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Scott Adams Net Worth
Scott Adams's Net Worth as of 2024
$75 Million
Scott Adams was born on the 8th June 1957, in Windham, New York USA, and is a cartoonist and writer, best known as the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, and is also the author of several more non-fiction publications. Adams’ satirical and sarcastic style is his way of describing the social and mental landscape. His career as a cartoonist started in 1989.
Have you ever wondered how rich Scott Adams is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Scott Adams’ net worth is as high as $75 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a cartoonist. In addition to creating a highly popular character, Adams has also worked as a writer, producer, and actor which has also improved his net worth.
Scott Adams Net Worth $75 Million
Scott Raymond Adams was born to Virginia and Paul Adams and is of half-German descent. Scott loved the “Peanuts” comics when he was a child, and started drawing at the age of six, winning his first competition at the age of eleven. Adams was rejected from art school in 1968 and opted to study law at the Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School, form where he graduated in 1975. In 1979, Adams received his Bachelor degree in Economics at Hartwick College, and then moved to California, and in 1986, he received his MBA in economics and management from the University of California, Berkeley.
He learned his trade with telecommunications engineers in Crocker National Bank in San Francisco from 1979 to 1986, during which Adams’ positions moved from management trainee, to computer programmer, then budget analyst, followed by commercial lender, product manager, and ultimately supervisor. When working as a bank teller, Adams was held at gunpoint twice in only four months.
Adams created Dilbert, based on his ex-boss Mike Goodwin while working at Crocker National Bank, and Dogbert, who was first called Dildog, was based on his family’s deceased beagle Lucy. He subsequently moved to Pacific Bell in 1986 and stayed there until 1995. In the meantime, Adams finally published Dilbert with United Media in 1989, receiving a first paycheck of $368.62 for the cartoon. Dilbert became more popular throughout the years; it had 100 newspaper publications in 1991, rising to 400 in 1993, benefiting Scott’s net worth considerably.
Adams left his job and became a full-time cartoonist in 1996, with Dilbert being published in 800 newspaper, and in the same year Adams’ first book “The Dilbert Principle” was released. In 1997, Adams won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year and also Best Newspaper Comic Strip of 1997, and he became a famous cartoonist. In 1998, the TV series “Dilbert” was launched, but it was cancelled after only two seasons and 30 episodes, however, it generated more money to Adams’ account, and also more popularity because, by the end of 2000, Dilbert was published in over 2,000 newspapers in 57 countries and 19 languages.
Scott Adams appeared in the TV series “News Radio” in 1996, and in “Babylon 5” (one of his favourite shows) in 1997.
In addition, Scott is a co-owner of Stacey’s Café in Pleasanton, California, and a CEO of Scott Adams Foods, Inc., the company that makes the Dilberito, a vegan microwave burrito, and Protein Chef. Being an owner of successful businesses has allowed Adams to increase his net worth significantly.
Regarding his personal life, Scott Adams was married to Shelly Miles from 2006 to 2014 and has two children with her. He is a vegetarian and hypnotist. He has had two serious health issues since 2004; firstly he suffered from focal dystonia which affected his ability to draw for a period of time, and he also had problems with spasmodic dysphonia, a condition which damages the vocal cords and causes the voice to sound abnormal. Adams underwent surgery, and his voice is entirely functional now. Scott Adams currently lives in Pleasanton, California.
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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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Paul Heyman Net Worth
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.
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