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Harris Dickinson Net Worth

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Harris Dickinson net worth: Harris Dickinson is an English actor, writer, and director who has a net worth of $3 million. Harris Dickinson was born in Leytonshire, East London, England in June 1996. In 2018 he began starring as J. Paul Getty III on the television series Trust. Dickinson has had recurring roles on the TV series Some Girls, Silent Witness, and Clique. He starred in the films Beach Rats in 2017 and Postcards from London in 2018. Harris Dickinson has also starred in the TV movie Home and the short Morning Blues. He wrote and directed the shorts Surface in 2014 and Drop in 2015 and wrote, directed, and edited the short Who Cares in 2013. In 2018 he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for Beach Rats. He also won a London Critics Circle Film Award in 2018 for Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for Beach Rats.

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Shannon Woodward Net Worth

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Shannon Woodward net worth: Shannon Woodward is an American actress who has a net worth of $3 million. Shannon Woodward was born in Phoenix, Arizona in December 1984. From 2007 to 2008 she starred as Di Di Malloy on the television series The Riches. From 2010 to 2014 Woodward starred as Sabrina on the TV series Raising Hope. She began starring as Elsie Hughes on the series Westworld in 2016. Shannon Woodward has also had recurring roles on the TV series Clarissa Explains It All, Grounded for Life, and more. She has appeared in the movies Man of the House, The Quiet, The Comebacks, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, The Shortcut, Girlfriend, Adult World, The Breakup Girl, Search Party, The Veil, and All Nighter. In 2017 she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Westworld. She is friend with Katy Perry and appeared in her music video "Hot n Cold".

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Angélica Vale Net Worth

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Angélica Vale net worth: Angélica Vale is a Mexican American actress, singer, and comedian who has a net worth of $7 million. Angélica Vale was born in Mexico City, Mexico in November 1975. She is the daughter of Angelica Maria and one of her best known roles has come starring in the telenovela The Prettiest Ugly Girl with her mother. Angélica Vale has provided the voice of Elle in the Spanish dub versions of the movies Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, and Ice Age 5: Collision Course. She also voiced the role of Mama Imelda in the Spanish dub version of the movie Coco. Vale has appeared in episodes of the TV series Lupita, Big Brother Mexico, La parodia, Ugly Betty, No me hallo, Jane The Virgin, and more. Her self-titled debut studio album was released in 1989 and her seventh album was released in 2015. Angélica Vale has won Premios TVyNovelas Awards in 2003 and 2007.

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Chicago Billionaire Joe Mansueto To Purchase The Wrigley Building For $255 Million

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Chicago's famous Wrigley Building will soon have a new owner, as reported by the Chicago Tribune. It's Chicago investment billionaire Joe Mansueto, who has entered into a deal to purchase the building for about $255 million.

Founder and former CEO of Morningstar investment research firm, Mansueto is purchasing the Wrigley Building from "a venture that includes BDT Capital Partners and Zeller Realty Group," as per sources cited by the paper. And the members of that venture are doing pretty well for themselves in the bargain, since the reported $255 million purchase price far surpasses the $33 million they paid for it in 2011 many times over.

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It was first reported back in March that the building's owners were looking for buyers, interviewing investment brokers and were trying to sell the building for a price then reported to be around $200 million.

The Wrigley Building is a longtime Michigan Avenue landmark, and has a total of 472,000 square feet to its name along with two connected towers. Right now, the building's largest tenant is the architecture firm Perkins + Will, which leases about 60,ooo square feet, and there's an array of ground floor retailers like Walgreens, Peet's Coffee, and a Ghirardelli, with two of the retail spaces vacant. It's been a fixture of the Chicago skyline since it was first constructed way back in the 1920s, even before completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge. The following decade, in 1931, the building got one of its most distinctive features when a walkway between its two towers was added to the structure, and it is said to be the first office building in the city to be outfitted with air conditioning.

