Craig McCaw – $1.9 billion After graduating from Stanford, Craig McCaw decided to focus on rebuilding his family’s struggling broadcasting company. He rebuilt their broadcasting network, and by the 1980s, his family’s firm was the 20th largest cable carrier in the United States. He also began to invest in the cellular industry in the 80s and went on to sell portions of MCI to Comcast, and his own cellular company to AT&T....
The Weinstein Company has apparently been out of money for more than a year. The Weinstein brothers own a 42% stake in the company they founded that is worth exactly ZERO. This situation is scaring off any potential buyers for the company. In fact, not only is the company broke, but a look at their entire business reveals that The Weinstein Company is a sinking ship with little chance of finding a life preserver....
Tom Gugliotta was born in Huntington Station, New York, in 1969. He played college basketball at North Carolina State University from 1988 until 1992; he earned first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors during his senior season. The Washington Bullets selected Gugliotta with the sixth overall pick during the first round of the 1992 NBA Draft. Gugliotta played with the Bullets until 1994 before playing for the Golden State Warriors, the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Phoenix Suns, the Utah Jazz, the Boston Celtics, and the Atlanta Hawks....
The Cincinnati Bengals had just agreed to trade him to the Cleveland Browns for a pair of draft picks. Everything was set…except the Browns didn’t notify the league before the 4 p.m. trade deadline. The deal never happened, and McCarron landed back in Cincinnati. And now, per Adam Schefter, it’s being reported that McCarron filed a grievance against the Bengals earlier this season. If the result goes his way, he can skip restricted free agency and become an unrestricted free agent when this season ends....
Early Life Al Haymon was born on April 21, 1955, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother, Emma Lou, was an accountant and Al’s hero, supporting him every step along the way. His brother, Bobby, was a professional boxer from 1969 to 1978. Al grew up a very smart kid and graduated from John Adams High School. He went on to study economics at Harvard and also earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard before starting his career in the music and television industries....
Alex Jennings was born in Essex, England in May 1957. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre and has won three Olivier Awards for his performances in Too Clever by Half in 1988, Peer Gynt in 1996, and My Fair Lady in 2003. Jennings is the only actor to win Olivier awards for drama, musical, and comedy genres. From 2016 to 2017 he starred as David, Duke of Windsor on the Netflix series The Crown....
Arizona Diamondbacks Owner/Managing Partner: Ken Kendrick Purchase price: $238 million (2004) Current franchise valuation: $1.29 billion Ken Kendrick founded Datatel, Inc, which provides information processing and software products for higher education. He owns the Diamondbacks alongside Jeffery Royer and Michael Chipman. All three have owned at least a part of the team since its first season in 1998. Kendrick is a baseball card collector with more than 10,000 baseball cards....
Born in Biloxi, Misissippi on May 21, 1981, Belladonna is of German, Scottish, and Cherokee heritage. She stands at five feet and four inches tall at 127 pounds. She was discovered by an agent in Utah and flew out to Los Angeles just a day later. Before becoming and adult actor, Belladonna was a dancer at a Utah club. Her name translates to “beautiful woman” in Italian. She was given the name by an agent....
He began performing in a band with his brother called Les Charts, and between 1989 and 1997 the band had released five albums. Eventually Calogero decided to pursue a solo route and released his first album Au milieu des Autres, in 2000. His second album in 2002 was self-titled and included hit singles such as “En apesanteur,” “Aussi libre que moi,” “Tien an men,” and “Prendre racine.” He is widely regarded as a pop rock artist with influences such as The Cure, The Beatles, and The Who....
Camilla Luddington was born in Ascot, Berkshire, England in December 1983. She married Matthew Alan in 2019. Luddington made her debut in the short A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser in 2007. In 2012 she starred as Lizzie on the television series Californication. Luddington starred as Claudette on the TV series True Blood in 2012. In 2012 she began starring as Dr. Jo on the series Grey’s Anatomy....
Born in Detroit in 1962, Gilbert’s first serious foray into business came at the age of 12, when he and his younger brother began a pizzeria business out of their mother’s kitchen. They briefly delivered the pies on bikes to neighbors before being shut down by the health department. Gilbert later graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University, which he followed up on with a juris doctorate from Detroit’s Wayne State University Law School....
Early Life Christopher James Weidman was born on June 17, 1984, in Baldwin, New York. He is the second of three children. Chris started wrestling at a young age and was involved in many sports with his older brother. He attended Baldwin Senior High School, where he was a Nassau County and New York state wrestling champion. Weidman was a standout at Nassau Community College, earning All-American wrestling honors twice before transferring to Hofstra....
After graduating from Barnard, she attended Columbia University, where she pursued an MFA in Literature, and subsequently became the editor-in-chief of Social Life magazine. Since then, she has appeared on various reality series, such as, “The Real Housewives of New York”, “Fashionista Diaries”, and the short-lived CW series “High Society”, which ran for eight episodes in 2010 and was about a group of East Coast socialites. She is both admired and hated for her social-climbing tendencies, and has come under fire from members of the elite in the Hamptons over the course of the last two years, due to her many public appearances and reality show deals....
The decision was made by a Geneva court, which has been weighing the pros and cons of Rybolovlev’s previous divorce ruling, and you can believe his lawyers were leaning hard on the whole “most expensive divorce in history” thing during the proceedings. The decision was reached, based on a contention over whether or not Rybolovlev’s ex-wife was entitled to money Rybolovlev, who has a net worth of around $8.8 billion, placed in foreign trusts....
Early Life Drew Tate was born on October 8, 1984, in Baytown, Texas. He attended Robert E. Lee High School, where he played football and was coached by his stepfather. Tate topped the record books for Texas high school quarterbacks in several categories. He then played his college football at the University of Iowa, where he participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in 2003, was named to the All-Big Ten Conference First Team in 2004 and Big Ten Player of the Year in 2004, and was Capital One Bowl MVP in 2005....
Philadelphia Eagles kicker Jake Elliott made a game winning, franchise record 61 yard field goal this past Sunday to help defeat their NFC rival New York Giants, 27-24. While Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz ran out to the field with the rest of his teammates celebrating the exhilarating win, he was likely thinking about the money he would have to be shelling out to his teammate as a result of the made field goal....
Superyacht Super expensive luxury cars are one thing, but owning your own yacht is something entirely different. The largest yacht in the world is valued at over $1 billion and is 728 feet long, which is the length of almost two and a half football fields. The owner of the “Triple Deuce” yacht, which will be completed in 2018, expects general upkeep to cost about $20 to $30 million each year!...
Modeled after the stunt show, “Jackass”, the series shows the friends eating fatty, high calorie meals that they design themselves, usually combining multiple fast food items and alcohol. As of this writing, their youtube channel has nearly 7 million subscribers and more than 1 billion video views. In addition to splitting revenue with ads that are shown on their videos, Epic Meal Time has a popular line of T-Shirts, a video game, a cookbook and an iPhone App....
