British Businessman John Mappin Wins Big On Long Shot Trump Bet

Mappin said he had a gut feeling Trump would be our next president at the moment he announced his candidacy. After that, he says he used a “special data analysis system” that he developed over the course of 20 years to determine that yes, Trump was indeed going to win this election, despite the majority of polling evidence and punditry that said otherwise. So since June of last year, Mappin started placing bets on a variety of Trump outcomes, from Trump securing the Republican nomination to his eventual White House win.

C J Wilson Net Worth

Wilson was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 5th round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft. Wilson made his major league debut in June 2005 for the Rangers and played there until 2011. In 2012 he signed a five year deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim worth $75 million. Wilson has been an MLB All-Star in 2011 and 2012. He races cars and owns a team who competes in the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup Series.

Chris Crocker Net Worth

Somewhat interestingly, the name “Chris Crocker” is a pseudonym, and both his real name and his exact location remaining a secret. The reason for this is that Crocker feels his safety might be threatened if information on his whereabouts were more widely available. Since his internet infamy has faded, Crocker has focused on a music career. He’s released various singles and music videos, but what was supposed to be his debut album Turned On remains unreleased.

Copyright Royalty Board Increases Songwriters Streaming Royalty Pay By Almost 50 Percent

According to the National Music Publishers Association, streaming companies are going to be required to give 15.1 percent of their revenue to songwriters and music publishers, which is an increase from 10.5 percent. The songwriters also wanted a per-stream rate pay structure, which Apple surprisingly agreed with (the company admitted that the current rate structure was “too complex”). Despite their pleas, they did not get their per-stream demand met, but considering that the streaming services were looking for a rate decrease, this is an overall win for the songwriters.

Dave Lombardo Net Worth

In the early 80s, he formed the band, Slayer, and the group began to gain widespread notice. He left the group in the early 90s, in order to be present for the birth of his first child. For the next ten years, he played with such groups as Grip, Inc. and Fantomas, as well as guest drumming on multiple side projects. He returned to the Slayer lineup in 2001, and has continued to record and tour with Slayer, while also recording tracks with his side project, PHILM.

David Burtka Net Worth

Burtka made his Broadway debut in the 2003 Tulsa production of Gypsy which starred famous actress Bernadette Peters. He won the 2001 Clarence Derwent Award for most promising male performer in The Boy in the American premiere of Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby. He also played the role of Matt in the 2004 musical The Opposite of Sex reprised the role in the work’s East Coast premiere in the summer of 2006.

Devorah Rose Net Worth

After graduating from Barnard, she attended Columbia University, where she pursued an MFA in Literature, and subsequently became the editor-in-chief of Social Life magazine. Since then, she has appeared on various reality series, such as, “The Real Housewives of New York”, “Fashionista Diaries”, and the short-lived CW series “High Society”, which ran for eight episodes in 2010 and was about a group of East Coast socialites. She is both admired and hated for her social-climbing tendencies, and has come under fire from members of the elite in the Hamptons over the course of the last two years, due to her many public appearances and reality show deals.

Dodgers Give 18 Year Old Cuban Prospect Yusniel Diaz 15 5 Million Bonus

Yusniel Diaz is not going to have to worry about having enough money to take his girlfriend to the movies for a long time. Heck, he could even throw in dinner at the most expensive steak house in town if he wanted to. The 18-year-old Cuban outfielder can afford to do so, now that he has signed a deal giving him a $15.5 million bonus to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Donald Young Net Worth

Young became the youngest year end World #1 in junior rankings in 2005 at 16 years and 5 months. He was the first African-American man to be ranked #1 in the world. Since turning pro Young has won just over $2 million in prize money. He also won the Wimbledon junior title in 2007. In 2014 Young reached the semi-finals of the US Open Grand Slam Mixed Doubles tournament. He also reached the 4th round of the US Open event in 2011.

