock band Warrant (approximately 100 thousand copies sold)

$130,000

1991

Others

Sales of the video Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich with the American rock band Warrant (approximately 100 thousand copies sold)

$130,000

1990

Record Sales

Record sales of the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich with the American rock band Warrant (approximately 2 million copies sold)

$2,600,000