What Mansueto plans to do with his new property once the purchase is finalized doesn't appear to be public knowledge, but whatever it is it will become clear soon enough.

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Chateau Margaux Wine Making Family Become Billionaires

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Corinne Mentzelopoulos inherited her father's business empire when he died in 1980. That included 16,000 grocery stores, 80 buildings in central Paris, a hotel that once was Louis XIV home, and a rundown vineyard that had been purchased three years earlier on impulse. Today, she is a billionaire. But it's not the grocery stores or the hotel or the Paris real estate that has made her a member of the 10-digit club. It's that run-down vineyard, which she transformed into the renowned Chateau Margaux – one of just a handful of vineyards than has the Premier Cru designation given to it by Napoleon III in 1855, signifying that it is one of the best places for making wine.

Mentzelopoulos's father paid a relatively bargain basement $16 million for the winery in 1977 after it had been for sale for two years. The rise in popularity (and demand) of wine over the past 40 years as well as a growing group of billionaires willing to pay billions for assets they consider trophies, makes the Margaux property worth at least $1 billion today. However, Mentzelopoulos has no intention of selling.

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Even though she has no interest in selling Chateau Margaux, the sheer value of the vineyard makes Mentzelopoulos one of the wealthiest women in France. Moreover, she is running one of the world's smallest billion dollar businesses. The wine maker has 81 employees helping her produce roughly 280,000 bottles of wine annually on its 647 acres. Chateau Margaux wines sell for more than $1,000 a bottle. And boy, it is the right time and place for super pricey wines. The tech and finance industries have been minting new billionaires weekly. Those billionaires have taken fine wine from a hobby to a mainstream investment. In particular, wealthy Chinese wine aficionados have made wine the second best performing luxury asset. Only classic cars perform better.

Analysts estimate that Chateau Margaux's annual revenue is around $100 million. Premier Cru vineyards have profit margins between 70% and 99%. Margaux also has its merchants pay for the wine they are purchasing upfront. Often the wine is sold in what is called en primeur, where a vintage is bought and paid for while it is still aging in the barrel, a year before it is delivered.

Corinne was in her mid-20s when her father Andre saw a newspaper article about the family who had owned the vineyard for more than five decades wanted to sell it. He took a tour of the grounds and agreed to buy it in a handshake deal. He understood how important the legacy of Chateau Margaux was. The snobby world of Bordeaux wine makers were horrified that a Greek immigrant who spoke imperfect French and had a penchant for mediocre wines would be the owner of such a legendary vineyard. Andre Mentzelopoulos was able to gain entry into this exclusive world due to a collapse in wine prices after the crash of the stock market in 1973. This had left a number of wine makers across the Bordeaux region destitute. Worse, that same market crash had wiped out the fortunes of many who could have afforded to buy the failing vineyards.

The Mentzelopouloses were in it for the long term. They tore out the old, neglected vines and replanted. They brought in a wine consultant—which was unheard of in the 1970s, who helped them bring in new vats, choose new oak barrels, find the best date to pick the grapes, and spearheaded the introduction of a less expensive wine called Pavilion Rouge.

Andre Mentzelopoulos was the son of an illiterate Greek innkeeper. He made his fortune trading grain in Pakistan and India. He met his future wife, a French woman, while skiing in the Alps. He moved to Paris and bought the grocery chain Felix Potin, whose convenience store sized stores were on nearly every street corner in France. Corinne sold the grocery store business in 1983.

Corinne is grooming her 32-year-old daughter Alexandra to take over the family business. Alexandra currently lives in London and owns a wine bar and restaurant.

Even though the Mentzelopoulos family has no intention of selling, the fact is that Chateau Margaux is a trophy, it is something unique a billionaire buyer could brag about owning. That gives the business an intangible value as well.

However, should the family ever decide to sell, there are more buyers than there has ever been in history. There are more billionaires than ever before. China alone has hundreds of billionaires and a growing class of wealth oenophiles. Jack Ma owns a vineyard in Entre-Deux-Mers that makes a well known and regarded rose'. France's richest person, Bernard Arnault owns Cheval Blanc through his luxury holding company LVMH. Francois Pinault owns the Premier Cru Chateau Latour.

