Celebrities
Bill Simpson Net Worth
Bill Simpson's Net Worth as of 2024
$50 Million
Bill Simpson was born on the 14th March 1940 in Hermosa Beach, California USA, and is a retired race-car driver and a businessman, best known to the world for taking the first steps towards safety in racing, by starting the company Simpson Performance Products.
Have you ever wondered how rich Bill Simpson is, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Simpson’s wealth is as high as $50 million, an amount earned through his successful involvement in the race-car association of the USA.
Bill Simpson Net Worth $50 Million
From his early years, Bill was drawn to racing cars, and as he got older he became solely focused on racing. When he was 18 years old, Bill suffered a terrible accident during one of his drag-racing events, breaking both arms, which made him think about the safety of the drivers. He teamed up with Mike Sorokin, also a drag racer, to test a prototype parachute that he made out of supplies he found in his uncle’s military supplies store. The two tested the parachute, but the results weren’t good enough since both drivers crashed after becoming airborne since the parachute was too big for the car and just lifted it from the ground. Miraculously, the two didn’t sustain any serious injuries, and in fact were jailed for their acts.
Regardless, Bill started Simpson Drag Chutes – his first customer was Don Garlits, and since then, Bill has not just perfected his parachutes but also developed numerous other safety products, such as helmets, suits, gloves, shoes and other safety items, totaling over 200.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t all good for Bill, since he and his company were blamed for the death of the legendary Dale Earnhardt. Bill was threatened and shots were even fired at his house. He left the company in 2001, as he didn’t want any more problems. He signed a one-year non-competing agreement with his previous company, and then started the Impact! Racing company, as he wanted to continue his career in improving the safety of the racers. He sold the Impact! Racing to Robbie Pierce and MasterCraft Safety in 2010, for an undisclosed fee, but it certainly increased his wealth.
When it comes to his career as a racer, Bill began as a drag racer and then joined the SCCA Formula racing. He reached the ranks of the USAC Championship Car series, competing from 1968 until 1974, and then through the 1976-1977 season. He made 52 career starts and secured 11 top ten finishes throughout his career, with his best result in 1970 in the Milwaukee Mile, coming in at sixth place. For the 1978 season he competed in the USAC Mini-Indy Series and collected 30 points in 10 races, to finish as a 42nd racer at the end of the championship. Since then he has been fully focused on safety.
He has also designed lighter football helmets; teaming up with Chip Ganassi to start Simpson Ganassi Helmets after being an attendant at the Indianapolis Colts football game.
Thanks to his successful enterprises, Bill was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in the “at large” category.
Having acquired experience and knowledge, Bill put all of his learning on paper and published books “Racing Safely, Living Dangerously” (2000), and “Through the Fire” (2001), the sales of which also added to his wealth.
Regarding his personal life, Bill tends to keep information about his personal life hidden from the media, therefore, there is no information about Bill’s most intimate details.
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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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