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Lewis Hamilton remains Britain’s richest sports star with £88m fortune – Daily Mail

Lewis Hamilton’s fortune has spiralled by £20m to £88m in the past year
Wayne Rooney is now second in the Sunday Times Sport Rich List
The Manchester United captain’s fortune is up £12m to £72m
F1 driver Jenson Button is £1m behind Rooney in third place

Martyn Ziegler, Press Association

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18:01 EST, 24 April 2015

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19:51 EST, 24 April 2015

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Lewis Hamilton remains the richest sportsman in Britain with a fortune of £88million but Wayne Rooney has overtaken Jenson Button to be in second place in the 2015 Sunday Times Sport Rich List.

Formula One world champion Hamilton, who lives as a tax exile in Monaco, remains on pole position in the list but his fortune has spiralled by £20million on last year.

Hamilton has his sights on retaining his world championship title after winning three of the first four races of the season, and is set to sign a new contract with Mercedes worth £27million a year.

Lewis Hamilton is top of the 2015 Sunday Times Sport Rich List with a fortune of £88million

Hamilton and actress Olivia Munn film scenes in Rome for Zoolander 2 on Friday

The scene seems to show the celebrities and fashionistas have gathered to watch Zoolander’s latest show

Hamilton and Munn happily chatted and checked out each other’s phones in between takes

The list was released just hours after Hamilton was pictured on the Rome set for the filming of comedy sequel Zoolander 2 on Friday.

Hamilton was sat front row with Olivia Munn and busily chatting in between takes for the film which will be released in February 2016.

Hamilton is making his first live-action cameo on the big screen having previously lent his voice to Disney animation Cars 2.

Rooney’s overall wealth is up £12million to £72million, and the Manchester United and England skipper remains on course to join David Beckham as the only British footballer to amass a fortune of more than £100million.

Rooney’s £300,000-a-week contract with United still has another four seasons to run, and he is just two goals short of Sir Bobby Charlton’s record of 49 goals for England.

Button is £1million behind Rooney and though his net worth has grown by £8million in the past year, he signed a new contract on a reduced salary of around £8 million a year last December.

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has moved up into second place with wealth of £72m

Formula One driver Jenson Button is just £1m behind Rooney with a fortune of £71m

Andy Murray (left) takes up fourth place on the Rich List with wealth put at £48m

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard is in sixth place on £42m, but is £2m behind Rio Ferdinand

Tennis player Andy Murray is now fourth on the list with wealth put at £48million. The 27-year-old signed a three-year deal with Standard Life last year and also left the Adidas stable to take up a new £15m four-year deal with American clothing brand Under Armour.

Rio Ferdinand (£44million) is ahead of former England team-mate Steven Gerrard (£42million), while British NBA star Luol Deng, who plays for Miami Heat, has a fortune of £40million.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho (£40m) is next on the list ahead of Arsenal’s Arsene Wenger (£38m) who is tied in 10th position with Ryan Giggs, the 41-year-old who is now the assistant manager of Manchester United.