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Bob Beckel Net Worth
Bob Beckel's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million
Robert Gilliland Beckel was born on 15 November 1948, in New York City USA, and is a political pundit and analyst, and former political operative, best known for his time on Fox News Channel, where he co-hosted the show called ‘The Five.’ He was dismissed from the show in 2015 following months of recovery from a back surgery. Today, he works with CNN as a commentator and analyst.
Do you want to know how rich Bob Beckel is? Bob is one of the most popular and successful political analysts in the US. He has a net worth estimated by sources to be more than $10 million, as of early 2016. He has earned most of his wealth working as a political commentator on TV shows, most importantly on Fox News Channel’s ‘The Five.’ In the past, he also earned a lot of money working for CNN, where he co-hosted ‘Crossfire Sunday.’
Bob Beckel Net Worth $10 Million
Bob Beckel was raised in Lyme, Connecticut by Ellen Gilliland Beckel and Cambridge Graham Beckel. He attended Wagner College located in Staten Island, from where he graduated with a BA. While in school, he used to play football and was a very active member in debates. In 1968, he had an opportunity to exercise his talent, campaigning for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. On completing college, he travelled to the Philippines, where he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps. He stayed there from 1971-1972 and later joined George Washington University as a politics professor.
In 1977, Bob Beckel was offered an opportunity to become the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations under the US Department of State. He made history, becoming the youngest deputy assistant to have worked in the Carter administration. Due to his impressive work, he received an appointment the following year to work as a Special Assistant to the President, which required him to handle legislative affairs, and in particular he worked on ratification of Middle East treaties and Salt II. His net worth was well established.
Beckel entered politics in 1984 when he was offered a chance to become the presidential camping manager for Walter Mondale. This campaign gave him the popularity he needed thanks to slogan ‘Where’s the beef?’ which centered on Mondale’s opponent, Gary Hart. Towards the end of that year, he formed a consulting firm called Bob Beckel & Associates.
Beckel had tremendous success in politics the following years, and in 2002 he had another opportunity to campaign, although this time not for a presidential nominee but a Senator, Alan Blinken. By 2005, he started contributing as a columnist for the newspaper USA Today. He made a brief appearance on TV in 2010, joining Monica Crowley, his fellow Fox News analyst, in the “24” season eight premier. In 2011, he was invited by Fox News to be one of the hosts of ‘The Five,’ which he co-hosted for 708 episodes before the TV network announced that he he would leave because he had missed many episodes while recovering from back surgery. In 2015, Bob joined CNN after making a full recovery, where he continues to offer expert opinion and commentary on elections. He is paid very well for his contribution on CNN, and is expected to increase his net worth significantly with time.
Bob Beckel has had his share of controversies in his career. In 2002, it was alleged that he hired a woman who he paid $300/hr to visit his home. Days later, an extortionist left a note on his car’s windshield and a voice message, demanding $50,000, failure to which, he would make his illegal activates public. Montgomery police investigated the matter and tracked down the extortionist. Some of hois on-air comments have also caused some controversy, but he continues to broadcast.
In his personal life, Bob Beckel married Leland Ingham in 1992, and had two children with her before she filed for divorce following the above-mentined incident. Bob is also on record admitting that he was a drug addict and an alcoholic, but has worked on the addiction to make a full recovery.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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