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Salt Bae (Nusret Gökçe) Net Worth
Nusret Gökçe's Net Worth as of 2024
$800,000
Nusret Gökçe was born in 1983 in Paşalı, Turkey, and is a chef and a restauranteur who is widely recognized for being the owner of Nusr-Et steakhouse and restaurant chain across Turkey and United Arab Emirates. However, under the alias Salt Bae, he is best known for videos and internet memes in which he “artistically” and rather “sensually” cooks and prepares steaks and meat which quickly went viral and became a genuine internet sensation.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this popular chef has accumulated so far? How rich Salt Bae is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total of Salt Bae’s net worth, as of early 2018, revolves around the sum of $800,000 which has been acquired through his culinary and business career which has been active since 2010.
Salt Bae Net Worth $800,000
Nusret was born as one out of four children to Fatma and Faik Gökçe, and apart from Turkish is also of Kurdish ancestry. As he stated himself, he grew up in poverty and began working as a kitchen runner and dishwasher at the age of just 14. After acquiring his chef and butcher certificates, he opened his first restaurant in Istanbul back in 2010 – a small establishment with only 10 employees and just eight tables. In the course of the next several years, Nusret travelled to Argentina as well as the USA and Japan where he dived further into the meat industry, deepening his passion for meat and cooking. All these efforts helped Nusret Gökçe to make a name for himself in the restaurant business and also provided the basis for his current net worth.
Over the years, Salt Bae managed to expand his business empire by opening several more restaurants all across Turkey before, in 2014, he opened his first steakhouse in Dubai. Following the commercial success of his previous business efforts, in 2017 he opened a restaurant in Abu Dhabi too. What began as a small steakhouse, over the years overgrown to a chain of 13 restaurants with over 600 employees. The most recent additions to Nusret Gökçe’s business empire are locations in Doha, Qatar, as well as Miami, Florida, and New York City which is currently in its finishing stages before opening. Doubtlessly, all these endeavors have helped Salt Bae to add a significant sum to the total of his net worth.
However, to a greater prominence Nusret came in January 2017 when video “Ottoman Steak” picturing him preparing a steak in his unique and passionate way, showing flamboyant cooking skills went viral and gained huge popularity. For his unique way of sprinkling salt, letting it fall across his forearm, directly on the meat, Nusret was immediately named Salt Bae. The video had been seen more than 10 million times during the 2017, earning a huge dose of fame to Nusret as well as to his chain of restaurants. He became globally recognized not only for his sensational culinary skills and “almost erotic appreciation for a hefty slice of meat”, but also for his visual appearance – tight black and white outfit completed with black round sunglasses. Salt Bae almost overnight became an internet attraction, causing an avalanche of internet memes which certainly made an impact on his popularity as well as overall wealth.
When it comes to his personal life, there aren’t much relevant details about Salt Bae’s private matters, except that he is a father of nine children. Throughout his international steakhouse chain, Nusret has served a handful of celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Tommy Hilfiger and American Olympic medalist gymnast Simone Biles. He is quite active on several social media networks where he has been followed by over 10.5 million fans altogether.
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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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