Trey Lorenz net worth: Trey Lorenz is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer who has a net worth of $4 million. Trey Lorenz was born in Florence, South Carolina in January 1969. His self-titled debut studio album was released in 1992 and he released the album Mr. Mista in 2006. Lorenz's single "Someone to Hold" reached #5 on the US R&B chart as well as #19 on the Billboard Hot 100. His single "Photograph of Mary" reached #11 on the US Dance chart and #46 on the US R&B chart and his single "Just to Be Close to You" reached #66 on the US R&B chart. He is best known for being featured on the Mariah Carey single "I'll Be There" which was a cover of the Jackson 5 recording. The single reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and US R&B singles charts. Lorenz and Carey were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. They performed the song at Michael Jackson's funeral in 2009.

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Jose Andres net worth: Jose Andres is a Spanish American chef who has a net worth of $50 million. Jose Andres was born in Mieres, Asturias, Spain in July 1969. He is the chef often credit with bringing the concept for small plates dining to America. Andres owns restaurants in several cities including Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Los Angeles, South Beach, Florida, Dorado, Puerto Rico, and Frisco, Texas. He serves as the chair of the advisory board for the social enterprise LA Kitchen which works to reduce food waste as well as provide job training and increase available access to nutritious food. Jose Andres received a 2015 National Humanities Medal. He trained at the restaurant elBulli under Ferran Adria. When Andres moved to the United states he started his first tapas restaurant called Jaleo in Washington, D.C. He planned on opening a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel until Donald Trump made negative comments about Mexicans.

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On December 1st, UK boxer Tyson Fury fought WBC champion Deontay Wilder to a split draw after 12 rounds. The fight was by all accounts hard fought and extremely dramatic, and Fury's performance was all the more impressive thanks to his heroic pre-fight pledge to donate his entire seven figure purse of more than $10.1 million – the biggest payday of his career – to the causes of poverty and homelessness.

As he explained to the Irish Times a few days before the fight, he doesn't consider the accumulation of wealth to be among his top priorities as a pro athlete:

"I'm going to give it to the poor and I'm going to build homes for the homeless… I don't really have much use for it, I'm not interested in becoming a millionaire or a billionaire. I'm a boxer not a businessman and I'll probably go down the same route as every other boxer — skint at the end of it all. You can't take it with you so I might as well do something with it and help out people who can't help themselves."

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Fury also said that he had his kids in mind when he made the decision to give away his biggest boxing paycheck, saying he believes "all kids should make their own money in life because if they don't, they won't appreciate it." He goes on:

"It's easy to spend someone else's money and the money I've earned is practically blood money. My kids have to make their own living and make their own way in life; they won't be living off my name or reputation because that's too easy a route… You see many of these rich people's kids doing nothing because they had it too easy. I never had it easy, I had to work for whatever I got. I was working from very young, everything I wanted in life I had to work for."

Fury alludes to his well known issues with addiction and depression, which combined to force him out of the ring for almost three years leading up to the Wilder bout. Fury says he was always planning to donate the purse, but that his recent experiences in Los Angeles gave him extra motivation to follow through:

"I was always going to do it but being here (in California) gives me that extra push to go and do it even more. It has really opened my eyes to a lot of things and I'm leaving as a better person. There are a lot of homeless people on the streets here, more than I've ever seen ever in my life. I'm staying in downtown LA but if you go five minutes down the road there's like – I don't know – thousands of homeless people."

Fury hasn't gone into detail on how exactly he's going to spend his money yet, or which organizations he plans to donate to. But hopefully the specifics on his donation will come to light in the near future.

Read more: Tyson Fury To Donate His Entire $10.1M Title Fight Purse To Charity

How on earth is it already December? Our favorite billionaires are out and about and, as always, entertaining us. One of Donald Trump's daughters is dating a Nigerian billionaire. Remember when he called that country a "sh*thole country?" That had to make Thanksgiving awkward. We will dive into that a bit later. Another billionaire accidentally crashed his private jet into Donald Trump's 757… what's up with that? Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reportedly ordered dirt on billionaire George Soros. And finally, our favorite eccentric billionaire Elon Musk plans to live on Mars, even if it kills him. This is the latest edition of the Billionaire Roundup.

