Last month, the couple let go of a 3,200-square-foot Pacific Palisades house for $9.1 million, selling it to Houston Astros owner (and neighbor) Jim Crane, in a reported off-market cash deal. Only a week or so before that, it was reported that Pfeiffer and Kelley had sold another home up north in Silicon Valley for $22 million. That’s not all. For almost three years (going back to October 2017), they’ve been trying to find a buyer for their massive compound in British Columbia, a nature retreat that sprawls across 340 acres....

Yossi Dina is a prominent Beverly Hills pawnbroker and businessman known as the “Pawnbroker to the Rich and Famous.” Operating out of his store, The Dina Collection, on Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California, he has built a reputation over several decades for dealing in high-end luxury items and providing discreet services to wealthy clients. Born and raised in Israel, Dina served in the Israeli military before moving to the United States in the 1970s....

Bill Ackman Bill Ackman is a billionaire hedge fund manager. He had a feeling that the market meltdown due to all the coronavirus shutdowns, furloughs, and layoffs could pay off big for him. He made some defensive hedge bets in March 2020 and turned his $27 million position into a $2.6 billion gain. He believed the debt bubble would burst and investors would abandon riskier securities. He was correct. Andrew Hall Back in 2003, oil trader Andrew Hall purchased inexpensive long-dated oil futures that would cash in if the price reached $100 at some point over the next five years....

The new members include first from Slovenia, Norway, and Tanzania. They cover a range of industries from airlines to the film industry to hedge funds. Members range in age from 31 to 93. American members of The Giving Pledge come from 27 states as well as the District of Columbia. The most American members come from California and New York. Let’s take a look at a few of the people who’ve just signed on to The Giving Pledge....

You’ve heard of some of these companies. How about Zappos? Tony Hsieh worked at Microsoft. So did Expedia and Glassdoor founder Rich Barton. So did OfferUp’s Nick Huzar and Zulily founder Darrell Cavens. We will focus on technology founders below but feel we should also mention some older employees that went on to found companies that were immensely popular in the pre-digital age. Were you a kid in the 1980s?...

Born in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1972, Alan Henderson played high school and college basketball in Indiana. He played with the Indiana University Hoosiers from 1991 until 1995, earning third-team All-American honors during his final season in college. The Atlanta Hawks drafted Henderson with the 16th overall pick during the first round of the 1995 NBA Draft. The six-foot-nine, 235-pound power forward played with the team that drafted him for nearly a decade from 1995 until 2004....

He has also invested a large portion of his personal wealth in a number of banks, in various energy companies, including Galp, Portugal’s former state-run energy group, and he owns 25% of Tom Ford. He is married to the daughter of a prominent Portuguese doctor, and has three daughters of his own. He was given an honorary doctorate from St. John’s University in 2009. Americo Amorim died on June 13, 2017....

Amy Chua was born in Champaign, Illinois in October 1962. She graduated from Harvard University where she earned her BA and JD. Chua is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined Yale in 2001 after she taught at Duke Law School for seven years. Amy Chua worked in corporate law at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2011....

Born in Houston, Texas on April 1, 1952, O’Toole is best known for her roles on The Danny Kaye Show, My Three Sons, The Virginian, Gunsmoke, Hawaii five-O, The Partridge Family, and Smallville. She has been active in the entertainment industry since 1960 and started dancing when she was just three years old. She took an interest in acting after her family relocated to Los Angeles, California when she was thirteen....

Avi Rothman first appeared in the short Ogden: The Inappropriate Yoga Guy in 2006. He has also appeared in the shorts Boundaries, Fitness Made Difficult, Flowers and Weeds, Intoxicated Man, Blessing in Disguise, The iMom, Bunion, Health Nuts, Hello Charles, Worst-Case Scenario, Inc., Lost & Found, All Good, Helen, and Overshare. Rothman has appeared in the movies The Blackout, Silver Lake, Blue Lips, Love, Sex and Missed Connections, The Hammer, and The Slammin’ Salmon....

