Early Life and Career Beginnings Salman Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947 in Bombay, British India to Negin, a teacher, and Anis, a lawyer-turned-businessman. His family is Kashmiri Muslim, and he has three sisters. As a youth, Rushdie went to the Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay, and then to the Rugby School in Warwickshire, England. For his higher education, he studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. Early on in his career, Rushdie worked as a copywriter for the advertising agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Ayer Barker.
How big is Shaq-sized? The home measures in at 35,000 square feet, but it’s O’Nealean in its intangible proportions as well, with one-of-a-kind touches like the 6,000-square-foot indoor basketball court personalized as “Shaq Center,” and a living room with a giant wall-sized mural depicting a large diesel semi-truck with Shaq’s signature Superman logo actually sticking out of the wall and charging towards the viewer. As per the Sotheby’s International listing for the house: “The astonishing estate was designed with lake views in mind for almost every room.
Anthony Casalena founded Squarespace from his dorm room in 2003 at the University of Maryland. The computer science major borrowed $30,000 from his parents to get it off the ground. For the first three years of his company’s existence, Casalena was the company’s only engineer, designer, and support person. By the time Casalena graduated in 2007, Squarespace had annual revenue of $1 million. By 2010 the company had 30 employees and was generating $10 million in annual revenue.
#9 (tie): Nicole Richie Net Worth: $10 million Nicole wasn’t actually born into a rich family – she was adopted by a family friend, Lionel Richie (who is certainly rich). She was officially adopted when she was 9 years old, and she claims her new family said “yes to everything I wanted.” She used her name to obtain a starring role in the reality TV series, The Simple Life, with Paris Hilton.
Prior to taking the top job at GameStop, George Sherman had an extremely respectable, but not exactly world-changing business career. He basically has exactly the resumé you’d expect for the kind of person who would ultimately be offered the opportunity to run a publicly-traded video game retail corporation on a death march. George was a regional vice president at Target from 1996 to 2002. He was an Executive Vice President at discount retailer Mervyns from 2002 to 2005.
He holds a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. When Thiago Alves was 19-years old, he moved to Coconut Creek, Florida to undertake full-time training at the American Top Team facilities. In his professional Mixed Martial Arts career to date (2013), Known by the nickname “Pitbull’, Thiago Alves has been in 28 matches with 19 wins, 11 of which were by knockout, two by submission, and six by decision. In his nine losses, only one was by knockout.
Regan hosts the daily podcast “Trish Intel,” and she publishes a monthly magazine called “American Consequences.” She directed the 2009 documentary “Marijuana Inc: Inside America’s Pot Industry” and published the book “Joint Ventures: Inside America’s Almost Legal Marijuana Industry” in 2011. The Northern California Society of Professional Journalists honored Trish with the Most Outstanding Young Broadcast Journalist Award in 2002, and in 2007, she earned a News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast for “CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer.
Camp decided to become the latest member of the Giving Pledge after a two week trip to Kenya. While in there, Camp went on safari and visited small towns and rural areas. The trip made him realize that it was time for him to start giving back. Camp is planning to set up a foundation and figure out how he wants to focus his philanthropic efforts. The 39-year old San Francisco based tech entrepreneur is a Canadian citizen.
Willy Moon is probably best known for his hit song “Yeah, Yeah” which was featured on the Apple iPod commercial in 2012. His music is described as a fusion of 50s rock’n’roll and modern production that uses hip-hop production techniques. In 2015, Moon was a judge and mentor on the X Factor New Zealand alongside wife Natalia Kills, who he married in New York City in 2014. Natalia Kills, who’s real name is Natalia Noemi Cappuccini-Sinclair, is an English singer best known for her 2013 single “Saturday Night”.
However, sometimes teams work themselves into a corner with their loose spending. In those cases, they’ll come to an agreement with players to defer some or all of the money on a deal. The deferred payments give immediate relief for teams, but often come with interest attached, meaning they may ultimately pay a lot more than they would have if the contract proceeded as normal. Here’s a look at seven of the most outrageous deferred-money contracts in sports history.
