Southern Charm mixes two very different kinds of money, and the show blurs them on purpose. Patricia Altschul's wealth is overwhelmingly the product of marrying into a Goldman Sachs partner's family, not anything she built herself. Kathryn Dennis's family name traces to a South Carolina political dynasty that goes back to the 1800s, a lineage that has never converted into a documented personal fortune for her. Meanwhile Craig Conover has built a real company he discusses in specific, on-camera terms. This cast is the clearest test on the site for separating a famous name from an actual balance sheet, and we treat each person's background accordingly.
The figures below start from documented sources only: company statements made on the record, court and custody filings, property records, and named trade press. Where a family's wealth is real but never quantified, like a political legacy or a historic surname, we say so rather than assign it a dollar value it was never given.
Southern Charm cast net worth, ranked (2026)
| Cast member | Modeled net worth | What sets them apart |
|---|---|---|
| Patricia Altschul | $15–25M | Married into Goldman Sachs banking wealth; largely inherited, not earned |
| Thomas Ravenel | $8–15M | A real estate company running since 1992, offset by real legal costs |
| Craig Conover | $5–9M | Sewing Down South, his own words an eight-figure business |
| Shep Rose | $2–4M | A book, small hospitality ventures; no documented family fortune |
| Cameran Eubanks | $2–4M | A working Charleston real estate agent and a bestselling memoir |
| Austen Kroll | $1.5–3.5M | Trop Hop's multi-state retail run, offset by an unpaid-royalties dispute |
| Kathryn Dennis | $0.5–1.5M | A well-documented political lineage that never became a personal fortune |
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Patricia Altschul: married wealth, not earned wealth
Altschul married Arthur Altschul in 1996. He had been a Goldman Sachs general partner from 1959 to 1977 and a limited partner through 1999, and the family's charitable arm, the Overbrook Foundation, is reported to hold more than $150 million in assets, though that is a separate philanthropic entity, not her personal balance sheet, and no source discloses what she personally inherited when he died in 2002. An earlier marriage to psychiatrist and hospital-chain founder Edward Stitt Fleming, from 1989 to 1995, also predates her Charleston years, again with no settlement figure on record. Her Charleston mansion, the historic Isaac Jenkins Mikell House, was bought for $4.8 million in 2008. In January 2025 she sold it to her son Whitney Sudler-Smith for estate-planning reasons and said on Watch What Happens Live it was worth "$15,000,000 or something," her own estimate rather than an appraisal. Her own earned income is smaller and real: she taught art history at George Washington University, ran the Arcadia gallery in Georgetown, wrote a book, and launched a home-décor line on HSN in 2020, none of it with disclosed revenue. Married and inherited money is the overwhelming majority of what's actually on the record here.
Craig Conover: the best-documented business on the show
At the January 2024 reunion, Conover said on camera: "In four years, I've been able to take Sewing Down South to an eight-figure business, and we're in Kroger stores across the country. We have 30 employees with health insurance." That's self-reported, not audited, but it's Conover's own number on the record, and he has separately said he owns roughly a third of the company, with the rest split between co-founders Jerry Casselano and Amanda Latifi. Kroger confirmed the retail partnership in its own April 2024 investor-relations release covering a 40-plus item home décor collection. He passed the South Carolina bar exam in 2017 and was sworn in in 2018, but by his own account isn't practicing, having set the law firm he opened aside for the pillow business. He's also an investor in the cocktail brand Spritz Society and co-hosts the podcast Pillows and Beer with Austen Kroll. Of everyone in this cast, his income is the most transparently self-disclosed and the least dependent on family background.
