Merv once sued Penthouse magazine for libel. He has received many awards for his charitable and humanitarian efforts. Adelson was responsible for many popular television shows including Dallas, Knots Landing, and The Waltons. He was said to have made $300 million in the TV industry and had a private jet and Malibu beach house. Unfortunately Merv lost 99% of his fortune when the AOL Time Warner mega-merger collapsed. Marv’s third wife also took him to court for unpaid child support after he went bankrupt in 2013....

Michael Hutchence’s wealth and estate has been a mystery in the decades after his death. Despite earning an estimated $60 million during his career (before taxes), Michael died with just $40,000 in his bank account. His total assets after being liquidated amounted to $700,000 after liabilities were subtracted. All of this remaining money was eaten up by lawyers and other various fees after his death. What’s shocking is that by most reasonable accounts, Michael should have had a minimum of $20 million worth of real estate, cash and investments....

$2 million is pretty good advance in the publishing world no matter who you are, but it’s an especially impressive number for DeSantis, who before last year was one of the few high-profile politicians with a net worth of just $320,000. With the book, his net worth boomed to just over $1 million. While DeSantis hasn’t made the kind of big paydays that some politicians do in the legal or business fields before they reach higher office, the WSJ story points out that he’s made it a practice to brush elbows with the ultra-wealthy as often as possible in his political career: “He has long courted ultrarich donors, dating to his time in Congress, some of whom have lent him use of their private jets, at times drawing media scrutiny....

McCoy also released the albums You Gotta Love That in 1995, Neal McCoy in 1996, Be Good at It in 1997, The Life of the Party in 1999, 24-7-365 in 2000, That’s Life in 2005, XII in 2012, and Pride: A Tribute to Charley Pride in 2013. McCoy had #1 hits on the US and Canadian Country charts with the singles “No Doubt About It” and “Wink”. He also had success with the singles “The City Put the Country Back in Me”, “For a Change”, “They’re Playin’ Our Song”, “If I Was a Drinkin’ Man”, “You Gotta Love That”, “Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye”, “The Shake”, and “If You Can’t Be Good (Be Good at It)”....

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell made the ruling, citing North Korea’s “barbaric mistreatment of Otto,” which she says “deliberately caused Otto’s brain damage, which resulted in his death.” The Warmbiers put out a press statement after the decision expressing their gratitude “that the United States has a fair and open judicial system so that the world can see that the Kim (Jong Un) regime is legally and morally responsible for Otto’s death....

Osama’s father, Mohammed bin Laden, was born to a dirt-poor family but eventually launched a construction business that received hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts, primarily from the Saudi Royal family. At the time of his death in 1967, Mohammed was the only Saudi Arabian billionaire who was not a member of the royal family. Upon his death, each of his children inherited $20-30 million. That’s the same as around $160 million in today’s dollars....

Oscar has appeared in more than 80 film and television projects, including “The Proposal” (2009), “Benched” (2014), “People of Earth” (2016–2017), and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” (2021). He created and starred on the Comedy Central series “Halfway Home” (2007), and he is credited as a writer on the short film “Water Lords” (2014) and the TV series “Wack TV Passport” (2004) and “Si, Pipi, Si” (2016). Nuñez has also lent his voice to the animated projects “Bob’s Burgers” (2011–2012), “3Below: Tales of Arcadia” (2018–2019), and “Where’s Waldo?...

Real Estate Assets: John and Patty own several extremely valuable homes in Malibu. In 2015 they spent $21 million to buy an oceanfront home in Malibu’s uber-exclusive Paradise Cove. John previously owned Johnny Carson’s Malibu home. John and Patty own around $50 million worth of real estate in Los Angeles. In 1999 they spent $4.2 million on a two-acre estate in Southhampton.

Cryogenics worked for Austin Powers and Simon Phoenix, but it’s yet to be perfected in the real world. Thiel was reported in 2016 to be among those investing in a company called Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which reportedly gives clients the opportunity to pay to be encased in liquid nitrogen hypersleep until some far-off future revivification. And in a recent appearance on the “Honestly with Bari Weiss” podcast, Thiel was asked about his interest in cryogenic preservation: “Yes, but — think of it more as an ideological statement....

