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If you were born in England in July 2022, you’ve already lived under the reigns of TWO royal monarchs and in the coming days you will live to see your THIRD Prime Minister. This hypothetical person has been alive for less than four months. As you may have heard, Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister last week after a record-setting 44 days. She replaced Boris Johnson who stepped down in July amid a wave of scandals....

Early Life and Education Fred Dalton Thompson was born on August 19, 1942 in Sheffield, Alabama to Fletcher and Ruth. He was educated at Lawrence County High School in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, graduating in 1960. Thompson went on to become the first member of his family to go to college when he enrolled at Florence Stage College. He subsequently transferred to Memphis State University, from which he earned a double degree in political science and philosophy in 1964....

Gabrielle Union began her career in the 1990s with small roles in television shows like “Family Matters” and “Sister, Sister” before transitioning to film. Union gained recognition for her performances in movies such as “She’s All That” (1999), “Bring It On” (2000), and “Bad Boys II” (2003). Throughout her career, Union has demonstrated her versatility as an actress, taking on diverse roles in various genres. She has starred in romantic comedies like “Deliver Us from Eva” (2003), dramas such as “Neo Ned” (2005), and thrillers like “Breaking In” (2018)....

He only played one season in the NBA. He is better known for being the half-brother of Whitney Houston and the son of Cissy Houston. Gary Garland is also the uncle of Bobbi Kristina Brown. He was a backup singer for Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love Tour in 1986 and continued to tour with her after that including for her Moment of Truth World Tour, I’m Your Baby Tonight World Tour, The Bodyguard World Tour, Pacific Rim Tour, The European Tour, My Love Is Your Love World Tour, Soul Divas Tour, and Nothing But Love World Tour....

Earnings Between the television show and book sales, Martin earns around $25 million every year in total income. His per-season HBO paycheck per series was $15 million, which means he has earned approximately $200 million in total from Game of Thrones alone to date, with the potential to earn much more with future spin-offs. Early Life George Raymond Martin was born on September 20th, 1948, in New Jersey. At the age of 13, he was given the confirmation name of Richard, making his full name George Raymond Richard Martin....

Marketing company Distinctive Assets offers a plentiful swag bag to every single nominee in the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director categories, whether they win or lose. The goodie bag, known officially as the “Everyone Wins” Nominee Gift bag, contains a variety of prizes valued at roughly $230,000. While every single gift included in the takeaway bag is a donation, the total cost of the “Everyone Wins” packages comes out to nearly $6 million....

Nirvana Price per week: $1,361,070 Nirvana is the most expensive rental yacht on the market today. The 7.5 meter pool’s floor rises to create a giant deck for entertaining. The main salon of the ship has an exotic reptile habitat that separates the bar from the dining room. All guest cabins have floor to ceiling windows. The owner’s deck comes with a private sunbathing area as well as a Jacuzzi, lounge with terraces that extend out over the water, and a covered dining area....

Haim, a 74-year-old immigrant from Egypt by way of Israel, started out in music and media and became a billionaire. His wife of 31 years, Cheryl runs the Saban Family Foundation, which has donated $420 million to about 1,000 causes and institutions since it launched in 2000. Causes the foundation supports include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Birthright Israel, The Rape Treatment Center, and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Saban launched Saban Entertainment in 1988....

First off, the lump sum option whittles the $900 million down by roughly 40%. So call it $560 million. Next, the Federal Government will take around 39.6% for taxes. It actually withholds 25% from you right off the bat. The remaining 14% will be paid at tax time. When it’s all said and done, you’ll be down to $336 million. The amount you will pay in state taxes varies state by state....

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Chan starred in numerous successful Hong Kong action-comedy films, such as “Police Story,” “Project A,” and “Armour of God.” His popularity expanded globally with the release of “Rush Hour” (1998), a Hollywood action-comedy co-starring Chris Tucker. Chan has since appeared in various Hollywood and international productions, including the “Rush Hour” sequels, “Shanghai Noon,” “The Tuxedo,” and the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise. He has also continued to work in Hong Kong cinema, often serving as director, producer, and writer in addition to acting....

