If you’re wondering why Tommy is not a multi-multi-billionaire, it’s because he sold the majority of his company in 1989 to investors Silas Chou and Lawrence Stroll. Today Chou and Stroll are both worth $2.7 billion a piece. Hilfiger was named Menswear Designer of the Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1995 and has received several awards for his fashion design and charity work throughout his career....
Lawrence’s albums Time Marches On in 1996 and The Coast Is Clear in 1997 both reached #4 on that chart. He released the albums Lessons Learned in 2000 and Tracy Lawrence in 2001. His album Strong was released in 2004 and reached #2 on the US Country chart. Lawrence has also released the albums For the Love in 2007, The Rock in 2009, The Singer in 2011, and Headlights, Taillights and Radios in 2013....
Will Keith Kellogg, commonly known as W.K. Kellogg, transformed American breakfast habits and built one of the world’s largest food manufacturing companies through his innovation and business acumen. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1860, he spent his early years working as a broom salesman and bookkeeper before joining his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. At the sanitarium, which promoted healthy living through diet and exercise, W....
Alie Ward was born in San Francisco, California in November 1976. She is also known for being one half of the duo Alie and Georgia with her friend Georgia Hardstark. Ward has served as a writer for the television series The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation. As an actress she starred as Miranda on the TV series Nash Bridges from 1998 to 2000. Alie Ward starred as Science Lady on the TV series documentary Brainchild in 2018....
From 2004 to 2009 she produced, wrote, and directed The L Word. In 2004 she directed, wrote, and edited the feature film D.E.B.S. which was nominated for a Black Movie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Robinson directed the movie Herbie: Fully Loaded in 2005. She directed the 2010 film Gigantic and has also worked on the TV series Hung, Charlie’s Angels, and True Blood. Angela is a lesbian and often deals with gay and lesbian issues in her films....
Outside of film salaries, Arnold has built a real estate empire and, most importantly, owns 5% of an investment firm called Dimensional Fund Advisors. Since his earliest days in the US back in the 1970s, he has poured his earnings into real estate. He was a millionaire at age 25, thanks to these real estate investments. Arnold’s commercial and personal real estate portfolios are likely worth $100-200 million. He acquired his 5% stake in Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1996 for an undisclosed amount at a time when the firm managed $12 billion worth of assets....
Their 2008 album Narrow Stairs hit #1 in both the U.S. and Canada. Their most popular singles include “Soul Meets Body” and “I Will Possess Your Heart”. The Postal Service formed in 2001 and broke up in 2005. They reunited in 2013. Their only studio album, 2003’s Give Up, was #1 on the U.S. Dance charts. Their single “Such Great Heights” was certified Gold. Ben has also released three albums with solo project !...
Bernie and Elton first met in 1967 when both men answered an ad seeking new songwriters. They quickly connected and soon realized they made a good team. Elton John was capable of writing excellent music, but his songwriting abilities were lacking. Taupin was the exact opposite. Together, they realized that they could achieve great things. Bernie has been described as the lyrical translator of Elton’s moods, memories, and fantasies. Despite not being a gay man himself, Bernie has been able to tap into a wide range of Elton’s emotions over the decades when he was both in and out of the closet....
Cedi Osman was born in Ohrid, Macedonia in April 1995. He is a 6'8″ small forward. Osman played for Anadolu Efes from 2011 to 2017 and was loaned to Pertevniyal from 2011 to 2013. During that time he won the Albert Schweitzer Tournament Most Talented Player in 2012 and was the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship MVP in 2014. Cedi Osman was a three time BSL All-Star. In 2015 he won the Turkish Cup and the Turkish Supercup....
Christopher von Uckermann was born in Mexico City, Mexican Federal District in October 1986. As an actor he starred as Angel del Huerto on the television series Aventuras en el tiempo in 2001. Von Uckermann starred as Diego Bustamante on the TV series Rebelde from 2004 to 2006. From 2009 to 2012 he starred as Luca on the series Kdabra. Christopher von Uckermann began starring as Ventura on the television series Diablero in 2018....
