Celebrities
Margaret Cho Net Worth
Margaret Chong's Net Worth as of 2024
$3 Million
Margaret Moran Cho was born on the 5th December 1968 in San Francisco, California, USA and is a comedian, actress and singer, widely known for her stand-up shows in which she openly critiques social and political problems in a humorous way.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this versatile and talented lady has accumulated? How rich Margaret Cho is? According to sources, Margaret Cho’s net worth, as of early 2016, is estimated at $3 million which has been accomplished through her live performances as well as appearances in various TV series, shows and movies.
Margaret Cho Net Worth $3 Million
Margaret was raised in her hometown by her Korean parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho, a bookstore owners. Her father was also a comedian, who wrote Korean joke books, so it is no wonder that Margaret has become a successful comedian. She was expelled from more than one high school due to her poor grades before enrolling at McAteer High School for the Performing Arts in San Francisco. Margaret has began writing jokes at the age of 14, at the age of 15 she worked as a ‘phone sex operator, and started performing comedy when she was 16, debuting in the comedy club above her parent’s bookstore, and there she won her first prize – opening act for Jerry Seinfeld. That’s where her career began as well as her net worth starting to increase.
By 1990, Margaret already had over 300 stand-up performances and was nominated for Campus Comedian of the Year. After several years of tempering her humor in various clubs and moving to Los Angeles, her first acting role came in 1992 in the “Golden Girls” spin-off “The Golden Palace”. Another role followed, this time in her own sitcom in 1994 – “All-American Girl” on the ABC. Although the series was short-lived (only 19 episodes were filmed) and criticized, her talent showed its full potential and she won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian in 1994. In 1997, she starred opposite John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in the action thriller “Face/Off”. These engagements provided the basis for her net worth.
The year of 1999 was Margaret Cho’s career breakthrough – her off-Broadway one-woman show “I’m The One That I Want” drew national acclaim after a country-wide tour and lead to her best-selling book and the movie of the same name. This success was a main source of Margaret Cho’s net worth.
Margaret’s second tour “Notorious C.H.O.” was launched in 2002, and after visiting 37 countries had a grand finale at the Carnegie Hall. Soon afterwards, she issued a double-disc set of the last performance on the tour which later lead to filming the movie under the same name. Undoubtedly, these accomplishment added a significant sum to her overall net worth.
To speak further of her accomplishments, Margaret’s “Revolution” and tour-recorded CD brought her a Grammy nomination for Comedy album of the Year. Upcoming projects such as “Assassin” tour, the movie “The Sensuous Woman” and her own VH1 series “The Cho Show” along with “Drop Dead Diva”, “Cho Dependent” (her first music album), “Mother” and “PsyCHO TOUR” beside rising her popularity, positively impacted her fortune. Her appearance in “30 Rock” was nominated for Emmy’s Best Guest Performance.
Margaret’s humor and popularity in her dynamic career, now spanning almost 32 years, during which she has completed 11 comedy tours, has appeared in 30 movies and almost 30 TV series apart from publishing 2 books and 1 music album, has made her a significant amount of money.
When it comes to her personal life, it is known that Margaret was in relationships with Quentin Tarantino and Chris Isaak, before marriage with Al Ridenour which lasted for 11 years until their 2014 divorce.
For her activity in supporting LGBT (she is openly bisexual) and homeless rights, anti-racism and anti-bullying throughout the years, she has won numerous humanitarian awards. Also, Margaret’s GoFundMe page has collected over $20,000 in donations for the Homeless community.
Celebrities
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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