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Masaharu Morimoto Net Worth
Masaharu Morimoto's Net Worth as of 2024
$18 Million
Masaharu Morimoto was born on the 26th May 1955, in Hiroshima, Japan, and is a chef as well as TV personality and restaurateur, who is best known for his appearance in “Iron Chef”, the reality TV show. He is also widely recognized for his unique-looking dishes, and a chain of restaurants across the globe.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this Japanese Iron Chef has accumulated so far? How rich Masaharu Morimoto is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Masaharu Morimoto’s net worth, as of mid-2017, exceeds the sum of $18 million, acquired through his television cooking career which began in 1999, as well as through his business endeavors and Morimoto restaurants chain.
Masaharu Morimoto Net Worth $18 Million
Masaharu attended Tamagawa University where he received practical training in cooking, thoroughly studying traditional Kaiseki cuisine as well as sushi in his home town of Hiroshima. At the age of 25, in 1980 Masaharu opened his first restaurant, and spent the next five years further honing his cooking skills. However, in 1985, deeply interested in Western cooking styles, Morimoto sold his Hiroshima restaurant and moved to the States, traveling around and experimenting with fusion cuisine in order to enrich his culinary repertoire. Finally he settled in New York City, where he began working for the Sony Club, Sony Corporation’s VIP and executive stuff dining area. This venture provided the basis for Masaharu Morimoto’s net worth.
In the mid 1990s, Masaharu became the executive chef of NY City’s prestigious Japanese restaurant – Nobu. In 1999 he began his on-camera cooking career as one of the contestants in the Japanese reality TV show “Iron Chef”. Soon after ending his run on the show, he left Nobu and in 2001 opened his first restaurant in the states – simply named Morimoto – based in Philadelphia. These achievements helped Masaharu Morimoto to establish himself as a prominent chef in the demanding restaurant business, and also to add a significant sum to the total of his revenues.
In 2004, Morimoto debuted in ABC TV ‘s reality cooking show “Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters”, and since then has made almost 70 appearances in “Iron Chef America: The Series”. His on-camera portfolio includes appearances in several other cooking shows, such as “Food Network Star”, “Hell’s Kitchen”, “Top Chef” and “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations”, but which also includes cameo appearances in TV series such as “Hawaii Five-o”, “The Chew” as well as “The View”. Doubtlessly, all these appearances have helped Masaharu Morimoto to boost the level of his fame which resulted in increments to his net worth.
In 2006, Masaharu opened his flagship restaurant – Morimoto New York – which was followed by expanding his business empire by adding additional restaurants to his Morimoto chain, including locations such as Bangkok, Maui, Mexico City and Las Vegas. He also owns Morimoto Asia in Orlando, Morimoto XEX located in Tokyo, as well as Momosan Ramen & Sake in NY City. The newest additions to his prosperous restaurant realm are in Morimoto Dubai and Morimoto Doha, as well as a concept restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii, all opened in 2017. It is certain that all these endeavors have helped Masaharu Morimoto to dramatically increase the total of his net worth.
Apart from those already mentioned, Morimoto has published several cookbooks, including “Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking” and “Mastering The Art of Japanese Home Cooking”. He also owns signature lines of beers, premium sakes as well as wines, seed oils and knives, all positively impacting his wealth.
When it comes to his personal life, Masaharu Morimoto has been married since 1978 to Kaiko with whom he has welcomed three children. For his skills and great contribution to cooking and cuisine in general, Masaharu was honored with the James Bearded Award, and has been inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.
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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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