The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams We’ll start the billionaire course off with a little science fiction. This book inspired Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk during a particularly angst filled part of his teen years. What Musk found helpful was that the book made an important point, which is that often the question is harder than the answer. In the classic novel, a supercomputer decrees that 42 is the answer to life.
Hernandez filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The filing claims that the retired pitchers owes around $1 million to as many as 50 different creditors. The debts owed are to credit card companies like Chase, Bank of America, and Capital One. Hernandez owes the IRS back taxes and he also owes a local businessman $220,000, which was lent to him in 2013 but has not been paid back.
It was in 1951 that he set up his aviation training company FlightSafety International. In 1968, he took the company public and in 2006 he sold it to fellow billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for $1.5 billion in stock. Aside from airplanes and flying, Ueltschi was also the Chairman Emeritus of Orbis International, one of the largest blindness charity foundations in the world. Furthermore, he and his son Jim founded HelpMeSee in 2010 in an attempt to address cataract blindness in the developing world.
She immediately began to hone her promotional skills and quickly became an expert in social networking and club management. She moved to Los Angeles and worked as a club promoter until opening her own bar the Apple Lounge in 2008, which is in the basement of the Apple restaurant. She is currently working on opening a second lounge. She is one of the best known party promoters on the scene, coordinating with clubs from Concorde to Nacional, as well as exclusive events for the Grammys.
Earlier this week, a Toys R Us in Bellingham, Massachusetts received an usual request from a “bubbly older woman” who looking to help out local struggling families. More specifically, the woman was interested to know how many toys at the store were being held on layaway. For those of you who don’t know, “layaway” is when you buy something at a store but pay for it in installments. You typically pay a small service fee and potentially a little bit of interest.
The President at the time was Roh Moo-hyun, and the Prime Ministers included Goh Kun, Lee Hae-chan, Han Duck-soo, and Han Myeong-sook. He was preceded by Yoon Young-kwan and succeeded by Song Min-soon. In the beginning of his career as Secretary-General, Ban was immediately faced with the death penalty designated for Saddam Hussein, which he refused to condemn, claiming the capital punishment is not the decision of one person. Ban’s focused remained on global warming, the Middle East, Darfur, Myanmar, and LGBT rights throughout the years.
She was not drafted but signed with the New York Liberty in 1999. During her WNBA career she played with the Liberty from 1999 to 2006 and with the San Antonio Stars from 2007 to 2014. She was a six time WNBA All-Star, two time All-WNBA First Team, and two time All-WNBA Second Team. Hammon has been voted one of the Top 15 WNBA Players of All Time. She won the NWBL Championship with the Colorado Chill in 2005 and 2006 and the World League Championship with CSKA in 2007.
Craig McCaw was born in Centralia, Washington, and grew up in a family led by his father, an intermittently successful businessman whose wealth was based on buying up television and radio stations and selling them again. Unfortunately, by the time his father passed away, McCaw’s family was in significant debt. Craig McCaw went on to attend Stanford University. During his final year at Stanford, he took over management of the one station that had not been sold off to pay his father’s debts.
While with the team, he was a 9-time Pro Bowl selection, a six-time All-Pro selection, and a 2004 NFC Champion. He received the “Whizzer” White NFL Man of the Year prize in 2008. In 2009, he signed with the Denver Broncos, but numerous injuries hampered his ability to play. In 2011, he signed a one-day contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, so that he could announce his retirement as an Eagle.
Bruno Heller directed one episode of The Mentalist in 2012. He has also worked on the films Pax and the TV movies The Expendables and The Advocates. Heller was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for New Series in 2006 and a BAFTA Award for Best Drama Series in 2008 for Rome. His father Lukas Heller was a screenwriter and his sister Zoe Heller is a writer and columnist.
