Early Life and Career Beginnings Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Rodney Cohen on November 22, 1921, in the Village of Babylon, on Long Island, New York. His mother was Dorothy Teitelbaum, who came from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his father was Phillip Cohen, a vaudevillian performer. Both of Rodney’s parents were Jewish. Much strife came from the fact that Phillip was rarely home, and Dorothy seldom showed her son affection. When his father abandoned the family, Dangerfield moved with his sister and mother to Kew Gardens, Queens, where he attended Richmond Hill High School, graduating in 1939....

In case you’re interested, that amounts to about $2 million at current rates, and unlike, say, trying to collect microscopic gold particles spread throughout the ocean, there are places in Switzerland where gold deposits are plentiful enough that collection efforts may be worthwhile, provided you don’t mind getting your hands, uh, dirty. According to the researchers: “Concentrations of gold in sewage sludge are sufficiently high for recovery to be potentially worthwhile,” particularly in areas home to multiple gold refineries or other parts of the famous Swiss jewelry and watchmaking industries....

In 1995 Guillory starred as Lady Felicia Marabel in the TV mini-series The Buccaneers. She starred as Lettice Knollys in the 2006 TV mini-series The Virgin Queen. In 2013 she had a recurring role as Mary Day in the TV series Luther. She has starred in the films Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang), Obvious, The Time Machine, Love, Actually, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Silence Becomes You, Eragon, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Big Bang, and Resident Evil: Retribution....

Nearly 14 million people have immigrated to the U.S. in pursuit of the American Dream in the last decade. Many, if not most, come here searching for a better life. They come to the U.S. knowing that if they work hard, they will be rewarded and that there is opportunity in the land of the free and home of the brave. That is not the case in many of the countries these six millionaires and one billionaire come from....

Suhail Rizvi was born in India in 1965. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a venture capitalist who is the Chief Investment Officer at Rizvi Traverse Management LLC. Rizvi sits on the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board. His investments have included Twitter, Square, Facebook, and Flipboard. He has also invested in entertainment and telecommunications. His company acquired an equity ownership stake in Summit Entertainment in 2007 and that company was acquired by Lions Gate for $412....

Early Life Terrell Raymonn Suggs was born on October 11, 1982, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the son of Laverne and Donald Suggs. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona, after eighth grade. He played high school football at Chandler High School and Hamilton High School, where he set the Arizona Class 5A record for rushing yards in a game with 367 as a junior in 1999. As a senior, Suggs was named a “Parade” High School All-American in 2000 and Gatorade Arizona Player of the Year, among other awards....

Terry Fator is a 48-year-old ventriloquist/singer/comedian/impressionist. If Terry’s name is unfamiliar, you probably haven’t visited Las Vegas in the last couple years. Born on June 10th, 1965, in Dallas, Texas, Fator began practicing ventriloquism in the fifth grade. With a book he checked out from the library, Ventriloquism for Fun and Profit, by Paul Winchell, and a Willie Talk dummy he purchased at Sears, Fator earned his first $25 at a church picnic....

[This article was written before Monday’s 5-to-1 stock split and we decided to stick with the pre-split numbers] That has been driving the value of the share packages Tesla’s board members have through the roof. And then there’s Elon Musk – who recently joined the $100 billion net worth club for the first time and now sits atop a net worth of $115 billion, $5 billion more than Mark Zuckerberg....

When Shah applied for the Payroll Protection Program loan, he told the federal government (pro tip: it’s a bad idea to lie to the federal government), that his company, Weddings by Farrah, needed loans for its 126 employees. He was approved for $1,592,657. Here’s the kicker though – his wedding business went out of business in 2018. Why? Weddings by Farrah was shut down by the federal government for failing to pay taxes....

The EXP 10 Speed 6 seems to be a smaller sports car that Bentley could slot below their Continental model. Some are calling it a “baby” Continental GT and it appears to be lighter and more agile. This two seat coupe has drawn comparisons to the Aston Martin Vantage and the Maserati Ghibli. Bentley could be following McLaren’s lead as they are also going with a smaller and more affordable Sports Series which includes the 570S Coupe....

Whenever someone leaves the private sector to take a high level government job, he or she is required to liquidate their entire investment portfolio in order to remove any potential conflicts of interest. The liquidated assets are then placed into a blind trust where they are invested without the person’s knowledge or influence. This ethics rule applies to the President, Vice President, all Cabinet Secretaries and anyone else with enough power to influence the private sector....

Now, Rafaelian is worth $100 million after a number of very bad years for her jewelry brand. Her credit line was cut off by her lender. Sales have fallen drastically. Lawsuits against her and Alex and Ani have been filed. She was forced to hand over one-third of her stake in Alex and Ani. She was asked to step down as CEO. She was fired as the designer for her own company....

Trick Daddy (real name Maurice Samuel Young), just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the Miami-bred rapper, he has ZERO money in the bank. According to the filing, Trick has roughly $430K in assets, which sounds pretty good on the surface. On the flipside though, he has $630K worth of debt including $34,837 in child support to one mother, and $22,282 in child support to another mother. He also e owes $290K in back taxes, and $280K for his first mortgage....

Hunger Games: Shields first starred as Primrose Everdeen in 2012’s “The Hunger Games”. She returned in 2013’s “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"and 2014/2015’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” Parts 1 and 2. In 2015 Shields appeared on the 20th season of Dancing with the Stars partnered with dancer Mark Ballas. At the time she was 14 which made her the youngest competitor to ever have appeared on the show. She was eliminated in week 7....

In case you were living under a rock last week, in the final minutes of Monday Night Football the Seattle Seahawks threw a Hail Mary pass to the end zone. The pass was clearly caught by Packers safety M.D. Jennings who landed on the ground only to have the ball pulled from his hands by Seahawk wide receiver Golden Tate. The entire world saw a Green Bay interception which should have ended the game with a 12-7 win for the Packers....

Rolex has been the official timekeeper of the Le Mans 24 Hours motor race for more than two decades and has partnered with a number of notable celebrities over the years, from golfer Arnold Palmer to explorers Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. With more than 100 years of history, Rolex has seen plenty of interesting developments. That includes a change of ownership more than 60 years ago that’s unlike just about every billion-dollar company in the world....

Prior to February 11, Mike Tyson was widely considered the best boxer of all time. Certainly the best in the world at the moment. He had a track record of eviscerating his opponents in a matter of seconds. None of this Floyd Mayweather is dancing around for 12 rounds without getting punched or punching. The bell would ring, and Mike would spring from his corner and destroy his opponents with brutal force....

Escobar peddled his wares from Colombia via his Medellín cartel while El Chapo made his mark in Mexico with his Sinaloa Federation. Both men sent massive amounts of cocaine and other drugs throughout the world during their reigns. Escobar’s fall from grace was in 1993 whereas El Chapo’s appears to be right now via his extradition to the U.S. in January to face drug trafficking charges. Both drug kingpins amassed insane amounts of wealth....

Early Life & Meeting Howard Stern Alison Berns was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, on May 26, 1954. She met Howard Stern when they were both undergraduate students at Boston University. While in school, Howard cast Alison in a student film he made about Transcendental Meditation. He would later write in his book that he knew within a week that they would marry. They married on June 4, 1978 at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts....