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Dario Franchitti Net Worth
Dario Franchitti's Net Worth as of 2024
$72 million
George Dario Marino Franchitti was born on 19 May 1973, in Bathgate, West Lothlian, Scotland, UK of part-Italian descent, and is a retired racing car driver, best known for being a four time IndyCar Series Champion, and also a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner; all of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Dario Franchitti? As of late-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $72 million, mostly earned through a successful racing career. He is also a winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2008, and has won numerus awards, which include the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, but all of his achievements have helped ensure the position of his wealth.
Dario Franchitti Net Worth $72 million
Franchitti attended Stewart’s Melville College, and during his time there became interested in karting. He became the Karting Scottish Junior Champion in 1984, and would also win the British Junior Championships for two consecutive years. He then moved to Formula Vauxhall Junior and won that championship in 1991. The following year, he joined Paul Stewart Racing in the Formula Vauxhall Lotus, and would be named the McLaren/Autosport Young Driver of the Year. The next season he would become the champion, and then move to the British Formula 3 Championship the following year. His net worth was already rising.
He then received an AMG Racing contract to drive a Mercedes C-Class during the German Touring Car Championship. In 1997, he was offered a deal to become a test driver for McLaren, but declined and opted to race in US CART series for the Hogan team. He then tested for the Jaguar F1 team in 2000 but it did not push through to any offer. He continued to race for CART during these years, and achieved a few wins and pole positions. In 2003, he joined the IndyCar series but missed most of the year. He returned in 2004 and won his first IndyCar Series race, following this up with a Paul Stewart Racing win.His net worth was now well established.
In 2005, Dario raced for Andretti Green Racing and got two wins in the season. He continued driving for them in 2007 and also became a part of the American Le Mans Series. In the same year, he would win a rain-shortened Indianapolis 500, including $1.6 million which started to significantly boost his net worth. He would go on to win the IndyCar Championship, his first since winning Formula Vauxhall Lotus in 1993. He returned in the IndyCar series in 2009, after missing a season to pursue a NASCAR career, driving for Target Chip Ganassi Racing and secured five wins in the season.
The following year, he had difficulties during the season but was able to get the win in the Indianapolis 500, making it his second win in four years. In 2011, he would win his third consecutive championship in a shortened race because of the death of Dan Wheldon in a 15-car crash. He would have difficulties in the next two years, and had a career-ending crash which fractured his spine. Doctors advised him that any further injury may cause permanent paralysis which led to his decision to retire from competitive racing in October 2013. He still remains active as a competition director at Ganassi Racing.
For his personal life, it is known that Franchitti married actress Ashley Judd in 2001 but they divorced in 2013. According to reports, some of his favorite television shows include “Shameless”, “Gavin & Stacey”, and “Rab C. Nesbitt”. He is also the older brother of race driver Marino Franchitti. In 2014, Dario was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire(MBE) thanks to his achievements in motor racing.
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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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Paul Heyman Net Worth
Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.
So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.
Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million
Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.
Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.
Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.
Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.
Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.
In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.
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