article_snippet: Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million since coming out on top in 2012 on Season 11.
article_snippet: Singer songwriter Phillip, 24, worked at the family business before winning American Idol - but just a few months later failed to step in to save their own pawn shop.
article_snippet: As Phillips advanced in the singing competition, Phillip traveled back home to Georgia took the American Idol audience to Phillips father's pawn shop, where Phillips had worked .
highlights_snippet: Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips has a net worth of $3.5 million .
  
highlights_snippet: Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips parents were forced to sell His parents pawn shop at public auction in 2012 .
  
highlights_snippet: Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips insist the Idol favorite is 'a good son' 