Early Life Nusret Gökçe was born in 1983 in Paşalı, Erzurum Province, Turkey into a Kurdish family. He has four siblings, and his father, Faik, was a mineworker. The family’s poor finances forced Gökçe to leave school in the sixth grade, after which time he became a butcher’s apprentice in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul. Restaurateur Career Between 2007 and 2010, Gökçe visited a number of different countries and worked at various local restaurants for free....
Sarah Stage was born in Burbank, California, on March 21, 1983. She began her modeling career just after finishing high school when she attended an open call at the Wilhelmina Agency. She was signed immediately and has not stopped working since. To date, she has appeared in advertisements for such companies as CopaWear International, Rockstar Energy Drink, Hustler Lingerie, DeMarco, Jockey, Skechers, Sunsets Swimwear, Zanetti, and Anchor Blue. She has also appeared on various magazine covers, including Karma and Unleash’d, and had a featured spread in Playboy....
These seven former and once-again multi-millionaires (and one billionaire) below lost it all and then clawed their way back to become stronger, and in some cases, richer than ever. James Altucher Net Worth: $50 million In the 1990s, James Altucher took advantage of the dot-com boom and started a web design company called Reset Inc. He sold it for $10 million. Then, through a series of bad investments, he lost every bit of it....
Fears also appeared on the 2001 Bell Biv DeVoe album Da Hot S***. As an actress she appeared in the movies Bring It On and Honey. In 2018 she began starring on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Fears has appeared in the music videos “Ladies Night” by Lil’ Kim and “Welcome To Atlanta” by Ludacris. Shamari Fears has been married to fellow singer Ronnie DeVoe since 2006....
Shane was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2001 Shane was named the ESPN Action Sport Awards Skier of the Year and ranked #1 in Skiing Magazine’s Top 25 skiers in North America. He was ranked #1 in Powder Magazine’s Readers Poll in 2002 and 2005 and won their Full Throttle Award in 2004 and 2005. McConkey was also featured in many skiing videos....
Maezawa took to Twitter to announce he’s selling off a few valuable pieces of his art collection. A follower asked if he was doing so because he was “broke,” and he replied with this, translated from Japanese by Reuters (followed by the “laughing” emoji, to let on that he’s probably exaggerating a little bit here): “Yes, I never have any money because I always spend it.” Still, even as a billionaire, it’s not completely ridiculous that he would need to sell off a few odds and ends given recent dips in his Zozo fashion empire’s stock price, as well as huge purchases like the SpaceX trip and a $110....
She won the US Open in 2004 and the French Open in 2009. Svetlana Kuznetsova reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and Wimbledon three times each. She has also won 16 career doubles WAT tittles with her highest ranking of #3 coming in June 2004. She won the Australian Open doubles title in 2005 and 2012 and reached the finals of the US Open in 2003 and 2004 and the French Open in 2004 and Wimbledon in 2005....
However, when it comes to amassing lots of money through boxing purses, Ali is nowhere near the highest earner of all-time, largely due to the fact boxing prize money has exploded over the past few decades. In total, Ali earned around $20 million in boxing purses during his career. But despite what you might assume, Ali was not the first boxer to take home a massive purse. Below is a detailed history of notable boxing purses over the last 100 years… More than 100 years ago, a title fight was still a big deal, but the money paid out pales in comparison to today....
Update After posting this article we received several emails and comments saying that our net worth numbers were too low because people thought we did not include the fighter’s Pay Per View bonus numbers. Actually our numbers below do include all sources of income, especially PPV bonuses. People were specifically questioning our net worth estimate of $7 million for Georges St-Pierre, mainly because GSP himself has claimed that he makes $5 million per fight and $15 million per year from endorsements....
Logan Paul: $14.5 Million Logan Paul of the infamous Paul Brothers was the tenth highest earning star on YouTube in 2018, pulling in $14.5 million with his comedic hijinks. PewDiePie: $15.5 Million Despite seemingly regular controversies that would be enough to end careers on other platforms, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg continues to be one of the quintessential YouTube stars with 77.6 million subscribers and counting. Jacksepticeye: $16 Million Jacksepticeye, a video game streaming and comedy performer whose real name is Seán William McLoughlin, has parlayed his success on YouTube with projects for Twitch and Disney, pulling in $16 million in 2018 in the process....
