She has also starred in the shorts Capture the Flag, The Best Man, My Rifle, My Baby, and Me, Cor Childe, I Remember Nothing, and My Last Film. Kirke has appeared in episodes of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and The Leftovers. In 2015 she won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Female Revelation.
The renowned singer, who recently concluded her “Sweet Sweet Fantasy” tour, is seeing so much success that she’s allegedly forking over a hefty monthly premium to ensure that her vocal chords are insured. With five Grammy Awards under her belt and over 200 million records sold worldwide, the idea of Carey protecting one of her most lucrative assets isn’t as far-fetched as one might think. If you’ve ever thought that tickets to one of Mariah’s concerts cost an arm and a leg, maybe this is the reason why!...
The 6th grader got her start the way many young people do – with a lemonade stand. She’s been able to turn her Me & The Bees lemonade stand into a successful and sustainable business. Mikaila’s lemonade recipe contains mint, flaxseed, lemons, and honey. It is her great-grandmother Helen’s recipe. Mikaila donates part of her revenues to bee rescue foundations. BeeSweet lemonade supports the Sustainable Food Center, Texas Beekeepers Association, and Heifer International....
Morley Safer was best known for his long-running tenure on the newsmagazine program “60 Minutes.” Across his 60-plus-year broadcast journalism career, he won 12 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, among many other honors. Safer passed away in 2016 one week after announcing his retirement from CBS. Morley Safer died on May 19, 2016 at the age of 84. Early Life and Education Morley Safer was born on November 8, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Austrian-Jewish parents Anna and Max....
The duo released their debut studio album, “Gimme Something Real,” in 1973. Their 1978 album “Is It Still Good to Ya” reached #1 on the “Billboard” Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Ashford & Simpson had #1 singles on the “Billboard” R&B Singles chart with the songs “Stuff Like That” (with Quincy Jones & Chaka Khan) and “Solid.” Their singles “Found a Cure,” “Nobody Knows,” and “Stay Free” all reached #1 on the “Billboard” Dance Club Songs chart in 1979....
Nicki Minaj’s rather meteoric rise was fueled by three immensely popular mixtapes put out between 2007 and 2009. She released her debut album, “Pink Friday” in 2010. It was massively successful and spawned the quadruple Platinum track “Super Bass.” She went on to become the first female artist to have seven tracks on the Billboard 100 at the same time. She followed that up with a second album that was even more successful than the first, followed by several more smash-hit albums and countless singles....
Early Life and Education NLE Choppa, whose real name is Bryson Lashun Potts, was born on November 1, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee to a Jamaican mother and an African-American father. He was raised in the Parkway Village community in southeast Memphis, and went to Cordova High School. In school, Potts played basketball. It was during this time he began freestyling with his friends. His mother, Angela, soon began managing him as he embarked on a rap career....
Like all the other referees who are officiating the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Jonas Eriksson was selected from an extremely small group of candidates who passed a series of equally extreme physical and intellectual challenges. These tests are important because a World Cup referee will run almost constantly for 90 minutes straight in a game (minus halftime). The average referee ends up running roughly 12 miles per game. To give you some idea of how selective FIFA is about their refs, out of the 80,000 sanctioned soccer referees in the United States, only seven are currently qualified to be even considered for a FIFA international event....
That asking price makes it the most expensive current home listing in all of Paris, and Kalinka International head Tatyana Burlakovskaya recently told Business Insider it’s worth every penny: “This is an ideal purchase for investment and similar offers — within walking distance from the [Eiffel] Tower and with views of it…Such properties are called trophy [properties]. Possession of them is not so much a question of profit as the opportunity to get a unique asset into your collection — one of a kind....
The duo formed in 2012 and released the EP’s Life’s a Beach in 2015, Magic in 2016, and Action Burger in 2016. Paul Fisher released the single “Losing It” in 2018 which reached #26 in Belgium, #35 in Australia, and #60 in Ireland and in the UK. The song also reached #1 on the US Dance Club Songs chart. His single “You Little Beauty” was released in 2019 and reached #41 in Australia....
