Aside from co-owning the pharmaceutical giant, Barut also made a name for himself as one of Turkey’s foremost art collectors, owning paintings of Turkish contemporary painters like Erol Akyavas and Selma Gurbuz, as well as pieces of classic painters such as Sevket Dag and Halil Pasa. A billionaire and fine-art collector, he resides in the 120-year-old Yedisekiz Hasa Pasha Villa by the Bosporus.
Early Life and Career Beginnings Pedrag Stajoković was born on June 9, 1977 in Slavonska Požega, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. His family fled to Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars. He began his professional basketball career at 14 with Red Star Belgrade. Stojaković started his career in KK Crvena zvezda (FR Yugoslavia) for two senior seasons, and won the national championship. He then moved to Greece where he played for the team PAOK and was nicknamed Peja....
Rolling Stones Royalties “Bitter Sweet Symphony” samples an orchestral cover of the 1965 Rolling Stones song “The Last Time,” which was written and arranged by David Whitaker. Note that the sampled music is NOT part of the original Rolling Stones song in any way. The Verve successfully cleared the rights to the sample, but they did not seek publishing rights from the Stones. Upon the release of the song, Richard Ashcroft was contacted by Stones manager Alan Klein, whose company ABKCO Records held the copyright to “The Last Song....
“My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, that’s what we’re working on.” The event was at Washington’s famous Air and Space Museum, appropriately enough, to honor Branson’s Virgin Galactic space travel company. Naturally, it’s on one of Virgin Galactic’s own rockets that Branson plans to take this trip: SpaceShipTwo, a rocket ship that, as its name suggests, requires two pilots to operate. Followers of the ongoing “Billionaire Space Race” probably realize that this isn’t the first time Branson has set an ambitious timetable for himself, and in the past these deadlines have always gone by without the space trip being successfully completed....
TMZ was the first to report that Prince, full name Prince Rogers Nelson, was found dead at this Paisley Park compound in suburban Minneapolis early Thursday morning. He died just a few days after having a mid-air medical emergency that required his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois after performing a concert in Atlanta. His representatives explained that Prince was battling a severe case of the flu....
From 2007 to 2010 he starred as Bryn on the TV series Gavin & Stacey. From 2010 to 2014 Brydon starred as Rob in the series The Trip. He has starred in the movies Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, A Knight’s Tale, 24 Hour Party People, Cruise of the Gods, Shaun of the Dead, A Cock and Bull Story, The Trip, The Best of Men, Gangsta Granny, The Trip to Italy, and Cinderella....
Hardy has also directed, written, and/or produced for the TV series ER, Heroes, Criminal Minds, The Vampire Diaries, 90210, Bones, Single Ladies, The Game, Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Arrow, The Originals, Finding Carter, The Flash, Empire, Being Mary Jane, Power, How To Get Away With Murder, Blindspot, Black-ish, Shameless, The Quad, and more. Rob Hardy won a Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Trois.
She appeared in episodes of the TV series Knight Rider, MacGyver, LBJ: The Early Years, Night Court, General Hospital, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Space: Above and Beyond, and more. Her last acting roles came in 1999 and she became a residential real estate agent and starred in her one woman show Not My Bra, You Don’t! – The Sexual Odyssey of a Forty-Nine Year Old Woman.
Sammy Hagar began visiting Cabo San Lucas, Mexico well before he joined Van Halen. Since the early 70s, when Sammy was a solo singer and the front man for the band Montrose, he found refuge basking on Cabo’s sunny beaches. In 1990, at the peak of his Van Halen career, Sammy convinced his band mates to partner with him in opening a bar/restaurant in Cabo that also had large performance stage for visiting bands....
Scott Reeves has appeared in films including Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan and Edge of Honor. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Days of Our Lives, The Munsters Today, Chicago Hope, The King of Queens, Touched by an Angel, As the World Turns, and more. He won a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actor in 1994 for The Young and the Restless....
Early Life Sgt. Slaughter was born Robert Rudolph Remus on August 27, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he attended Eden Prairie High School, where he was a member of the school’s football and wrestling teams. Career In his early career, Sgt. Slaughter won several regional titles, and in the late ’70s, he wrestled with the American Wrestling Association as Super Destroyer Mark II. After signing with the World Wrestling Federation in 1980, Sgt....
Jennifer Lawrence Pre-Oscar Salary: $3000/week Scale Post-Oscar Salary: $10,000,000 Jennifer Lawrence started acting because as she put it, she was a bit of a “spazz”. She convinced her parents to let her pursue it full-time, and made her professional on-camera debut on an episode of “Monk” in 2006. The following year, she was cast as one of the leads on “The Bill Engvall Show”. After completing the run of the series, she signed on for a small independent film called, “Winter’s Bone”....
Early Life Sophie Turner was born Sophie Belinda Turner on February 21, 1996, in Northampton, England. She grew up in Chesterton, Warwickshire, with mother Sally (a former nursery school teacher), father Andrew (a pallet distribution company employee), and older brothers James and Will. Sophie was a twin, but sadly her twin died before birth. Turner said of the tragedy, “My mum had a miscarriage – my twin died and I lived....
Keep in mind that this is hardly the first time an athlete has run into trouble with Uncle Sam–or Tio Samuel, in Messi’s case. The good news for Messi is that several stars who also faced major tax problems have gotten out of their situations relatively unscathed. Let’s take a look at how some other athletes fared when they tried to fudge their tax numbers. Helio Castroneves The two-time Indy 500 winner and “Dancing With The Stars” champion was accused of conspiracy and tax evasion, along with his sister and lawyer, between 1999 and 2004....
Early Life Stanley Druckenmiller was born on June 14, 1953 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a middle-class household in the suburbs of Philadelphia until his parents divorced. At that point Stanley moved with his father at first to New Jersey, then Richmond, Virginia. His two sisters remained with their mother in Philadelphia. Duquesne Capital Management Stanley graduated with a BA in English and Economics from Bowdoin College. He dropped out of a three-year PhD program in economics at the University of Michigan to accept a position as an oil analyst for Pittsburgh National Bank....
In December, Kudan made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. It was an explosive debut with the stock rising more than six fold to its thus far all time high by the end of February. That made Ohno’s fortune about $800 million. The stock has lost some in recent months, but the current price values of Kudan is at about $1.3 billion. Ohno owns more than half the shares, giving him a net worth of $700 million....
#20 Paolo Coelho Net Worth: $500 Million Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist, musician, and lyricist who has a net worth of $500 million. His novel The Alchemist became an international bestseller and cultural phenomenon. It has now sold more than 65 million copies around the world and holds the Guinness World Record for most translated book by an author who’s still alive. Coelho’s other work includes The Fifth Mountain, Veronika Decides to Die, Eleven Minutes, and The Witch of Portobello....
But the Chargers are ready to put the historic collapse behind them. A day before the start of the Chargers’ training camp, the team offered quarterback Justin Herbert a five-year, $262.5 million contract extension. The deal includes a no-trade clause and features $133.7 million in guarantees and $193.7 million in guarantees. Herbert is now the highest-paid quarterback in NFL history in terms of average annual salary. He’ll make $52.5 million per season....