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Eyebrow Specialist Is The Newest Beauty Industry Billionaire

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Eyebrows are having a moment in fashion. Gone is the thin, overly plucked, look of the early aughts. Today, thick, well groomed brows are all the rage. There's one woman that women are turning to to get the eyebrows of their dreams: Anastasia Soare. She is the founder of Anastasia Beverly Hills and her talent with brows has made her one of the wealthiest self made female entrepreneurs in the United States.

Anastasia has been a favorite of celebs and Los Angelinos in the know for decades. Her secret to success is in her technique. Anastasia Beverly Hills was one of the first beauty companies to use social media as part of its brand strategy.

Soare was born in Romania and moved to Los Angeles in 1989. She was a 32-year-old single mother who didn't speak any English. She had studied art and architecture in Romania. She got a job in Los Angeles as an aesthetician. She noticed a difference in American women versus those back in Romania. Americans didn't pay much attention to their eyebrows. She had learned about the golden ration back in art school and began applying it to her clients' eyebrows. The golden ration was also used by Leonardo da Vinci. It uses the ration of 1.618 to 1.0 to find the perfect arch of an eyebrow. Soare has patented this.

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It didn't take long for celebrities to find her. Supermodels Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, and Naomi Campbell were among the first famous ladies to have their brows done by Anastasia. She opened her own small one room studio in Beverly Hills on 1992 and found herself working seven days a week on her own offering her eyebrow grooming, facials, and waxing. Five years later, she was successful enough to open a flagship Beverly Hills salon.

In 2000, she launched her first product line for eyebrows. It was challenging to get her products into stores. Only Nordstrom was interested in her fillers and brushes and even then, her line was only in 20 stores. Of course, Anastasia is a master of eyebrows and her products soon gained the same cult like following that her salon had.

She was also one of the first beauty companies to use social media as a brand strategy and she has her daughter Claudia to thank for this. In 2013, Anastasia Beverly Hills launched an Instagram account and soon found that Insta models and influencers including Kim Kardashian, helped her go viral. Due to her Instagram success, Soare then launched a makeup line. Not long after, Anastasia Beverly Hills products were selling in Sephora, Ulta, and pretty much everywhere else.

Soare's line now sells 485 products and goes well beyond makeup for eyebrows. Anastasia Beverly Hills is in 2,000 stores around the world. The company brings in about $340 million in annual revenue.  The company is currently worth around $1.5 billion. Soare owns 100% of the company.

Now, reports are surfacing that TPG Capital is nearing an agreement to acquire a 3% stake in Anastasia Beverly Hills, giving the company a $3 billion valuation and making Anastasia Soare a billionaire.

She's come a long way since she arrived in the U.S. in 1989.

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Sean Combs Reportedly Spent More Than Anyone Before, On A Painting By A Living Black Artist

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At a recent Sotheby's art auction, an at-the-time anonymous buyer plunked down more than $21 million on a work by artist Kerry James Marshall. The buyer is anonymous no longer, as it has now been revealed as none other than Sean Combs, the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy (etc., etc.), who now also holds the distinction as being the payer of the single-highest purchase price for a work of art by a still-living African American artist, as reported by The New York Times.

The painting involved is entitled Past Times, a wall-sized, 13-foot work completed by Marshall in 1997. The landmark sale of the painting comes as Marshall's work was recently the subject of a 2016 retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it's probably a safe bet that Diddy's purchase of the painting will lead to even more interest in that work.

Jack Shainman, Marshall's New York gallerist and dealer going back to 1993, was the one who revealed the Combs' identity as the buyer of the painting, and he seemed pleased about the painting's new owner:

"I know that this work has found a home in a collection with purpose and an eye toward preserving legacy — that of Sean Combs, and that means a lot."

