Jack Nicholson is about as old school Hollywood as anyone these days. He is not, however, the richest actor in the world. Despite his appearances in classics like The Shining, As Good As it Gets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Terms of Endearment, Nicholson’s $400 million net worth falls about $2.6 billion short of being the richest actor in the world. George Clooney is not just a successful actor, he’s also a savvy businessman.
Lyft’s IPO is expected to be one of the biggest of the year among San Francisco tech startups. Uber, Airbnb, and Slack are all also planning IPO’s in 2019. Lyft’s shareholders will collectively hold stakes worth billions when the company makes its IPO. Lyft’s IPO filing has laid bare the company’s financials and its planned bonus structure. It has also pitted it against its competitor Uber, which plans to go public in the first half of 2019.
Brown was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1984. Willie Brown was born on December 2, 1940. He played football on Grambling State University’s team. He was not drafted by an NFL team upon his 1963 graduation. His first contract as a professional was with the American Football League’s Houston Oilers. He was unfortunately dropped from the team team while in training camp. Brown next signed on to Denver Broncos, becoming a starter by the middle of his rookie year.
The USFL was founded with the following tenet set in stone: avoid fights with the NFL. Like any upstart league, it differentiated itself by being more entertaining. The league had a free-wheeling, outlaw attitude about it and a handful of marquee players, including Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals. Jim Kelly, Reggie White, Steve Young, and Doug Flutie also spent time in the USFL. The league got off to a promising start in 1983, however, by its second season, the public’s enthusiasm for spring football had waned a bit and some of the league’s biggest franchises were struggling.
But that money is almost entirely gone. Now, Peterson finds himself in dire financial straits. Peterson has been involved in three lawsuits over the past two years, including two in the last eight weeks. The first lawsuit was filed in Minnesota in October 2017 after Peterson defaulted on a $2.4 million loan. Peterson took out the loan in 2016 and defaulted after five months. When Peterson and his bank couldn’t work things out, he was ordered to pay the remaining $600,000 of his loan.
Their second studio album You Could Have It So Much Better was released in 2005 and reached #1 in the UK. The band also had success with their albums Tonight: Franz Ferdinand in 2009, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action in 2013, and FFS in 2015. The band’s most successful single is “Take Me Out” which reached #3 on the US Alternative and UK charts. He also produces tracks and albums for artists like The Cribs, Citizens!
Brad Keselowski has earned his net worth through his years as a professional race car driver. He began his racing career as the driver of car #29 for K-Automotive Racing Team, which was owned by Bob Keselowski, (father) Kay Keselowski, (mother) and older brother Brian Keselowski, and finished in 33rd place for the 2004 Craftsman Truck Series Season. Since then Keselowski has driven for Hendrick Motorsports, Phoenix Racing, and Penske.
From 1986 to 1987 she starred as Scruple on the series The Smurfs. Vaccaro has also provided voice work for the TV series The Critic, Spawn, and Johnny Bravo. She has starred in the movies Where It’s At, Midnight Cowboy, I Love My Wife, Summertree, Going Home, The Shape of Things, Once Is Not Enough, Capricorn One, Supergirl, Ten Little Indians, Cookie, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Boynton Beach Club, and You Don’t Know Jack.
He won a Peabody Award for Russell Simmons Presents, Def Poetry Jam. Bruce George earned his B.A. in psychology from Niagara University. The Genius Is Common movement is about finding your inner genius.
Coming in at #87 on the list of the top 100 highest-earning celebrities is a DJ named Marshmello. He’s a dude who wears a helmet that looks like a marshmallow. His real name is Christopher Comstock, and he was born in Philadelphia in 1992. He released his debut album Joytime in 2016. It was an immediate hit and reached #5 on the U.S. Dance chart. His second album Joytime II was released in 2018 and reached #1 on the US Dance chart.
Terms were not revealed for their deal, but considering Conor’s star power one must assume it’s enormous. How big? Well, consider this – The most popular UFC event of all time had 1.6 million pay per view buys. That fight was the rematch between Conor and Nate Diaz at UFC 202. Conor earned $25 million off the match between guaranteed money and pay per view bonuses. On October 6, Conor is fighting Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 206.
