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Brandi Passante Net Worth
Brandi Leigh Passante's Net Worth as of 2024
$3 Million
Brandi Leigh Passante was born on the 16th May 1980, in Harris County, Texas USA, and is a storage hunter and reality star. She is most famous for taking part in the A&E reality television show “Storage Wars” in which she appears alongside her long-term partner Jarrod Schulz. Passante and Schulz are also the founders and owners of “Now and Then” second hand store, located in Orange County, California.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this “thrift store expert” has accumulated so far? How rich Brandi Passante is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Brandi Passante’s net worth, as of early 2017, is $3 million and it includes the co-ownership of the 3000-square feet thrift store mentioned above. It has all been acquired primarily through the “Storage Wars” reality show.
Brandi Passante Net Worth $3 million
Despite widespread opinion, Brandi Passante and Jarrod Schulz are not married, at least – not officially. Their relationship has lasts for more than 16 years, during which they got two children. It all started in 1999, when they met while both working in a carpet-cleaning company. They first became involved in the mortgage business, but later transferred to abandoned storage auctions. They first launched their store from their home in Lake Forest, California, but the business expanded to the 3000-square feet “Now and Then” thrift store in Orange County, California. And the rest… it’s history…
At the beginning of the “Storage Wars” reality show, in late 2010 Brandi and Jarrod were marked as “The Young Guns” – the participants with the lowest financial power. However, throughout the eight seasons of the show and over 180 episodes, Brandi and Jarrod have shown their skills and knowledge and managed to become heavy hitters. The “Storage Wars” system is very simple – watch but don’t touch and bid, bid, bid! The highest bid wins – simple as that. Judging by Brandi Passante’s overall net worth of $3 million, she understands the game.
Although they bid as one, Jarrod and Brandi’s bidding styles are quite different; while he bids by excitement, Brandi has a “take no prisoners” attitude, she is calm and clever and bids only when she assumes that she can sell the catch profitably and quickly. These differences made them the perfect couple for the show. Brandi Passante’s skills have brought her huge popularity among the show’s audience as well as an impressive boost to her overall net worth.
Due to their popularity as well as increased revenues, Brandi and Jarrod have managed to expand their thrift empire by opening another store, this time in Long Beach, California in 2013. However, after less than a year, they decided to close it down in order to cut back the high expenses of running the business. In 2014, A&E began airing a spin-off show “Brandi and Jarrod: Married to the Job”. The show follows the everyday life of the two “Storage Wars” stars, and their daily struggle with personal as well as business obligations. It is certain that this engagement has dramatically increased Brandi Passante’s overall net worth.
Despite being in front of the camera for the majority of time during the day, Brandi Passante has managed to keep her personal life, well… quite personal, aside from her obvious relationship. However, in 2013, she got into media focus after she sued porn distributor Hunter Moor for posting a nude video on his website, claiming that Brandi appears in it. Although she won the lawsuit and demanded $2.5 million in damages, the court awarded her with only $750.
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Charles Saatchi Net Worth
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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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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