At a recent “masterclass” seminar at the Cannes Film Festival, Damon revealed that he “turned down more money than any actor in history.” As the story goes, Cameron was so interested in getting Damon to anchor his unorthodox project that he offered him a generous ten percent stake in the film’s box office. As you probably already know, the film went on, without Damon, to become the highest grossing film of all time, taking in (counting multiple re-releases over the years) $2....

He wrote the column “The Sporting Life” for Esquire magazine for 10 years. Lupica has also written for Gold Digest, Travel + Leisure Golf, Parade, Men’s Journal, and ESPN The Magazine. He has been featured on the ESPN television series The Sports Reporters since 1988. Lupica has also authored several books for adults and young adults.

Mike Scioscia made his MLB debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1980. He was selected to two All-Star Games and won two World Series throughout his 13-year career which he spent entirely with the Dodgers. This made him the only person in MLB history to spend his whole playing career with one team. Scioscia earned as much as $2,183,333 annually in salary toward the end of his career and earned the unofficial total sum of $10,109,999 over his career....

In the early 1980s Nathan co-founded a company called Dynamical Systems Research Inc. which soon produced a clone of IBM’s Top View multitasking environment for DOS. Dynamical Systems Research Inc. was purchased by the Microsoft in 1986. In 2000 Myhrvold co-founded Intellectual Ventures. Intellectual Ventures is a patent portfolio developer and broker in the areas of technology and energy. Today the company has acquired over 70,000 patents and reportedly generates $3 billion per year in revenue....

The 77-story art deco masterpiece has two different owners, with a 90 percent stake held by the Abu Dhabi Investment Council and the remaining ten percent by developer Tishman Speyer. Darcy Stacom is the chair of New York City Capital Markets at CBRE Group Inc., the brokerage firm hired to find a buyer for the building, and he says he’s feeling good about its prospects for a speedy and lucrative sale: “It’s exciting....

Sofia Vergara Relationship Nick was engaged to “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara from July 2012 until May 2014. In April 2015, “The New York Times” published an op-ed penned by Nick in which he argued that he should be allowed to use the frozen embryos he and Sofia created while they were still together via in-vitro fertilization. They had both previously agreed to a contract that said the embryos could only be used if both partners agreed....

How Big Is Saban’s Deal? Saban’s revised contract will pay him a $6.9 million base salary for the next eight seasons. With bonuses, the deal totals $55.2 million through 2022. This easily ensures Saban’s place as the country’s highest paid college football coach. As a matter of fact, Saban’s current deal would place him eighth in salary among all U.S. coaches, including NFL coaches. Sean Payton of New Orleans tops the list at $8 million a year....

The app analytics platform Sensor Tower recently revealed that, although there have been other massively popular and lucrative apps, none has come even close to the kind of success Pokémon Go has been able to achieve. Case in point: Candy Crush. It’s the addictive puzzle game that’s basically a staple app for smart phone users. When its latest incarnation “Candy Crush Soda Saga” was released, it became one of the highest grossing apps of all time....

Henry Sy is often referred to as the Sam Walton of the Philippines. That’s because Henry built the foundation for his vast fortune on a store that was appropriately named ShoeMart. Henry launched ShoeMart in 1958 but he really got started after World War II by collecting and selling shoes that were left behind by American soldiers. By 1972, Henry opened his first department store in 1972. Fast forward 40 years and Henry Sy now owns the largest retail and shopping mall business in the Philippines....

Their debut studio album The Hurting was released in 1983. The album reached #1 on the UK Albums chart and was certified Platinum in the UK as well as Gold in the US. Their 1985 album Songs from the Big Chair reached #1 in the US, Germany, and The Netherlands and #2 in the UK and New Zealand. The album was certified 7x Platinum in Canada, 5x Platinum in the US, and 3x Platinum in the UK....

