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CBS has been reviewing Moonves’ conduct while he was with the network, and if it turns out that he did indeed use his position to effectively pay off his sexual accusers, his $120 million exit package would likely be lost in the process. For Dauer’s part, he took to The Times to deny the charge that he had essentially “blackmailed” Moonves and helped him keep abused clients in exchange for money: “I don’t know how I got in the middle of this....

Today, Little Richard is credited with pioneering the early rock ’n’ roll movement. During the ’50s, he appeared on-screen in several movies, including 1956’s “Don’t Knock the Rock,” 1957’s “The Girl Can’t Help It,” and 1957’s “Mister Rock ’n’ Roll.” In the latter half of the decade, Little Richard gave up on rock music in order to focus solely on gospel tunes, with his religious debut album, “God Is Real,” recorded in 1959....

Early Life and Education Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born as Mahmoud Sabbaghian on October 28, 1956 in Aradan, Semnan province, in the Imperial State of Iran. His mother was Khanom, and his father was Ahmad, a grocer and barber. He has a brother named Davoud and a sister named Parvin. When he was a year old, he moved with his family to Tehran; a few years later, the family’s name was changed to Ahmadinejad....

He was named Best Chef: New York City in 2003 by the James Beard Foundation. That year he also started the restaurant Riingo in New York. Samuelsson has authored the cookbooks New American Table, Marcus Off Duty, and The Soul of a New Cuisine. He authored the memoir Yes, Chef in 2012 and Make it Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life in 2015.

Margaret Josephs has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Celebrity Page, Watch What Happens: Life, Wendy: The Wendy Williams Show, and Strahan & Sara. She worked as a dress designer before starting her own line and launched Macbeth Collection in 1999. She was married to Jan Josephs from 1994 to 2013 and married Joe Benigno in 2013. Margaret Josephs was named Country Living Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007 and was an Honorary Judge on the panel of Country Living Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008....

The cement company, Loma Negra, became the leader in production of cement and concrete in Argentina during the 1950s and ’60s. After the death of Alfredo in 1976, Maria’s mother succeeded the cement business and that’s how she earned her nickname “cement lady.” Unfortunately, due to family mismanagement and large foreign debt, Loma Negra had been sold to Brazilian group Camargo Correa for just over US$1 billion in May 2005....

He has nearly 100 directing credits to his name including the films Together for Days, Honeybaby, Honeybaby, Cooley High, Car Wash, Greased Lightning, What Way Is Up?, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Scavenger Hunt, Bustin’ Loose, Carbon Copy, Krush Groove, The Last Dragon, Livin’ Large!, Disorderlies, and Woman Thou Art Loosed. Schultz has directed episodes of the TV series Diagnosis: Murder, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Brothers and Sisters, Cold Case, Dirty Sexy Money, Chuck, and Arrow....

He set the record for biggest defensive contract in NFL history, signing an eight-year, $80 million deal with the San Francisco 49ers prior to the start of the 2007 season. That record has since been broken several times over. Clements was released by the Niners before the 2012 season; he landed a deal with the Cincinnati Bengals for two years and $10.5 million two days after becoming a free agent....

Early Life Kress was born on November 18, 1992, in Glendale, California. He grew up with his two brothers, Andrew and Kevin. When Kress was four years old, he began his career in show business by modeling for various print advertisements and commercials. His mother had noticed he had a natural talent for reenacting the shows he saw on television and she took him to an open showcase audition where he was signed to a talent agent....

He is also a voting member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. He graduated from Miami-Dade Community College and the University of Miami. He covered the Oakland Athletics as a writer and then worked for the Arizona Republic.

Prior to Mandalay Entertainment, he was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Under Guber’s personal guidance, as producer or executive producer, he created the films “Rain Man,” “Batman,” “The Color Purple,” “Midnight Express,” “Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey,” “The Witches of Eastwick,” “Missing” and “Flashdance.” His movies have earned more than $3 billion worldwide and around 50 Academy Award nominations....

In 2012, he moved to playing with the Court Kingz. He stands at 6'1″ tall and weighs 190 pounds. He is considered by many to be the most popular and recognizable figure in streetball in the world today. In addition to playing streetball, he also appeared in the film, “Crossover” in 2006.

From 1993 to 1999 Snyder was an assistant coach for Duke. He got his first head coaching job at Missouri from 1999 to 2006 and then was head coach of the Austin Toros of the NBA Developmental League from 2007 to 2010. He returned to the NBA as an assistant for the Philadelphia 76ers from 2010 to 2011 and the Los Angeles Lakers from 2011 to 2012. Snyder was an assistant coach for the CSKA Moscow team in Russia from 2012 to 2013 and for the Atlanta Hawks from 2013 to 2014....

Early Life Randi Zuckerberg was born on February 28, 1982 in Westchester County, New York as the first of four children of parents Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward, a dentist. Her brother is Facebook founder and CEO Mark, while her sisters are Donna and Arielle. All the children were brought up in Dobbs Ferry in a Reform Jewish home. Like her brother, Zuckerberg went to Harvard University, where she graduated with a BA in psychology in 2003....

Early Life Richard “Old Man” Harrison was born Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr. on March 4, 1941, in Danville, Virginia. When Richard was very young, his family relocated to Lexington, North Carolina. He studied at Lexington High School but dropped out during his junior year, and at the age of 14, Harrison drove a school bus to help his family make ends meet. At age 17, Richard met his future wife, and just before they married, he was arrested for stealing a car....

Sure, Branson has, on occasion, spent money indulgently, but as a rule, only to make money in return. Branson considers himself to be pretty frugal and has chosen not to own objects of pure luxury. He’s also a major philanthropist and member of the Giving Pledge. Let’s take a look at how the daredevil billionaire spends his fortune. A high school teacher famously told Branson that he’d either be a multi millionaire or end up in jail....

Virgin Galactic aims to bring space tourism to the masses in the not all that distant future. The company went public in October 2019. Virgin Galactic has a $4.1 billion market cap. Leonardo DiCaprio and Justin Bieber are slated to be among the first people to join Branson on Virgin Galactic’s first suborbital flight. Branson is selling the shares to protect Virgin Atlantic, which has been revealed to be the most at risk of Virgin’s holdings....

However, any attempt to create a spinoff television show will have to get the approval of momager Kris Jenner and the E! network, which maintains an $80 million contract with the Kardashian clan for four more seasons of the ultra-successful series Keeping Up With The Kardashians. According to The Daily Mail, although Rob’s health (he was diagnosed with diabetes after gaining over 100 pounds in the course of a year) has been a frequent topic of the show, he himself hasn’t appeared on an episode since 2014....

She has over 100 acting credits to her name starting in the TV series Here’s Lucy in 1970. Chao starred as Soon-Lee Klinger in the television series After MASH from 1983 to 1984. She has had recurring roles in the TV series Diff’rent Strokes, Falcon Crest, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 10-8: Officers on Duty, Six Feet Under, The O.C., Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23, and Sin City Saints....

Michael Dell – $21 billion Michael Dell was studying biology at the University of Texas because his parents wanted him to become a doctor. During his freshman year he started building computers for friends. This turned out to make him a nice tidy amount of money. It wasn’t long before he realized that his future was not in medicine, but in computers. He dropped out. Larry Ellison – $58 billion Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison was born the son of a 19-year old single mother in the Bronx and adopted by his aunt and uncle in Chicago....