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Dwight Gooden Net Worth
Dwight Eugene Gooden's Net Worth as of 2024
$200,000
Dwight Eugene Gooden, better known by his nickname Dr. K, was born on the 16th November 1964, in Tampa, Florida, USA. He is probably best recognized for being a retired professional baseball player, who played in the position of pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six teams, including the New York Yankees, Houston Astros, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. His professional career was active from 1984 to 2000.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Dwight Gooden is? It is estimated by authoritative sources that the total size of Gooden’s net worth is over $200,000 as of mid-2016 – most of his income is the result of his successful involvement in the sports industry as a professional MLB player. Another source of his wealth is represented by the selling of his autobiographical book.
Dwight Gooden Net Worth $200,000
Dwight Gooden was raised with four siblings by his father, Dan, who worked as a coach of a semi-professional baseball team, and his mother Ella May. Thus, under the influence of his father, he began playing baseball as a child. He attended Hillsborough High School, where he played for the school team. As a senior, he set a record of 7-4 with 135 strikeouts.
Dwight’s professional baseball career began in the early 1980s, when he entered the 1982 MLB Draft, in which he was selected as the fifth pick overall by the New York Mets. However, he joined the Mets in 1984, after spending a season in the minor league, playing for the Lynchburg Mets, in which team he was one of the most dominant players with 300 strikeouts in 191 innings overall. The following season he joined the Mets, and immediately showed that he was the real deal. He played for the Mets until 1994, during which period his net worth increased to a large degree, thanks to the lucrative contracts he received. However, he soon suffered a drug addiction, and his future career was at stake. In order to avoid suspension, he was admitted into a rehabilitation clinic in 1986, and returned to the Mets the following season. He continued successfully until 1992, when the injuries began to appear, and jeopardize his career, again.
He played for two more years for the Mets, and then became a free agent. After two years without a team, he was acquired by the New York Yankees; however, his numbers were nowhere near the ones when he played in the Mets, and after one season he was released.
He retired after the 2000 season, but before retirement he played for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Devils, and he returned to the Yankees for a short stint, but was released by the club.
During his career, Dwight won several prestigious awards as an individual and as a part of the team, including three World Series Champion rings, 1986, 1996 and 2000, he was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1984, and in 1992 he won the Silver Slugger Award. Furthermore, Dwight won the Triple Crown in 1985, and appeared four times in the All-Star games, in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988. In 2010 he was inducted into the New York Mets Hall Of Fame.
His career continued even after retirement, as he worked in the New York Yankee’s office. Dwight’s net worth also increased when he was hired as the Newark Bears’ vice president of community relations.
Dwight also authored a book, entitled “Heat” in 1999, in which are depicted his problems with drugs and alcohol. The sales of the book have also added a lot to his net worth.
Regarding his personal life, Dwight Gooden has been married to Monique Moore since 2009, and they are the parents of two children. Previously, he was in marriage with Monica Harris(1987-2004), with whom he also has two children.
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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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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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