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Rick Riordan Net Worth

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1 year ago

March 4, 2023

Daniel Wanburg

Rick Riordan's Net Worth as of 2024
$35 Million

Richard Russell Riordan, Jr. was born 5 June 1964 in San Antonio, Texas USA. He is an author, particularly well known for writing the book series “Percy Jackson & the Olympians”.
So just how rich is Rick Riordan? Rick has an estimated net worth of $35 million, which he has earned from his bestselling and award-winning books, during a career spanning almost 20 years.

Riordan grew up in a family of artists, his father Rick Sr being a ceramist and his mother Sandra Oshman a musician and artist. He went to Alamo Heights High School where he joined the school paper as an editor. He then went to North Texas State but transferred to the University of Texas, Austin and finally to University of Texas, San Antonio from where he graduated, with a double major in English and History. He then went on to teach English and History for fifteen years in SanFrancisco.

Rick Riordan Net Worth $35 Million

While teaching, he wrote his first book series “Tres Navarre”, consisting of seven books, which won the Edgar, Anthony and the Shamus Awards. He then turned his attention to writing children’s books, which started as bedtime stories for his son, Haley, who was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and dyslexia. His son was particularly interested in Greek mythology, a subject which Riordan taught. When he ran out of Greek myths to tell, he then invented the character Percy Jackson and his quest to recover Zeus’ lightning bolts, which story took him a total of three nights to tell. With his son’s urging, he wrote the bedtime stories into the series “Percy Jackson & the Olympians”, with the title character also suffering from ADHD and dyslexia. He wrote a total of five books in the series, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. The series also garnered awards such as Mark Twain, Rebecca Caudill, School Library Journal’s Best Book, and Children’s Choice Book. The success of his Percy Jackson series led to the movie adaptation of the first two books, “The Lightning Thief “ and “The Sea of Monsters”, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The films made more than $430 million in ticket sales worldwide. Rick’s net worth benefited considerably from these succsses.

Since his Percy Jackson series, Riordan has written other series such as “The Kane Chronicles” and “The Heroes of Olympus”, the sequel to the Percy Jackson series. He also authored “The 39 Clues” series which featured on the New York Times bestseller list. Aside from these, he has published a standalone novel “Cold Springs” which was released in 2004.

Rick now has another series in the works called “The Trials of Apollo”, with the first book to be released also on May 2016. He is also currently working on the “Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard” series in which the second book, “The Hammer of Thor” is set to be released in October 2016. His net worth is still growing.

In his personal life, Riordan married Becky in 1985 and they have two sons: Patrick and Haley. They are now residing in Boston.

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Danny Bonaduce Net Worth

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3 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

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

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3 hours ago

April 18, 2024

Daniel Wanburg

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.