Tamara Mellon was born on July 7, 1967 in London to Tom and Ann Yeardye. Her family was affluent. Her dad was the co-founder of the hair salon chain Vidal Sassoon. Her mother, Ann, was a model for Chanel. In 1976, her family moved to Beverly Hills where her neighbors included the rich and famous such as Nancy Sinatra. Her dad became a stuntman and often played Rock Hudson’s stunt double....
Side note: If you’ve checked this site recently, you’ve probably seen some stories about how Vladimir Putin might be sitting on a secret $200 billion fortune. As of right now, these reports are unconfirmed. If we’re ever able to definitively prove that he is worth $200 billion, that would make Putin the 8th richest person of all time. Four spots above Gates. Until more evidence comes in, we’re gonna put the Putin wealth rumors aside....
Shtengelov aimed to satiate every sweet, savory, and salty snack craving of the Russian population. Oh, and he sells his snacks for less than a dollar. And he is Russia’s newest billionaire thanks to his masterful exploitation of the Russian recession and his countrymen and women’s obsession with snack food. He basically set out to compete with Frito-Lay and other junk food giants. He succeeded. The 45-year-old junk food tycoon graduated from college just after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
Early Life Tyrod Taylor was born Tyrod Diallo Taylor on August 3, 1989, in Hampton, Virginia. He is the only child of Trina and Rodney Taylor, and he attended Hampton High School. Tyrod was a member of the school’s track and basketball teams, and he played the positions of quarterback, safety, and kick returner on the football team. Taylor was a starter all four years and led the football team to a record of 34–4....
Blue Bottle Coffee was valued at $700 million in the deal with Nestle, an event that sent waves of financial satisfaction throughout the tech industry. Why would a business deal between a coffee company and Nestle have anything to do with Silicon Valley? Blue Bottle has made a practice of attracting tech investors into its business, taking in more than $120 million from various heavyweights in that field in the last 15 years....
Founded in June 2010, Xiaomi is a privately held company that designs, develops, and sells smart phones, apps, and consumer electronics. Xiaomi released its first smart phone in August 2011 and since that time has made leaps and bounds in gaining market share in mainland China. The name Xiaomi literally means “little rice” or. “Xiao” means little and “mi” means rice. In a little more than three years, Xiaomi has sold more than 7 million phones....
According to his guilty plea, about a decade ago, Zhong committed wire fraud in connection with a scam perpetrated against the infamous “dark web” marketplace Silk Road. After perpetrating the scam, James proceeded to sit on what became a multi-billion-dollar stolen fortune for A DECADE without really doing much with the money. The raid happened back in November of 2021 after investigators traced 51,680 bitcoins to Zhong. The coins at one time belonged to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who served over 10 years in prison before being pardoned by Donald Trump on January 21, 2025....
The “Ship of Gold” and Its Lost Treasure In September 1857, the sidewheel steamer SS Central America—later nicknamed the “Ship of Gold”—sank in a hurricane off the coast of the Carolinas. The ship was carrying a fortune in gold, mostly from California’s Gold Rush. When it went down, 425 passengers and crew perished, and thousands of pounds of gold were lost to the ocean floor. The ship’s cargo, estimated at $8 million in 1857 (the equivalent of hundreds of millions today), was so vast that its loss contributed to a financial panic, cementing the wreck’s place in history....
Allan H. Meltzer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in February 1928. Meltzer received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Duke University in 1948 and 1955, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 1958. He served, from 1973 to 1999, as the Chair of the “Shadow Open Market Committee”, a group of economists, academics, and bankers that met to critique the actions of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee....
Early Life Ann-Margret was born Ann-Margret Olsson on April 28, 1941, in Stockholm, Sweden. Soon after her birth, her parents moved back to their hometown, a small arctic village in north central Sweden. She described the province of Jämtland as being a small farming and lumberjacking community. Her father moved to the US, and she and her mother joined him in 1946. Ann-Margret grew up in a suburb outside Chicago and became a naturalized citizen in 1949....