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Shainman also said that Combs was introduced to Marshall's work through another famous hip hop name: Producer Swizz Beatz, who along with wife Alicia Keys, is also an "avid art collector." And he told the Times that Marshall's own rising fortunes won't change the man he is while at work:

"The world is recognizing Kerry James Marshall for the master that he is… what Kerry is happiest doing is working in the studio."

That's good news for any and all longtime admirers of Marshall's art, even though it means his stuff will be harder and harder to afford as time goes on.

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Who Is Viktor Vekselberg, Besides Being The Man Who Paid Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen $500,000?

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Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg is finding himself the target of several investigations, perhaps most notably due to paying Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, half a million dollars after the 2016 presidential election, through one of his companies. What that payment was for is not clear. However, Vekselberg has not been shy about his support for Trump. He attended the inauguration, thanks to tickets given to him by his cousin, Andrew Intrater, an American who is president of the investment company Columbus Nova. That company hired Cohen as a consultant in 2017.

Vekselberg has also had ties to other people in Trump's inner circle. In 2015, he attended the 10thanniversary celebration for the Kremlin's RT channel. At that event, Vladimir Putin was seated next to Michael Flynn. Flynn, of course, was briefly the National Security Adviser in Trump's administration.

Vekselberg and his holding group, Renova, are a part of the list of oligarchs, companies, and government officials subjected to sanctions as a result of their involvement in the U.S. Presidential election and for their actions in Syria, Ukraine, and Crimea.

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So, who is Viktor Vekselberg?

Viktor Vekselberg was born in 1957 in western Ukraine, which at that time, was part of the Soviet Union. His father was Jewish and some of Vekselberg's relatives were murdered as part of the Holocaust. Vekselberg graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers in 1979. During the 1980s, he worked for a number of state run laboratories as a researcher.

Vekselberg's journey from mid-level management to one of Russia's richest men follows what is now a familiar trajectory: he took advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union. He went about buying parts of Russia's huge resource sector, which were carved up and privatized in the 1990s. He sold scrap copper from cable wires. Then he moved on to buying aluminum smelters in Siberia. Then he founded the oil and metals company Renova Group, which is headquartered in Switzerland. In 1997, he became a stakeholder in TNK-BP, a joint oil venture. In 2012 he sold his stake in the venture with the British oil giant to Rosneft, the Kremlin controlled oil behemoth.

Vekselberg is an art collector who collects Faberge eggs. In 2004, he purchased nine Faberge Easter eggs from the Forbes family for $900 million. He later established a museum to house the eggs. Vekselberg also spent a million dollars to move 17 Russian church bells back to Moscow from Harvard University. The bells were then consecrated by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church. Harvard got new bells.

Vekselberg is a prominent figure in Moscow's Jewish community. He gave money to set up the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. That museum opened in 2012. Two years later, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner attended a fund raising dinner at that museum.

Vekselberg met his wife Marina Dobrynina in college. She runs a charity that caters to people with psychological issues. They have a daughter Irina, born in 1979 and a son, Alexander, born in 1988. The Vekselberg kids attended Yale University. Alexander is an American citizen who also attended high school in the U.S. and now owns Ferrari dealerships in Philadelphia and Denver. Irina works for her father's Renova Group in Russia.

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The Unusual Structure Of Bernie Ecclestone's Divorce Settlement

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Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone may be the world's best-kept man. Since his divorce from his second wife, Slavica, he has received more than half a billion dollars from his ex-wife's trust fund. It is a very unusual settlement. Rather than the billionaire paying off his ex, she seems to be paying him roughly $100 million a year.

Ecclestone and Slavica were married for 24 years. She was his second wife and she divorced him in 2009. Slavica is 28 years younger, and more than a foot taller than her diminutive ex. When they divorced, it was assumed the more than $1 billion settlement was in her favor. After all, typically the wealthier spouse is the one who pays their ex, and Ecclestone, with a net worth of $3.1 billion, is plenty wealthy.

