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After tonight, Floyd’s career earnings from boxing purses and bonuses will total $373 million. He earned $85 million in 2013 alone. That was enough to make him the highest paid athlete in the world. And it should be noted that Mayweather essentially does not earn any money from endorsements. At least not anything significant. For some perspective, Tiger Woods was the second highest paid athlete in the world in 2013 with $78 million....

During his presidency, Gerald signed the Helsinki Accords during the Cold War. He dealt with a poor economy with inflation and a recession. He made a controversial presidential pardon to Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. Ford’s term marked an increased role for Congress and Presidential powers being curbed. In 1976, he lost narrowly to Jimmy Carter for reelection. Prior to entering the White House, he served as Representative from Michigan’s 5th congressional district for nearly 25 years, including eight years as the Republican Minority Leader....

5. Phil Anschutz, Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Galaxy: $10.9 Billion In addition to his ownership of the Kings hockey team and Galaxy soccer team in Los Angeles, Phil Anschutz has stakes in the Lakers and various venues like the Staples Center in LA and The O2 Arena in London. 4. David Tepper, Carolina Panthers: $11.6 Billion Hedge fund manager David Tepper first took a financial interest in pro football when he bought a five percent stake in the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2009....

Brent Montgomery received perhaps the biggest buyout of the reality TV production company buyout boom that happened between 2013 and 2015. He was a former camera operator who struggled to make it in the entertainment industry before he got his first series. He sold his Leftfield Entertainment Group to England’s ITV in 2014 for $360 million. As part of the deal, he became the head of ITV’s American operations – a position he stepped down from in January 2018, when he had solidified his plans for his second act....

We’ll start with Jay-Z . Jay-Z has come a long way since he dropped out of high school to be a drug dealer. The rapper was born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1969. He grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He and his three siblings were raised by a single mom in the Marcy Houses, a housing project so dangerous that shortly after Jay-Z left high school, the entire neighborhood was shut down....

Early Life Howard Buffett was born on December 16, 1954 in Omaha, Nebraska as the middle child of activist Susan Thompson and billionaire business magnate Warren Buffett. His siblings are Susan and Peter. He was named after his grandfather Howard. Farming Before establishing himself in the world of business, Buffett worked as a farmer in Tekamah, Nebraska in the late 1970s. There, his father purchased a property for $760,000, and charged him rent to live there....

Described as a “modern architectural masterpiece” by realtors Juliette Hohnen and Associates, the former Hefner home in the Hollywood Hills overlooks the Sunset Strip with multiple “unique and exotic features,” like an infinity pool and home theater, as well as an oversized gaming room (“This home was made for entertaining”). The infinity pool is surrounded by the “private oasis” of the backyard. Whoever the home’s new owners are, you can join them vicariously by checking out the house in the YouTube video tour below:...

Early Life and Career Ilie Theodoriu Năstase was born 19 July 1946. He started his career in 1966 traveling around the world together with Ion Țiriac, competing in various tournaments. They won the men’s doubles title at the French Open. Năstase won his first-ever singles tournament in Cannes in 1967. He became one of the best players in 1970, with many experts ranking him as the sixth-best player in the world at that time due to his success at the Italian Open and the U....

The precise figure is $3,952,480, a slight increase over the revenue she reported from the hotel in 2017. The disclosure comes weeks after a similar disclosure by her father President Trump, which showed that the Trump International Hotel, located at the Old Post Office building in DC and which opened for business during his 2016 presidential campaign, brought in a total of more than $40.8 million in 2018. The DC Trump International Hotel has been a source of controversy from the beginning of Trump’s presidency, as some critics claim that the president is profiting from official government business as diplomats and other visiting international figures stay in the hotel....

Jake Miller released the album 2:00am in LA in 2017 and it reached #18 on the US Indie chart and his album Silver Lining was released in 2018 and reached #20 on the US Indie chart. He has also released several EPs including The Road Less Traveled in 2013 which reached #6 on the US Rap chart, Dazed and Confused in 2014 which reached #3 on the US Rap chart, and Rumors in 2016 which reached #7 on the US Rap chart....

