Early Life Kurt Rappaport was born Kurt Fleming Rappaport on January 26, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Floyd A. Rappaport (who passed away in 2010), was an entertainment lawyer who represented celebrities such as Steve McQueen and Peter Lawford. Kurt worked part-time in real estate while attending the University of Southern California, and after graduation, he worked at Fred Sands Estates, Merrill Lynch Realty, and Stephen Shapiro and Associates....
Holes was published in 1998 and ranked #6 on the School Library Journal’s list of children’s novels. Sachar’s Wayside School series includes the books Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, and Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger. He has also authored the Marvin Redpost series and several standalone works including Johnny’s in the Basement.
Mae West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on stage in New York. She was known for using double entendres and moved to Hollywood, California, in 1930 to pursue her acting career. West appeared in films such as “I’m No Angel” (1933), “Every Day’s a Holiday” (1937), “My Little Chickadee” (1940), “Myra Breckinridge” (1970), and “Sextette” (1978), and she wrote and starred in the Broadway plays “Sex” (1926–1927), “The Wicked Age” (1927), “Diamond Lil” (1928; 1949; 1951), “The Constant Sinner” (1931), and “Catherine Was Great” (1944–1945)....
He was then traded to Heerenveen, where he set multiple records, including breaking the record for the most goals scored by an American soccer player in a European first division. He has since gone on to play for Borussia Mönchengladbach, Aston Villa, Chievo, Roma, and Toronto FC. He has played for the US Men’s National Team since 2006. In June 2014, Michael Bradley and the US team made it to the round of 16 in the 2014 World Cup....
Early Life Michael K. Williams was born on November 22, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York. Michael studied at the National Black Theatre in Harlem as a teenager. While studying, he worked at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals as a temp. Against the wishes of his family, he decided to drop out of school and quit his job to pursue a career as a dancer. After a year of very little success and being homeless, Williams booked work as a background dancer on Kym Sims’ “Too Blind to See It” tour....
As for his best title to date, he achieved it in 2009 when he was ranked third in the Official Gold Ranking. Also, he has several team and individual awards to his name that he has won from both UK and England. In total, Paul Casey has accumulated total prize money of £18 million and has three blue-chip sponsors, Rolex, Nike Golf and Sentient Jet. Off the golf course, he was married to Jocelyn Hefner for two years before they both agreed to a separation....
They are interviewed constantly, and have millions of Twitter followers. They regularly host fashion and entertainment events in New York City, and appear in multiple publications and gossip rags on a regular basis. Peter Brant II has made headlines for his outspokenness, including tweeting that the President should be killed at one point. The Tweet resulted in his Twitter privileges being revoked, and a public apology issued by his parents asserting that his views were not the views of his family as a whole....
Early Life and Education Peter Scolari was born on September 12, 1955 in New Rochelle, New York to Barbara and Arthur. He was raised with his older sister and two younger brothers in Scarsdale. Scolari had a difficult upbringing due to his psychologically abusive father and alcoholic mother. As a teenager, he attended Edgemont High School, where he played football and baseball and ran track. Scolari went on to attend Occidental College in Los Angeles, but left after a year upon the death of his father....
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp Domestic Ticket Sales as Collaborators: $890,004,374 It’s hard to believe, but actor Johnny Depp, and director Tim Burton, have made eight films together. Their first collaboration was “Edward Scissorhands” back in 1990. At the time, the film showcased Depp in a major departure from his work as a brooding heart-throb on “21 Jump Street”. It was a bit of a risk, but the successful end product positioned Depp as one of Hollywood’s most exciting young talents, and gave Tim Burton the reputation he needed to finance the churning out of eccentric, visually stunning work ever since....
Early Life Samuel Adams Wisner, better known as Sam Adams, Sammy Adams, or the Wiz, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 14, 1987. His parents are Kata Hull and Chuck Wisner. His family moved to Wayland, Massachusetts, when he was in high school, and he transferred from Beaver Country Day School to Wayland High School. After high school, he attended Trinity College, and played soccer while he was there. During his senior year, Wisner was actually named the captain of the soccer team....
