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Career Earnings Over the course of his NBA career, Rashard Lewis earned $155 million in NBA salary alone. His highest-paying season was 2011-2012, when he earned $21 million from the Washington Wizards. Early Life and High School Rashard Lewis was born on August 8, 1979 in Pineville, Louisiana. As a teenager, he went to Alief Elsik High School in Houston, Texas. Seattle SuperSonics Although he had been recruited by the University of Houston, Florida State University, and the University of Kansas, Lewis decided to forgo college for the NBA draft in 1998....

Early Life Rhys Darby was born Rhys Montague Darby on March 21, 1974, in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied at Edgewater College and later joined the New Zealand Army. After leaving the army in 1994, Rhys enrolled at the University of Canterbury to study journalism, and he formed the comedy duo Rhysently Granted with his friend Grant Lobban in 1996. After the pair won an open mic contest at a Christchurch bar, they started taking their act to local venues....

Early Life Richard Dean Anderson was born on January 23, 1950, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Raised in Roseville, Minnesota, alongside three brothers, Richard’s father was a teacher while his mother was an artist. According to Anderson, he has Mohawk, Scandinavian, and Scottish family heritage. Although Richard Dean was originally dead-set on becoming a professional hockey player, his dreams were dashed during his high school days when he broke both of his arms....

Early Life Richard Thalheimer was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. After graduating from Hall High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, he left for New Haven and graduated from Yale University in 1970. He entered San Francisco’s Hastings Law School the following year. While still a law student, the 24-year-old Richard Thalheimer started an office supply business with $500 worth of copier paper called Thalheimer Business Systems. He later named his enterprise The Sharper Image in part to help promote the quality of prints available from his copy machines....

Tyson starred as Joe “Kaz” Kaczierowski in the TV series Hardball from 1989 to 1990. He has had recurring roles in the TV series Winnetka Road and Kill Em All LA. Tyson has starred in the movies Three O’Clock High, Two Moon Junction, Kindergarten Cop, The Babe, Genghis Khan, Pharaoh’s Army, Time Under Fire, Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary, The Pandora Project, Battlefield Earth, Me, Myself & Irene, Black Hawk Down, Moscow Heat, The Visitation, Big Bad Wolf, Flight of the Living Dead; Outbreak on a Plane, The Dukes, Richard III, The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond, Magic Man, Once Fallen, Creative Differences, and The Perfect Weapon....

Early Life Richard Petko was born in Pennsylvania in 1968. His passion for racing and motorcycles began at an early age when he started riding mini bikes. He then progressed to go-karts, three wheelers, four wheelers, dirt bikes and Harleys – every bikers’ ultimate dream. Metal Work After graduating from high school he took a job as a crane operator then coldsaw operated for Bethlehem Steel. At some point around this time Rick left Bethlehem and enrolled in welding school with the goal of ultimately working on NASCAR chassis....

Ricky currently serves as Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook. Among his other projects, Van Veen was previously the CEO of Notional, a television production company and was a co-founder of a company called Connected Ventures which owned an early equity stake in Vimeo. He is also known for being married to actress Allison Williams from 2015 to 2019. Early Life and Education Ricky Van Veen was born on December 14, 1980 in Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland to Helen and Richard Sr....

Dozens of private airplanes are sitting empty on the tarmac in airports in Riyadh, Jeddah, and others across Saudi Arabia. The reasons for their abandonment range from their having been handed over to the Saudi government in legal settlements to their owners feeling skittish about attracting unwanted attention from investigators, or are unable to use them anyway due to recently imposed travel bans. And as VistaJet Chief Commercial Officer Ian Moore explains the situation, it just isn’t “really politically great to be seen flying privately at the moment, particularly owning your own aircraft” in the current climate....

Rollins got his first saxophone at the age of seven or eight. He began performing professionally after he graduated from high school. He was a member of the Miles David Quintet briefly. Sonny Rollins has received several Honorary Doctors of Music. He was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1973 and won a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2004. He also received a National Medal of Arts and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010....

