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Giada De Laurentiis Net Worth
Giada De Laurentiis's Net Worth as of 2024
$15 Million
Giada Pamela De Laurentiis was born on 22 August 1970, in Rome, Italy, is an Italian-born American chef, author, presenter, writer, and actress, perhaps best known as the host of “Giada at Home”, a popular series on the Food Network in the USA.
How rich is Giada De Launrentiis? According to sources, it is estimated that Giada’s net worth is over $15 million, generated mostly through her successful career as a chef.
Giada De Laurentiis Net Worth $15 Million
Giada De Laurentiis is the daughter of a famous Italian actress Veronica De Laurentiis and her first husband actor and producer Alex De Benedetti. Giada moved to California with her mother after her parents’ divorce, where she attended the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in social anthropology. She then studied at Le Cordon Bleu (“The Blue Ribbon”) in Paris, which is the world’s largest hospitality educational institution, with focus on hospitality management, gastronomy, and culinary arts. When De Laurentiis returned to the United States in the late ’90s, she began working as a professional chef at a variety of restaurants in Los Angeles, most notably in Wolfgang Puck’s “Spago”, which was named the most iconic restaurant in Los Angeles. At this time, Giada De Laurentiis earned a substantial amount of money that increased her net worth. She then ventured on to work as a food stylist, and attracted the attention of the Food Network. It was in 2003 with her own TV show titled “Everyday Italian” that De Laurentiis made her mark in the business. Such a successful TV debut gave De Laurentiis an opportunity to appear on other culinary shows, as well as boosting her net worth.
In 2006, Giada began hosting a show entitled “Behind the Bash”, that examines the catering process during big events. A year later, De Laurentiis appeared in her own series entitled “Giada’s Weekend Getaways”, which ran for two seasons and a total of 26 episodes. Giada’s remarkable television appearances resulted in yet another series, entitled “Giada at Home” that first aired in 2008. The show has now been on air for six seasons, and consists of 215 episodes to date.
Even though Giada De Laurentiis has generated most of her net worth through her appearances on television, she is also an outstanding businesswoman. In 2008, De Laurentiis and the Barilla Group launched an Italian gourmet line, and in 2010 Giada created a line of kitchen supplies, before opening her first restaurant named “Giada” in Las Vegas in 2014.
In addition, Giada is a known writer with seven cookery book publications under her name. Two of her works, namely “Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California”, and “Weeknights with Giada: Quick and Simple Recipes to Revamp Dinner” reached the #1 position on The New York Times Best Seller list. A professional chef, writer, actress and businesswoman with an estimated net worth of $15 million, Giada De Laurentiis has been nominated for and rewarded with several awards, including Daytime Emmy Award, and Gracie Award. In 2012, De Laurentiis was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame. Giada currently hosts “Giada at Home”, and appears as a co-host on NBC’s morning TV show “Today”.
Away from the kitchen, in the US version of the Tinker Bell special Pixie Hollow Bake Off 2014, De Laurentiis voiced the character of Gelata: this no doubt added spice to her net worth.
In her personal life, Giada de Laurentis married Todd Thompson in 2003; the couple have a daughter, but divorced in 2015.
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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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