Celebrities
Mark Geragos Net Worth
Mark Geragos's Net Worth as of 2024
$25 Million
Mark Geragos was born on the 5th October 1957, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is a criminal defense lawyer, best known as a “celebrity lawyer” after defending such superstars as Michael Jackson, Wynona Ryder, and Chris Brown, among others. Geragos is a managing partner at The Law Offices of Geragos and Geragos. His career has been active since 1983.
Have you ever wondered how rich Mark Geragos is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Geragos’ net worth is as high as $25 million, an amount earned largely through his successful career in law. In addition to being a famous lawyer, Geragos has also appeared in the media, which improves his wealth too.
Mark Geragos Net Worth $25 Million
Mark John Geragos grew up in California in an Armenian-American family and went to Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada. He later studied at Haverford College, from where he graduated with a Bachelors degree in 1979 with majors in anthropology and sociology. Three years later, Geragos earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Loyola Law School, and a year afterwards he was admitted to the State Bar of California.
Geragos is working at the 13-person Los Angeles law firm called Geragos and Geragos, and has defended numerous celebrities. Mark became nationally known in 2001 while defending Susan McDougal, a former business partner of President Bill Clinton. He was Wynona Ryder’s lawyer in December 2002 when she was charged with stealing $5,500 worth of merchandise, but Geragos managed to secure her only probation.
In 2004, Geragos defended both Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson in molesting and murder cases, respectively. He lost both cases with Peterson being sentenced to death, and Jackson removing him as a defending attorney. Jackson stated that he was dissatisfied with Geragos’ work, as he apparently failed to cope with working on two cases simultaneously. Geragos was one of the leading lawyers in a case against the New York Life Insurance and AXA for the life insurance policies they issued to the Armenians at the beginning of the 20th century. He helped to secure a more than $37.5 million settlement, but the US Federal Court overturned the decision in 2009, stating that they cannot sue foreign insurance companies because the US government didn’t recognise that the Armenian genocide happened.
In 2006, Geragos won two dismissals: one for Bill Clinton’s brother Roger Clinton, Jr. alcohol-related count, and the other for the film director Lee Tamahori’s prostitution charge. In the last month of 2007, Geragos settled for $900,000 following the case of Amphit Dhaliwal and Kulbir Dhaliwal and their survival of a tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo. He joined the defense of the Japanese business person Kazuyoshi Miura’s case in 2008, but Miura, who was the main suspect for killing his wife, committed suicide and thus ended the trial.
In 2009, Geragos defended the singer Chris Brown for assaulting his then-girlfriend, Rihanna. Geragos brought him to surrender to the LAPD, and Brown later pleaded guilty. Geragos managed to save him from jail by securing five years probation and six months community service.
Mark Geragos occasionally appears on television, and so far he has been a guest on many shows, including “Good Morning America”, “60 Minutes”, “Anderson Cooper 360°”, “On the Record (Fox News TV series)”, and “Larry King Live”. Geragos also works as a host of CNN’s “Making the Case”, a legal program that airs on Monday nights. Most recently, his show “Reasonable Doubt” debuted in July 2015, on which Geragos is a co-host together with Adam Carolla. He also wrote “Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal Justice System Works… and Sometimes Doesn’t” in 2013, winning the grand prize at the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival.
Regarding his personal life, Mark Geragos is skillfully keeping his intimate details to himself, so it is very hard to find info related to his private life, but it is known that he is married to Paulette Kassabian.
Celebrities
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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