That sale price makes this car the second-most expensive ever sold at auction, behind the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe that sold for $142 million last year (that particular item is a prototype and one of only two in the world, which contributes strongly to its market value among collectors). To compare, this 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO was one of 34 manufactured by the legendary Italian automaker, and one of just two to be used on the racetrack by the company’s racing team Scuderia Ferrari.
The property boasts 10,000 square feet of space, with six bedrooms and eight and a half bathrooms in the main house. Then there’s the guest house, with another two beds and two baths, plus a one-bed/one-bath pool house, all on an almost 3.5-acre lot. And the Levine-Prinsloo pair have purchased the whole spread for an impressive $52 million. The whole estate, which is known as Oakview, was designed by architect Don Nulty as commissioned by the Lowe.
Beal is a self-taught number theorist, and in 1993, he formulated the Beal conjecture, which is a generalization of Fermat’s Last Theorem. He funded a $1 million standing prize for a peer-reviewed proof or disproof (which has stumped mathematicians for decades) of the Beal conjecture. In the early 2000s, Andrew competed against professional poker players in high-stakes poker games in Las Vegas, and in 2004, he won $11.7 million, one of the largest single hands in the history of poker.
Early Life Astrid Lindgren was born as Astrid Ericsson on November 14, 1907 in Vimmerby, Sweden to Hanna and Samuel. She had an older brother and two younger sisters. After finishing school, she worked at the local newspaper Vimmerby Tidning. There, Lindgren had an affair with the chief editor and became pregnant, causing a scandal.
Career Beginnings Before becoming a full-time author, Lindgren worked as a secretary and as a journalist.
After graduating from the University of Central Florida, Brian began working for the family business. His father, Bill France, Jr., was the CEO of NASCAR. Bill’s father, Bill France, Sr., founded NASCAR in 1948. Brian France is credited with increasing NASCAR’s visibility by negotiating multiple television deals both domestically and internationally. At their peak, NASCAR races were the second-most watched televised sporting events in the United States behind NFL games.
Yet, Kelly is giving all that up to head to LSU. He took the Tigers job after the departure of former head coach Ed Orgeron. Kelly explained he “wanted to be with the best” and “the standard of expectation” was too alluring for him to turn down. Of course, a massive new salary will help with any decision, too. As The Athletic’s Brody Miller reported, Kelly’s contract is quite enticing, complete with a solid base salary and potential for bonuses.
Early Life Christopher Reid was born on April 5, 1964, in the Bronx, New York. His mother, Marjorie Wallace, was Irish, and his father, Calvin Reid, was Jamaican. Christopher attended the Bronx High School of Science, graduating in 1982. He enrolled at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, then he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the Bronx’s Lehman College in 1990.
Kid ’n Play After Reid formed Kid ’n Play with Christopher “Play” Martin, the duo released the album “2 Hype” on October 21, 1988.
Clark inherited his wealth. His grandfather, H.L. Hunt, earned a fortune in the Texas oil fields. According to legend, H.L. earned the money needed to buy his first oil fields through poker bets. After a handful of acquisitions, he ultimately owned the majority of the East Texas Oil Field. In 1948 he was considered the richest person in the US. At the time of his death in 1975 H.L. Hunt was one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of $400 – 700 million.
Early Life Danny Pintauro was born Daniel Adam Pintauro on January 6, 1976, in Milltown, New Jersey. He is the son of Margaret L. Sillcocks and John J. Pintauro. Danny attended New Jersey’s Middlesex County College, then he studied theater and English at California’s Stanford University. He played trumpet in Stanford’s marching band, and he graduated in 1998.
Career Pintauro made his TV debut on the soap opera “As the World Turns” in 1983 as the original Paul Ryan.
David Bowie Estate At the time of his death, David Bowie’s net worth was $230 million. Bowie’s widow, Iman Abdulmajid Jones, came out best by the will, receiving their large dual-penthouse condo in SoHo, as well as half of the rest of his estate. Duncan received 25% of his father’s estate. The other 25% (plus a mountain retreat in New York State) went to a trust for David’s underage daughter Alexandria Zahra Jones.
Unfortunately, Eddie died on September 13, 2019, at the age of 70. A month before his death, his family announced that the longtime smoker had stage-4 esophageal cancer. Eddie and his wife Laurie married in 1989 and were together until his death. They had five children together. The family had homes in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Early Life Edward Joseph Mahoney was born to a large Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York City, on March 21, 1949.
Early Life Gaules was born Alexandre Borba Chiqueta on December 2, 1983, in São Paulo, Brazil. When he was 14 years old, he began frequenting the Monkey Tatuapé gaming center, where he became interested in “Counter-Strike.” Every day he asked to join the “Counter-Strike” team, and he has said of his reasons for asking to join, “I couldn’t afford to pay [for the hours], and the players’ sponsorship was to play for free while there were no clients.
He uses the death growl extended vocal technique. From 1996 to 2017 he was featured on 10 albums by Cannibal Corpse and has also been featured on albums by Paths of Possession, Voodoo Gods, Dethklok, Suicide Silence, Job for a Cowboy, Suffocation, and more. Fisher has been featured on the animated series Metalocalypse and has voiced the role of the Metal Masked Assassin. He was also featured as a non-player character Gorge the Corpsegrinder in the video game World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
She then went on to steady work in film and television projects, including “The House on Sorority Row”, “Highway to Heaven”, “Supercarrier”, “Clean and Sober”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “Parenthood”, “Arachnaphobia”, “L.A. Law”, “Necessary Roughness”, “The Taking of Beverly Hills”, “All I Want for Christmas”, “The Hidden Room”, “Bringing Up Jack”, and “You Wish”. She is most widely recognized for her roles on “Guiding Light”, “Santa Barbara” and “Harts of the West”.
Early Life Ian Somerhalder was born Ian Joseph Somerhalder on December 8, 1978, in Covington, Louisiana. The son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, an independent building contractor, Ian is the second of three children. He went to Mandeville High School after attending a private Catholic school in his youth. Somerhalder was a model from ages 10 to 13, and at the age of 17, he started acting.
Early Life and College Jeff Franklin was born on January 21, 1955 in Inglewood, California. He moved to back to his hometown in Los Angeles after graduating from the University of the Pacific in 1976. Upon moving back to LA he worked as a substitute teacher while taking media production classes at UCLA.
Television Career In the early 1980s, Jeff landed a job as a writer/producer on “Laverne & Shirley.” During this period he also wrote and produced for “Bosom Buddies.
In 1989, Herb and Jerry sold A&M records to PolyGram for $500 million in cash. That’s the same as roughly $1.2 billion in today’s dollars. The duo would stay on for the next five years managing the company. In 1999, Herb and Jerry successfully sued PolyGram for an additional $200 million payout. In 2000 Herb and Jerry sold another company they co-founded, Rondor Music, a music-publishing business, to Universal Music for $400 million.
She has since gone on to appear in such projects as “Drake and Josh”, “One Night with You”, “Cheerleader Camp”, “The Fun Park”, “Legacy”, “An American Carol”, “American High School”, “Alpha Males Experiment”, “Forget Me Not”, “The Graves”, “Rules of Engagement”, “Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown”, “Cougar Hunting”, “Awkward”, “Bad Ass”, “Perception”, “Visible Scars”, and “Windsor Drive”. She is most widely recognized for her work on “Sonny with a Chance”.