Thomas Ravenel: political legacy, a real business, and real costs
Ravenel's father, U.S. Representative and state senator Arthur Ravenel Jr., has a Charleston-area bridge named for him, a documented political legacy but not a documented dollar figure. Thomas founded Ravenel Development Corporation in 1992, a commercial real estate company whose own materials describe 65 completed projects across ten states, a claim we treat as company-sourced and unaudited. He was elected South Carolina State Treasurer in November 2006, took office in January 2007, and resigned that July after a federal indictment; no period-accurate salary for the role survives in public records, so it's excluded rather than estimated. That 2007 case, for conspiring to buy and distribute cocaine, brought a ten-month federal sentence. In 2019 he pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and battery in a separate case involving his children's former nanny, paying a $500 fine and agreeing to donate $80,000 to a survivors' charity in place of civil damages; a second accuser's case was reported, via entertainment press rather than a court filing, to have settled for $200,000. Those are real costs, not income, and they weigh down what his development business would otherwise support on its own.
Shep Rose and Cameran Eubanks: the thin middle
Shep Rose's father worked as a Department of Justice lawyer, not the plastic-surgery or business-mogul background sometimes assumed about him online, and his mother was a homemaker. His family's real documented claim to fame is social, not financial: a great-aunt, golfer Edith Cummings, inspired The Great Gatsby's Jordan Baker and was the first female athlete on a Time cover, in 1924. His own income traces to a 2021 memoir, small Charleston hospitality ventures including the now-closed Alley Charleston and Palace Hotel restaurant and the still-operating Commodore bar, and a documented $900,000 real estate investment on James Island reported by Bravo. Cameran Eubanks worked as a licensed Charleston real estate agent through Carolina One Real Estate and wrote a 2021 memoir that made the USA Today bestseller list; neither her commissions nor her book's sales figures were ever disclosed, making her one of the thinnest documented cases here despite a real, ongoing career.
Austen Kroll and Kathryn Dennis: name recognition without a fortune
Kroll's beer brand, Trop Hop, brewed by Kings Calling Brewing Co., reached Harris Teeter and Publix shelves across South Carolina starting in 2019 and later expanded into North Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, but no outlet has published a revenue or sales-volume figure for it. The more concrete data point here is a loss: Kroll has said a distribution partner, Made By The Water, discontinued Trop Hop while still owing him roughly a year and a half's worth of payments. Kathryn Dennis's family lineage is genuinely well documented: her grandfather, Rembert C. Dennis, served in the South Carolina Senate from 1943 to 1998 and chaired its Finance Committee, and Bravo's own reporting on the cast's family history traces her mother's side to seventh U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun. None of that converts into a disclosed personal fortune. Her own documented income is modest: small-market modeling work, a state Senate page job, retail work at a Charleston boutique, and a currently reported $4,000 monthly child support payment, an expense that implies some income rather than evidence of wealth.
How we got these numbers
Every figure starts from something on the record: a cast member's own on-camera statement, a company's investor-relations release, a court or custody filing, a property record, or reporting from a named trade outlet. Where a family's wealth is real but never quantified, we say so instead of assigning it a number, and where a business is real but its revenue was never disclosed, like Trop Hop's, we model conservatively rather than leave it out or borrow a figure from an aggregator. No other outlet's net worth number is ever used as an input. The methodology page documents every rate, and the Celebrity Net Worth Calculator runs the same model on any career.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the richest Southern Charm cast member?
Patricia Altschul, modeled at $15 million to $25 million, though her figure comes overwhelmingly from her marriage into a Goldman Sachs partner's family rather than from anything she earned on her own.
How much do Southern Charm cast members make?
Widely reported figures put standard cast pay near $25,000 per episode, roughly $425,000 a season, plus a reported $60,000 reunion bonus. Those numbers trace back to tabloid reporting rather than a network or cast confirmation, so we treat them as directionally useful, not confirmed fact.
Is Patricia Altschul's money inherited?
Yes, overwhelmingly. Her wealth traces mainly to her marriage to Arthur Altschul, a Goldman Sachs general partner from 1959 to 1977, and to an earlier marriage, not to a documented personal fortune she built herself.
How much is Craig Conover worth?
Our modeled range is $5 million to $9 million, built from his own on-camera statement that Sewing Down South is an eight-figure business, his stated one-third ownership of it, and his other ventures.