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Early Life Melissa Francis was born on December 12, 1972, in Los Angeles, California. She attended elementary and high school in Los Angeles and was a very strong student. Throughout her schooling, she simultaneously pursued a career as a child actor. After high school, Melissa enrolled at Harvard University. She graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. Acting Career Francis began her acting career as a baby when she appeared in Johnson & Johnson shampoo commercials at 6 months old....

Michael Bivins founded New Edition. The group formed in 1978 and released their first studio album, “Candy Girl”, in 1983. They gained popularity for hit singles such as “Candy Girl”, “Telephone Man”, “and Cool It Now”. The band split up in 1989 and didn’t reunite until 1996. New Edition released seven studio albums from 1983 until 2004 and is credited with paving the way for pop boy bands of the ’90s, including New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys....

Michelle Yeoh was part of a documentary made in Vietnam by the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation. She’s heavily involved in animal welfare and works to save the South China Tiger. Yeoh was formerly married to businessman Dickson Poon and has been committed to motor sport executive Jean Todt since at least 2008. Jean Todt formerly ran Ferrari’s Formula One program, overseeing the team’s five World Championships under driver Michael Schumacher....

Early Life and College Born on September 27, 1949, in Dayton, Ohio, Schmidt discovered his passion for baseball at a young age. He attended Fairview High School, where he played both baseball and basketball. After graduating high school, Schmidt attended Ohio University, where he continued to play baseball for the Bobcats. It was during his college years that his potential as a future professional baseball player became evident. In 1971, he was selected in the second round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Philadelphia Phillies....

He committed to East Carolina University before being drafted #25 by the Los Angles Angels of Anaheim in the 2009 MLB Draft. He made his debut for the Angels in July 2011 and has played for them for his entire career. In his first season Trout was named American League Rookie of the Year and was the AL stolen base champion. In 2012 and 2013 he won Silver Slugger Awards and he has been an MLB All-Star from 2012 to 2014....

On the day Microsoft went public in 1986, Paul Allen owned 25% of the company’s equity. Paul Allen’s exact stake in Microsoft was not known at the time of his death. His stake dipped below 5% in 2000, and from that point, the company no longer needed to report his holdings. At the time of his death, Paul Allen’s fortune was mostly tied to the real estate, private equity, and energy sectors....

Early Life Phaedra Parks was born on October 26, 1973, in Athens, Georgia. Parks earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Wesleyan College, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Georgia as well as a degree in mortuary sciences from Jefferson State College. Career After law school, Phaedra Parks landed a job working at Bridges, Ordmand & Faenza, a Geico in-house law firm. From there, she went on to have her own clients, starting with a young star named Drama, who was in prison at the time he was supposed to be on tour....

Prince Harry, was born on September 15, 1984. He was the second child born to Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales. The story of Charles and Diana was the stuff of fairytales. He was the charming, though slightly odd-looking prince, who wooed a beautiful young woman from a lower “station” in life. Their wedding was a television event and the world stopped to watch them say, “I do”....

Quincy Lewis was drafted #19 overall by the Utah Jazz in the 1999 NBA Draft. He played for the Jazz from 1999 to 2002. He then played for Maccabi Tel Aviv from 2002 to 2003 before returning to the NBA to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2003 to 2004. Lewis played for Lucentum Alicante from 2004 to 2005, Olympiacos from 2005 to 2006, Lucentum Alicante from 2006 to 2007, and Iurbentia Bilbao Basket from 2007 to 2009....

Ric Flair, often proclaimed as the “Nature Boy,” stands as one of the most illustrious and charismatic figures in the history of professional wrestling. With a career spanning over four decades, Flair has solidified his place as a cornerstone of the sport, with a legacy that is both flamboyant and unparalleled in its achievements. From his beginnings in the 1970s, Flair quickly rose to prominence with his unique combination of athleticism, showmanship, and microphone skills....