Tiffany Trump And The Nigerian Billionaire
Tiffany Trump has a new (ish) boyfriend named Michael Boulos. He's not a Nigerian Prince, but he is the son of a billionaire from Nigeria. Michael Boulos grew up in Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria. He comes from a wealthy, well-connected family. His family is of Lebanese origin. The two have been dating in secret since they met over the summer in Mykonos. Tiffany and her boyfriend spent Thanksgiving together and he has met most of her family. Tiffany's father, President Donald Trump, described Nigeria as a "sh*thole country in January 2018 when the President denounced immigrants by asking, "Why do we want all these people from sh*thole countries coming here?" He later took back that comment and we're happy to report that there wasn't an issue at Thanksgiving!

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The Incident Involving Donald Trump's 757 And The Millionaire Who Ran Into It
Recently, a private jet side swiped the infamous Trump branded Boeing 757 while it was parked at New York's La Guardia Airport. The owner of that jet is Guy Wildenstein – the ex-brother-in-law of plastic surgery queen Jocelyn Wildenstein. Jocelyn, for what it's worth, owns a full floor apartment in Trump World Tower. Guy Wildenstein's 1999 Global Express private jet clipped the President's plane. Guy and Trump have other things in common. For instance, they've both been on the wrong end of legal issues involving art. Guy is an art dealer who has been fighting tax fraud charges in France. Trump has been facing scrutiny for using funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to buy a portrait of himself.

Did Sheryl Sandberg Ask Facebook Staffers To Dig Up Dirt On George Soros?
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reportedly asked for research on billionaire George Soros after the called Facebook a "menace to society." She wanted to know if he had made money "shorting" Facebook stock. Basically, Sandberg wanted to know if Soros stood to make money by slamming the social network. She asked for the information to a senior executive on Facebook's communications staff in January. The email came within days of a speech Soros gave at the World Economic Forum in which he attacked Facebook and Google as a menace to society. He called for the companies to be regulated. At the time, Facebook was mired in the scandal over its role in disseminating Russian propaganda.

Elon Musk Mars Plans To Move To Mars… Even If It Kills Him
Despite a near certainty of dying on the way and a climate that is inhospitable to human life, Elon Musk said in an interview on November 25^th that he will probably move to Mars. The Tesla and SpaceX founder said that there is a 70% chance he will move to Mars. It is his goal to permanently relocate to the Red Planet and colonize it. This is just the latest in a series of bold announcements from the eccentric billionaire in recent years. Remember the time he said humans must merge with machines in order to not become monkeys? Or the time he said we were living in the Matrix? Yeah, we do too…

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Actress Patricia Richardson is remembered primarily as the wife of Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor (played, of course, by comedian Tim Allen) on the hit 1990s sitcom Home Improvement. That show ran for eight seasons and was a critical and commercial success, and it may have been on the air even longer if Richardson had agreed to stay on for a ninth season, but she instead decided to step away from the spotlight, and some pretty big money in the bargain. In a recent interview with Closer Weekly, the actress talks about turning down a $30 million offer to do the ninth season of Home Improvement, and why she doesn't regret walking away from both the show and the money that would have come with it.

The short reason for why she wanted to stop being The Tool Man's long-suffering wife: Her kids. As she puts it:

"The reason I turned down the ninth year of Home Improvement was because I was a single [divorced] parent and away from my kids too much."

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She goes on to discuss the difficulty of being a mother while also being on a hit sitcom:

"I also passed up another show that won, like, 30 Emmys. But I don't mean to sound like, 'Oh, I sacrificed this huge thing for my children,' because it's what I wanted. Granted, it's what they needed, but it was also what I needed because I missed them terribly. Home Improvement had much longer days than most sitcoms. Because I was involved in all the writing, I was away from them more than I wanted and felt I missed so many things."

And, she says, it wasn't as hard a decision as you might think to step away from it all, given the attitude that both she and one of her most famous costars shared about the perils of celebrity:

"I really hated fame. Jonathan Taylor Thomas and I had similar reactions — he backed off, too, and went to school. I didn't do charity events, because I was desperate for time with my kids and husband, who was always mad I was never home. Hence the divorce."

Since the end of Home Improvement, Richardson has continued to work in television, but never with the same rigorous schedule that her responsibilities on that show required – or, presumably, its top dollar paychecks.