Erik Knudsen Net Worth

In 2017 Knudsen starred as Vic on the television series The Mist in 2017. He has also starred in several films including The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Saw II, Bon Cop, Bad Cop, Saw V, Saw 3D, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Scream 4, and more. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series The Guardian, Degrassi, and more. Erik Knudsen was nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actor on Television for Continuum in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

Everything You Need To Know About Bill Gates Absolutely Incredible House In Seattle

Located in Medina, Washington, the waterfront mansion itself is over 66,000 square feet. Nicknamed “Xanadu 2.0”, which is a reference to the fictional home of Charles Foster Kane from the movie “Citizen Kane”. The Pacific Lodge-style home took seven years and $63 million to build. Three hundred workers were required to build the house, of which more than one hundred were electricians who installed an estimated 52 miles of optic cables!

Floyd Mayweather Has Caught The Cryptocurrency Bug

This month, Mayweather has his sights set on Hubii Network, a media technology, and content distribution platform with 50 million customers. Hubii network is hoping to raise $50 million through their Etherium based initial coin offering, though it’s not open to American investors. Mayweather’s hashtag #ad on his tweet suggests that he might have been compensated by Hubii for his promotion. On his Instagram, he expressed hope that the digital currency could be used for smart sports contracts.

Gary Patterson Net Worth

Patterson went on to coach at Pittsburg State and Sonoma State before scoring his first head coaching gig with the Oregon Lightning Bolts, a professional football league that folded before its first season began, in 1992. He then returned to a position coaching job with Utah State, Navy, New Mexico, and TCU. In 2000, after two seasons as the Horned Frogs’ defensive coordinator, Patterson was promoted to head coach, and has held the position ever since.

Geoff Stirling Net Worth

Geoff Stirling was born March 21, 1921. According to legend, he originally conceived of the idea to start the Newfoundland Herald while hunting alligators in Honduras in 1946. While on expedition a stack of Miami Herald newspapers were dropped from the sky. Seeing the Miami Herald reach all the way to a remove Central American jungle inspired Stirling to create a newspaper that could reach the most remote outposts of his native Newfoundland.

How Billy Mcfarland Went From College Dropout To Fyre Festival Founder

When everyone was safely back home, McFarland began to be hit with lawsuits. Then, on June 30th, he was arrested and charged with wire fraud. He allegedly showed Fyre Festival investors forged documents showing he had $2.5 million worth of investments. In reality, he had just $1,500. He was released on $300,000 bail and is awaiting the July 31 preliminary trial for his crimes. He is facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

How One Family Ended Up Owning The Largest Supply Of Oil In The World And Earned Trillions In The Process

First off, this is what Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh looks like today: And this is what Riyadh looked like 100 years ago: As a matter of fact, the above photo is what Saudi Arabia looked like for pretty much all of human history, prior to 1948. A Brief History Of The House of Saud The first Saudi dynasty was founded in 1744 by Muhammad bin Saud at a time when most of the region was loosely controlled by the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey).

Jeff Bezos Net Worth Just Topped 105 Billion And That Makes Him The Richest Person Of All Time Sort Of

At $105 billion, Jeff is the richest person of all time… Sort of. This might get tricky, so bear with me… When evaluating the richest people of all time, the big question one must consider is inflation. For example, you know how when you watch a TV from the 50s and someone talks about buying a gallon of milk for a nickle? That’s inflation. Milk hasn’t inherently gotten more expensive, for a variety of technical reasons, a dollar today simply has less purchasing power than it did 50 or even 10 years ago.

Jencarlos Canela Net Worth

In 2010, the movie Más Sabe el Diablo: El Primer Golpe starred Jencarlos Canela, Gaby Espino and Miguel Varoni. In 2011, he joined the telenovela Mi Corazón Insiste along with Carmen Villalobos. In the Telemundo award show Premios Tu Mundo (2012) the telenovela won the award for Novela of the Year and Jencarlos Canela won the Favorite Lead Actor award. Canela reappeared in 2013 in the new Telemundo telenovela Pasión Prohibida with the late actress Mónica Spear.

Joaqu N Rias Net Worth

Arias was traded to the New York Mets in 2010. He signed with the San Francisco Giants in 2011 and started playing for them in 2012. Arias won a World Series Championship while playing for the Giants in 2012. During his career through the 2014 season Joaquin Arias has hit six home runs and has 91 runs batted in with a batting average of .269.