Celebrities
Debbie Harry Net Worth
Debbie Harry's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million
Deborah Ann Harry was actually born as Angela Trimble, on the 1st July 1945 in Miami, Florida USA and is a singer, songwriter and an actress who, as Debra or Debbie Harry, is best known as the lead singer of the American rock band – Blondie, which was at the peak of its career during the early 1980s, most famous for its hit singles Rapture, Maria and Heath of Glass.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this veteran rock star has accumulated so far? How rich Debbie Harry is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Debbie Harry’s net worth, as of mid-2016, is $20 million, which has been primarily acquired throughout her music career which is now spanned almost half a century.
Debbie Harry Net Worth $20 Million
Debbie Harry was adopted at three months by New Jersey gift shop proprietors, Richard Smith and Catherine Harry. Debbie attended Hawthorne High School in New Jersey from which she matriculated in 1963, and subsequently enrolled at Centenary College, also in New Jersey, from which she graduated in 1965 with an Associate of Arts degree. Prior to beginning her singing career, Debbie Harry moved to New York and began working as a secretary at the BBC Radio office. Apart from her day job, Debbie also served as a cocktail waitress, go-go dancer and Playboy Bunny. All these engagements provided the basis for Debbie Harry’s net worth.
Debbie Harry sailed into music waters in 1968 as the backing singer of the folk rock group, Wind in the Willows. In 1974, Debbie Harry joined the Stilettoes in which she met her future boyfriend and colleague, Chris Stein, and soon after Blondie was founded. With Debbie as a singer and Chris as a guitarist, the band, at that time the pioneer in the early American punk and new way genre, released its first, eponymous album “Blondie” in 1976. By the end of 1982, when the group officially split up, they had released six studio albums including “Parallel Lines” (1978) and its hit single Hearts of Glass as well as “Eat to the Beat” (1979) and “Autoamerican” which were both certified platinum. All these achievements helped Debbie Harry to establish herself as a successful musician on the global scene, as well as to add a significant sum to her overall net worth.
Debbie Harry’s first solo album, “KooKoo” was released in 1981 and, before reaching gold status, peaked at No. 25 in the US and No. 6 in the UK. In 1986, she released her second studio album named “Rockbird” with hit singles French Kissin’, Free to Fall and In Love with Love. By 1997, when Blondie reunited, Debbie had released two more studio albums, of which both were huge commercial successes, adding millions to the total size of her net worth.
From 1997, Blondie with Debbie Harry as its ‘frontman’ and lead singer, has released another four studio albums, of which “No Exit” (1999) was certified gold with over 100,000 copies sold. Among the group’s biggest hit singles are Call Me, Rapture, and The Tide is High. Doubtlessly, these involvements have left a huge, positive, impact on the net worth of Debbie Harry.
Apart from her illustrious music career, Debbie Harry has also made some efforts towards an acting career. Apparently she appeared in more than 60 movies, such as “Union City” (1979), “Videodrome” (1983), “Hairspray” (1988), “Heavy” (1995) as well as “Six Ways to Sunday” (1997) among plenty of others. She has also made notable appearances in several TV series including “Ghost Whisperer”, “Glee” and “Smash”.
Debbie Harry was also a member of the Jazz Passengers, with whom she performed on several tours across the states and Europe. It is certain that all these accomplishments have helped Debbie Harry to round a successful and long-lived music career as well as to add millions to the amount of her wealth.
When it comes to her personal life, apart from being in a relationship with a Blondie colleague, Chris Stein, Debbie Harry has never married and has no children. She is currently very active in several charity causes, especially those devoted to fighting endometriosis, cancer and AIDS.
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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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