It’s called “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” by artist Mike Winkelmann, otherwise known as Beeple. The $69 million sale price puts him into the echelons of works sold by Picasso. [We wish we could show you a photo the piece that sold but there weren’t any images available in our Getty Images library and we’re guessing that something that just sold for $69 million is pretty well copyright protected.] The piece is essentially an omnibus collection of every single piece made by Beeple over the course of 5,000 days, combining the thousands of works into one overarching piece of its own.
Allan H. Meltzer was born in Boston, Massachusetts in February 1928. Meltzer received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from Duke University in 1948 and 1955, respectively. He earned his Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 1958. He served, from 1973 to 1999, as the Chair of the “Shadow Open Market Committee”, a group of economists, academics, and bankers that met to critique the actions of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee.
On Wednesday Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts revealed that Gates’ private investment office, Cascade Investments, had acquired a controlling stake in its company at a valuation of $10 billion. In the all-cash deal, Gates is paying $2.21 billion to Kingdom Holding, the investment office of Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Al Saud. Prior to the deal, Cascade and Kingdom both owned 47.5% of the hotel chain. Gates is essentially buying half of Kingdom’s share, so that when the deal is done he will own 71.
While the home might not look like the haunted castle one would imagine Vincent Price whiling away his off hours in, it still has plenty of charm dating all the way back to the 1920s, and its official listing described it as a “Distinguished Holmby Hills compound” that’s “steeped in Hollywood Fame.” The listing goes on:
“Exquisitely maintained (extensively renovated cira 2003-4) Main house feat. timbered cathedral ceilings, handcrafted wrought iron & painted tiles, hrdwd flrs.
$1 Million Salary When he first was hired by Florida State, Bobby’s annual salary was $37,500. By the early 1980s he was making $140,000 per year. That’s the same as around $400,000 today after adjusting fori inflation. Bobby was the first college coach to earn $1 million per year in salary. He achieved that feat in 1995. At the end of his time with Florida State, Bowden was earning $2 million per year.
The condo is at the top of 520 West 28th Street, designed in a deluxe futuristic style by the late architect Zaha Hadid. Hadid’s involvement as well as the building’s extremely enviable location in Chelsea led to extremely high asking prices for not just the penthouse, but all the units in the complex, and in fact, its original listing price was a staggering $50 million in 2015. But as broker Donna Olshan told the Post, Edens’s 20 percent discount is less a reflection of market instability and more a reflection of the penthouse’s unrealistically high price to start with: “$50 million was a fantasy price based on a market that didn’t exist…It wasn’t realistic.
From March through July, more than 10,000 employees of Tyson were diagnosed with the coronavirus. A number of families of workers who’ve died during the pandemic have filed lawsuits against Tyson for gross negligence and/or wrongful death. In July, the CEO of Tyson stepped down. In August, the company reported a 22% drop in its third-quarter earnings, due in part to $340 million spent on personal protective equipment, sanitization of factories, testing, and bonuses to the factory workers still working during the pandemic.
Waterboys: In 2015 Chris founded a non-profit called the Waterboys that intends to provide clean drinking water to communities in need. He was inspired after a trip to Tanzania where he learned that 1 in 9 of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water. During his trip to Tanzania he witnessed young children drinking water from the same lake where animals defecated. One of the Waterboys’ first goals was to build 32 water walls in Tanzania – one for every NFL team.
Chris has more than 170 acting credits to his name, including the films “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” (2004), “Hot Rod” (2007), “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (2007), “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” (2013), and “Sisters” (2015) and the television series “Miss Guided” (2008), “Suburgatory” (2011–2014), “Grown-ish” (2018), and “Happy Together” (2018–2019). Parnell voices Cyril Figgis on “Archer” (2009–present) and Jerry Smith on “Rick and Morty” (2013–present), and he has also lent his voice to the films “Escape from Planet Earth” (2013), “Hotel Transylvania 2” (2015), and “Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation” (2018) and the TV shows “WordGirl” (2007–2015), “Electric City” (2012), “Nature Cat” (2015–2020), “Dawn of the Croods” (2015–2016), “The Mr.
She appeared on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Corky Ballas. At the time aged 82, she became the oldest contender on the show. In 2015, she also appeared on the hit reality series Celebrity Wife Swap, where she traded lives with actress, Pia Zadora. Cloris died on January 26, 2021 at the age of 94.
Early Life and Career Beginnings on Stage Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa as the eldest of three daughters of Cloris and Berkeley.