Read more: Home Improvement Star Patricia Richardson Explains Why She Turned Down $30 MILLION To Do A Ninth Season

The folks at Billboard have confirmed through mathematics what Taylor Swift's most obsessive fans already knew in their hearts: That Swift is now the star of what was the highest grossing concert tour in US history, going back as far as Billboard's keeping track of the requisite figures (since 1990). Her Reputation Stadium Tour, the US portion of which ran for 38 shows from May 8th through October 6th, grossed a record-breaking $266.1 million with more than 2 million tickets sold throughout the US.

The take broke the previous record for biggest grossing US tour held by rock legends The Rolling Stones, who took nearly twice as many dates during their A Bigger Bang Tour in 2005-2007 to take in $245 million in between a total of 70 US dates. The record is only the latest – and the biggest – to be broken by Swift's most recent tour, as earlier this year she was reported to have broken her own previous record for the "highest-grossing domestic tour by a woman," previously set by her 1989 World Tour in the summer of 2015.

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Swift's touring popularity is reportedly consistent in all regions of the country, but the financial peak of the Reputation Stadium Tour, even including dates outside the US, was in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the singer/songwriter grossed $22 million (and sold a total 165,654 tickets) at Metlife Stadium for her three shows on July 20-22. There must be something especially appealing about Swift in New Jersey, because the same venue was also the biggest grosser during Swift's 1989 World Tour in July of 2015, when she pulled in $13.4 million and sold 110,015 tickets for two shows in that same venue.

The record represents Swift's decisive move into playing stadiums exclusively over the course of her career, which allows her to maximize revenue compared to tours earlier in her career which had a mix of smaller, and less profitable, performance venues.

Read more: Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour Is The Biggest Grossing Tour In US History

Scott Gorham net worth: Scott Gorham is an American guitarist and songwriter who has a net worth of $10 million. Scott Gorham was born in Glendale, California in March 1951. He is best known for being one of the twin lead guitarists for the band Thin Lizzy. The band formed in 1969 and Gorham joined in 1974. Their sixth studio album Jailbreak was released in 1976 and reached #10 in the UK and #18 in the US as well as #5 in Canada. Thin Lizzy released the album Johnny the Fox in 1976 which reached #11 in the UK. Their album Bad Reputation in 1977 reached #4 in the UK and their album Black Rose: A Rock Legend was released in 1979 and reached #2 in the UK. The band also had success with their albums Renegade in 1981 and Thunder and Lightning in 1983. Thin Lizzy's single "Whiskey in the Jar" reached #1 in Ireland as did their single "The Boys Are Back in Town". Gorham co-founded the band Black Star Riders in 2012 to play new material and he has also released albums with 21 Guns.

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Brandon Browner net worth: Brandon Browner is an American former professional football player who has a net worth of $6 million. Brandon Browner was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1984. He was a cornerback who played for Sylmar High School. Browner played his college football for Oregon State where he was an All-Pac-10 selection. He went undrafted in the 2005 NFL Draft and signed with the Denver Broncos practice squad. Browner played for the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL from 2006 to 2010. He played for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks from 2011 to 2013. Browner played for the New England Patriots in 2014 and the New Orleans Saints in 2015. In the CFL he won the Grey Cup in 2008 and was a 3 time CFL All-Star and 3 time CFL West All-Star. Brandon Browner won two Super Bowls with Seattle and was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2011. He signed a three year deal for $17 million in 2014. In 2018 he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for attempted murder.

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CL Smooth net worth: CL Smooth is an American rapper who has a net worth of $6 million. CL Smooth was born in New Rochelle, New York in October 1968. He is best known for being one half of the hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. The pair released their debut studio album Mecca and the Soul Brother in 1992 which reached #7 on the US R&B chart and #43 on the Billboard 200. Their album The Main Ingredient was released in 1994 and reached #9 on the US R&B chart and #51 on the Billboard 200. The duo had #1 singles on the US Rap charts with the songs "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)" and "Lots of Lovin". CL Smooth released the solo albums American Me in 2006 and The Outsider in 2007. He has collaborated with other artists including Heavy D & The Boyz, Big Daddy Kane, Q-Tip, Run-DMC, John Legend, and The Roots.

