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Ginger Baker Net Worth
Peter Edward Baker's Net Worth as of 2024
$1 Million,
Ginger Baker was born as Peter Edward Baker on the 19th August 1939 in Lewisham, South London, England. He is best known for being a drummer, considered to be one of the best drummers of all time , andperhaps most recognized as the founder of the rock band called Cream. His career has been active since 1956.
Have you ever wondered how rich is Ginger Baker? According to sources, it is estimated that Baker’s overall net worth is over $1 million, an amount acquired through his career in the music industry, during which he has released several albums with his band. During his career, he has collaborated with many musicians, like Fela Kuti, Bill Laswell, Charlie Haden, among others. Thanks to his skills, Baker has performed with a number of bands, which has also added to his net worth. Another source of income is coming from selling his autobiographical book.
Ginger Baker Net Worth $1 Million
Ginger Baker was born to Frederick Louvain Formidable Baker, who was a bricklayer but died in the Dodecanese Campaign while serving in the Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, and his wife, who worked in a tobacco shop. At the age of 15, Baker started playing the drums, and his first teacher was Phil Seamen, a jazz drummer. Thanks to his talent, he quickly became popular, as a member of The Graham Bond Organisation, which was an R’n’B/blues band.
Before Cream, Ginger became friends with Jack Bruce, and although the two often argued they still managed to play together. In 1966, Ginger and Eric Clapton formed the rock band named Cream, joined by Jack Bruce. The band was short-lived, but it released four studio albums, and received positive critiques. Their first album was released in 1966, entitled “Fresh Cream”, and reached gold certification, debuting in 39th place on the US Billboard 200 chart. The second album came out the next year, entitled “Disraeli Gears”, reaching platinum certification, which increased Ginger’s net worth to a large degree. The album also debuted at the No. 4 on the Billboard top 200 chart.
Before their disbandment in 1969, the band released two more albums, “Wheels OF Fire” (1968), which became their only album to reach No. 1 on the US Billboard top 200 chart, and reached platinum certification by the RIAA, spawning hits such as “Born Under A Bad Sign”, and “White Room”. Their last album was released in 1969, entitled “Goodbye”, reaching No. 2 on the US Billboard 200, but it topped the charts in the UK; both albums reached platinum certification, further increasing Ginger’s net worth.
After Cream, Ginger and Clapton formed another band named Blind Faith, with Steve Winwood as a singer and Ric Grech as a bass player. However, they released only one album before they broke up. Afterwards, Baker formed his own group – Ginger Baker’s Air Force – releasing two albums and increasing further his net worth.
During the 1980s, Baker was a part of a few bands such as Masters of Reality, and Hawkwind, but with no success. In the 1990s he was a part of the trio BBM, consisted of Baker, Jack Bruce and Gary Moore, but it lasted for only a short time. In 2005, he joined Clapton and Bruce for a concert tour at Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden, which was recorded and released as the live album “Royal Albert Hall London May 2–3–5–6 2005” (2005).
Most recently, he has created a jazz quartet, which consists of himself, Pee Wee Ellis on saxophone, Alec Dankworth as bassist and Abass Dodoo as a percussionist. They managed to sign with the Motema Music, and they are currently working on their first album, which will certainly increase Ginger’s net worth.
Speaking about his personal life, Ginger Baker is known in the media as a troublesome person, who like many musicians of his era was drug addicted, which no doubt restricted consistent success. He has married four times, lastly to Kudzai Machokoto, from Zimbabwe in 2010. Additionally in 2012 the documentary movie about his life entitled “Beware Of Mr. Baker” was released, directed by Jay Bulger; the movie won the award for best documentary feature.
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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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