During their marriage, which she calls a ‘gilded cage’ period, Daphne gave birth to three children, two sons, Nicolas and Alexis; and a daughter, Ines. It was with her divorce in 1999 when she turned into the designer, editor, model, muse, and stylist Daphne we know today. Ever since, she has became a true fashion icon who has worked with the best-known names in fashion, including Karl Lagerfeld, NARS, MAC, Akris, Gareth Pugh and Philip Treacy among others.
Bumble was founded by Tinder’s former VP of Marketing, Whitney Wolfe, in December 2014. Wolfe co-founded Tinder in 2012 when she was 22 years old. She is reportedly the person who came up with the name for the company. She exited the company abruptly in 2014 and filed a lawsuit against Tinder and then Match.com parent company IAC, alleging that Tinder’s CMO Justin Mateen subjected Wolfe to “a barrage of sexist, racist, and otherwise inappropriate comments, emails, and text messages.
Today, Pinfra holds 16 toll-road concessions in some of the most densely populated areas of Mexico. Hard times came in 1994 when Tribasa was forced to declare bankruptcy as he couldn’t pay back dollar-denominated debt from international lenders because of peso devaluation. However, he managed to renegotiate the debt and took on new partners to reshape Pinfra.
McCourty was drafted #27 by the New England Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft and has spent his entire career in New England. He made the Pro Bowl in 2010 and is a two time All-Pro. McCourty won AFC Championship with the Patriots in 2011 and 2014. In 2010 he had seven interceptions which tied for second in the NFL and became the second most by a Patriots rookie in team history.
By the 1980s, he had a worldwide hair care line, and a chain of salons. He sold the salons and the hair care line to the Regis Corporation in 2002. Today Vidal Sassoon is worth $200 million. Eden Sassoon launched her salon EDEN by Eden Sassoon and also owns two luxury Pilates studios located in Los Angeles, CA. She started the nonprofit Beauty Gives Back. She has battled addiction but has become sober.
Heaven’s Gate This Michael Cimino directed Western starred Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken. The movie had a budget of $44 million, but was only able to make $3.5 million in the United States. Heaven’s Gate helped destroy United Artists studios. Town & Country Peter Chelsom directed this romantic comedy, which starred Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Garry Shandling, and Goldie Hawn. Town & Country cost $90 million to make and generated just over $10 million worldwide.
The estimate comes courtesy of Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez, who used to be the chief assassin under the employ of Pablo Escobar, who was kind of like the Woody Guthrie to El Chapo’s Bob Dylan. A big chunk of that $50 million is accounted for by the massive bribes to officials working within the prison that would have more than likely been required to get El Chapo (whose real name is Joaquin Guzman) out of his maximum security home.
Bell began acting professionally in 2004 and attended Hunterdon Central Regional High School as well as a Performing Arts High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She made her debut in an Off-Broadway production cabaret show in New York when she was twelve years old, followed by her on-screen debut in NBC’s Third Watch. She can also be seen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Bedford Diaries, Supernatural, Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Gracie, New York City Serenade, Death in Love, and Elektra Luxx.
In the end, festival goers who paid thousands – $4,000 to $250,000 for a group VIP experience – were left stranded with FEMA tents as accommodations, cheese sandwiches in Styrofoam containers, no water, and a festival site rife with thieves, feral dogs, and violence. The luxury jet set experience they expected turned out to be Lord of the Flies meets The Hunger Games. Oh, and all the bands scheduled to appear bailed out before the festival started.
The Fertitta donation is the largest donation in the history of UNLV athletics. The previous largest donation was $7.2 million to build a new men’s basketball training facility. That was donated by the Mendenhall family in 2012. Frank Fertitta previously donated $15 million to his alma mater, the USC Marshall School of Business, in 2012. The new football training facility will be named the Fertitta Football Complex. The Fertittas released a statement regarding their donation that said: “…will become the day-to-day home of the program and include an academic center, locker rooms, offices, meeting rooms, strength and conditioning center, media room, training table and nutrition bar, athletic training center and player lounge.