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Randy Brooks net worth: Randy Brooks is an American actor who has a net worth of $1.5 million. Randy Brooks was born in New York City, New York in January 1950. In 1979 he starred as Ronald Holmes III in the TV mini-series Brothers and Sisters. Brooks starred as Nathan Hastings on the soap opera The Young and the Restless from 1992 to 1994. From 2000 to 2005 he starred as Arthur on the television series The West Wing. Brooks has starred in several films including Halls of Anger, The Monkey Hustle, Underground Aces, 8 Million Ways to Die, Assassination, Colors, Black Snow, Defenseless, Reservoir Dogs, and more. He has also appeared in episodes of several TV series including All My Children, One Day at a Time, Mork & Mindy, The Renegades, The Jeffersons, Hill Street Blues, Simon & Simon, L.A. Law, 21 Jump Street, Murder, She Wrote, and more. He was married to Karyn Parsons from 1987 to 1990.

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It is hard to believe that YouTube has only been around for 13 years. Since YouTube launched way back in 2005, it has become a factory for creating internet stars and millionaires – many of whom are not legally old enough to buy or consume an alcoholic beverage. The biggest YouTube celebrities have become masters at attracting an audience to monetize their sponsored videos and advertising. Along the way, these internet stars make a name for themselves offline too, often publishing books, or getting roles in television shows or deals from Netflix, Disney, or YouTube Red. Brand partnerships and clothing lines have also become a part of the biggest YouTube personalities' revenue streams.

Ask any kid or tween or 20 something and they can tell you who the biggest YouTube stars are. But what they may not understand is just how much money their favorite YouTubers are making. Of the top 10 highest paid YouTube stars, the lowest paid – 23-year-old Logan Paul – made $14.5 million. A dude that goes by Markiplier made $17.5 million. His real name is Mark Fischbach and he is a native of Hawaii. He launched his YouTube channel in 2012 while he was in school in Cincinnati as a biomedical engineering student and going through a rough time. He has broken up with his girlfriend, been laid off from his job, and had an adrenal gland tumor that had to be removed by surgeons. He didn't feel like he had any control over his life, so he started recording audio segments as practice for a career in voice overs, but the now 29-year-old found an audience through clips in which he played video games while providing witty running commentary on the game. Today, he has 22.4 million YouTube subscribers and 10 billion views of his videos. So basically, he makes $17.5 million for playing video games. This fall, Fischbach co-founded an athleisure line called Cloak with fellow YouTuber Sean McLoughlin, aka "Jacksepticeye." Jacksepticeye came in 8^th on this year's list with $16 million.

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Yeah, OK. Let's all take a time out and figure out a concept for a YouTube channel now. In the meantime, here are the 10 highest paid YouTube Stars of 2018 who earned a combined $180.5 million over the past year—that's up 42% from 2017.

#10. Logan Paul – $14.5 million
Logan Paul is the 23-year-old former Vine star and older brother of Jake Paul. Logan posts comedic reaction videos and vlogs. In January, he was kicked off YouTube's Google Preferred program after he filmed a video in Japan that showed a suicide hanging from a tree. His income from videos took a hit but loyal fans kept buying his merchandise.

#9. PewDiePie – $15.5 million
PewDiePie is a Swedish video game commenter. His videos show him playing video games while a box at the top corner of the screen shows his reactions to what is happening. He has more than 72.5 million followers. In January 2017, he ran into trouble when anti-Semitic messages were found in his videos. PewDiePie posted a video that featured two men laughing as they held a sign that said, "Death To All Jews." He had previously landed a multimillion-dollar deal with Disney to launch his own network. He was found to have made 10 videos with anti-Semitic comments or Nazi imagery. This led Disney and YouTube to sever ties with him. Since then, advertisers have returned, spending up to $450,000 for a sponsored video.

#8. Jacksepticeye – $16 million
Sean McLoughlin is the energetic, foulmouthed, most popular YouTuber in Ireland thanks to his colorful video-game commentary. His penchant for sweating hasn't kept him from going mainstream. He did a series for Disney and he's also developing exclusive content for Twitch.

#7. Vanoss Gaming – $17 million
Evan Fong is a 26-year-old Canadian who launched the Vanoss Gaming YouTube channel. He posts comedic videos of him playing video games. He plays games like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty. In his off time, he's launching a hip-hop career.