Bay has released the EPs The Dark of the Morning, Let It Go, Hold Back the River, and Other Sides. His single “Let It Go” reached the Top 10 in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Bay’s single “Hold Back the River” #1 in Ireland and the Top 5 in the UK, Australia, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 2016 and won Brit Awards for Critics’ Choice in 2015 and Best British Male Solo Artist in 2016....

Through the end of the 2014 season, Bruce has amassed a .251 career batting average. He has 887 career hits, 182 home runs, 551 runs batted in, and a slugging percentage of .467 through 966 total games. He is a two-time back-to-back MLB All-Star, earning the honor in 2011 and again in 2012. He’s also a two-time Silver Slugger Award winner, receiving the accolades in 2012 and in 2013. Bruce is a player in “Backyard Baseball 10”, “MLB 2K7”, “MLB 2K8”, “MLB2K11”, “MLB2K12”, and “MLB2K13”....

It should also be noted that many wealth-tracking publications, including CelebrityNetWorth, peg Vladimir Putin’s net worth at around $70 billion. But his wealth isn’t exactly 100% official. If you include put in Putin (get it?) at $70 billion, then Bezos is the fourth richest person on the planet.

Jen and Ben bought the home without a mortgage, which is not surprising considering the fact that the couple enjoy a combined net worth of $550 million (J-Lo is worth $400 million, B-Aff is worth $150 million). The 5.2-acre property features a 38,000 square foot mansion which was built in 2000, then totally renovated in 2017. There are 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms. TWENTY FOUR bathrooms! There are two gated entrances....

Early Life Joan Hickson was born Joan Bogle Hickson on August 5, 1906, in Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire, England. She was the daughter of shoe manufacturer Alfred Harold Hickson and Edith Mary Bogle. Joan attended the Dorset boarding school Oldfield School, then she studied at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1927, Hickson made her stage debut, then she appeared in many West End productions, often playing comedic or eccentric characters....

Joanna Pettet appeared in several films including “The Group,” “The Night of the Generals,” “Casino Royale,” and more. In 1974 she won a Western Heritage Award for “Pioneer Woman.” She also won a Theatre World Award for her work in Poor Richard. Joanna Pettet was portrayed by Rumer Willis in Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film “Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood.” Early Life and Career Beginnings Born in London, England, Pettet was adopted and raised by her aunt when her parents were killed during World War II....

He finished in ninth place in the 1978 World’s Strongest Man competition. As an actor he starred as George Grinsky on the television series Hollywood Beat in 1985. He also starred in films including North Dallas Forty, Caveman, The Ice Pirates, The Goonies, One Crazy Summer, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission, and Down the Drain. John Matuszak passed away on June 17, 1989 at 38 years old from an accidental propoxyphene overdose....

Early Life and Education Julia Haart was born as Juliaa Leibov on April 11, 1971 in Moscow, Soviet Russia as the eldest of eight children of Haredi Jewish parents. When she was three, she moved with her parents to the United States, settling in Austin, Texas. There, Haart attended private school as the only Jewish student in the school. The family eventually moved to Monsey, New York to be in its large Haredi community....

Early Life Kate Flannery was born Katherine Patricia Flannery on June 10, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, with mother Joan, father Tom (owner of Flannery’s Tavern), and six siblings, including a twin sister. Kate attended Saints Colman-John Neumann School and Archbishop John Carroll High School, and after graduation, she enrolled at Virginia’s Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, then transferred to Philadelphia’s University of the Arts two years later....

Early Life Katherine Moennig was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 0n December 29, 1977. She is the daughter of Broadway dancer Mary Zahn and violin maker William Moennig III. For over 100 years William Moennig & Son operated as one of the world’s most respected makers, restorers and appraisers of violins. Katherine’s father William III’s half sister is actress Blythe Danner. Blythe Danner’s daughter is Gwyneth Paltrow. So Gwyneth and her brother Jake Paltrow are Katherine’s cousins....