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Frank Lucas's Net Worth as of 2024
$1.5 Million

Frank Lucas was born on 9 September 1930, in La Grange, North Carolina USA, and is an infamous former drug dealer, known for cutting out middlemen and buying drugs directly from the source. It is not a surprise that Frank has been sentenced many times, and has spent considerable time in jail. As with other notorious ‘celebrities’, because of his interesting and dangerous lifestyle, a movie has been created about him.

So how rich is Frank Lucas? It is estimated by authoritative sources that Frank’s net worth is now $1.5 million, accumulated largely from his life of crime beginning in his teenage years, but apparently ending with his release from jail in 1991. His assets include various properties.

Frank Lucas Net Worth $1.5 Million

Frank Lucas says that the incident when his 12 year old cousin was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan just because he looked at a white woman influenced him to become a criminal. He started committing minor crimes, but moved hastily to New York City for his own safety, where he apparently became friends with Bumpy Johnson, a gangster, who he worked with and even lived with his family. When Johnson died, Frank became a drug dealer, shipping drugs from Asia by putting them into furniture and pallets – called “Blue Magic – and as this operation was successful, Frank’s net worth began growing very quickly. According to him, at one point he was earning about $1 million per day. As Lucas did not trust everyone, his friends and family were also involved in this business.

However, Frank has spent quite a lot of time in prison. In 1976 he was sentenced to 70 years for drug violations, but was released after five years for co-operating with the DEA, and he and his family were placed in a witness protection program. In 1984 he was sentenced again for drug trafficking, to seven years jail, and was released in 1991. In 2007 the movie called “American Gangsters” was made, with Frank portrayed by Denzel Washington, directed by Ridley Scott and other actors that appeared in this movie were Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ted Levine, and Armand Assante among others. The movie received a lot of acclaim, and this also contributed to Frank Lucas’ net worth, but quite a lot of criticism too, as as many said that the story portrayed in the movie was far from what really happened.

Talking about his personal life, Frank has been married to Julianna Farrait for over 40 years, including separations forced – jail for both, as Julianna was also sentenced, complicit in her husband crimes – and voluntarily as she lived in Puerto Rico for some time. The couple has seven children, all of whom have had to go through a lot of difficulties. One of Frank’s children has even created the web page called “Yellow Brick Road”, which helps the children of parents who are in jail.

All in all, it can be said that Frank Lucas is one of the most famous drug dealers in history, although not as well known as others. Of course, he and his family had to overcome a lot of difficulties, but Frank certainly knew what he was doing, and has never expressed regret for what he has done in his life.

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Charles Saatchi Net Worth

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Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.

Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million

They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.

To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 –  by Sol LeWitt,  a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.

Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990.  Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.

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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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