Businesspersons
“Old Man” Harrison Net Worth
Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr.'s Net Worth as of 2024
$9 Million
Richard Benjamin “Old Man” Harrison Jr. was born on 4 March 1941, in Danville, Virginia USA, best known as the co-owner of the The World Famous Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, as well as being a reality TV star. The nickname Old Man stuck to Richard in his late 30s because of his appearance and behaviour.
“Old Man” Harrison Net Worth $9 Million
So just how rich is “Old Man” Harrison? Sources estimate that Harrison has a net worth of $9 million. One could say that all of Harrison‘s net worth comes from his pawn shop, first from sales from the shop, and later on from his and it‘s television appearances including in it‘s own show.
Harrison and his family moved to Lexington, North Carolina, where Richard attended Lexington High School but left in his junior years. The family was poor, and Richard worked as a school bus driver from the age of 14 to make the ends meet, rising extremely early and making from five to six dollars a week. In the late 1950s, Harrison was convicted of car theft, and chose to serve in the Navy rather than go to jail – he served virtually continuously for 20 years.
Harrison‘s last posting was to San Diego, where his wife became a real estate agent and after discharge Richard worked in her office. However, when the business went broke, the family moved to Las Vegas, where Richard and son Rick started their own business by establishing a shop named Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. In 1989 this became “The World Famous Gold and Silver Pawn Shop“, and was the point when Harrison started raising his net worth, by working there 24/7. His store gained a big boost in popularity all over the United States when it was featured on a Comedy Central show “Insomniac with Dave Attell“, which increased customer numbers from 70 to 700.
Subsequently, Richard and his son looked for ways to get their own show on television. Son Rick pitched the idea to various studios until it was picked up by the History channel. Their show, “Pawn Stars”, debuted in July 2009, has now aired over 250 episodes in seven seasons, and has proven to be the most popular show on the History channel, spawning several shows trying to get a slice of the pie on different channels, like “American Restoration“.
Harrison and his family have received various awards over the years, including the key to the city of Las Vegas in 2010, and the key to the city of Lexington in 2012. Father and son were also nominated to be included in the 2012 Time 100 list. As for his personal life, Richard Harrison met Jo-Anne Rhue, his future wife, at a barn dance when he was 17 and married in 1960. They have four children – Sherry, Joseph, Rick, and Chris. Sherry was born first, but had medical complications and died when she was six. Richard‘s particular hobby is collecting all sorts of cars. For one particular car, a 1966 Chrysler Imperial, he fought for fifteen years until he convinced the owner to sell it to him. Harrison‘s other passion is, of course, his shop. He has not missed a day of work there for over 17 years.
Businesspersons
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.
Businesspersons
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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