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Neal Boortz Net Worth
Neal Boortz's Net Worth as of 2024
$15 Million
Neal A Boortz, Jr. was born on the 6th April 1945, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania USA, and is a radio personality, who is probably best recognized for being a former Libertarian radio host of his own program “The Neal Boortz Show”. He is also known as an author of several books, including “The Terrible Truth About Liberals” (1998), “The Fair Tax Book” (2005), etc. His career has been active since the early 1970s.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Neal Boortz is, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Neal’s net worth is over $15 million, an amount which has been accumulated through his successful involvement in the entertainment industry not only as a radio host, but also as an author. Another source is coming from his career as a lawyer.
Neal Boortz Net Worth $15 Million
Neal Boortz hails from a military family, the son of Neal Boortz, Sr. who was a pilot in the US Marine Corps, serving in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. Thus, he spent his childhood time divided between various locations, as the family moved frequently. He attended High School at Tustin Union High School in Tustin, California for two years, after which he moved with his family to Florida, where he continued education at Pensacola High School. Upon matriculation in 1963, he enrolled at Texas A&M University; however, he didn’t graduate but later went to John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia, earning his degree in 1977. During his time in Texas, he worked at the WTAW-AM radio station, and when he moved to Georgia he worked a number of odd jobs, before he was hired at another radio station. Parallel with the job, he attended the Law School, and after graduation he worked at his own law company from 1977 to 1993, when he closed his company in order to pursue a career as a radio host.
Thus, his career on the radio began in the early 1970s, when he was hired at the WRNG radio station, after which he transferred to WGST, but left in 1992. He signed an exclusive contract with the WSB radio station, and since then his career has only gone upwards, as well as his net worth and popularity. He launched his own daily radio program called “The Neal Boortz Show”, and thanks to that he was named as one of the 25 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine. The show was produced by Royal Marshall, and Belinda Skelton, and soon was on air on Cox Radio, owned by WSB, and had enormous success, winning Best Radio Program, Any Type award, and becoming the sixth overall most listened to radio program in the country, which added a considerable amount to his net worth. Thanks to his accomplishments, Neal was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2009. Unfortunately, the show ended in 2013.
Apart from his career as a radio personality, Neal is also known as an author, who published his first book “The Commencement Speech You Need To Hear” in 1997; in the following year his second book came out entitled “The Terrible Truth About Liberals”. In 2005, he co-wrote “The FairTax Book” together with John Linder, which became a best seller, and was turned into the documentary film “An Inconvenient Tax”, which increased his net worth by a large margin. Two years later, he published “Somebody’s Gotta Say It”, and the last one was “FairTax: The Truth” (2008).
If to talk about his personal life, Neal Boortz is married to Donna, with whom he has one child. They spend their time divided between residences in Atlanta, Georgia, and Naples, Florida. In free time, Neal enjoys playing golf, and he is a pilot who owns two airplanes.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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