Producers

Devyne Stephens (Producer) Net Worth

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1 year ago

March 25, 2023

Tom Ford

Devyne Stephens's Net Worth as of 2024
$16 Million

Devyne Stephens is a record producer and a music executive, born on 21 June 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia USA. He is the owner of the UpFront Records label, which he founded in 2005.

Have you ever wondered how rich Devyne Stephens is? According to sources it has been estimated that Devyne Stephens’ overall net worth is $16 million, as of late 2017, accumulated by building a successful career in the entertainment industry, which he launched in the early ‘90s. Since he is still very active in his work, his net worth continues to increase.

Devyne Stephens Net Worth $16 Million

Devyne started his now fruitful career in the early ‘90s with LaFace Records. Being the first artist to be signed to this record label, he started with a group called Devyne and 90 MPH.

However, his supposed first album was never released as he decided to accept L.A.Reid’s offer to work as an artist developer and choreographer. Since then, Stephens has co-operated with numerous stars, including Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Ciara, Diddy etc. He managed to develop his talent and skills, and through years become a well-known businessman with an intuition for finding star quality. In 2005, he founded the Upfront Records label, which eventually turned into Upfront Megatainment as it extended into various areas of entertainment, and eventually comprised all projects put together by Stephens. Among numerous other artists who owe their success to Stephens, two are perhaps best-known – T-pain and Akon. Namely, Devyne and Akon have had a years-long history of friendship before the singer’s success, and Stephens was advising him on his career long before he actually made a breakthrough. The two continued their friendship after Akon’s entrance to the top of the lists, and he even appointed Devyne to be the VicePresident of his new label company – Konvict Music.

Apart from being the Upfront’s CEO and the Vice-President of several other companies, Devyne also runs a 17-acre estate called Dreamland which is only available for exclusive events. In addition, he also owns The Complex, a huge warehouse turned into an artist boot camp, in which celebrities and those wanting to become one, can perfect their vocal, dance and other artistic skills, as well as seek media training and image consulting. Stephens also serves as Vice President of Konvict Music label, and has actively been helping its development since the beginning.

Stephens has also had acting ventures and has appeared in several movies including “Love Song” (2000), “ATL” (2006) and “Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D” (2012).

When it comes to his private life, Stephens prefers to keep any relationship it away from the eyes of the public. However, rumor has it that he has sued his former music partner Akon over unpaid fees. Reportedly, Devyne accused the singer of owing him around $150 million in total since 2006.

Despite his wealth and extravagant lifestyle, Devyne also often shows his modest and caring side. He founded Devyne Intervention charity foundation, which invests and helps open children’s hospitals in Atlanta.

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Celebrities

Paul Heyman Net Worth

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1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.

So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.

Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million

Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine^“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.

Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.

Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.

Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.

Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.

In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.

Actors

Tony Dow Net Worth

Published

1 day ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

Tony Lee Dow was born on 13 April 1945 in Hollywood, California USA. He is a well-known person in the Hollywood movie industry because of his long-lasting involvement as a film producer, director and an actor.

So how rich is Tony Dow? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of it he has accumulated by working as a professional Hollywood actor for more than 50 years.

Tony Dow Net Worth $4 Million

Tony Dow’s interest in the film industry might have been related to the fact that his mother, Muriel Virginia Dow, was a stunt woman and a film double at the time Tony was a child and teenager. However, Tony undoubtedly had some acting talent which was proven when he managed to win the audition for a role in the sitcom “Leave It to Beaver” in 1957, despite having no experience in acting at that time. This was the role that had perhaps the most influence in building a solid foundation to Tony Dow’s acting career, even though he received only one award – Young Artist Award in nomination of “Former Child Star Lifetime Achievement Award” in 1988, after working in the show for six years. It was also a solid start to his net worth.

In the next few years after “Leave It to Beaver”, Tony appeared in several episodes of other TV shows, such as the sitcom “My Three Sons” (in 1964), drama series “Mr. Novak” (between 1963 and 1965) and teen soap opera “Never Too Young” (in 1965). Tony continued working in television up until the late 90s and his net worth continued to grow, for example in 1975 he starred in the popular medical TV drama “General Hospital”.

While Tony Dow is mostly known as a television actor, he has appeared in a few films during his career, including the television horror film “Death Scream” in 1975, comedy film “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977, television comedy film “High School USA” in 1983, comedy “Back to the Beach” and comedy film “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” in 2003.

Acting aside, Tony Dow is also known as a producer, director and visual effects specialist, especially in the science fiction genre, and these involvements have undoubtedly contributed to building up his net worth. Tony contributed to the visual effects of the 1996 season of the phenomenal British science fiction TV series “Doctor Who”, and a few episodes of the space opera TV series “Babylon 5”. He also directed an episode of the American science fiction TV series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” in 1998.

Interestingly though, some people might also recognize Tony Dow as a sculptor who is well known for his brilliant abstract pieces depicting surreal figures.

In his personal life, Tony Dow has never been married and has no children. He is known to have suffered from depression during some periods of his life, which on a positive note has encouraged him to participate in self-help videos, including the production “Beating the Blues” (1998). However, the negative effect is that Tony hasn’t participated as an actor in any film since 2003.