He won the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 1980. Carr had his #34 retired by the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007 and the Notre Dame Basketball Ring of Honor in 2011. He was also a Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Inductee in 1992 and received the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Carr is the Director of Community Relations for the Cavaliers and is a color commentator for the team’s games on Fox Sports Ohio....
Unless efforts to cancel the controversial project succeed, the airport will be constructed on swampland in the city of Texcoco the last remaining space in the Valley of Mexico, where much of Slim’s past projects have been built. Right now, the site of the airport is a “big, flat, empty spot on the map,” mostly covered with red volcanic gravel, and is (for an airport) unusually adjacent to central Mexico City....
Following the conclusion of “Angel,” Boreanaz quickly landed another significant role as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth on “Bones” (2005-2017). The crime drama became one of Fox’s longest-running series, with Boreanaz starring opposite Emily Deschanel for 12 seasons. His portrayal of Booth, combining charm, intensity, and humor, earned him widespread recognition. Without missing a beat, Boreanaz transitioned to his next major role in 2017 as Jason Hayes, the leader of Bravo Team in the military drama “SEAL Team....
The Cardinals are very much aware of this fact. Two days before the 2020 NFL season kicks off, the team made sure to lock up their star receiver for the long haul. Per Ian Rapoport, the Cardinals signed Hopkins to a two-year contract extension worth $54.5 million in new money. Hopkins will also receive $42.75 million guaranteed at signing. The $27.25 million annual average of the extension is the highest for a non-quarterback in NFL history....
More precisely, the trouble stems from two withdrawals allegedly made by Young from a business account to the tune of $385,029. These withdrawals were actually already a matter of record, having come up in the couple’s divorce proceedings before now, with Dre claiming they were fraudulent and Young claiming her name was on the account so the withdrawals were made totally legally. But now, Chatman has actually filed a police report with the LAPD claiming they were made without proper authorization, a charge he had previously made in letters to Young’s legal team....
Elena Satine was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union in November 1987. She made her acting debut in 2007 in the movie Ripple Effect and the short Holier Than Thou. Satine starred as Judi Silver on the television series Magic City from 2012 to 2013. From 2014 to 2015 she starred as Louise Ellis on the TV series Revenge. Satin starred as Dreamer on the series The Gifted in 2017....
Li Ka-Shing When Li Ka-Shing was just 14 years old, his father died of tuberculosis. In order to earn money for his family, Li was forced to abandon school and take a job at a plastics factory. The family was so poor that Li actually had to sell his dead father’s clothes for cash to pay for food. While most of his peers attended school or played games, Li labored away for 16 hours a day making plastic watchbands....
When Simmons purchased the property he paid just $1.35 million, but went on to oversee an extensive upgrade that changed the house into its present luxurious form. The result is a 16,000-square-foot European style abode with 30-foot-high windows, elegant stone staircases, and an elaborate garden, and amenities like a pool room, wine cellar, and library. It’s not exactly the kind of house you would imagine Simmons’s “The Demon” stage persona living in, but it’s also loaded with mementos from the last nearly 50 years of KISS history, with three rooms devoted to KISS merchandise....
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you may not be familiar with Ice Cube’s hit 1993 single, “It Was a Good Day”. In the song, Cube describes a series of lucky events that made combined to create a particularly good day. Things like the Lakers beating the SuperSonics, getting laid, and not having to use your AK 47. Recently, a group of rap fans (with way too much free time) used the events Ice Cube describes to determine that the exact date of his “Good Day” was precisely 20 years ago today, January 20th, 1992....
Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913) was one of America’s most influential Gilded Age industrialists, whose vision and ambition transformed Florida from a sparsely populated wilderness into a thriving tourist destination and agricultural center. As a co-founder of Standard Oil alongside John D. Rockefeller, he amassed considerable wealth in the petroleum industry, but his most lasting legacy lies in his revolutionary development of Florida’s eastern coast. Through his Florida East Coast Railway and luxury hotel empire, Flagler essentially created modern Florida, developing cities like Palm Beach, Miami, and St....
