Celebrities
Takeru Kobayashi Net Worth
Takeru Kobayashi's Net Worth as of 2024
$1 Million
Takeru Kobayashi was born on the 15th March 1978 in Nagano, Japan, and is probably best recognized for being a competitive eater, who holds eight Guinness Records, for eating hot dogs, tacos, ice cream, and pizza, among other such records. He has been signed to a Major League Eating contract since 2012. His career has been active since the early 2000s.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Takeru Kobayashi is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Takeru’s net worth is over $1 million, accumulated through his successful involvement in a number of eating competitions. Another source is coming from his appearances in a number of TV shows.
Takeru Kobayashi Net Worth $1 Million
Takeru Kobayashi was raised in his hometown, but no other information about his early life, family and education is known in the media.
Speaking about his career, Takeru’s career began in 2001, when he set his first record at the Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest, in 12 minutes consuming 50 hot dogs, which he later broke by winning the next six contests, which marked the beginning of an increase to his net worth. He was also the winner of the 2002 Glutton Bowl tournament on the Fox Network, as well as the winner of the 2005 Alka-Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating, tournament on EPSN. In 2006, Takeru competed at the Johnsonville World Bratwurst Eating Championship in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where he set the world record by eating 58 sausages in only 10 minutes. Later in the same year, he set another record by eating 41 Summer Shack lobster rolls in 10 minutes at the Food Festival in Boston, Massachusetts. By the next decade, Takeru had appeared at the Nathan’s contest, and a Pizza Hut P’Zone competition, where he defeated Joey Chestnut. In 2009, he defeated him once again with a score of 93 hamburgers, becoming a record holder and winning $20,000.
In the next decade, Takeru continued to line up success after success, as he broke the world record at the 2012 GroupMe Grill by eating 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in one minute. In the same year, he also set the Wing Bowl record, the New York State Fair record, and he signed a contract with the Major League Eating (MLE), which added a considerable amount to his net worth, as he competed at the Nathan’s Fourth of July hot dog eating tournament. Furthermore, in 2013, Takeru became the winner of Canada’s biggest pizza eating contest – “LET ‘EM EAT”, and in the following year, he set the record at the same tournament by eating 62 slices of pizza in only 12 minutes.
Takeru became known for his own technique called “The Kobayashi Shake”, which represent eating larger amounts of food, which become settled in his stomach, after which he wiggles his body in order to leave room for more.
Speaking about Takeru Kobayashi’s personal life, there is no information about it, as he obviously keeps it private. In free time, he is active on his official Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Celebrities
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.
Businesspersons
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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