The contest appears to be geared mostly towards Japanese entrepreneurs, since the site linked to from Maezawa’s Twitter account is in Japanese, and all submitted business proposals must be accompanied by a “screening fee” of 10,000 Japanese yen (about 90 American dollars). Basically, entrants email Maezawa their business proposals, and the ten best (after two additional rounds of questionnaires and interviews) will get a billion Japanese yen each as sort of a cash prize/investment from Maezawa....

Bobby Blitz was born in New Jersey in May 1959. He was born Robert Ellsworth and plays bass guitar but focuses on vocals in his band. Overkill was formed in 1980 and released their debut studio album Feel the Fire in 1985. The band released several albums over the years but found their most success starting with the album White Devil Armory in 2014 which reached #31 on the Billboard 200 chart as well as #28 in Hungary and Finland....

In 2006, he was in advanced negotiations with Yamaha, but after they dropped him he settled on an alliance once more with team manager Lucio Cecchinello on a Honda RC211V, on a one-bike team new to the series for the 2006 Season, Team LCR. He secured a ride with the factory Ducati team for the 2007 season, joining Loris Capirossi on the new 800cc Ducati Desmosedici GP7. 6 poles and 10 race wins took him to his first GP title, by a margin of 125 points over Dani Pedrosa, which he built during the second half of the season....

Outside of his work with “The Young Turks,” Cenk is also known for co-founding Justice Democrats, a progressive political action committee. He is also a frequent fixture on MSNBC Current TV. Uygur eventually went into politics himself, running in the special election and the regularly scheduled election for California’s 25th congressional district to succeed Kate Hill, who had recently resigned at the time. Unfortunately, he lost both elections. His best result was 6....

Back in February, Ciara launched a $15 million defamation lawsuit against the 32-year-old rapper, suing him for slander and libel as a result of repeated derogatory comments. For example, earlier this year, Future tweeted out, “This bh got control problems … I gotta go through lawyers to see baby future … the fery for 15k a month.” In addition, the songstress called out the Atlanta native for his comments regarding a photo of Ciara’s now husband Russell Wilson pushing a stroller with Future’s son in it....

The 31-year-old fighter told ESPN he believes he’ll be a billionaire by the time he’s 35. McGregor’s net worth currently sits at $120 million. If he can double that every year, he’ll reach billionaire status in 2024. With a birthday in July, he would, in fact, hit ten figures while he’s 35. But is that realistic? The biggest payday McGregor ever received was $100 million, which he made during his fight with Floyd Mayweather in 2017....

He was released after serving more than 18 years in prison in 2011. Echols served on death row and was locked down for 23 hours a day. He relocated to Salem, Massachusetts with his wife that he married while in prison. His memoir Almost Home: My Life Story Vol. 1 was published in 2005 while he was still serving his time in prison. He released an album with Michale Graves of The Misfits titled Illusions in 2007 and co-wrote the lyrics to a Pearl Jam song in 2006....

Beckham is in the process of securing financing for his MLS expansion team with billionaire financier Todd Boehly. Beckham wants Boehly on board to give his team a solid financial profile – something he needs to convince current MLS owners of, to let his team into the league in 2019. Basically, some owners have their briefs in a wad over the fact that Beckham got his team at the bargain basement price of $25 million....

Unfortunately, at the time of his death, Dick was broke and living off a $650 monthly pension from the Screen Actors Guild. A back injury incurred during the filming of the 1959 movie “They Came to Cordura” left him with a lifelong severe back injury. That injury was a constant problem on the set of “Bewitched” and ultimately led to him being replaced on the series by Dick Sargent. After the series ended, he became addicted to painkillers, then after getting clean was totally out of money....

Dre and Young were married in May of 1996 and both of their kids (23-year-old son Truice and 19-year-old daughter Truly) are grown up, so child support won’t be part of any such settlement, but Young is said to be seeking an undisclosed amount in spousal support. According to California law, if the marriage lasted longer than 10 years, spousal support typically lasts indefinitely. Had the marriage been less than 10 years, the rule is that support would last for half the length of the marriage....