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Jake Tapper Net Worth
Jacob Paul Tapper's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 million
Jacob Paul Tapper was born on the 12th March 1969, in New York City, USA, and is a journalist, cartoonist and an author, perhaps most famous as a CNN TV anchor and chief Washington correspondent. He is also the host of CNN’s weekday television news show “The Lead with Jake Tapper” as well as “State of the Union”.
Have you ever wondered how much wealth this popular TV personality has accumulated so far? How rich Jake Tapper is? According to sources, it is estimated that the total amount of Jake Tapper’s net worth, as of mid-2017, is $5 million, acquired throughout his broadcast journalism career which has been active since 1998.
Jake Tapper Net Worth $5 million
Jake Tapper was born to Helen Anne, a psychiatric nurse, and Theodore S. Tapper, a professor of pediatrics. He grew up in Philadelphia in the Jewish faith, and attended Akiba Hebrew Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, before enrolling at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire from which he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. Jake Tapper then began serving as Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s Campaign Press Secretary, which engagement provided the basis for Tapper’s net worth.
The next step in Jake’s career was at Powell Tate, a Washington D.C. public relations firm, followed by a brief engagement at Handgun Control, Inc (or Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, as it is referred to now). In 1998, Jake Tapper took his first serious steps towards journalism when he began serving as a full-time senior writer for Washington City Paper. For the latter engagement, Jake Tapper was rewarded with a Society of Professional Journalists award; these ventures certainly made a positive impact on his overall net worth.
Between 1999 and 2002, Jake Tapper served as Washington correspondent for David Talbot’s liberal web portal – salon.com. During this time, he also worked as CNN’s “Take Five” talk show host as well as a writer for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Weekly Standard – some of his articles were included in The Best American Political Writing in 2002. All these achievements helped Jake Tapper to establish himself in the dynamic world of journalism, and to significantly increase his net worth.
In 2003, Jake Tapper joined the ABC News, serving consistently until the day after the 2008 presidential election, when he was named Senior White House correspondent, and for this effort he was honored with the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage three years in a row from 2008-10. Jake was also a regular contributor to ABC’s “Nightline”, “World News Tonight” and “Good Morning America”. Also, he conducted some exclusive interviews, featuring CIA director Leon Panetta, Vice-President Joe Biden as well as President Barack Obama himself. It is certain that all these accomplishments have contributed to Jake Tapper’s professional career, as well as his fortune.
In 2012 Jake Tapper transferred to CNN. Besides continuing his Washington correspondent duty, he started hosting his own newscast, “The Lead with Jake Tapper”. The popular news opinion blog, Mediaite, subsequently characterized Jake Tapper as one of the most respected TV anchors in cable news, and for hosting The Lead, Jake Tapper was rewarded with three National Headliner Awards. He also covered Osama bin Laden’s death, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the Boston marathon bombing. Jake was involved in several current election candidate debates and interviews.
Apart from his TV hosting and journalism career, Jake Tapper is also an acclaimed author, with three published books so far – “Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story”, “Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency” and “The Outpost”, which have added somewhat to his net worth.
When it comes to his personal life, Jake Tapper has been married since 2006 to Jennifer Marie Brown, with whom he currently resides in Washington D.C. with their two children.
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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth
Dante Daniel Bonaduce was born on 13 August 1959, in Broomall, Pennsylvania USA, of Italian (father) and English (mother) descent. Danny Bonaduce is a well-known actor, TV and radio personality, wrestler and producer, perhaps still best known for his role of Danny in the popular ’70s TV series “The Partridge Family”.
So just how rich is Danny Bonaduce? Danny’s estimated net worth is now over $2.5 million dollars, accumulated over more than 40 years in various elements of the entertainment industry.
Danny Bonaduce Net Worth $2.5 Million
Danny Bonaduce rose to fame early in his life, when cast in “The Partridge Family”, in which Bonaduce, who was 11 at the time, played a bass-playing member of the family. The show was a huge success and brought the whole cast international fame. At that time, however, his personal life was far from glamorous; his co-workers noticed that Danny would often show up covered in bruises, and he confessed that he was abused by his father, script-writer and producer Joe Bonaduce. Members of the cast did their best to secure Bonaduce from his abusive family environment, but his difficult childhood and early fame eventually took its toll. The show ended in 1974 and the young actor was left with enormous amounts of money, a great start to his net worth, but no emotional stability. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the actor struggled with drug abuse which led to several arrests. His later addiction to alcohol was documented in the reality TV series “Breaking Bonaduce”. The cameras captured one of the most difficult period of his life, as he struggled with both alcohol and drug abuse and tried to save his marriage at the same time. Bonaduce also told his life story in his autobiography “Random Acts of Badness”, which also added to his net worth.
