Early Years Kevin Conroy was born on November 30, 1955, in Westbury, New York. He was the youngest of four children in the Irish-Catholic home of Thomas and Patricia Conroy. Thomas was employed by an airline company, and the family relocated to Westport, Connecticut, around 1966. Due to the stress caused by his father’s struggles with alcohol and suicidal tendencies, Kevin moved out of the family home and into the home of a friend during his last year of high school....
Lanai is the smallest inhabited island in Hawaii. It was once known as “The Pineapple Island” due to its origins as a pineapple plantation. In 1922, James Drummond Dole was a young Harvard graduate living in Oahu running his fledgling pineapple business. That year, Dole paid $1.1 million for the land and just like that, an entire island was taken over by Dole pineapple. Dole plowed the island’s interior into fields, built roads, and a harbor, and laid out a quaint town in the center of the island with Dole Park in the middle....
Ever since she began a career in sports talk radio in NYC and Seattle, the Long Island native has had a successful career spanning decades, and one she’s also passionate about. Cohn partly attributes her tremendous success to being a massive sports fan and finding passion in engaging other fans. She has clocked over 30 years at ESPN and is the longest-tenured anchor of SportsCenter. Cohn’s unique style includes her thick New York accent, and while hockey is back on ESPN, she has spent a great deal of her three-decade tenure championing a sport not featured by the network....
Today Manolo Blahnik remains a privately-held family business. Manolo himself still serves as Creative Director and Chairman. His niece Hulsebus Blahnik currently serves as company CEO. Early Life and Education Manolo Blahnik was born as Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez on November 27, 1942 in Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands. His mother was Spanish, while his father was a Czech emigrant who fled Prague in the 30s to avoid fascism....
Early Life Marko Jarić was born on October 12, 1978, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). He is the son of Srećko Jarić, a well-known Yugoslav professional basketball player. Jarić got into basketball early on, playing on the youth teams of the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Basketball Career Jarić began his professional career with the Greek Basket League club Peristeri in 1996. He played two seasons in the European-wide 3rd tier level FIBA Korać Cup and the next four years in Europe’s top-tier level, EuroLeague, with Italian teams Fortitudo Bologna and Virtus Bologna....
MC Serch released his debut solo studio album Return of the Product in 1992. In 2002 he appeared in the film Bamboozled. MC Serch hosted the radio program Serch In The AM in Detroit from 2003 to 2006 on FM 98 WLJB. He was the host of the VH1 reality television series Ego Trip’s The (White) Rapper Show as well as Ego Trip’s Miss Rap Supreme. MC Serch returned to Detroit radio working at Hot 102....
Should he have been vocal about racial causes? Should he have used that platform more directly to rally behind social injustices? What change could he have effected had he been more like LeBron James, who has certainly never shied away from a cause? Jordan is very aware of this criticism. In recent years he has started to take minor steps to correct his former lack of action. And today he made a MAJOR step....
Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, commonly known as Nani, stands as one of Portugal’s most successful footballers of the modern era. Born on November 17, 1986, in Amadora, Portugal, Nani’s journey began in the youth ranks of Real Massamá before catching the eye of Portuguese giants Sporting CP, where he would eventually make his professional debut in 2005. His breakthrough at Sporting CP quickly established him as one of Europe’s most promising young talents, combining explosive pace with remarkable technical ability....
These events are a rare opportunity for an impoverished regime facing international sanctions to generate a large amount of foreign currency. A single seven-day trip to Pyongyang costs $2,500 in USD, which goes to various North Korean government agencies. This total is equal to the average wage of a North Korean citizen over a period of five years. Including flight costs, hotels, living expenses, and visas, North Korea likely made around $300,000 from the journalists who attended this recent celebration....
He has starred in the movies Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Wicked Game, and The Order. He has also directed a handful of Power Rangers TV episodes and the video Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest in 1996 as well as episodes of the Hello Kitty animated TV series and the short An Easy Thing. Schrier also worked as an artist on the comic book The Red Star....