Despite selling more albums than the Rolling Stones and Beatles COMBINED in 1967, Peter’s wealth from “The Monkees” was gone by the early 1970s. To make ends meet he even worked as a high school teacher for three years in the mid-1970s, teaching music, math, French, history and even coaching baseball. His career eventually warmed back up, especially as nostalgia for the Monkees grew over time. Early Life and Education Peter Tork was born as Peter Thorkelson on February 13, 1942 in Washington, DC to Virginia and economics professor Halsten....

Early Life Richard DeVos was born Richard Marvin DeVos on March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the son of Dutch Americans Simon Cornelius DeVos and Ethel Ruth Dekker, who were employed in the electrical business. Richard attended Grand Rapids Christian School, then he enrolled at Calvin College, where he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. During World War II, DeVos served in the United States Army Air Corps....

He also had a solo career and formed a traditional folk rock band called Blackmore’s Night. Blackmore has also been a backing musician for artists such as Glenda Collins, Heinz, Neil Christian, and Screaming Lord Sutch. He was named Guitar World’s 16th Greatest Metal Guitarist of All Time in 2004 and was ranked the 50th Greatest Guitarist of All Time by Rolling Stone in 2011. Blackmore was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 as an original member of Deep Purple....

Smith paired up with Karch Kiraly and then with Randy Stoklos. Smith became the first player to reach 100 career open tournament wins and helped develop the Association of Volleyball Professionals. He won a bronze medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games. He appeared in an episode of the TV series Magnum, P.I. as Magnum’s volleyball partner.

Sparkle’s second album struggled after she and Kelly had creative differences. She was released from Rockland and the album, which was titled “Told You So”, was released to little fanfare on Motown Records. In 2002, the Chicago police alerted Sparkle to a sex tape which allegedly featured her 14 year old niece and R. Kelly. Sparkle subsequently testified at R. Kelly’s criminal trial. More recently she provided background vocals for Toni Braxton’s Vegas show and in January 2019 Sparkle was one of the main commentators on the Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R....

Steve Lemme was born in New York City, New York in November 1968. Lemme first appeared in the 1996 film Puddle Cruiser and then in the 1999 movie Big Helium Dog. In 2001 he starred as Mac in the movie Super Troopers. Lemme starred as Juan in the movie Club Dread in 2004 and as Jimmy in the film The Dukes of Hazzard in 2005. In 2006 he starred as Fink in the movie Beerfest....

He earned that spot by giving away $392 million to various causes along with his wife Pam. That’s despite the fact that he hasn’t actually worked at eBay in many years. As the story goes, he became a billionaire after eBay went public in 1998, and almost immediately, he decided his life’s work would be to give it all away. And now, more than 20 years later, that life’s work is still far from complete....

The NBA recently announced that it is launching what it calls a “three year pilot program,” where it will allow teams to sell patches on their uniforms to corporate sponsors. These patches will appear beginning in the 2017-18 season, and, according to the NBA, will measure approximately 2.5 inches squared and be placed on the front left of the jerseys opposite the Nike Swoosh. Each team will be responsible for negotiating its own deal for this jersey space....

Anil Ambani took over the family telecom business after a years-long dispute with his brother over the empire built by their father, who passed away without a will in 2002. Three years after their father’s death, the company was settled by their mother. She divided the company in two, giving half to each of her sons. Anil was given control of all of Reliance’s telecommunications, asset management and entertainment. Mukesh was given the company’s oil, pharmaceutical, textile and refining assets....

Badziag spent five years conducting interviews and analyzing the results, and he found not just one but six commonalities in the archetypal successful billionaire. Here’s a rundown on what they are: Discipline In his book, Badziag claims that “billionaires I interviewed are the most disciplined people I have ever met,” and that they all “put a high standard on themselves and on the people around them.” He draws a connection between their drive towards achievement and their massive fortunes, claiming that even when they “feel lazy” they continue to “take up the struggle to overcome their weaknesses....