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John Cale Net Worth
John Cales's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million
John Davies Cale was born on 9 March 1942, in the Amman Valley, South Wales UK, of Welsh descent, and is a singer-songwriter and record producer, perhaps still best known for being one of the foundation members of the band Velvet Underground, an American experimental group in the 1960s.
So just how rich is John Cale, as of late 2016? Authoritative sources estimate that Cale’s net worth is now over $10 million, accumulated during a career in the music industry which now spans more than 50 years.
John was raised bi-lingual by his Welsh schoolteacher mother; his father was a coal miner. John eventually enrolled at the University of London, studying music at Goldsmith’s College; apparently his instrument then was the viola. He engaged largely in classical music, conducting and writing, but became interested in rock too, and travelled to the US in 1963, meeting musicians and composers in New York City, and even participating in an 18-hour marathon of piano-playing, the first full-length performance of”Vexations” by Erik Satie, with John Cage among others.
John Cale co-founded Velvet Underground with Lou Reed in early 1965, enlisting Angus MacLise and Sterling Morrison for the line-up. Their first performance earned them $75, but in 1967 their first album “The Velvet Underground & Nico” – featuring the German singer-songwriter – was released featuring Cale on bass guitar, piano and viola, as well as vocals, followed by “White Light/White Heat” in 1968, with Cale adding organ to his repertoire. The modest popularity of these albums started Cales’s net worth. Artistic tensions between Cale and Reed then saw John leave the band, and move into a solo career.
John now concentrated on arranging and producing, but also supporting artists with his ability on a number of instruments, including collaborations with Nico. His extensive list of collaborators spanning the next three decades includes La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Cranes, Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers, Patti Smith, the Stooges, the Modern Lovers, Marc Almond, Squeeze, Happy Mondays, LCD Soundsystem, the Replacements,and Siouxsie and the Banshees. All contributed to his net worth.
However, John has been prolific as a solo artist too, releasing more than 30 albums over the years, ranging from “Vintage Violence” in 1970 and classified as folk-pop, ” Paris 1919″ (1973) with complex, arcane lyrics, to the punk rock “Sabotage” (1979). The commercially aimed “Artificial Intelligence”(1985) actually failed to hit the target, after which he took a break of several years, before releasing a number of albums setting the poems of Dylan Thomas to musical accompaniment.
Albums since and more recently have included “Walking on Locusts” (1996), “HoboSapiens” (2003), “BlackAcetate” (2005), “Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood” (2012), and “M:FANS” (2016), with varied commercial success which does not appear to have detracted too much from his net worth.
In recognition of of musical ability and contributions to the music world, Cale as a member of Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2010 was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE).
In his personal life, John Cale married Betsey Johnson in 1968, but that lasted just a year. He then married Cindy Wells in 1971 – they divorced in 1975. His third marriage was to Risé Irushalmi in 1981 – they had a daughter, but divorced in 1997. John has confessed to relatively mild drug use over a number of years, until the birth of his daughter in 1985, but which he still believes effected his playing and composing ability, reflected in some of the albums he recorded. He subsequently hosted a documentary entitled “Heroin, Wales and Me”, identifying the dangers of heroin use in particular.
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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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