Producers

Rushion McDonald Net Worth

Published

3 months ago

January 28, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Rushion McDonald's Net Worth as of 2024
$10 Million

Rushion McDonald is a TV executive producer, and motivational speaker best known to the world for producing such shows as “Steve Harvey” (2013-2017), among many other creations. His career started in the late ‘80s.

Have you ever wondered how rich Rushion McDonald is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that McDonald’s net worth is as high as $10 million, an amount earned through his successful career in the entertainment industry.

Rushion McDonald Net Worth $10 Million

Little is known about Rushion’s life before his career started. However, it is known that he attended University of Houston, from which he obtained a degree in mathematics.

He used his degree to find employment with one of the largest technological companies, IBM, and soon enough started climbing up in rank. However, in the early ‘80s, his love for entertainment emerged, and he appeared in several stand-up comedy events. Gradually he became more involved in stand-up comedy, and as a result he became one of the top 50 stand-up comedians by the Showtime cable network. He then started performing his stand-up comedy act in Houston Comedy Club, where he met Steve Harvey.

The two reconnected in the early ‘90s, when Steve starred in the TV comedy series “Me and the Boys”, and Rushion became story editor of the series. After that, he served as writer for the TV series “The Parent ‘Hood” from 1995 to 1996, and from 1998 to 1999 as a writer and the producer of the TV drama comedy “Sister, Sister”. In 1999 Rushion made his breakthrough by creating the hilarious Jamie Foxx Show, which lasted until 2000, and served as its executive, which only increased his wealth considwrably.

He took a step forward creating the TV series “The Parkers” (2000-2002), but he only wrote four episodes, although serving as a consulting producer until the end of the show in 2002. The following year he teamed up again with Steve Harvey to create “Steve Harvey’s Big Time Challenge”, and also in 2004 served as producer for Harvey’s TV series “Pulled Over”. Over the years, the two collaborated also on “The Steve Harvey Show” (2013-2017), for which Rushion received two Daytime Emmy awards in the category Outstanding Talk Show/Informative. However, before that launch, Rushion also worked on the TV series “Mobile Home Disaster” (2008), for which Rushion won an EMA Award, and the film “Think Like a Man” (2012).

In 2014 he produced the sequel to “Think Like a Man”, entitled “Think Like a Man Too” (2014), and TV series “Family Feud” (2016), which also increased his net worth.
To speak further of his accomplishments, he is the CEO of Media Inc, and the creator and host of the radio program “Money Making Conversations”.

Regarding his personal life, Rushion is married to Cicely, but further details of their marriage are unknown to the public.

Rushion is also a well-known philanthropist; he and his wife have started a scholarship for African-American students at the University of Houston, among many other philanthropic acts.

Daniel Wanburg

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Celebrities

Paul Heyman Net Worth

Published

2 days ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.

So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.

Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million

Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine^“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.

Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.

Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.

Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.

Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.

In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.

Actors

Tony Dow Net Worth

Published

2 days ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Tony Lee Dow was born on 13 April 1945 in Hollywood, California USA. He is a well-known person in the Hollywood movie industry because of his long-lasting involvement as a film producer, director and an actor.

So how rich is Tony Dow? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of it he has accumulated by working as a professional Hollywood actor for more than 50 years.

Tony Dow Net Worth $4 Million

Tony Dow’s interest in the film industry might have been related to the fact that his mother, Muriel Virginia Dow, was a stunt woman and a film double at the time Tony was a child and teenager. However, Tony undoubtedly had some acting talent which was proven when he managed to win the audition for a role in the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” in 1957, despite having no experience in acting at that time. This was the role that had perhaps the most influence in building a solid foundation to Tony Dow’s acting career, even though he received only one award – Young Artist Award in nomination of “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1988, after working in the show for six years. It was also a solid start to his net worth.

In the next few years after “Leave It to Beaver”, Tony appeared in several episodes of other TV shows, such as the sitcom “My Three Sons” (in 1964), drama series “Mr. Novak” (between 1963 and 1965) and teen soap opera “Never Too Young” (in 1965). Tony continued working in television up until the late 90s and his net worth continued to grow, for example in 1975 he starred in the popular medical TV drama “General Hospital”.

While Tony Dow is mostly known as a television actor, he has appeared in a few films during his career, including the television horror film “Death Scream” in 1975, comedy film “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977, television comedy film “High School USA” in 1983, comedy “Back to the Beach” and comedy film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

Acting aside, Tony Dow is also known as a producer, director and visual effects specialist, especially in the science fiction genre, and these involvements have undoubtedly contributed to building up his net worth. Tony contributed to the visual effects of the 1996 season of the phenomenal British science fiction TV series “Doctor Who”, and a few episodes of the space opera TV series “Babylon 5”. He also directed an episode of the American science fiction TV series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1998.

Interestingly though, some people might also recognize Tony Dow as a sculptor who is well known for his brilliant abstract pieces depicting surreal figures.

In his personal life, Tony Dow has never been married and has no children. He is known to have suffered from depression during some periods of his life, which on a positive note has encouraged him to participate in self-help videos, including the production “Beating the Blues” (1998). However, the negative effect is that Tony hasn’t participated as an actor in any film since 2003.