Early Life Steve Earle was born Stephen Fain Earle on January 17, 1955, in Ft. Monroe, Virginia. His father was stationed there as an air traffic controller. Before Earle turned two, the family moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he grew up. He began learning guitar at the age of 11 and entered a school talent show at the age of 13. When he was 14, Steve ran away from home to search for his idol, singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt....

He is known for starring as Crazy Legs in the movie Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood in 1996. McCullough has also appeared in several films and episodes of TV series including A Different World, Married with Children, True Colors, Martin, In Living Color, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Fatal Instinct, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Terminal Velocity, The Fence, The Cable Guy, The Larry Sanders Show, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, Seinfeld, The Wayans Bros....

Here’s how it works: Have you ever tried to watch a video on Youtube but before it plays you need to watch a commercial? That’s called a pre-roll. Every 1000 times a pre-roll advertisement is shown, Youtube gets paid some amount of money. The amount can vary but typically Youtube is paid between $20 and $25 for every thousand ad views. This is called a CPM. This is exactly how CelebrityNetWorth makes money as well, except our CPMs are nowhere near $25, because we think pre-roll commercials are really annoying....

College football coaches are an interesting breed. In addition to being very rich and highly paid, college coaches often wield extreme power and influence over their institution. In fact, college coaches wield significantly more power than an NFL coach has over his franchise. This power imbalance exists because of the nature of college sports. A college coach is responsible for recruiting and grooming young talent for successful future professional careers....

Here’s part of how Hilton & Hyland, the real estate company handling the sale, describes the property: “This sleek, stylish and updated 4 bed, 4 bath mid-century boasting stunning ocean, city and canyon views is a Brentwood gem that is not to be missed. Floor-to-ceiling windows and sliders frame the private rear yard which is ideal for relaxing and entertaining with ample patio areas and large saltwater pool & spa....

Bob Marley The family of the man many look at as one of the faces of marijuana culture has a deal with Privateer Holdings, a marijuana-only investment fund. The deal entails marketing a line of cannabis products under the name Marley Naturals, which will include branded cannabis flower and oil, in addition to bath products like lotions and body scrubs. The Weeknd The Toronto native signed a deal with a company named PAX to lend his name to a line of tobacco and marijuana vaporizers....

Their startup went public in 1998, and posted the largest first day gain of any IPO ever to that point. A year later, the dot-com bubble burst, and the company’s value plummeted. Todd’s stake went from being worth over $100 million to practically nothing. Todd Krizelman and Paternot were forced out of the company in 2000 when it was taken over. In 2007 he joined Jesse Keller to find MediaRadar....

Early Life and Education Turner Tenney was born on January 2, 1998 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida as the third of four siblings. His siblings include Jack, who also became a popular online gamer. When Tenney was young, his parents divorced, and he was subsequently raised by his father Richard, who had his kids sell TV antennas at flea markets. Tenney attended middle school for a week, but left because he felt it “sucked....

Early Life Vincent Frank Testaverde Sr. was born on November 13, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York City. Testaverde attended Sewanhaka High School and graduated in 1981. He then joined Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union for a post-graduate year of college preparatory work. He was a massive Jets fan growing up. College Career Testaverde attend the University of Miami where he played for the Miami Hurricanes football team from 1982 to 1986....

Public records recently revealed that Bezos has given just over $145 million to charity over the years. That is 0.10661764% of his fortune. That equates to roughly $90 per $100,000. By comparison Bill and Melinda Gates give 37% of their wealth to philanthropic efforts. Former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg donates 13%. Even President Donald Trump gives more away than Bezos – 3% This figure does not include the $2 billion pledge that Bezos and his estranged wife, MacKenzie, announced in the fall to issue annual awards to groups that shelter and feed homeless families with young children as well as setting up free preschools in underserved communities....

Early Life Zach Woods was born Zachary Woods on September 25, 1984, in Trenton, New Jersey. He grew up in a Jewish household in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with a nurse practitioner mother, psychiatrist/social worker father, a younger sister, and an older brother. Zach attended Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp in the late 1990s, and he studied at Pennsbury High School. After graduating in 2003, Woods attended New York University....