Court documents describe Baphomet as “an androgynous goat-headed deity,” and the Satanic Temple claims that the statue seen on the show is too close for comfort to their own Baphomet monument, which you may remember from its viral 2014 crowdfunding campaign. Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves is incensed that the show would co-opt the image of Baphomet for their own purposes, saying the Detroit statue has become “a central icon that has come to represent us [satanists] as a people,” He goes on: “To have that all at once entirely eclipsed by some Netflix show by a production department who did a Google Image Search… A lot of people who haven’t heard of us first stand to just recognize that monument as the ‘Sabrina’ monument, which dilutes and denigrates the entire project....
Serena Williams’ three-story Spanish style home sits on a quarter of an acre in the Summit Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills. Summit Estates is known for its celebrity residents like Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani. The home is an entertainer’s dream with several sitting rooms with fireplaces and an open kitchen that opens out onto the patio and into the backyard beyond. The property has a small pool. On the lower level, there’s a gym, lounge, laundry room, and a space for entertaining with a full bar and wine cellar....
He is scheduled to producer the upcoming film Freakshow. Turner won and was nominated for several awards for Up in the Air. In 2010 he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture. Turner also won a BAFTA Award and a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for the same picture.
Ohtani can certainly afford such a purchase, as one of the highest-paid athletes in sports with a recently signed Dodgers contract worth $700 million over the next ten years. As for Carolla, he’s making a small profit on the sale, having purchased the home in 2018 for $7.327 million, selling now amid a divorce from wife Lynette Paradise. Interestingly, that purchase price syncs up exactly with the home’s square footage: 7,327 square feet....
In June 2022, Avenatti was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and embezzlement. He received a 14 year prison sentence, of which four years are related to the $300,000 he stole from Stormy. After losing a 2018 libel case to Donald Trump, Stormy was ordered to pay $293,000 of his legal fees. After losing an appeal, collectively she was ordered to pay Trump $600,000. She has vowed not to pay him anything....
#10. Michael Lee-Chin: $1 billion Michael Lee-Chin is a Jamaican-Canadian business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Michael is the founder and Chairman of Portland Holdings Inc. He is also the Executive Chairman of AIC Limited and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica. Chin was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica in 1951. Lee-Chin graduated from McMaster University in 1974. He has owned or operated Columbus Communications which includes Sauce Cable Company, Eastern Caribbean Gas Pipeline Company, Radio Jamaica, Reggae Beach resort, Senvia, and Trident Hotel resort....
#11: Maria Sharapova Net Worth: $135 million Business: Maria Sharapova made good use of the time she spent suspended from tennis after failing a drug test. She founded the candy company Sugarpova, which sells a line of chocolates and Gummi bears. #10: Tony Hawk Net Worth: $140 million Businesses: Tony Hawk started BirdHouse, his skateboard and apparel line. He also owns the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game franchise and has a Kohl’s clothing line....
Unfortunately, in the last twelve months we saw the disintegration of many celebrity couples most notably Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes, Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart, Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore, Heid Klum/Seal and shockingly Danny Devito/Rhea Perlman. On the bright side, the celebrity couples that managed to stay together seemed to have earned more money in the last year than ever before. Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen earned $75 million last year, which was enough to boost their combined net worth from $350 million to $390 million!...
What makes the Giants streak a little more interesting is that in years they didn’t win the Series, they didn’t even make the playoffs. So, will lightning strike again? Will the Giants return to the playoffs in 2016 and win the World Series, like they did the last three even numbered years? With the money the team is spending, fans and the team’s owners certainly hope so. Over $200 million has been spent on just two players with the biggest chunk going to pitcher Johnny Cueto ($130 million, six seasons)....
After making a fortune in the textile business, in the early 1970s Ozzie and Daniel Silna attempted to purchase the Detroit Pistons for $5 million, but their offer was rejected. After getting rejected by the NBA, the brothers went shopping for an ABA team. In 1973 they stuck a deal to purchase the ABA’s struggling Carolina Cougars for $1 million. The Silnas then proceeded to move the team to St....
