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Daniel Och Net Worth
Daniel Ochoa de Olza's Net Worth as of 2024
$3.9 Billion
Daniel Och was born in 1961, in New Jersey USA, of Jewish descent, and is a manager of hedge fund, an investor as well as a philanthropist. He is best known as the CEO and chairman of a global alternative asset management firm entitled Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, and a vice chairman of the charitable organization Robin Hood Foundation. More, Daniel is an active contributor to political campaigns, to give an example: he supported Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee donating $28,500. Och has been active in business since 1982.
How much is the net worth of Daniel Och? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3.9 billion, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017, and it’s worth mentioning the fact that it has risen from $3.2 billion at the beginning of the year. His assets include a house based in Southampton, New York which is valued at $20 million, but his hedge fund is the main source of Och’s fortune.
Daniel Och Net Worth $3.9 Billion
To begin with, the boy was raised in Maplewood, New Jersey by his parents Dr. Michael Och and Golda Och. He was educated at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex, and also attended the Jewish day school launched by his parents. Afterwards, he enrolled at the Wharton School ar the University of Pennsylvania, from which he hgtraduated with a Bachelor‘s degree in Finance.
Concerning his professional career, Daniel started in the Risk Arbitrage Department at the multi-national finance company Goldman Sachs in 1982. Later, he was promoted to the Head of Proprietary Trading, and finally to Co-Head of Equities Trading in the US. He has been working for the above mentioned company for more than 11 years. In 1994, he founded the Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, in which initially the Ziff brothers invested $100 million. The company operates in real estate, private investments, credit, equity restructuring, convertible arbitrage ans multiple investment strategies. In 2007, the initial public offering was completed and the shares priced at $32.00 were listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
By 2013, Daniel Och was listed as the one of 25 highest earning hedge fund managers in the US. As of the data presented in 2016, the value of shares had declined, partly because of the problem that the company faced. In the autumn of 2016, the government of the US imposed fines for the company and Och personally. Reportedly, the Och-Ziff Capital Management Group had to pay $413 million in fine whereas Daniel himself has to pay $2.2 million, as it was proved that more than $100 million were given in bribes to officials of African governments, for exactly what purpose wasn‘t specified.
Finally, in the personal life of Daniel Och, he is married to Jane Och; They have three children, and the family resides in Southampton, New York.
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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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Paul Heyman Net Worth
Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.
So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.
Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million
Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.
Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.
Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.
Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.
Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.
In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.
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