Early Life Steve Wynn was born Stephen Alan Weinberg on January 27, 1942, in New Haven, Connecticut. His father Michael owned a chain of illegal bingo parlors on the East Coast. He changed the family’s last name to Wynn in 1946 to avoid anti-Jewish discrimination. The Wynn family moved to Las Vegas in 1952 so his father Mike could run his bingo parlor at the Silver Slipper casino on the Strip....
Dabo Swinney, Clemson: $6.2 Million Dabo Swinney of the ACC champion Clemson Tigers is one of the best paid college football coaches in the country, but his winning performance on the field leads some to speculate that he might actually be underpaid. Kirby Smart, Georgia: $6.6 Million The Georgia Bulldogs made a conscious financial effort to keep Smart locked in after his successful work last season, and reports indicate that some generous raises may be in his future in subsequent years – so expect his position on lists like this one to continue to rise....
Early Life Mark William Calaway was born on March 24, 1965, in Houston, Texas. He is the youngest of five sons. He played on the football and basketball teams at Waltrip High School. He attended Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas, about 115 miles northeast of Houston. He went to college on a basketball scholarship in 1983. He transferred to Texas Wesleyan University in 1985 to play basketball and major in sports management....
In fact, there are 11 chief executive officers of S&P 500 companies who are bringing in at least $30 million in salary in one year alone, according to an analysis of S&P Global Market Intelligence. The study covered pay packages afforded to 418 CEOs and features the head honchos behind such major companies as Disney, Comcast and Viacom. While these high salaries may come as surprising to many, the number of CEOs taking home such sums has stalled in recent years....
Early Life Ving Rhames was born Irving Rameses Rhames on May 12, 1959, in Harlem, New York. His mother, Reather, was a homemaker, and his father, Ernest, worked as an auto mechanic. Ving attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan, and after graduating in 1978, he enrolled at the State University of New York at Purchase (also known as SUNY Purchase), where classmate Stanley Tucci gave him the moniker “Ving....
Williams had a recurring role as Father Cronin in the series The Bernie Mac Show from 2001 to 2005. In 2016 he starred as Silas Bullen in the TV mini-series Mercy Street. Williams has starred in the movies Erin Brockovich, Ali, The Good Doctor, The Dark Knight Rises, and Draft Day. He was nominated for a Behind the Voice Awards Award in 2013 for Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1....
Early Life Ñengo Flow was born Edwin Rosa Vázquez Ortiz on October 15, 1981, in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico. His mother’s name is Vicky, and he has a sister named Maricely. He got his start in the music business in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, where he grew up. Ñengo Flow became interested in urban music at an early age, and when he was 14, he performed onstage for the first time in his neighborhood....
Bill Gates Bill Gates is one of those billionaires who intends to give away the vast majority of his wealth over the course of his lifetime. And at a recent Reddit AMA, he put a finer point on his kids’ inheritance situation, saying he would be doing them no favors by leaving them a massive inheritance. Warren Buffett Another famously philanthropically minded billionaire, Buffett has also pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to charity....
Early Life and Career Beginnings Born in DeKalb, Illinois, Hale moved to Chicago after high school to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts with the intention of becoming a commercial artist. However, her plans changed when she was discovered by a modeling agent. This led to a successful modeling career in the early 1940s, which eventually brought her to Hollywood. Hale made her film debut in 1943 with “Higher and Higher,” and over the next decade, she appeared in more than 50 films, often as the leading lady....
Early Life Bethany Joy Lenz was born on April 2, 1981, in Hollywood, Florida. Her father, Robert Gage Lenz, was a history teacher and therapist, and her mother, Catharine Malcolm Holt Shepard, was a personnel manager and entrepreneur. Her grandfather was the 1950s Broadway star George Lenz. Notably, George Lenz starred in such popular musicals as “Wish You Were Here,” and “South Pacific,” among many others. Bethany started singing at the age of three at The Carpenter’s Church in Lakeland, Florida....