Peter had more than 100 acting credits to his name, including the films “Murder Inc.” (1960), “Pocketful of Miracles” (1962), “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963), “Murder by Death” (1976), “The In-Laws” (1979), “The Great Muppet Caper” (1981), “The Princess Bride” (1987), “Made” (2001), “Corky Romano” (2001), and “The Thing About My Folks” (2005) and the television series “The Dick Powell Theatre” (1962–1963), “Ben Casey” (1964), and “The Trials of O’Brien” (1965–1966)....
In the 1970s Philip Anschutz earned significant profits from the oil business. In 1982 he sold a 50% stake in an oil field in Alaska called Prudhoe Bay to Mobil for $500 million. Two years later he paid $90 million to acquire the Rio Grande Railroad. In 1990 he paid $1.4 billion for the Southern Pacific Railroad. A key point in this deal was the right to lay fiber optic cable along the railroad....
Riffel has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Married… with Children, The Pretender, and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. She has served as a producer, director, writer, editor, and/or composer for the films Between Christmas and New Year’s, Trasharella, The Making of Gnome Killer 2, The Gertrude Stein Mystery, Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven, Astrid’s Auto Portrait, Back in the USSR, Showgirls, Roomies, and more.
He wholeheartedly believes in aliens and has spend a considerable chunk of his fortune to advance space exploration causes. Bigelow Aerospace has spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing a series of inflatable space habitats, the prototypes of which are currently orbiting the Earth. He has made agreements to build many more of them with multiple countries around the world. He expects the first inflatable station to be fully habitable in the near future....
J.K. Rowling – Net Worth: $1 billion JK Rowling was a young, unemployed single mother on welfare desperate to make ends meet. One day, while riding the train back and forth between London and Manchester for job interviews, Rowling began to create a fantasy story to entertain her daughter. That story was about a boy wizard named Harry Potter. She’d always dreamed of being a successful writer, but she was struggling to keep the lights on in her tiny apartment....
Serge Ibaka was drafted 24th by the Seattle SuperSonics in 2008. Ibaka was only the second player from the Republic of Congo to be drafted into the NBA (Dikembe Mutombo). It was agreed that Ibaka would stay in Europe and he played for three years with Ricoh Manresa in Spain. He joined the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2009. Ibaka is commonly referred to as Serge Iblocka for his mastery of blocking shots....
Shawne Williams played for the Pacers from 2006 to 2008. He played for the Dallas Mavericks from 2008 to 2010 and the New York Knicks from 2010 to 2011. Williams played for the New Jersey Nets from 2011 to 2012 and for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2013 to 2014. He played for the Miami Heat from 2014 to 2015 and for the Detroit Pistons in 2015. He has also played in China and in the G League and started playing in the Bahraini Premier League in 2019....
Here’s a rundown of some of the most outrageous and unique celebrity souvenirs that have sold for a pretty penny in some of the most bizarre auctions ever. John Lennon’s Hair You might not believe this one, but there are some fans out there who will hand over several paychecks for a lock of hair. Heritage Auction out of Dallas, Texas auctioned off a chunk of singer John Lennon’s (net worth: $800 million) hair for $12,000....
She also starred as Christine in the film The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. She has played in The Phantom of the Opera in many different productions and since 2015 has starred in School of Rock. Boggess won a Broadway.com Audience Award in 2008 for Favorite Female Breakthrough Performance and won Audience Awards in 2013 for Favorite Replacement and in 2015 for Favorite Featured Actress....
In the recent bankruptcy filing, Sinbad reported that he owes $375 thousand to American Express, $32 thousand to Bank of America, $2.3 million to the state of California and $8.3 million to the IRS. His total debts top $10.99 million and his total assets amount to just $130 thousand which leaves him debt to the tune of $10.86 million. The government debts represent taxes owed from the years 1998 to 2006 and then again from 2009 to 2012....
