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If your name is Andy Rubin and the company is Google, the answer is, rather unbelievably, C. Rubin created the Android mobile platform, which Google purchased in 2005 for $50 million. After the acquisition Rubin joined Google and helped build Android into the huge success it is today. Android is the software used in 80% of the world’s smartphones. Google’s search engine made the company dominant on desktops, but Android made the company dominant on the rapidly growing mobile segment of the market....

Then he became CEO of such newspapers as Dagens Nyheter and Expressen from 1973 to 1980. Some four years later, Douglas set up his investment company AB Latour. The company, which is the main source of his wealth, now holds the reins of the largest publicly traded security firm Securitas AB, as well as the leading producer of locks in the world, Assa Abloy, and the Swedish maker of light fixtures, Fagerhult AB....

Biography Hailie Jade Mathers was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 25, 1995. She has three siblings; Alana Mathers, Stevie Lainie Mathers and Parker Scott. Hailie spent most over childhood under intense scrutiny due to her father’s ever-present controversies past and his on-again/off-again relationship with her mother Kim. Eminem and Kim have been married and divorced twice. In 2006 they agreed to share custody of Hailie. Hailie has either been the subject, or received mention, in ten of Eminem’s songs, including...

Contracts, Salary & Career Earnings Through his first eight seasons in the NFL, Harrison earned a little more than $22.2 million in salary. The vast majority of his earnings so far have come from a 5-year, $20.275 million contract signed with the Chiefs in 2019. That contract boosted his annual salary from $555,000 to $4.1 million. Early Life and High School Harrison Butker was born on July 14, 1995 in Decatur, Georgia to Elizabeth and Harrison Sr....

It goes without saying that if you somehow win the entire jackpot yourself (no one else chooses the same winning numbers), you will make an absolutely insane amount of money. But how much money? After taxes and the lump sum reduction, how much money will be electronically wired to your bank account? Let’s find out. First off, if you choose the lump sum option (which according to every financial planner on the planet, is the correct choice), the $1....

American actress Meghan Markle is joining the royal family in May, when she marries Prince Harry. She’s no slouch herself, she’s bringing a net worth of $5 million to their marriage. Let’s take a deeper dive into how much the royal family is worth and how they’ve made their many millions. Sovereign Grant The British treasury pays an amount known as the sovereign grant to the queen to cover the expenses Queen Elizabeth incurs as part of her official duties....

William Randolph Hearst was born in 1863 in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S. senator George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. His mother, as the first woman regent of University of California, Berkeley, funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Hearst attended Harvard where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and the Lampoon before being expelled for, among other things, sponsoring massive beer parties in Harvard Square....

The mansion was sold in June of this year according to a recent USA Today report. Who the new owners are is not public knowledge, but Mike Austin of BJ Excavating was in charge of the demolition, and hinted to the paper about what the owners plan to do with the now empty property: “We just finished it like a week and a half ago, and it took two months to do....

Unfortunately, those days are over. The fortune is gone, she was convicted of multiple criminal counts and today she was sentenced to serve 11 years in prison. As a quick refresher, during its heyday, Theranos promised it could perform a variety of very specialized tests and screenings using a tiny blood prick that could be performed at your local CVS. The results would be ready almost instantly. This was seen as a miracle because up to that point, the prevailing system involved patients visiting a blood lab where a vial of blood would be drawn with a needle and results wouldn’t be known for days....

He first appeared in the film Cal in 1984 and also appeared in the movies Angela’s Ashes in 1999, Puckoon in 2002, Mickybo and Me in 2004, Faraway in 2013, and Dracula Untold in 2014. In 2015 he appeared as Denys Mallister on the television series Game of Thrones. J.J. Murphy also appeared in the TV mini-series documentary God’s Frontiersman, the TV series A Fine Romance, the TV movie Ein verhexter Sommer, and the short The Morning News....