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Ecclestone owns several private jets, a 190-foot super yacht, and a chalet in Gstaad, to name just a few of his assets. He also has the best legal and tax advice that money can buy. The unusual structure of his divorce settlement isn't that surprising, given how his finances are structured.

In the late 1990s, Ecclestone's assets were transferred into Slavica's name when he was suffering from serious heart problems. He had a triple bypass in 1999. If he had died, the inheritance he would have left his daughters would have been subjected to British death duties at the rate of 40%.

So, while Ecclestone has a net worth in the billions, his ex-wife technically holds the deeds and pink slips on a number of his assets, and as such, is left holding the proverbial bag. Because of this, it looked like she was the wealthier one to the courts and is required to pay her billionaire ex $100 million per year.

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The "Holy Grail Of Shipwrecks" Found By Submarine, May Have Treasure Worth $17 BILLION

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The Spanish galleon the San Jose is one of the most famous wrecked ships in history, taking a treasure of gold, silver, and emeralds to the bottom of the sea and remaining there ever since it first wrecked way back in 1708. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found the wreck via submarine expedition a few years ago, and now they're surfacing again to reveal details about how it happened.

The discovery was made thanks to the Remus 6000, a drone-operated submarine owned by the Dalio Foundation, of hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio. Jeff Kaeli, an engineer at Woods Hole, told CBS News how it felt when he saw the tell-tale dolphin engravings on bronze cannons found at the site of the wreck, engravings that meant the wreck could only be the San Jose:

"I just sat there for about 10 minutes and smiled…I'm not a marine archaeologist, but…I know what a cannon looks like. So in that moment I guess I was the only person in the world who knew we'd found the shipwreck."

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The location of the San Jose shipwreck and the buried treasure it contains is still a secret (so don't go getting any ideas), and estimates have that treasure worth as much as $17 billion altogether. That's more than enough to create conflicts over the rightful ownership of the loot, but Kaeli points out that there are more important things than precious stones and gold when considering the importance of the find:

"Everyone is focused on the treasure aspect….The whole thing is a cultural treasure. It's a piece of history that's sitting on the sea floor that tells a story."

Since it was a Spanish ship, Spain has claimed the treasure as its own, while Colombia also claims ownership rights as that's where the ship wrecked over 300 years ago. However that situation shakes out, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is interested in historical significance rather than treasure.

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Apoorva Mehta Started 20 Businesses That Failed Before Instacart

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Instacart is great. Especially when you're sicker than the proverbial dog. Having someone deliver Ny Quil and Kleenex and ginger ale right to your door is a lifesaver when you're running a fever. The grocery delivery startup is the brainchild of Apoorva Mehta. Over the past five years, he's grown the grocery delivery start up to more than 300 full time employees and tens of thousands of part-time grocery shoppers/deliverers. Instacart offers same day grocery delivery in 42 states and the District of Columbia.

Mehta was born in India and grew up in Canada. He developed a curiosity for how things worked at a young age. Perhaps because of his innate curiosity, he wasn't sure what he wanted to do after college, so he signed up for an engineering course at the University of Waterloo. After college, he worked at a number of technology companies including BlackBerry and Qualcomm before moving to Seattle to take a job as a supply chain engineer at Amazon. He was tasked with developing fulfillment systems to get packages from Amazon's warehouses to customers' doors. During his Amazon years he learned that he liked to build software and he wanted to be challenged. He wasn't challenged at Amazon, so he quit.

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He spent the next two years founding startups. Mehta estimates that he started 20 companies before Instacart. He built an ad network for social gaming companies and spent a year developing a social network for attorneys. He liked putting himself in the position where he had to learn about an industry and solve problems for them. All of these companies failed. He realized the common theme wasn't that his product didn't work, it was that he didn't care about the product. He didn't care about lawyers.

