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Paul Tracy Net Worth
Paul Tracy's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million
Born Paul Anthony Tracy on the 17th December 1968, in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario Canada, Paul is a retired professional race-car driver who competed in such championships as CART, the Champ Car World Series, and the IndyCar Series. During his career, Paul got the nickname “the thrill from West Hill”. Paul’s career started in the mid- ‘80s and ended in 2012.
Have you ever wondered how rich Paul Tracy is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Tracy’s net worth is as high as $20 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a race-car driver.
Paul Tracy Net Worth $20 Million
From an early age Paul was fascinated by racing cars, and in his early teens started racing go-karts at Goodwood Kartways. When he turned 16, he won the Canadian Formula Ford Championship, becoming the youngest ever to achieve such a feat. The following year, he won a Can-Am race, also becoming the youngest winner in the Can-Am history.
After that he spent several seasons building his name in North American open-wheel feeder series’, and after a few unsuccessful seasons, he won the American Racing Series Championship in 1990, actually winning a record nine races..
From 1991 until 2007 he competed in the Champ Car series, for several teams; he firstly joined Team Penske as a test driver, but then in his first race he broke his leg, and raced in only two more events to the end of the season. During the 1992 season he served as a replacement for Rick Mears, who was often injured, and then at the end of the season, Mears announced his retirement, which saw paul promoted to a full-time position at Team Penske. He drove for Penske until 1995, pretty much successfully, however, he still changedto the team Newman/Haas Racing in 1995, but returned to Penske Racing in 1996, and had three successful seasons, before leaving again, this time for Team Green. Unfortunately, his form began to decline and he finished only in 13th place, however, he made a strong comeback in 1999, although he was excluded from the first race of the season, due to his altercations with CART officials. He ended in 3rd place in the championship, winning two races during the course of the season, while he also had seven podium finishes. He continued in the same way the next year, winning three races, which was enough for him to obtain fifth place in the championship, which only further increased his wealth, but the two years that followed were the worst in Paul’s career, as he finished 14th and 11th in the championship.
In 2003 he joined Forsythe/Pettit Racing, which turned out to be a smart move. He had his best season as he won seven events, including the first three races of the season, and eventually won the championship, which added a significant amount to his wealth. After that, his team went in to sponsorship troubles, which certainly affected the quality of his car, and as a result, he finished fourth in the championship during the 2004 season. The following year, Paul was good enough to lead the series after only five races, but Paul then ran out of luck and several crashes caused him to fall down to fourth position at the end of the season. He raced for Forsythe team until 2007, when Champ Car folded.
From then until the end of his career, Paul competed in the IndyCar Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, and also Busch Series in 2006 and 2007, but without any major success.
After retirement, Paul started a motorcycle parts company called Black Label Baggers, while he has also invested in Arma Energy SNX. This has also increased his wealth.
Regarding his personal life, Paul has been married to Patty since 2005; the couple has two children together.
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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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