Tepper, who bought the house from his former boss’s ex-wife, nearly immediately razed it to the ground. In its place, he built an 11,268 square foot mansion that is exactly twice the size of his old boss’s former house. If that is not carefully planned and executed revenge, I don’t know what is. The new house has an enormous swimming pool and pool house, a three-car garage and a tennis court....
Six of the 10 real estate tycoons are self-made, building their fortunes from $0 to billions. Among the world’s richest self-made people, real estate is the second most popular industry after finance for building massive fortunes. These are the 10 wealthiest real estate tycoons in the world. Age: 65 Net Worth: $5.6 billion Residence: Hong Kong Company: Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) Wealth Source: Inheritance Age: 75 Net Worth: $5....
How young? Imagine being nineteen and having a $1.2 billion net worth at your disposal. That’s the reality for a Norwegian teenager, Alexandra Andresen, who, thanks to her family’s investment company, Ferd, has received 42% of the company from her father. Her older sister, Katherina, also has a net worth of $1.2 billion. However, unlike Alexandra, she’s not a teenager, instead, she has to settle for being a billionaire at the ripe age of 20....
Early Life Tony Rock was born Anthony W. Rock on June 30, 1974, in Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Julius and Rosalie Rock, and he grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood with eight siblings. Rosalie worked as a teacher as well as a social worker for the mentally handicapped, and Julius was a newspaper deliveryman and truck driver. Sadly, Julius passed away in 1988 after undergoing ulcer surgery....
Early Life and Education Tracy Pollan was born on June 22, 1960 on Long Island, New York to Jewish parents Corky and Stephen. She has an older brother named Michael who became a prominent author, journalist, and professor, as well as two sisters. As a teenager, Pollan attended Syosset High School and the Dalton School. She went on to study acting at the HB Studio and the Lee Strasberg Institute....
Altogether, Uber’s top five executives made a total of $143 million in 2018. Here’s how that breaks down: Barney Harford, COO: $47.3 Million Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO: $45 Million Nelson Chai, CFO: $28 Million Thuan Pham, CTO (Chief Technology Officer): $12.7 Million Nikki Krishnamurthy, CPO (Chief People Officer): $9.7 Million Most of that compensation was made up of stock awards, with the rest coming as base salary and various other reimbursements and bonuses....
The collection includes everything from Fabergé clocks to Victorian-era paintings, plus valuable Queen memorabilia like Mercury’s original handwritten lyrics to several Queen classics, including “Killer Queen” and “We Are the Champions.” Sotheby’s, which is handling the auction, is setting the initial bid for his “We Are the Champions” lyrics note at $250,000. The bidding will have to go quite a bit higher than that if the sale is going to break a price record in the field of original music manuscripts....
Early Life Wentworth Miller was born Wentworth Earl Miller III on June 2nd, 1972, in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. His American parents, Roxann (a special education teacher) and Wentworth (a teacher and lawyer), were living in England when Miller was born because his father was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Wentworth’s father is of African-American, German, Jamaican, and English heritage, and his mother’s ancestry is Rusyn, French, Lebanese, Swedish, Syrian, and Dutch....
“[My agent] told me the price, man, and I broke down and started crying,” Smith told NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport on the RapSheet and Friends podcast. Smith had good reason to get weepy: he had just signed a four-year, $66 million contract with the Green Bay Packers and $20 million is guaranteed. The 26-year-old’s deal is one of the largest of this off season. He’ll join a defense that was in the bottom half of most team defense statistical categories last year....
Lyft’s IPO is expected to be one of the biggest of the year among San Francisco tech startups. Uber, Airbnb, and Slack are all also planning IPO’s in 2019. Lyft’s shareholders will collectively hold stakes worth billions when the company makes its IPO. Lyft’s IPO filing has laid bare the company’s financials and its planned bonus structure. It has also pitted it against its competitor Uber, which plans to go public in the first half of 2019....