Early Life Janusz Kamiński was born on June 27, 1959 in Ziębice, Poland to parents Jadwiga Celner and Marian Kamiński. He attended primary and high school in Poland before deciding to emigrate to the United States at the age of 21 in 1981 after Prime Minister Jaruzelski imposed martial law. When he arrived in the United States, he enrolled at Columbia College in Chicago in 1982. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897....

DeCoteau was so impressive with his work in Witchouse that he offered Faunt the lead in his next movie, Totem. Faunt made his mainstream professional debut in Power Rangers: Time Force. He went on to film many more movies and television shows but said filming Movie Madness was the most enjoyable filming experience he has had to date. He married his wife, Stephanie, on September 6, 2002, and the couple live in Woodland Hills, California with their daughter....

Early Life Jimmy Pop was born James Moyer Franks on August 27, 1972, in Trappe, Pennsylvania. Jimmy is the son of Richard Lee Franks and Alice Ann Moyer, and his heritage is Native American and German. Though Pop has Jewish ancestry, he was raised in the Lutheran church. However, he stopped practicing religion when his parents gave him permission to. A 2005 “News-Times” article stated that Jimmy’s parents had been running a Pennsylvania resort for the past two decades and that they previously owned a drug company....

After graduating with a BFA in Acting in 2000, Manganiello relocated to Los Angeles, where he landed his first role as Eugene “Flash” Thompson in “Spider-Man.” From there, he went on to roles on a range of television shows, including “So Notorious,” “Las Vegas,” “Jake in Progress,” “Close to Home,” “Scrubs,” “American Heiress,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “One Tree Hill,” ‘Til Death," “CSI,” “CSI: NY,” and “CSI: Miami.” More recently, he starred in the films “Magic Mike,” “Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,” and “Rampage....

Attack and Trial John Wayne Bobbitt was born in 1967. A former Marine, he married Lorena Bobbitt, a manicurist who owned a nail salon up the street from their house in Virginia, on June 18, 1989. Their relationship became heavily publicized on a fateful night in 1993. On June 23, 1993, in Manassas, Virginia, after Lorena Bobbitt claimed her husband had raped her, she got out of bed after he went to sleep and went to the kitchen to grab an 8-inch carving knife from the kitchen counter....

He worked at the Office of Naval Intelligence before joining the FBI in 1969 and his ability to drive 18-wheel trucks helped him get undercover work. Pistone was known by the alias Donnie Brasco and the FBI erased his history so that he officially never existed. Pistone later authored the books The Way of the Wiseguy and Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business. He has also been the subject of many films....

Born in 1980 in Rockville Centre, New York, June Diane Raphael graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2002. She immediately started studying improv comedy, and began performing and writing at the city’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Raphael and fellow NYU classmate Casey Wilson worked together in comedy as writers and performers and eventually co-wrote the 2009 movie “Bride Wars” starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway....

In 2016 she starred as Clary Fray in the TV series Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments. McNamara has starred in the movies New Year’s Eve, Last Ounce of Courage, Contest, Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Sort of Homecoming, and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. She has also appeared in episodes of the TV series The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, 30 Rock, Drop Dead Diva, Glee, Austin & Ally, Jessie, Kickin’ It, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Workaholics, Unforgettable, and The Fosters....

Financial Problems In April 2013, it was revealed that Kelly Rutherford was nearly bankrupt and had gone through her entire savings account in a lengthy custody battle with her former husband over their daughter. Rutherford subsequently filed for bankruptcy in June of 2013 Early Life Rutherford was born on November 6, 1968, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She grew up with her mother, Ann Edwards, and her brother, Anthony. The family moved to Los Angeles sometime during Rutherford’s childhood....

Early Life Kenneth Martin Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom in June 1949. He developed an early interest in reading after not being allowed to watch TV or movies. Follett graduated from University College London. He took a post-graduate course in journalism and worked as a trainee reporter. He then became a general assignment reporter for the Evening News. He later became deputy managing director of Everest Books....