His Antwerp-based diamond trading released a statement on its founder’s death, which unsurprisingly does not mention the penis enlargement surgery that might have killed him: “Farewell to a visionary businessman. It is with great sadness that we confirm that our founder has passed away.” According to press reports during his life, the billionaire owned the single most-expensive penthouse in Monaco (worth nearly $40 million in American dollars), and also owned a residence in the ritzy Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles....
That wouldn’t be the worst news in the world for the Dodgers, except for one small problem: they’re paying him a LOT of money. Back in 2011, the Red Sox signed Crawford to a seven-year, $142 million deal. At the time, it seemed like a pretty good contract: he was averaging 6.8 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) over the past two seasons, and had flashed some power, too, hitting 15 and 19 home runs in 2009 and 2010, respectively....
Do you know what all of those things are? They are doable whether you have $65 in the bank or $1.75 billion. It is all about attitude and choices. Munger agrees. His recipe for happiness is logical. He said that staying cheerful is a wise thing to do. And to stay cheerful you have to let go of negative feelings. “You don’t have a lot of resentment.” “You don’t overspend your income....
Early Life Cree Summer Francks was born on July 7, 1969, in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in Saskatchewan and Toronto, Canada. Her parents are both Canadian actors – Don Francks and Lili “Red Eagle” Francks. Her mother is part Plains Cree, one of Canada’s largest First Nations. While Cree was a child, she traveled often with her parents around British Columbia and did not start public school until the age of nine when the family moved to Toronto....
Daniel Craig, who has played the iconic secret agent for nearly a decade, has reportedly refused the equivalent of $99.5 million to reprise the role for a fifth time! Can you imagine turning down that much money for ONE movie???!!! This comes after a series of statements from Craig that articulated his clear lack of enthusiasm to play the character again, joking in an interview with London’s Time Out magazine that he’d rather “slash my wrists” then do a follow up to this year’s smash Specter....
Between September 2018 and September 2019, Donald Glover earned more than $35 million from his various entertainment endeavors. That was actually enough to make him one of the highest-paid entertainers in the world during the period. Under the stage name Childish Gambino, Glover has established himself as a successful musician. His music spans genres including hip-hop, R&B, and funk. His hit single “This Is America” and its provocative music video won multiple Grammy Awards and sparked widespread cultural discussion....
Drake’s Views album has been atop the Billboard 200 chart for quite some time now – nine consecutive weeks to be exact. This marks the longest streak for an album atop the chart since Adele’s 21 took the top spot on the charts for 10 consecutive weeks in 2012. Drake is also the first male artist to top the charts for nine straight weeks since 2004, when Usher did so in 2004 album, Confessions....
As we mentioned at the start of this article, Bruce and Suzie Kovner listed “Sanctuary at Loon Point” for $160 million in August 2021. In December 2022, Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi paid $70 million for essentially, 2/3rds of the listing. For $70 million, Ellen and Portia’s bought one of the 9,000-square-foot mansions and an undeveloped 6.6-acre property. The Sanctuary’s remaining 12 acres, with the OTHER 9,000-square-foot mansion, is still listed for sale by the Kovners for $75 million....
Mr. Big released the album Bump Ahead in 1993 which reached #4 in Japan. The band released the album Hey Man in 1996 which reached #1 in Japan. Their albums Get Over It in 2000, Actual Size in 2001, What If… in 2010, …The Stories We Could Tell in 2014, and Defying Gravity in 2017 all reached the top 10 in Japan. Their single “To Be with You” reached #1 in the US, Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, and more....
Both properties originally had houses before Lauder had them torn down. He purchased the first in April of 2020 for a reported $25.4 million, followed by the second in December of 2021 for an undisclosed sum. Together, the two lots boast 360 feet of “direct beach frontage,” a rarity in an area where most homes are separated from the beach by a road. Listing agent Jim McCann tells WSJ that alone makes this an attractive prospect for the right buyer: “I think there will be buyers who know this market [who] will recognize the rarity factor, and that something like this only comes available every so often....
