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Imelda Marcos Net Worth
Imelda Remedios Visitacion Romualdez's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 Billion
Imelda Remedios Visitación Romuáldez y Trinidad was born on the 2nd July 1929 in Manila, Philippine Islands, of Visayan and Spanish descent. She is probably best recognized all over the world for being Imelda Marcos, a former First Lady and the widow of the 10th president of the Philippines – Ferdinand Marcos, from 1965 to 1986. However, she is infamous for her huge collection of shoes, but she is also known in the media as a former model.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Imelda Marcos is, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Imelda counts her net worth at the impressive amount of $5 billion, which has been accumulated through her involvement in politics as First Lady. Another source of her net worth came from her brief modeling career.
Imelda Marcos Net Worth $5 Billion
Imelda Marcos was raised with five siblings by her father, Vicente Romuáldez, and her mother, Remedios Trinidad; her uncle was Norberto Romuáldez, who was known as a Philippine Supreme Court Associate Justice. Thus, she speaks three languages – English, Tagalog, and Waray. After the death of her mother, she moved with her family from Manila to Tacloban, where she pursued her career not only as a model and prospective beauty queen, but also as a singer. At the beginning of the 1950s, she returned back to Manila, and there began to work in small music store, soon after entering her first notable beauty pageant for Miss Manila, finishing second; however, she was crowned as the Muse of Manila. This had an influence on her net worth and popularity.
Subsequently, she met her future husband Ferdinand Marcos, a politician and congressman at Nacionalista Party from Ilocos Norte, and married him in 1954, and they together had five children – one of them adopted.
Her political career began in 1965, when her husband was elected the 10th President of the Philippines, and she became First Lady. Under their presidency, the country lived in poverty, while they traveled a lot, and were involved in various controversies with other celebrities. However, she gained huge political power, as she became “the other half of the conjugal dictatorship”, and a huge number of public events was organized with money from national funds, such as the 1974 Miss Universe beauty pageant.
Nevertheless, Imelda established the Green Revolution, and served not only as an Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary, but also as the Minister of Human Settlements. Thanks to that, she projected the Philippine Heart Center, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Calauit Safari Park, etc, which all increased her net worth to a large degree.
Speaking further about her career, Imelda was accused of the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., an opposition leader, but found not guilty. However, Ferdinand Marcos lost at the elections in 1986, which led to a People Power Revolution. Two years later, both of them were charged with conspiracy, racketeering, and obstruction of justice, but in 1990, after the death of her husband, she was acquitted of all charges.
Additionally in her life, the documentary film “Imelda” was released in 2003, and in 2010 the album “Here Lies Love” was released, which was later converted to a rock musical. Beside that, her huge collection of shoes is exhibited in the National Museum of the Philippines.
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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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