Through her lawyer, we learned that Sue Ann rejected the money because she feared that depositing the check would be a sign that she was accepting what she considered a disputed judgement. According to Oklahoma law, depositing the check may have automatically forfeited her right to continue appealing the judgement. You see, despite being the recipient of what is currently the fourth most expensive divorce in human history, Sue Ann didn’t feel $1 billion was fair....

Many believe Williams to be one of the greatest female athletes of all time, according to Time. Williams has had a whirlwind career, earning 36 major titles, including 21 Grand Slam singles titles, and has landed a variety of lucrative sponsorships and endorsements from big names such as Nike, Gatorade/Pepsi, Beats Electronics, Delta Airlines, IBM, and JPMorgan Chase. While she’s earned upwards of $78 million from in prize money over the course of her career, she’s also garnered about $20 million from endorsement activities....

Grimes had the misfortune of being in Japan at the time of the 2011 tsunami and earthquakes. Though she wasn’t injured, the experience spurred her to start a campaign called Spread the Heart’, which was aimed at supporting the relief efforts in Japan after the disaster. One of her vocational dreams was to work as an editor for a fashion magazine, so Grimes took a six-week internship at Teen Vogue in New York City in 2011....

This success has turned Simon Cowell into one of the highest-paid celebrities in the world, a category he has enjoyed for over two decades. In a typical year, he can earn $50 – $100 million from his various endeavors. The vast majority of his earnings come from judging and producing three shows; “America’s Got Talent,” “Britain’s Got Talent,” and “The X-Factor.” Simon became a global superstar in 2002 with the launch of “American Idol....

Despite his steady work and his multiple awards, he has managed to maintain “character” actor status and seems to happily stay below the radar. In late 2012, he married Felicity Blunt, the older sister of Emily Blunt, his co-star in “The Devil Wears Prada.” Stanley also stars in the critically acclaimed CNN travel series “Searching for Italy.” Early Life Stanley Tucci was born on November 11, 1960, in Peekskill, New York....

As a journalist for VICE, Suroosh Alvi has reported major stories from the Congo and the Gaza Strip, as well as producing a number of award-winning documentaries, including “Heavy Metal in Baghdad” and “Reincarnated”. In 2002, he launched VICE Music, a record label representing both established and up-and-coming artists. The label, which has featured such artists as Snoop Lion, Bloc Party, and Chromeo, has sold nearly 7 million albums to date....

Swift’s Eras Tour may go down as the most successful concert tour in history, so it’s only fitting that all of Swift’s fellow performers, technicians, drivers, roadies, and everybody else that has a job to do on a massive tour would get a bonus for the end of the US leg of the tour. Other than the $100,000 given to each of the tour’s 50 truck drivers, specific dollar amounts haven’t been reported, although a source tells TMZ that the bonus checks were all for a “very generous amount....

Komen for the Cure. In 2010 Maxim named her one of their top 12 female stars in the adult world. Teagan Presley retired in 2013 but came back for a scene for Brazzers in 2017. She has won several awards including Best New Starlet and Female Adult Star of the Year. In 2016 Presley was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.

Purcell played for the Kings from 2007 to 2010 when he was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning. He played in Tampa Bay until 2014 and then played for the Edmonton Oilers from 2014 to 2015. Since then he has played for the Florida Panthers. In 2005 Purcell won the Clark Cup Championship with the RoughRiders. He made the All-Hockey East Rookie Team in 2007 and the AHL All-Rookie and First All-Star Teams in 2008....

Early Life and Education Terrence J was born as Terrence Jenkins on April 21, 1982 in the Queens borough of New York City. He mostly grew up in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, where he attended Northern Nash High School. As a teenager, Jenkins worked as a DJ at the local radio station WRSV Soul 92.1. For his higher education, he went to North Carolina A&T State University, where he served as a DJ for the radio station WNAA; he was also a DJ at 102 Jamz in Greensboro....

In 2009 he starred as Sergeant Harvey Brown on the series The Unusuals and as Sam Bosco on the series The Mentalist. Terry Kinney starred as Daniel “Yoda” Dean on the television series NYC 22 in 2012 and as Dr. Owen Morely on the TV series Black Box in 2014. From 2016 to 2017 he starred as Christian on the series Good Behavior and he began starring as Hall on the television series Billions in 2016....

That’s a little more than $1 million per show, which would be remarkable under any circumstances, but it’s even more so thanks to the fact that the band took the tour as an opportunity to fight alleged price-gouging by ticket brokerage services like Ticketmaster, slashing the price to attend to an average of $68.54, some 37 percent less than the average price of artists on Billboard’s list of the top 50 touring acts for midyear 2023....

The National Portrait Gallery in Great Britain is another institution that is spurning the Sackler family amid growing furor over the family’s ownership of Purdue Pharma which developed OxyContin. The company’s marketing of the powerful painkiller in the 90s is considered to be one of the chief factors behind the current epidemic of addiction and overdoses of the drug, and back in 2007, the parent company of Purdue pleaded guilty to charges of misleadingly labeling OxyContin....

Maverick McNealy is an 18 year old Stanford freshman who qualified for this year’s US Open by shooting under 7 (and finishing third) at a sectional tournament at the Olympic Club in Daly City, California. For the Open, Maverick knew he needed a caddie who he could trust and who had a great mind for golf. Fortunately he didn’t have to look very far. Maverick selected his father, 59 year old Scott McNealy....

He has appeared on stage singing Christmas carols with One Direction and Jerry Springer. Oakley won Teen Choice Awards for Choice Web Star: Male and for Choice Web Collaboration in 2014. He supports The Trevor Project which helps prevent suicide in LGBTQ youth. Tyler has interned with the organization and hosted their annual charity red carpet event. In six days he helped raise more than $500,000 for The Trevor Project....

Just ask Caleb Martin. The forward had spent three seasons with the Miami Heat. Initially, he signed a two-way contract with the Heat and the Sioux Falls Skyforce, the franchise’s G League affiliate. But he worked his way up to a three-year, $20 million contract. That third year was going to be the upcoming 2024-25 season, but Martin had a player option. He chose to opt out of it, hoping to score a larger deal in free agency....

British songstress Adele is undoubtedly one of the most popular artists on the planet. Her 2015 effort 25 broke pretty much every sales record known to man, and the songs off the album still play on the radio nonstop on Top 40 radio stations. Taking those facts into consideration, it wouldn’t be too far fetched to believe that the NFL invited her to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime Show, which is exactly what the 28-year-old claimed at a show in Los Angeles....

Pierce announced in a panel discussion at Columbia University this past Saturday that he would be investing in a $20 million apartment complex in the arts district of Baltimore. The 49-year-old actor stated that the complex, which will be built by developer Ernst Valery, is the start of a jobs program that he aims to bring to other parts of Baltimore. The goal of the project is to form a group of “good developers” who will be able to take on projects in West Baltimore, in addition to helping local youth do real estate work of their own....

“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt. We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy.” Prior to becoming President, Bill Clinton had technically only worked in the private sector for a grand total of two years. As Governor of Arkansas, his biggest pre-President salary was $38,167....

That leaves 2,604 billionaires on Earth, who together control a collective fortune valued at some $8.56 trillion. Those are obviously big numbers, but they were even bigger at the end of 2017, which saw 2,754 billionaires with total collective wealth of $9.2 trillion. So big, in fact, that even with the more recent declines, the worldwide billionaire population is still quite strong when you consider it in a larger context....