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Elvis Costello Net Worth
Elvis Costello's Net Worth as of 2024
$60 Million
Declan Patrick MacManus was born on 25 August 1954, in Paddington, London, England of Irish ancestry. Elvis is a musician, record producer, singer and songwriter probably still best known for his success during the 1970s with albums such as “My Aim is True” and “Armed Forces”. He also formed the band The Attractions, and his numerous endeavors have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Elvis Costello? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $60 million, mostly earned through his success in the music industry. He’s won multiple awards and has also written songs for films. He’s still very active, and as he continues his career his wealth is expected to rise even further.
Elvis Costello Net Worth $60 Million
Elvis attended Archbishop Myers RC School which is now known as St Mark’s Catholic Secondary School. While he was still a student, he often helped his father who was a musician, and they recorded a commercial for R. White’s Lemonade. He then formed the folk band Rusty when he moved to Cheshire, and completed secondary education at St. Francis Xavier’s College. After his studies, he went back to London and created the band Flip City. He also started to use the stage name D.P. Costello in recognition of his father who had used the stage name Day Costello. While trying to start to his music career, he worked various jobs. Eventually, he was signed by Stiff Records, and they recommended that he use the stage name Elvis Costello, a mix of Elvis Presley and his father’s stage name.
He released his first album “My Aim Is True” in 1977, and it found success in both the UK and the US; he signed with Columbia Records a few months later to ensure that his music would be distributed in the United States. Elvis then formed his own backing band named The Attractions who included Bruce Thomas, Steve Nieve, and Pete Thomas. They first performed as a replacement for the Sex Pistols in “Saturday Night Live”, but stopped the intro of their first song to play “Radio Radio” which the executives did not want them to play. Elvis was then banned from the show, but their popularity increased considerably after this event.
Costello continued to perform and tour around the country, and two years later released his third album “Armed Forces”. He found controversy for a time in the same year, after making racist comments against James Brown and Ray Charles while he was drunk – it would be a while before he apologized for his acts. In the 1980s he released “Get Happy!!” which became a huge success despite being far from the normal genre that they were known for. In 1981, he released “Trust” but around this time he was already having tensions with the Attractions. He then released “Almost Blue” which had country song covers and “Imperial Bedroom” which had a darker tone than usual. In 1983, he released “Punch the Clock” but tensions with the band reached its peak and Elvis announced that the group was breaking up. He also mentioned that it was probably time for him to retire. Eventually, after performing with other groups, Costello and The Attractions recorded the album “Blood and Chocolate” and after that, he would officially leave The Attractions and his contract with Columbia Records also ended.
After the break, Costello continued to perform well into the 90s and 2000s, releasing “She” during 1999 for the soundtrack of “Notting Hill”. He also continued to collaborate with other artists, releasing various songs, albums and even a memoir.
For his personal life, it is known that he has married three times, firstly to Mary Burgoyne in 1974 and they had a son but divorced in 1984, meantime being linked with Bebe Buell. However, in 1986 he married Cait O’Riordan but they divorced in 2002. He has been married to Diana Krall since 2003 and they have twin sons.
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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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