Cliff Lee Contract Starting in 2012, Cliff Lee began earning a salary of $24 million per year as part of a 5 year $120 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Twelve years after he walked off his eponymous Comedy Central series, Chappelle has returned to the mainstream spotlight and is keeping it current with a Netflix deal for three comedy specials. The first two – which each came with an eight-figure check – were Netflix’s most-watched stand-up specials ever, according to the streaming service. Dave Chappelle was born in Washington, D.C. in 1973 and grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland....
He has also had recurring roles on the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, The Practice, Soldier of Fortune, Inc., Ed, Justified, Chicago Med, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Justice. Eigenberg has appeared in the films Rude Awakening, By a Thread, Charlie Hoboken, A Perfect Murder, The Mothman Prophecies, Around the Bend, Love, Ludlow, Driftwood, The Trouble with Romance, Sex and the City, See You in September, Sex and the City 2, and more....
Snell voices his character for the show’s 2007 video game of the same name. He appeared in the 2006 TV movie “Desolation Canyon” as Edwin Bornstein on the Hallmark channel; the movie also featured his “The Shield” co-star Kenneth Johnson. After the show’s end, Snell landed a recurring role as Leon Drake in a handful of episodes of CBS’ “The Unit”. He had a recurring role on “Last Resort” as Barry Hopper and another on “Sons of Anarchy” as Agent Grad Nicholas....
Matos recurred on General Hospital from September 2006 until early 2007. He went on to star in the CBS series Cane, alongside Jimmy Smits, Hector Elizondo and Rita Moreno. He also guest-starred on the Fox hit medical drama House M.D. Eddie Matos joined the cast of daytime soap opera All My Children in 2010, playing the role of Reverend Ricky Torres. His other roles include appearances on such television shows as Clueless (TV series), The Bold and the Beautiful, Wanderlust, All About Us (TV series), Tru Calling, Charmed, Women in Law, In Justice, Pepper Dennis, Psych and Finding Carter....
El Chapo has been in his current digs since January 19th, when he was extradited to the US following his headline-grabbing jailbreak (his second), and since then, the Mexican government claims his Sinaloa Cartel’s sphere of influence has shrunk significantly. At the peak of its power, Sinaloa’s power was felt in 24 out of 32 states in Mexico, and had operations in as many as 50 countries. Admittedly, things were already on a downward trend at the time of his initial capture in January of last year, with Sinaloa operations in just 11 states in Mexico, but since then Sinaloa Cartel territory has shrunk down even more, with territory lost in Colima, Nayarit, and Jalisco, and Yucatan....
The Meijer stores were the first stores to combine high quality produce and grocery items with department store items. The company was quite successful up through the early 90s, until Wal-Mart began cutting into their business. There are currently 190 Meijer stores in five states, and the company is headquartered in Michigan, where it has the largest concentration of stores. Since the early 2000s, the company has been restructuring, changing its image, shuffling employees, and laying off others, in an attempt to remain competitive....
Frankie Goes to Hollywood had #1 singles in the UK and other countries with the songs “Relax”, “Two Tribes”, and “The Power of Love”. Johnson released his debut solo studio album Blast in 1989 which reached #1 in the UK. He went on to release the albums Hollelujah in 1989, Dreams That Money Can’t Buy in 1991, Soulstream in 1999, and Europa and Unleashed From the Pleasuredome in 2014. His singles “Love Train” and “Americanos” both reached #4 in the UK....
She began her career in 2007 by competing in singing competitions to help support her family as a child. She placed 3rd in the major televised Filipino vocal competition show, “Little Big Star”, in 2005. She started to gain widespread attention when a fan posted videos of her singing on YouTube. Her performances caught the attention of Ten Songs/Productions in Sweden, and she subsequently recorded her first demo. Since then, her career has exploded, and she has performed around the world, and appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show....
Early Years Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. was born on April 7, 1938, in San Francisco, California. He is the only son of Bernice (Layne) and Edmund Gerald “Pat” Brown Sr., an American lawyer and politician who went on to serve as the 32nd governor of California. In 1955, Brown graduated from St. Ignatius High School, a private Catholic preparatory school in San Francisco. While a student there, he was part of the California Cadet Corps, a paramilitary youth organization attached to the California Youth and Community Programs Task Force....
