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Damien Hirst Net Worth
Damien Steven Hirst's Net Worth as of 2024
$300 Million
Damien Steven Hirst was born on the 7th June 1965 in Bristol, England, and is an artist, art collector as well as an entrepreneur. Hirst dominated in the scene of British art in the 1990s as a member of the group of Young British Artists, and in 1995 he won the reputable Turner Prize. Damien has been active in the art industry since 1980.
How much is the net worth of Damien Hirst? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the total size of his wealth is as much as $300 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016, which could esily rise as the value of his artistic works may increase – art as well as art collections are the main sources of Hirst’s net worth.
Damien Hirst Net Worth $300 Million
To begin with, Damien grew up in Leeds. His stepfather was an engineer and his mother worked in the administration of the Citizens Advice Bureau. He was unruly as a child, and drawing was the only area in which he was able to distinguish himself positively -he was especially impressed by the works of Francis Davison. He studied at the Leeds College of Art, and then he moved to London where he worked for two years on a construction site. Rejected from Saint Martins School of Art, he entered Goldsmith’s College of Art in 1986 to study fine arts. One of his main teachers was Michael Craig-Martin.
In the 1980s, he undertook the work of a sculptor and curator, which marked the birth of the group named Young British Artists. His first solo exhibition “In and Out of Love” was held in 1991, but since 1988, Damien Hirst has been creating installations in which he deals with the relationship between art, life and death. During his studies, he worked in a morgue and the theme of death is central to his work – in 1991, he also worked on a series making animals carcasse – the animals (sometimes halved, exposing organs) were immersed in formalin and presented in aquariums. Perhaps not fopr everyone, but his works constantly contribute to his net worth.
He has also made a video for the band Blur, “The Country House” (1995), a short film “Hanging Around” (1996), as well as paintings in collaboration with David Bowie. In the middle of 2007, one of his works – “Lullaby Spring” – a metal medicine cabinet containing 6136 pills, handmade and individually painted was sold for $19.2 million, the second most expensive work ever sold at auction belonging to a living artist, after a portrait painted by Lucian Freud. In the middle of 2007, Damien Hirst set a new record by selling for $100 million work a platinum skull of a man encrusted with 8601 diamonds. The journalist and art critic Ben Lewis revealed that the work did not find a single buyer, and was actually bought by a group of investors including Hirst himself, to preserve his rating on the art market. In the autumn of 2008, Hirst organized an auction of his most recent works at Sotheby’s in London, which was a great success with all items sold well beyond estimates.
In the autumn of 2015, Damien Hirst opened his own gallery, Newport Street Gallery, located in the south of London. It occupies three Victorian buildings with a total area of 3,400 m2. This new space is intended to present solo and group exhibitions of artists loved by Damien Hirst. The inaugural exhibition that accompanied the opening of the gallery was called Power Stations, and was dedicated to the works of John Hoyland.
Finally, in the personal life of the artist, he was in a long term relationship with Maia Norman between 1992 and 2012; they have three 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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