So, Mehta turned his attention to the problems that he encountered in his day to day life. He lived in San Francisco and didn't have a car. He enjoyed cooking but couldn't get the groceries he wanted close to his home. It was 2012 and people were literally doing everything online—meeting, shopping, watching movies, but not grocery shopping. He felt like he'd hit on an idea and less than a month later, he'd coded a rudimentary version of an app for people who wanted groceries and another for those who were shopping for those groceries for the customer. At first, Mehta went to the stores and delivered the groceries himself.

Of course, the idea of ordering groceries online and having them delivered wasn't new. Home Grocer and Webvan tried to do that during the first dot-com boom and famously imploded during the bust. Mehta wasn't worried. He felt that the timing wasn't right for the grocery delivery pioneers of the early 00s. After all, everyone has a smart phone today and people were comfortable using apps for transactions.

Mehta established partnerships with Whole Foods, Target, and Safeway. But the growth of Instacart wasn't always easy. In 2015, Instacart was hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging that the people who shopped for and delivered groceries for Instacart were not the independent contractors the company was claiming they were. Instacart made its shoppers part time employees.

Mehta brought more stores into the Instacart experience. Albertsons, Kroger, CVS, and Costco are now available on the app.

Last June, Amazon announced it was acquiring Whole Foods, Instacart's biggest customer. This could spell trouble for Instacart. Amazon is, after all, a master in supply chain fulfillment. Mehta should know this, he helped build their systems. Amazon could also end Whole Foods' deal with Instacart. But, so far so good. After all, many Instacart customers are not just getting goods from one store. They need a rotisserie chicken from Whole Foods and dog food and diet coke from CVS.

Apoorva Mehta is a prime example of the old adage: "If at first you don't succeed try try again."

Apoorva Mehta has a net worth of $400 million.

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Astrid Bryan Net Worth

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Astrid Bryan net worth: Astrid Bryan is a Flemish Belgian model, actress, and television personality who has a net worth of $12 million. Astrid Bryan was born in Merksem, Flanders, Belgium in January 1983. She started playing violin at four years old and later became a singer. Her song "You Know I Would" was featured on the soundtrack for The Pool Boys. Her debut studio album Taking Over was released in 2009. From 2011 to 2013 she starred in, wrote, and produced the reality television series Astrid in Wonderland. As an actress she has appeared in the films The Pool Boys, The Loft, Broken Vows, and Verborgen Verlangen. Astrid Bryan has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Vlaamse Hollywood Vrouwen, Me Time, Nederlandse Hollywood Vrouwen, Astrid, Gert Late Night, and more. She has her own clothing and shoe line as well as a fragrance and has authored the books Amazing Astrid and Stylish Astrid.

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Ed Skrein Net Worth

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Ed Skrein net worth: Ed Skrein is an English actor and rapper who has a net worth of $7 million. Ed Skrein was born in Camden, London, England in March 1983. His acting career began in 2012 when he appeared in the films Piggy, Ill Manors, and The Sweeney. One of his best known roles came in the recurring role of Daario Naharis on the television series Game of Thrones in 2013. That same year he also had a recurring role as Anthony Walsh on the TV series The Tunnel. Ed Skrein has also starred in the movies Northmen: A Viking Saga, Sword of Vengeance, Tiger House, Kill Your Friends, The Transporter Refueled, Deadpool, The Model, and more. Skrein won an MTV Movie Award in 2016 for Best Fight for Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds. As a rapper he released his debut studio album The Eat Up in 2007 and the EPs Mind Out/Once Upon a Skrein in 2004 and Pre-Emptive Nostalgia (with A State of Mind) in 2007.