Early Life Jackie Shroff was born Jaikishan Kakubhai Shroff on February 1, 1957, in Bombay (now known as Mumbai), India. He was born to a Gujarati father (Kakubhai Haribhai Shroff) and a Uyghur mother, and his mother fled the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic during a coup, along with her mother and six sisters. Jackie’s father came from a family of traders and merchants who lost their money in “some share thing....

José had the distinction of being the first Puerto Rican actor, as well as the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award (in 1950 for the black and white film version of “Cyrano de Bergerac”). Ferrer made his film debut in “Joan of Arc” in 1948. During the ’70s and ’80s, he was cast mainly as villains, mostly for TV, and he made his final stage appearance in 1990....

She wrote and directed the 2018 feature film “The Party’s Just Beginning” and the short films “Coward” (2015), “Conventional” (2015), and “The Hoarding” (2020); she also produced “Coward.” Gillan performed on Broadway in a 2013 production of “Time to Act,” and she appeared in “Inadmissible Evidence” at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2011. Karen has also lent her voice to the film “Spies in Disguise” (2019), the TV shows “Robot Chicken” (2015), “Calls” (2021), and “What If…?...

Karl Beattie has also produced other TV movies, TV series, and TV movie documentaries including Top Ten Most Haunted Possessions, Pop the Question, Celebrity Daredevils, The Ride, Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud, Ghost Hunting with Radio One, Whines and Spirits, The Enfield Poltergeist, Ghost Hunting with the Saturdays, and Most Haunted: The Movie. Beattie and his wife Fielding married in 1999. They launched The Paranormal Channel in 2008 which later became The Unexplained Channel before it left the air....

In 1990, Costner starred in and directed “Dances with Wolves,” a sweeping Western epic that became a critical and commercial triumph. The film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Costner, elevating him into the top ranks of Hollywood filmmakers. Throughout the 1990s, he headlined some of the decade’s most memorable films, including “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991), “JFK” (1991), “The Bodyguard” (1992) opposite Whitney Houston, and “Wyatt Earp” (1994)....

But the most important question in their rivalry, has to be…. Which couple is RICHER? For a long time the answer to that last question has definitively been Jay-Z and Beyonce. For over a decade, Kanye’s net worth couldn’t hold a candle to Jay’s. In 2013, Jay-Z was worth $500 million, while Kanye was worth around $75 million. Jay-Z became the first billionaire rapper in history in June 2019. At that point Beyonce was worth $400 million, so their combined net worth was $1....

Early Life Kirk Hammett was born in San Francisco on November 18, 1962. He was raised in the town of El Sobrante, California. His mother is of Filipino descent and his father was part German, Irish, English and Scottish. He attended De Anza High School in Richmond, California right across the bay from San Francisco. His classmate at De Anza High was Les Claypool, future founding member of the band Primus....

Nick Caporella was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania in the 1930s. His father was a coal miner. Caporella went into construction when he was 21 years old. He started a contracting business that specialized in heavy duty excavations. That firm was acquired in 1972 by Burnup & Sims, a telecommunications and cable company. In 1976, Burnup & Sims named Caporella its CEO. He had no idea how to do that job....

Billionaire Status Larry Fink achieved billionaire status for the first time in April 2018. At that point, roughly $600 million of his net worth was his equity in BlackRock. Larry Fink owns 0.7% of BlackRock’s total outstanding shares. Salary In a typical recent year, Larry has earned as little as $20 million and as much as $40 million in salary compensation. That has made him, at times, one of the 20 highest-paid CEOs in the world....

Early Life Lawrence Taylor was born on February 4th, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Raised alongside two brothers, he was initially interested in baseball as a child. It wasn’t until grade 11 that Taylor began to play organized football, and he wasn’t recruited by universities upon graduation like so many other future football stars. His talents were soon put to good use when he attended the University of North Carolina, and he became captain of their football team....