Zayn Malik to miss out on multi-million dollar payday post 1D exit

Posted on Mar 27 2015 - 3:59pm by IBC News Bureau

Zayn Malik will miss out on multi-million dollar payday after exiting One Direction, it has been revealed.

Forbes’ Zack O’Malley Greenburg said that they estimated the band in 2014 at 75 million dollars, which was mostly fueled by live shows but also record sales and merchandise sales, and it puts them in the top 10 on their celebrity 100 list, E! .

Greenburg further explained that while that 75 million dollars was pre-tax and before all the agents and managers take their cuts, and then it was divided it by five, but Malik still walked from millions of dollars.