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Victor Oladipo Net Worth

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Victor Oladipo net worth: Victor Oladipo is an American professional basketball player who has a net worth of $10 million. Victor Oladipo was born in Silver Spring, Maryland in May 1992. He is a 6'4″ shooting guard and point guard who played at DeMatha Catholic High School. Oladipo played his college basketball at Indiana where he was first-team All-Big Ten and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2013. He was also a two time Big Ten All-Defensive team selection and a consensus first-team All-American in 2013. Victor Oladipo was the Sporting News Player of the Year and Adolph Rupp Trophy winner in 2013. He was drafted #2 overall in the 2013 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic. Oladipo played for the Magic from 2013 to 2016 and for the Oklahoma City Thunder from 2016 to 2017. In 2017 he joined the Indiana Pacers. He was a member of the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2014 and in 2018 he was an NBA All-Star and the NBA steals leader.

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Michelle Wolf Net Worth

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Michelle Wolf net worth: Michelle Wolf is an American comedian and writer who has a net worth of $2 million. Michelle Wolf was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania in June 1985. She worked as the writing supervisor for the television series Late Night with Seth Meyers from 2014 to 2016 and became a writer for the TV series The Daily Show in 2016. She also wrote for the 2016 Oscars and her TV special Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady. In 2015 Wolf provided voice work for the series The Awesomes. She also frequently appeared as various characters on Late Night with Seth Myers. From 2016 to 2017 she was also a commentator on The Daily Show. Michelle Wolf has been nominated for four Writers Guild of America Awards. She is widely known for performing at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner and got her own show called The Break with Michelle Wolf on Netflix.

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Michael W. Smith Net Worth

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Michael W. Smith net worth: Michael W. Smith is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has a net worth of $14 million. Michael W. Smith was born in Kenova, West Virginia in October 1957. His styles include contemporary Christian and pop and he plays piano, keyboards, and guitar. His debut studio album Michael W. Smith Project was released in 1983 and he would release the albums Michael W. Smith 2 in 1984, The Big Picture in 1986, I 2 (EYE) in 1988, Go West Young Man in 1990, and Change Your World in 1992. His album I'll Lead You Home was released in 1995 and reached #16 on the Billboard 200 chart. Smith released the album Live the Life in 1998 and his album This Is Your Time was released in 1999 and reached #1 on the US Christian chart. His album Healing Rain was released in 2004 and reached #1 on the US Christian chart and #11 on the Billboard 200. Michael W. Smith's albums Stand in 2006, Hymns in 2014, and Sovereign in 2014 also reached #1 on the US Christian chart and his album Sovereign also reached #10 on the Billboard 200. He has also released the albums Hymns II – Shine on Us in 2016 and A Million Lights in 2018. He has sold more than 18 million albums and won multiple Grammy Awards. Smith has also published more than a dozen books.

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Billy Howerdel Net Worth

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Billy Howerdel net worth: Billy Howerdel is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer who has a net worth of $6 million. Billy Howerdel was born in New Jersey in May 1970. He has been a founding member as well as the guitarist for the band A Perfect Circle and Ashes Divide. A Perfect Circle was formed in 1999 and released their debut studio album Mer de Noms in 2000 which reached #2 in Australia and New Zealand and #4 in the US. The band released the album Thirteenth Step in 2003 which reached #1 in Canada and New Zealand and #2 in the US. A Perfect Circle released the albums Emotive in 2004 which reached #2 in the US and Eat the Elephant in 2018 which reached #3 in the US. Their single "Weak and Powerless" reached #1 on the US Alternative and Mainstream Rock charts. The band Ashes Divide formed in 2005 and released their debut studio album Keep Telling Myself It's Alright in 2008. Their single "The Stone" reached #7 on the US Mainstream chart and #10 on the US Modern Rock chart. Billy Howerdel was a digital editor on the Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy.

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Nadia Ali Net Worth

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Nadia Ali net worth: Nadia Ali is a Pakistani-American singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $6 million. Nadia Ali was born in Tripoli, Libya in August 1980. She is known for being the front woman and songwriter for the group iiO. The dance music duo also consisted of Markus Moser and formed in 2001. They released their debut studio album Poetica in 2005 which reached #17 on the Top Electronic Albums chart and the album Exit 110 in 2011. Their single "Is It Love?" reached #1 on the US Dance chart. Nadia Ali released her debut solo studio album Embers in 2009. Her single "Love Story" reached #1 on the US Dance chart. In 2012 she won two awards at the International Dance Music Awards. Her group iiO also had success with the single "Rapture" which reached #2 on the UK Singles chart. She has also released the remix albums the Queen of Clubs Trilogy. In 2018 Ali began transitioning to pop music.

