Early Life Antony Ressler was born on October 12, 1960. He is one of five children. Tony earned his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University, and then graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business with an MBA.
Drexel Burnham Lambert He went on to serve as the Senior Vice President of High Yield Bonds at Michael Milken’s Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated. Drexel Burnham Lambert was forced into bankruptcy in 1990 due to its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by senior executive Michael Milken.
Early Life Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniel van Buuren was born on December 25, 1976 in Leiden, the Netherlands. He spent his childhood in Koudekerk aan den Rijn. From a young age he was interested in music and started developing an interest in French electronic music especially. He was inspired by French artist Jean-Michel Jarre, as well as the Dutch DJ Remixer Ben Liebrand. In 1995, van Buuren graduated high school, having attended Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden.
Early Life Engvall was born on July 27, 1957, in Galveston, Texas. He attended Richardson High School and, upon graduating, enrolled at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. While there, he was pursuing an education degree in hopes of becoming a teacher. He joined the Kappa Alpha Order and was quite social but ultimately decided to leave school before graduating. He then worked a series of odd jobs, such as working as a tour guide at Inner Space Caverns and as a disc jockey at a nightclub in Dallas.
Contracts and Career Earnings In his rookie year, 2014, Blake signed a 4-year $20.6 million contract. In 2018 he signed a 3-year $54 million extension. During his career Blake Bortles earned a total of $48 million in NFL salary alone. He likely earned several million more from endorsements. Over the course of his career Blake played in 78 games. In other words, he earned $615,000 per game. In those 78 games he threw 75 interceptions.
According to his 2009 Financial Affidavit submitted as part of a divorce/alimony case with ex-wife Afton Smith, at this point, Brendan Fraser’s net worth was $17,814,549.50. According to a different filing in the same case, Brendan paid his ex-wife a settlement of $8,689,132. According to the same document in 2013, by that point Brendan owned $26,966,959.34 worth of assets with $2,230,224.92 worth of liabilities for a net worth of $24,736,000.
Wealth Drop The majority of Carl Icahn’s fortune is derived from his 86% stake in Icahn Enterprises. He also owns an additional 2% of the company indirectly. As recently as February 2023, Carl Icahn’s net worth was as high as $25 billion when his company’s stock was trading in the $50+ range. Unfortunately for Carl, in May 2023 his company became the target of a short-seller’s attack. In the aftermath the company’s stock price dropped from $50 to $20.
Early Life Grimmie was born in Evesham Township, New Jersey, on March 12, 1994, to Tina and Albert Grimmie. She had an older brother, Marcus, and regularly attended church with her family. Her talent for singing was noticed early in her life, at the age of six, and she began playing the piano at the age of ten. She attended Bethel Baptist Christian School and later Cherokee High School.
YouTube Success and The Voice When Grimmie was 15, she started posting videos of herself singing on her YouTube channel.
Early Life and Education Creflo Dollar Jr. was born on January 28, 1962 in College Park, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. For his higher education, he went to West Georgia College, now the University of West Georgia. Dollar graduated with his bachelor’s degree in education, and went on to earn master’s and doctoral degrees in counseling.
Ministerial Career In 1986, Dollar began developing World Changers Ministries Christian Center, and held its first worship service in the cafeteria of Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School in his hometown of College Park.
Early Life Dany Boon was born Daniel Farid Hamidou on June 26, 1966, in Armentières, Hauts-de-France, France. He is the son of a Muslim father from Algeria and a Catholic mother from northern France. Dany’s father (who died in 1992) was a boxer, and he worked as a chauffeur. Boon’s mother was a homemaker. Dany attended Belgium’s Institut Saint-Luc, where he studied graphic arts.
Career In 1989, Boon moved to Paris and worked on the streets as a mime.
Dave Tango was formerly a performing magician, and currently serves as an investigator and analyst for the “Ghost Hunters” team. “Ghost Hunters” has been on the air for seven seasons, and is the Syfy Channel’s longest running reality series. The program’s methodology has been met with great skepticism, but the combination of paranormal chills and behind-the-scenes drama, has made it one of the most consistently successful shows on the network.
Bonds has starred in the movies Tales from the Hood, Coach, Get on the Bus, Ill Gotten Gains, The Wood, 3 Strikes, Lockdown, Flossin, Black Ball, Gangster Squad, Imperial Dreams, Behind De Pole, Dope, and The Ghetto. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series South of Sunset, Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Burning Zone, Touched by an Angel, Diagnosis Murder, High Incident, 413 Hope St., The Parent ‘Hood, The Steve Harvey Show, NYPD Blue, and Rizzoli & Isles.