#6. Markiplier – $17.5 million
Hawaii-native Markiplier's YouTube channel is focused on gaming and his energetic personality has attracted followers to his content. Mark Fischbach plans to use his internet celebrity to launch a music and acting career. The gamer toured North America, signed seven-figures worth of brand deals and, recently launched Cloak, a high-end athleisure line for gamers with No. 8 Jacksepticeye.

#5. Jeffree Star – $18 million
Jeffree Star is a makeup artist who has been famous since MySpace. He has since blossomed into a beauty mogul, co-founding Jeffree Star Cosmetics, which brings in more than $100 million in revenue annually.

#4. DanTDM – $18.5 million
Daniel Middleton is a 27-year-old known as TheDiamondMinecart. His channel focuses on the popular video game Minecraft. He has 20.7 million followers. He posts daily reviews and game-play videos. In the past year, Middleton had a world tour that included four sold out nights at the Sydney Opera House. He also has a booming merchandise business. He was last year's top earner with $16.5 million

#3. Dude Perfect – $20 million
Dude Perfect is the brainchild of twins Cory and Coby Cotton and three other friends from Texas A&M. All five of the young men are former high school basketball players. They make comedy videos and do sports tricks. A video of them throwing Ping Pong balls that cause a domino-like fall of Oreos garnered 175 million views.

#2. Jake Paul – $21.5 million
The energetic younger brother of Logan (No. 10) earned a career-best to date income from his merchandise business. He attracted more than 3.5 billion views of his rap songs and goofy pranks over our scoring period. Jake Paul was a personality on Vine before it went under.

#1. Ryan Toys Review – $22 million
Ryan of the YouTube channel Ryan Toys Review makes millions for his family simply by opening and reviewing new toys. Ryan is seven-years-old. Think about that for a moment. His YouTube channel has over 17 million subscribers. He recently released a line of collectibles and more, now selling at Walmart.

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A recent regulatory filing by Disney reveals that the company has upped the ante for its longtime CEO Bob Iger. The documents show that if the company meets a new, more ambitious stock-return benchmark, Iger will receive a huge raft of shares in the company, estimated to be worth more than $135 million.

That new benchmark is based on Disney's stock-return performance compared to the other companies in the S&P 500 Index. If it yields better returns that at least 75 percent of those rival companies over four years ending on December 31, 2021, Iger will receive a maximum payout of 1.17 million shares. And of course, it stands to reason that if that benchmark is met than the stock could very well be worth significantly more than it is today.

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Other tweaks to Iger's contract include reductions in his bonuses if Disney falls below certain benchmarks. If the company ends up falling outside the S&P 500's 60th percentile, he'll get a reduced number of shares, and if it does worse than 75 percent, he'll get no bonus at all.

In a press statement, Disney explained the rationale behind the new terms like so:

"The decision to implement more rigorous performance criteria reflects feedback received directly from shareholders and underscores Mr. Iger's and the board's confidence that the current strategic direction of the company will generate significant value for our shareholders."

Iger's annual salary with Disney is only $3.5 million, but the big stock bonus explained above isn't his only giant earnings opportunity in the near future. He's got a chance to still bring in a $60 million cash incentive from a 2014 bonus plan, and his newest contract extension guarantees another 254,098 shares of Disney stock as long as he keeps the job through 2021. Then there's a "bonus and equity award" which depending on his performance could be worth as much as another $45 million a year.

Read more: Disney's Bob Iger Has Chance To Take Home $135 Million Reward

If you've been on social media at all recently, you probably caught at least a glimpse of the public uproar that accompanied news that beloved sitcom Friends was departing the Netflix streaming platform in 2019. There was speculation that the show was getting yanked from Netflix in order to appear on the streaming platform being cooked up by WarnerMedia (Friends being the property of WarnerMedia), but as it turns out Netflix will be able to keep the show for at least another year after all: At a cost of $100 million.

The New York Times reports that Netflix and WarnerMedia struck a deal to keep Friends available to Netflix subscribers through 2019 for $100 million. If that sounds like a lot, it is: Previous agreements were closer to the ballpark of $30 million annually. But in an age when big media companies like Netflix and Disney are going all in on online streaming, the price of a popular show like Friends is naturally going to go up.

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The high price also reflects the fact that 2019 will, in all likelihood, be the show's final year as a Netflix "exclusive," and that a lower rate to keep the show there alongside its new home at At&T/WarnerMedia's new streaming service will likely be negotiated after next year.