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Monique Alexander Net Worth

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Monique Alexander net worth: Monique Alexander is an American pornographic actress and model who has a net worth of $2 million. Monique Alexander was born in Vallejo, California in May 1982. She started working as a stripper at 18 years old and began appearing in adult magazines before getting into the adult film industry. Monique Alexander won AVN Awards in 2008, 2009, and 2011 and was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2017. She has also appeared in mainstream films and television series including the movie Spider's Web in 2002 and the TV series Entourage. Alexander was a sports reporter for The Phil Show on National Lampoon Comedy Radio. She appeared on the TV series Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and in the 2009 movie Crank: High Voltage. Alexander starred in a public service campaign in 2017 encouraging parents to discuss sexual health education with their kids.

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Xavier Niel Wants To Turn France Into Hotbed Of Tech Entrepreneurs

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Xavier Niel is one of the richest men in France, with a net worth of $8.1 billion. Niel is attempting to change France's buttoned-down, traditional business culture into a culture where tech and internet startups will thrive. He spent $50 million and founded a free coding school called 42 in Paris in 2013. He opened another branch of 42 in Silicon Valley in 2016. In June 2017, he launched Station F, the largest startup incubator in the world. The Station F campus is the size of six American football fields. It has 1,000 startups working under one roof.  Right outside of Station F, apartments for 600 entrepreneurs, a couple of hotels, and a restaurant are being built.

Luckily, France's President Emmanuel Macron is onboard with Niel's vision of the country as a hotbed of entrepreneurs. Over the past year, Macron has loosened labor laws and said the country is open to disruption. This is in stark contrast to the reputation the country has traditionally had as a bad place to do business. Niel and Macron are trying to change this and move their country into the 21stcentury.

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France has been laying the groundwork for this for decades. Back in the 1980s, the country had everything it needed to become a tech mecca. France had the internet before any other country. In 1982, roughly 10 years before the rest of the world got online, the French were using a free system from France Telecom called Minitel to get onto the World Wide Web. Every single French household was given a Minitel system. At its most popular, 25 million French citizens were turning on their Minitel terminal to order groceries and check the weather. Time logged into the Minitel system was charged by the minute on the user's phone bill.

Neil was a teenager when all of this was happening. He forged his dad's signature to get a second phone line on the Minitel when he was 17. He then used the dial up network to chat to other people. This led to him developing Minitel Rose at 19, a chat service for cybersex. Minitel Rose became one of the most lucrative chat services on the network. He had a lucrative revenue sharing mode that wasn't all that different from what Apple, Android, and Google iOS use today. When he was 22, Niel bought the Minitel service, Pon Editions, for 2,000 francs. Two years later, he sold it for $1.6 million.

Unfortunately, by this time, the Minitel was failing. The World Wide Web had launched and taken off globally. Looking to the United States for inspiration, Niel co-founded Worldnet in 1994. It was France's first internet service. He sold Worldnet in 2000, at the height of the first dot com boom, for more than $50 million.

In 1999, he founded Free, a French ISP that is actually free. Basic service is provided at no cost, but users can upgrade to a faster broadband connection for a very low price.

In 2010, Niel co-founded Kima Ventures, a fund with a mission to invest in 50 to 100 startups a year everywhere in the world. As of August 2014, Kima Ventures had already invested in 300 companies in 32 different countries, making Niel one of the most active angel investors in the world.

Attracting entrepreneurs for Station F comes down to branding and Niel hopes that President Macron continues to push his message that France is open for business. If he does, some of the next hottest startups could come out of Niel's incubator.

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