Celebrities
Rob Van Dam Net Worth
Rob van Dam's Net Worth as of 2024
$5 Million
Rob van Dam salary 2024
$458,621
Born Robert Alex Szatkowski on the 18th December 1970, in Battle Creek, Michigan USA of part-Polish descent, he is better known to the world as Rob Van Dam, a wrestler who competed in several wrestling promotions, including Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation/ Entertainment and Total Nonstop action Wrestling. He has won over 20 titles in his career, which have only increased his net worth. His career has been active since the late 1980s.
Have you ever wondered how rich Rob Van Dam is, as of mid-2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Van Dam`s net worth is as high as $5 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a wrestler.
Rob Van Dam Net Worth $5 Million
Rob grew up in his hometown, and went to Pennfield Senior High School. Since his early days he showed an interest in martial arts, and trained in several disciplines, including, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Kendo, Kickboxing and Aikido. Before he turned pro and signed a contract with the wrestling promotion, Rob was selected as a plant by Ted DiBiase, and appeared in the ring for the first time to kiss DiBiase`s foot. After that he was a part of several wrestling promotions, including United States Wrestling Association (USWA) and South Atlantic Pro Wrestling (SAPW). He became the tag team champion of the SAPW with Chaz Rocco, then in 1992 he joined World Championship Wrestling, however, he wasn`t quite successful in the particular promotion. Instead, he joined Extreme Championship Wrestling in 1996, and his dominance was about to begin. In his debut appearance in ECW, he won against Axl Rotten, and while in ECW he won the ECW World Tag Team Championship two times, both with Sabu, who first was his arch enemy, and the two fought several battles between themselves.
In 1998 he became the ECW World Television Champion, after defeating Bam Bam Bigalow, and held the title for the next 700 days, setting a record, and achievement which certainly increased his net worth by a large margin. However, in 2000 ECW folded, and he signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation, later Entertainment. In 2006 he became the WWE Champion by defeating John Cena, which only increased further his net worth. Also he became the WWE Hardcore Champion four times, and WWE Intercontinental Champion six times, and held WWE European Championship belt and WWE Tag Team Championship belt once each. Furthermore, he was the Triple Crown Champion in its fifteenth installment, and he won World Tag Team Championship twice, with Kane, and Booker T. Apart from WWE, Rob had success in Total Nonstop Action, becoming the TNA World Heavyweight Champion by defeating A.J Styles, and he then also the TNA X Division Champion when he defeated Zema Ion, which increased further his net worth.
Apart from his wrestling career, Rob also plays a big part in the entertainment industry; he has appeared in a number of TV series and films, including “Superfights” (1995), which was his debut, “Black Mask 2: City of Masks” (2002), “Wrong Side of Town” (2010), and “Sniper: Special Ops” (2016), among others, all of which also increased his net worth.
Regarding his personal life, Rob earned his nickname thanks to his resemblance to famous actor and martial artist Jean Claude Van Damme, given by his promoter Ron Slinker.
When it comes to his love life, Rob has been married to Sonia Van Dam since 1998, but most recently she has apparently filed for divorce.
Celebrities
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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