The Blast reports that Stuart filed the documents in order to argue that Dillon is more than wealthy enough to continue paying for their 11-year-old daughter’s private education, which she alleged he refused to do. Stuart said that the tuition had been paid by Dillon’s accountants to the school directly, with none of the money ever being touched by herself, but that Dillon only agreed to keep paying on the condition that she “terminate spousal support immediately” (Dillon reportedly owed $7,000 a month in spousal support, plus another three grand in child support).
She has gone on to appear in such film and television projects as “Driving Miss Daisy”, “Drop Squad”, “Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored”, “Savannah”, “Law & Order”, “The Old Settler’, “PBS Hollywood Presents”, “The Sopranos”, and “Third Watch”. She is most widely recognized for her work as Officer Luann Corbin on the hit series “In the Heat of the Night”. She played the role for the show’s entire six-season run.
David Glass, the former CEO and president of Walmart, just sold the Royals for $1 billion. He bought the Royals for $96 million back in 2000. That’s a return of more than 941 percent! Glass sold the team to John Sherman, a Kansas City businessman and former minority owner of the Cleveland Indians. Major League Baseball owners unanimously approved the sale earlier this month. Glass, 84, spent 20 seasons as owner and CEO of the Royals.
David Walton was born in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1978. His first acting credit came in the short Fighting Still Life in 2002. Walton starred as Liam on the television series Cracking Up from 2004 to 2006 and as Ricky Watman on the TV series Heist in 2006. David Walton starred as Danny on the series Quarterlife in 2008 and as Wayne on the series 100 Questions in 2010. He starred as Vance on the television series Perfect Couples from 2010 to 2011.
As the official De La Soul Instagram account put it: “We are not happy about releasing our catalog under such unbalanced, unfair terms.” In a separate post, they went into more detail about those terms: “The music WILL be released digitally. After 30 long years of good music and paying their debt to hip-hop, De La Soul unfortunately, will not taste the fruits of their labor. Your purchases will roughly go 90% Tommy Boy, 10% De La.
As he put it: “She said, ‘Dennis, you know that I’m ovulating…I said, ‘What is that?’ I was trying to [mess] with her, you know?…She asked me that if I got her pregnant she’d pay me $20 million.” Rodman went on to explain that the deal had only one “catch,” which was that he would only be paid after the baby was born. It’s not clear whether the lack of cash up front was what dissuaded him from accepting the alleged offer, but he went on to speculate that Madonna may have made similar offers to other people as well, even going so far as to suggest that her child with trainer Carlos Leon might have been the result of just such a deal.
They released the albums S&M Airlines in 1989, Ribbed in 1991, White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean in 1992, and Punk in Drublic in 1994. The band began to have commercial success with the album Heavy Petting Zoo in 1996 and released the albums So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes in 1997 and Pump Up the Valuum in 2000. Their album The War on Errorism was released in 2003 and reached #1 on the US Independent chart.
Those three banks are the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., the China Development Bank, and the Export-Import Bank of China, which together loaned Ambani’s company Reliance Communications Ltd. $925.2 million in 2012. That loan was given on condition of a personal guarantee from Ambani, but in February of 2017 the company defaulted on the loan with a balance of $680 million. Ambani says that the “personal comfort letter” he offered to secure the loan was non-binding and did not tie his guarantee to his own financial assets, which he says would have been an “extraordinary potential personal liability,” even as he’s seen those assets sink beneath the billionaire margin in recent years.
Gillian Welch released her debut studio album Revival in 1996 and the album Hell Among the Yearlings in 1998. Her album Time (The Revelator) was released in 2001 and reached #7 on the US Indie chart. Gillian Welch released the album Soul Journey in 2003 which reached #3 on the US Indie chart. Her album The Harrow & The Harvest was released in 2011 and reached #1 on the US Folk chart, #3 on the US Indie chart, and #20 on the Billboard 200.