Early Life Debra Winger was born on May 16, 1955 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to Orthodox Jewish parents Robert and Ruth. Her father worked as a meat packer, while her mother was an office manager. As a teenager, Winger went to Israel on a youth tour of a kibbutz. After returning to the United States, she got into a car accident that caused a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving her partially paralyzed and blind for ten months.
When Smith began starring on the sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” in 1990, Jeff had a recurring role as Will’s best friend, Jazz. A running joke on the series involved Uncle Phil (James Avery) physically ejecting Jazz from the house. In 1990, Jeff started a musical production company, A Touch of Jazz, and began producing pop and rap recordings as well as music for television and film. He also designed the first mixer made specifically for DJs who scratch records, the Gemini 2200.
Back in the early 1980s, Saturday Night Live gave Murphy a national audience and made him a HUGE star. He created iconic characters for the long-running sketch comedy show, including Buckwheat, Mister Robinson, and Gumby. Murphy became obsessed with comedy when he heard one of Richard Pryor’s comedy albums as a teenager. When Eddie joined SNL in 1980, the show was struggling. Lorne Michaels had left the show. The original stars had all left.
Winter’s music has appeared in numerous TV commercials, films, and television shows, including “The Simpsons,” “Wayne’s World 2,” “My Cousin Vinny,” “Queer as Folk,” “Son in Law,” “Dazed and Confused,” and “What’s Love Got to do With It.” The 2003 documentary “Tupac: Resurrection” sampled his song “Dying to Live” in the song “Runnin’ (Dying to Live)” and incorporated vocals by Edgar, Tupac Shakur, and the Notorious B.I.G. That single peaked at #5 on the “Billboard” Hot Rap Songs chart and reached the top 10 on Belgium’s Ultratop 50 Wallonia chart, New Zealand’s Recorded Music NZ chart, Switzerland’s Schweizer Hitparade chart, and the UK Hip Hop/R&B chart.
Early Life Eli Tomac was born on November 14, 1992 in Cortez, Colorado to Kathy and John, the latter a former BMX, road cycling, and mountain bike racing champion. He has an older brother.
Amateur Career As an amateur, Tomac won eight Loretta Lynn’s Amateur Championship titles, with his first coming in 2004, his sixth year of competing. He went on to win titles in 2006 and 2007, and multiple titles in both 2008 and 2009, including the 125cc FIM Junior World Championship in Taupo, New Zealand.
She also appeared in the miniseries “Air Force One is Down” and “True Colours.” On the big screen, de Ravin’s credits include “Brick,” “The Perfect Game,” “Remember Me,” and “Love and Other Troubles.”
Early Life and Education Emilie de Ravin was born on December 27, 1981 in suburban Melbourne, Australia. She is of French descent. Homeschooled by her mother, de Ravin studied ballet at the Christa Cameron School of Ballet beginning when she was nine.
Murray has appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions, such as “Macbeth” (1986–1987), “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” (1993–1994), “Angels in America: Perestroika” (1993–1994), “Mauritius” (2007), and “It’s Only a Play” (2014–2015). Abraham has played Dar Adal on “Homeland” (2012–2018), C.W. Longbottom on “Mythic Quest” (2020–2021), and Bert Di Grasso on “The White Lotus” (2022). He has more than 130 acting credits to his name, including the films “All the President’s Men” (1976), “Scarface” (1983), “National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon” (1993), “Last Action Hero” (1993), “Mighty Aphrodite” (1995), “Finding Forrester” (2000), “Thir13en Ghosts” (2001), “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013), “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), “Robin Hood” (2018), and “Lady and the Tramp” (2019), the miniseries “Marco Polo” (1982–1983), “Dead Man’s Walk” (1996), and “White House Plumbers” (2023), and the television series “The Good Wife” (2011–2014).
Charlie Chaplin Chaplin was known for being a silent movie comic and was also pretty silent when the check came. In 1916 Chaplin was earning $10 thousand a week, which would be about $220 thousand a week today. Even though he had millions in his bank account, he didn’t carry cash and let others pick up the tab at dinner. Other celebrities of his day agreed on his cheapness. Orson Welles called him the “cheapest man who ever lived,” while Marlon Brando said that Chaplin was “an egotistical tyrant and a penny-pincher.
Gabrielle Reece is best known for her career as a professional volleyball player, and she also launched a successful modeling career, appearing in such magazines as “ELLE,” “Shape,” “Outside,” and “Women’s Sports and Fitness.” Gabrielle also appeared on the cover of “Playboy” and was chosen as one of the most “Beautiful Women in the World” by “ELLE.” Reece published the “New York Times” bestseller “My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper” in 2013, and she has written for the “Los Angeles Times Magazine” and “The Huffington Post.