Hailing from Hopkins, Minnesota, Harris’s parents founded a renaissance festival called King Richard’s Faire. Harris grew up in a traditional Jewish family. She graduated with a degree from Northwestern University. In 2005 Harris married Michael Hess. The couple has two children, the first of whom was born in 2007. Harris took a break from hosting Dancing with the Stars to take maternity leave, before returning for the rest of the season....

Jobs was worth over $1 million in 1978 when he was just 23 years old, two years before the company went public. After Apple went public in December 1980, he was worth $250 million. Despite what you might assume, at the time of his death in 2011, the majority of Steve Jobs’ net worth did not come from Apple stock. It came from Disney stock. Why? How? Back in 1985, Steve resigned from Apple after an explosive boardroom war....

Amar’e Stoudemire: 2013-14 Salary: $21,679,893 Amar’e Stoudemire used to be one of the most productive scorers in the NBA, especially back in his glory days playing for Phoenix. He’s averaged nearly 22 points and nine rebounds a game, which is hardly something to sneeze at. However, he hasn’t seen those glory days since he punched a fire extinguisher a few years back, yet he’s still getting paid like an elite piece of a championship team, despite the fact he’s shaping up to be a bench player for a Knicks team that’s very likely to decline this year....

The deal between Yahoo and Mozilla was for Yahoo to become the default search engine in Mozilla’s browsers, and it cost Yahoo $375 million last year. But it may end up costing them far more, since any potential buyer of the company will have to consider the consequences of their winning bid – if Mozilla doesn’t want to continue the partnership, they can cash out to the tune of more than a billion dollars over the course of the next three years....

The Masterpiece Art Fair’s nickname is well-earned, as it serves as a annual clearinghouse for the most expensive works of art in the world, as well as the wealthy collectors who buy them. This year, there was concern that the economic turmoil caused by the Brexit referendum would put a damper on the atmosphere, but in this super-rich strata of society life appears not to be changing its behavior much: Artists represented at the 2016 Masterpiece Art Fair include famous names like Warhol, Dali, and Picasso, and bidders from at least 75 countries throughout the world were on hand to try to add to their collections....

Early Life Thiago Emiliano da Silva was born on September 22, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began playing soccer as a child and was admitted into a school in the Campo Grande neighborhood of the city, which was a feeder school for Fluminense, a Brazilian sports club. At the age of 14, Thiago impressed Fluminese coach Maurinho during a friendly match and was then given a short trial at the school....

Let’s assume there is a situation where the Royal Family would list Queen Elizabeth’s home on Airbnb. What would it cost to rent Buckingham Palace for a night? Do you have $1.4 million to spare? That is what it is estimated to cost you to rent the palace for one evening. Can you imagine the cleaning deposit you’d have to put down? The $1.4 million price tag is assuming the Queen rents out all of the castle’s bedrooms for roughly $14,000 each per night....

Jack Dorsey (age 36, worth $1.1 billion) Jack Dorsey is the creator of the popular social network Twitter and also the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payment company. He was named one of the top 35 innovators in the world when he was just 35 by MIT. The Wall Street Journal made him Innovator of the Year for 2012. Yoshikazu Tanaka (age 36, worth 1.8 billion) This Japanese entrepreneur founded GREE, a very popular social network game site service....

Tracey Reiner has appeared in films and television shows like “Masque of the Red Death,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Die Hard,” “When Harry Met Sally…,” “Laverne & Shirley,” and “Apollo 13,” among others Early Life Tracy Reiner was born Tracy Henry on July 7, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She was born to parents Penny Marshall and Michael Henry. Her mother, Penny, was an actress and director who was most well-known for her role in “Laverne & Shirley....

The Security Service of Ukraine says it seized deeds of ownership to 40 different business enterprises within Ukraine, and 30 natural gas wells. Per its press statement: “The property of pro-Russian oligarch Vadym Novynskyi, who is involved in aiding the aggressor country, was seized.” Novynskyi says in a statement he supports Ukraine, but his sponsorship of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, suspected by the Ukrainian government of maintaining formally dissolved ties with Russia, placed him on a sanction list....