After getting involved in karting at the tender age of three, Ralf started racing automobiles in the German Formula Three Championship and the Formula Nippon series. His Formula One debut came in 1997 at the Jordan Grand Prix. By 1999, he had secured a place on the Williams team, and he finished in sixth place in the championship that year. In 2001, he claimed his first Formula One victory and later finished fourth in the championship....
Early Life Richard Kline was born on April 29, 1944, in New York City. He was raised in Queens by Jewish parents. Richard first attended Queens College and later obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater from Northwestern University. After graduating from college, he joined the United States Army and served as a lieutenant in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Career Soon after the war, Kline became involved in theater....
He has appeared in such film projects as, “Bad Medicine”, “Pulse”, “Dangerous Curves”, “Shatterbrain”, “Carlo’s Wake”, “A Halfway House Christmas”, “Road to the Altar”, and “The Runaways”. He has played guest starring or recurring roles on such television shows as, “Days of Our Lives”, “St. Elsewhere”, “MacGyver”, “Fame”, “The Facts of Life”, “21 Jump Street”, “Booker”, “Boston Common”, “Providence”, “Will and Grace”, “V.I.P.”, “The Young and the Restless”, and “Touch”....
Lee, you may remember was arrested a few years ago on corruption charges. In August 2017, Lee Jae-yong was found guilty of offering bribes to former South Korean President Park Guen-hye as well as to Park’s close friend Choi Soon-sil in exchange for government favors for Samsung. Samsung donated nearly $70 million to two charities controlled by Choi Soon-sil. The company also transferred millions to a German company of Choi’s that financed her daughter’s equestrian training and her niece’s winter sports center....
Although this much-need financial boost keeps the Berlin-based company afloat, but not without string attached. First, former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor will replace SoundCloud CEO Alexander Ljung. The company’s business strategy will begin focusing on the sale of tools for artists, podcasters and other content creators—potentially building upon its preexisting SoundCloud Pro, which allows users to pay to upload content to the site and offers analytics tools and data. Trainor also said SoundCloud will no longer compete as directly with larger rivals Spotify and Apple Music....
#10. Vagit Alekperov, $6.7 billion Source: Oil Vagit Alekperov began working for the drilling company, Kaspmorneft, while still in school, and then became a full-time engineer for them after graduating. He was promoted from engineer to head of his own production unit over the course of the next few years. He then moved to Siberia to work for Surgutneftegaz, another oil company. There, he quickly established himself as an expert, and subsequently became the director, or deputy director, of a number of oil production companies....
#20) Michael Chiarello – Net Worth: $3.5 million #19) Lidia Bastianich – Net Worth: $3.75 million #18) (tie) Cat Cora – Net Worth: $4.5 million #18) Rocco Dispirito – Net Worth: $4.5 million #17) (tie) Scott Conant – Net Worth: $5 million #17) (tie) Anne Burrell – Net Worth: $5 million #17) Ron Ben-Israel – Net Worth: $5 million #16) Ana Quincoces – Net Worth: $7 million #15) Curtis Stone – Net Worth: $8 million #14)Guy Fieri – Net Worth: $8....
We learned a few things as we put together this list. Though we’ve limited our list to those born from 1957 to 1996, even so, they are worth a combined $1.4 trillion. Most of the people on our list were either born into their money or married it. Almost all of the American billionaires earned their enormous net worths in technology. The most billionaires come from the United States, Europe, and Asia....
Born on December 11, 1969, in Chennai (then Madras), India, Anand learned chess from his mother at the age of six. His natural talent for the game became evident early on, as he quickly progressed through local and national competitions in his youth. Anand’s rise in chess was meteoric. He became India’s first International Master at age 15, and in 1988, at just 18, he made history by becoming India’s first Grandmaster....
Early Life Young Buck was born David Darnell Brown on March 15, 1981, in Nashville, Tennessee. The son of Audrey Horn and James Brown, Young Buck started rapping when he was 12 years old, and he performed for the co-founder of Cash Money Records, Brian “Baby” Williams, a few years later. He signed with Cash Money in 1995, then later left the label for UTP Records, which led to him meeting 50 Cent and signing with G-Unit Records....