Luckily, the former child star managed to put his life back together, and continued to have a successful career in Hollywood. After appearing in numerous TV shows, such as “The Soup”, “I Know My Kid’s a Star” and “The Adam Carolla Show”, and then he started his own radio show. Thanks to his great sense of humour and distinct voice, he was successful on radio career in the 80’s. From 1994 to 1996 he hosted his own radio show “The Danny Bonaduce Show” on The Loop WLUP AM/FM. Later he became a host of a morning show on WKQI. Since November 2011.Bonaduce has hosted a morning talk/music show on radio station KZOK-FM in Seattle. Radio has been the most consistent source of income for Danny, managing to maintain a reasonable net worth.
In addition to being an actor and a radio host, Bonaduce is also a semi-professional wrestler, which has also helped to increase his popularity and net worth. He has wrestled many other public personalities and professional athletes in numerous charity events, the majority of which ended in Bonaduce’s triumph. He was also a part of the “Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling” show.
In his persoanl life, Danny Bonaduce has been married three times, firstly to Setsuko Hattori(1985-88) and then to Gretchen Hillmer(1990-2007) with whom he has two children. Their complicated marriage was well documented on “Breaking Bonaduce”. He started dating his third wife Amy Railsback in 2007, and the couple married in November 2010. Bonaduce has admitted more than once that marriage has helped him to quit booze, and completely changed his life.
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Robert Kirkman Net Worth
Robert Kirkman was born on 30 November 1978, in Richmond, Kentucky USA. He is perhaps most widely recognized as the creator of “The Walking Dead”, both the comic series and some of the episodes of the famous horror TV series adaptation.
So how rich exactly is Robert Kirkman? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $20 million, most of his wealth being accumulated through his work as a comic book author, plus being one of the writers of the episodes of TV series “The Walking Dead” has also significantly raised his net worth.
Robert Kirkman Net Worth $20 Million
Robert Kirkman wrote his first successful comic book entitled “Battle Pope” in 2000 with the help of artist Tony Moore. It was a parody of the superhero genre mixed with Biblical symbolism and dark humor. Despite its controversial themes, the comic book ran successfully and in 2005 was reprinted by “Image Comics” in color and in 2008 “Battle Pope” became an animated series on “Spike” TV channel.
The second successful Kirkman’s project was a story about a superhero entitled “Invincible” which he created in 2003 with artist Cory Walker. In the same year he released another comic which raised Kirkman’s success and net worth to a whole new level. There were some problems when Kirkman tried to publish the first issues of “The Walking Dead” as zombies weren’t seen as something that audiences might enjoy. However, Robert managed to sell the first issue and the comic gained instant popularity. In 2010, “The Walking Dead” won the Eisner Award in the category of “Best Continuing series”. In the same year, the first episode of “The Walking Dead” apocalyptic horror TV series adaptation was released on AMC. Not surprisingly, Kirkman was chosen to work as one of the writers for the episodes of this show. In addition, as show gained increasing popularity, Kirkman has published three non-graphic novels of “The Walking Dead”, which were entitled “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor” (in 2011), “The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury” (in 2012) and “The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor” (in 2013). Currently, Kirkman is one of the co-authors to the spin-off horror TV show “Fear The Walking Dead” which should be released in the summer of 2015.
In 2004, Kirkman started working for one of the biggest comic book publishing companies Marvel Comics, which also boosted Kirkman’s already impressive net worth. Kirkman is known for working on such popular comic book titles as “Avengers Disassembled”, “Jubilee”, “Fantastic Four”, “Ultimate X-Men”, “Marvel Team-Up” and “Irredeemable Ant-Man”. However, in 2008, Kirkman ended his associations with Marvel Comics and became one of the partners of Image Comics. Currently, Kirkman is working on a science fiction feature film entitled “AIR”, which is scheduled to be released in 2015 and will be the first film produced by Robert Kirkman.
In his personal life, Robert Kirkman is married and has two children, one of whom is named Peter Parker, after the famous superhero Spider-Man.
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