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Paul Reubens Net Worth
Paul Rubenfeld's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 Million
Paul Rubenfeld was born on the 27th August, 1952 in Peekskill, New York State, USA. Known professionally as Paul Reubens, he is a comedian, actor, writer, producer and game show host, whose greatest claim to fame is that he is the creator and performer of the famous character Pee-Wee Herman. Paul Reubens has been accumulating his net worth being active in the entertainment industry since 1977.
How much is the net worth of Paul Reubens? Under the latest estimations his wealth is as much as $5 million, accumulated during his career now spanning almost 40 years.
Paul Reubens Net Worth $5 Million
Paul Reubens grew-up in Florida, where he attended Sarasota High School, afterwards studying at Northewestwrn and Boston Universities, but also auditioning for acting schools, eventually entering the California Institute of the Arts. In the 1970s, Reubens began building his net worth by playing in local dinner theatre, and making four guest appearances on “The Gong Show”. He then joined the Los Angeles improvisational theatre team, The Groundlings, where he remained a member for six years, working with Bob McClurg, John Paragon, Susan Barnes, and Phil Hartman.
At that time Reubens began wrtting sketches, and developed his improvisational skills. Together with Hartman he created the character of Pee-Wee Herman, who is an eccentric happy-go-lucky man-child, wearing a skimpy little gray suit and a red bow tie. This character became a cult figure for several decades, and added huge sums to the total size of Paul Reubens’ net worth. Subsequently he made countless appearances in the television series “The Pee-wee Herman Show”(1981–1984), the adventure comedy film “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”(1985) directed by Tim Burton, and the children’s television series “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse”(1986–1990).
On the 26th July, 1991, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota Florida for masturbating in an adult theatre projecting Nurse Nancy. News and media were seized with a frenzy and the scandal marked the death of the character of Pee-Wee Herman; the “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse” series was already fixed at the time of this story, but CBS, put an end to the already scheduled reruns. Reubens then made an agreement with the Court of the County of Sarasota in exchange for a fine and a few announcements on public service, and Reubens kept a clean record.
Interestingly, Reubens appeared in the character of Pee-Wee on 5th September, 1991, at the MTV Video Music Awards, where he received a standing ovation when he asked the audience his famous quote: “Have you heard good jokes lately?” Reubens was arrested again in 2002 for involvement in a paedophile pornography case. Moreover, it coincided with another case involving the same type actor Jeffrey Jones. The press had doubts about this story, suggesting that paedophiles’ pornographic materials have not been acquired by Reubens intentionally, knowing he declared to be an avid collector of erotic art. On 22nd March, 2004, the charges against him in this case were lifted after he agreed to plead guilty for sexual molestation. In 2004, Paul Reubens said he was working on several television projects and films. Reubens has also confirmed that the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse film project was very close to its realization.
In June 2006, Cartoon Network started an advertising campaign for its “Adult Swim” show. Afterwards, 45 new episodes were aired from Monday to Thursday, with several other film projects around the character of Pee-Wee being suited mostly for adults. Later, Reubens relaunched his career as a Peewee Herman and gave more and more interviews in TV shows and in the press. From the 26th October, 2010 to January 2, 2011, a show “The Wee Herman Pee-show on Broadway” was performed at the Broadway Stephen Sondheimhttps://networthpost.com/paul-reubens-net-worth/ Theatre.
Overall, Paul Reubens has been involved in more than 30 films and over 40 TV productions, plus video games – all have contributed steadily to his net worth.
Talking about the personal relationships of Paul Reubens, he has dated Brooke Ashley, Charlene Gail Chandi Heffner and Debi Mazar, among others, although he has never married.
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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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