“I got the deal that I wanted,” Okung told the media. Players have tried to negotiate contracts without the services of an agent in the past. More often than not, they ended, leaving a lot of money on the table and signing a very team-friendly contract. No one thought Okung would be the exception to the rule? Would there finally be a player that acted as his own agent and did not have a fool for a client?...

Grimes starred as Archie Morris in the television series ER from 2003 to 2009. He has voiced the role of Steve Smith in the TV series American Dad! since 2005 and also voiced the role of Kevin Swanson in the series Family Guy from 2011 to 2015. Grimes has also starred in movies including The Night They Saved Christmas, Crimson Tide, Robin Hood, and Winter’s Tale. Grimes has released the albums Scott Grimes in 1989, Livin’ on the Run in 2005, and Drive in 2010....

Early Life and Education Shaun Cassidy was born on September 27, 1958 in Los Angeles, California as the eldest son of Academy Award-winning actress Shirley Jones and Tony Award-winning actor Jack Cassidy. His brothers are Patrick and Ryan; he is also the younger half-brother of actor and singer-songwriter David Cassidy. Due to his parents’ work in show business, he grew up in both Los Angeles and New York City, and attended boarding school in Pennsylvania....

Early Life Stephen William Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, United Kingdom, to Frank (1905–1986) and Isobel Eileen Hawking (née Walker; 1915–2013). Hawking started his education at London’s Byron House School. He didn’t learn how to read while at that school, and much later, he said the school’s progressive methods were to blame. When he was eight, he attended St. Albans High School for Girls for a handful of months....

Early Life Taron Egerton was born on November 10, 1989 in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. His father operated a bed-and-breakfast near Liverpool, while his mother worked in social services. Egerton has two younger half-sisters. When he was two years old, his parents divorced; subsequently, he moved with his mother to Anglesey, an island off the coast of Wales. At the age of 12, Egerton moved with his mother to the Welsh university town of Aberystwyth....

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos: $2,000,000,000 Michael Bloomberg: $767,000,000 Michael Bloomberg might have been thinking about a possible presidential run when be broke out his checkbook enough for $767 million in giving over the course of 2018. Pierre and Pam Omidyar: $392,000,000 The Omidyar fortune comes from eBay, which made co-founder Pierre a billionaire back in the late 90s. Since then he’s mostly focused on philanthropy full time, which is how he consistently ranks so highly on lists like these despite not being as high profile as many of the other people seen here....

That drop leaves their combined wealth at $4.7 trillion, so we are of course still talking about massively wealthy individuals with more money than could ever be spent in any given number of lifetimes. But the back half of 2018 has still been a rough economic period, with a combination of stock market selloffs wiping out all the gains made in the first half of the year. Of all those billionaires, it was Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg who saw the biggest single loss, perhaps not a surprise given the social media platform’s steady stream of PR nightmares in 2018....

But things weren’t always so rosy. Go back a decade, and the Bucks were downright bad. From the 2010-11 to the 2015-16 seasons, they never finished with a winning record. Rock bottom was the 2013-14 season — they finished dead last in the league with a 15-67 record. That was also the season the team drafted Antetokounmpo and when Marc Lasry bought the Bucks alongside another hedge fund financier, Wes Edens....

Back in June of 2021, Brady and Gisele announced an endorsement partnership with FTX. On the day they announced the partnership, FTX’s proprietary token “FTT” was trading at around $25. This will be important in a moment. The partnership wasn’t your standard celebrity endorsement, like when a brand pays an athlete or model a ton of US dollars, either through a physical check or electronic bank wire, to promote their product....

Recent regulatory filings by Uber reveal that Khosrowshahi will receive the bonus if Uber’s valuation hits $120 billion and stays there for at least 90 days, or if the company happens to be sold outright for that figure. The bonus will come in the form of 1.75 million in stock options for $33.65 a share. Those will vest over five years as long as Uber stays valued at $120 billion or more for 90 days in a row, but in that event another 185,735 of his shares shares will vest automatically....