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David Choe Net Worth
David Choe's Net Worth as of 2024
$200 Million
David Choe was born on 21 April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA, to Korean immigrant parents. He is a painter, graffiti artist, muralist, graphic novelist as well as actor. His fine art became admired by many institutions and museums, and garnered the respect of fans around the world. Choe is perhaps best known for the bucktoothed whale graffiti as well as for painting the murals for Facebook.
So just how rich is David Choe? It has been reported that the overall amount of his net worth reaches $200 million, as of early 2016. His wealth has been earned from his various art works, and in addition to this, Choe’s television appearances have also contributed to his net worth.
David Choe Net Worth $200 Million
The artist grew up in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles, and began drawing at an early age. His first graffiti piece was the Bible verse reference John 11:35, which simply reads “Jesus wept”. However, his early life was characterized by petty crime and illegal street work. When he was 16, he participated in burning and looting during the 1992 LA riots, only to return home to find out that his parents’ business was burned down as well.
After dropping out of high school, Choe enrolled in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where he continued with stealing. He dropped out of college after two years and then spent a week in prison for his illegal graffiti. Upon moving back to his family home in LA, he exhibited his work to Double Rainbow, an ice cream store that continued showing his work for two years. He also illustrated for magazines such as Hustler, Ray Gun,Vice as well as for a store-cum-magazine Giant Robot. In 1998 he distributed his graphic novel “Slow Jams”, and then another one in 2002 entitled “Bruised Fruits: The Art of David Choe”. His live-in best friend began capturing Choe’s work and personal life, that eventually became the biopic “Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe”, which would become the most attended film at the Los Angeles Film Festival a few years later. His net worth was rising.
In 2003 Choe was imprisoned again, sentenced to three months in a Japanese jail this time for punching a security guard due to a misunderstanding in Tokyo. Next year he provided the artwork for multi-platinum album cover “Collision Course” by Jay-Z and Linkin Park and later started painting murals for Hollywood procuress Heidi Fleiss as well as for the founders of Facebook. In 2005 he held his first solo exhibition at the Santa Rosa Museum of Contemporary Art, and two years later his first New York solo exhibition “Gardeners of Eden” at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Chelsea. Choe’s wealth continued to grow in 2008 when he held his first UK solo exhibition “Murderous Heart” at Lazarides Gallery in both London and Newcastle. The same year he painted a portrait of Barack Obama for the US Presidential election campaign. These projects certainly improved his net worth
Meanwhile, in addition to his fine art work, Choe has been just as competent in the media world. His television appearances include the successful and extremely popular shows such as “The Vice Guide to Travel” and “Thumbs Up!”, where Choe had multiple rolls, sometimes as the writer, director and star, and sometimes providing music, graphics and animation, intensifying his net worth.
In 2012, the artist reaped the benefits of his work which he had provided for Facebook since 2005, his shares being valued at approximately $200 million. This placed him among the world’s five richest living artists.
The following year he appeared in the popular show “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown”, and along with the adult movie star Asa Akira, began hosting “DVDASA”, a new lifestyle, relationship and entertainment podcast.
Choe is now 40 years old and his popularity grows higher. As for his personal life, sources believe that he is still single. However, the artist prefers to keep his private life exactly that, away from public view.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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