Of course, there's also the real possibility that Friends will actually leave Netflix after 2019, as well. But at least that social media wildfire has been postponed for another 12 months, thanks to Netflix's legendarily deep pockets. And it's also worth noting that Friends is far from the only TV show or movie you might expect to be culled from Netflix and other current streaming services in the near future. John Stankey is the executive in charge of WarnerMedia, and at an AT&T conference last month, he said that streaming services like Netflix are "going to see a pretty substantial structural shift" over the next year and a half to two years as rights holders snatch up the most prized jewels of their libraries to attract customers to their own streaming services.

And of course, a big deal like this is also good news for the six stars of the show, who reportedly get two percent of the show's syndication revenue thanks to contracts first negotiated back in 2000 – with a presumably similar deal for the show's revenue from home video and streaming.

Read more: Netflix Will Pay Warner Bros. $100 Million To Keep 'Friends' Through 2019

Jordan Belfort, also known as "The Wolf of Wall Street" for the financial scam chronicled in the Martin Scorsese picture of the same name, has gotten some bad news from a US district judge, as recently reported by CNBC. The judge ruled that as part of the US government's previously established $110 million restitution order against Belfort to allow his victims to recoup their losses, he will have to surrender a full 100 percent of the profits from his financial stake in a new company.

The company is a wellness outfit called Delos Living, in which Belfort has an equity interest. Belfort pleaded guilty to selling fraudulent penny stocks to investors way back in 1999, and as part of his sentence he was ordered to pay back a total of $110 million to his victims, with 42 months. Court documents now show that he's only paid back "a fraction" of that amount at $12.8 million, and the government is tired of waiting. To that end, it filed a request to garnish all of Belfort's Delos Living profits, while Belfort argued in court that they were only entitled to 25 percent of those profits under a clause in the Consumer Credit Protection Act.

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U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly disagreed:

"A review of the statute's purpose and the relevant case law leads me to conclude that these interests are not what Congress had in mind when it enacted the CCPA… Nothing about the defendant's arrangement with Delos Living is consistent with [the goal of the CCPA]."

Instead, Judge Donnelly said, invoking the CCPA would have put her in opposition to another, more relevant law: The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. So the government now has the go-ahead to start garnishing much more of Belfort's income, and as of this writing, Belfort hasn't commented on the decision publicly.

Read more: Judge Rules That Jordan Belfort Has To Surrender All His Profits From New Company To Victims

Jeffree Star is best known as a beauty vlogger with his own makeup line. However, this year's fifth-highest-paid YouTube star is so much more than that. He got his start as a musician on the Warped Tour and a popular MySpace page before reinventing himself. Not only did he make $18 million over the past year, but his Jeffree Star Cosmetics has sold $100 million worth of lipstick, highlighters, and other products.

Jeffree Star was born Jeffrey Lynn Steininger on November 15, 1985 in Orange County, California. His mother was a model. His father committed suicide when Jeffree was six years old. Star was largely raised by his grandparents in Huntington Beach, California while his mom was working. He started experimenting with makeup in high school and quickly became enamored with it. He calls his look back "very goth and crazy," with spiky pink hair. He was open about his sexuality. He moved to Los Angeles after high school and worked as a model and makeup artist at a MAC store to make ends meet.

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Long before YouTube came along, Jeffree was a MySpace sensation. He joined the site in 2003 and used it to promote his aspiring music career. However, he quickly got a huge amount of interest and followers for his appearance and attitude rather than his music. By 2006, Star was the most followed person on MySpace. He released his first and only album Beauty Killer in 2009. His song Lollipop Luxury featured Nicki Minaj. In 2010, he signed to Akon's record label. Akon called Star the next Lady Gaga. He planned to release a second album, but never did. He left the music industry in 2013 under mysterious circumstances.

He launched Jeffree Star cosmetics in 2014 with his life savings. A few minutes after his e-commerce shop went live with one product, a lipstick, every single item sold out. He reinvested the money he earned into his company and released three more shades of lipstick. In late 2015, Star began promoting his brand on YouTube, where, as of 2018, he has over a billion views. Today, he has a huge following on YouTube (nearly 10 million subscribers), Twitter (2.3 million followers), and Instagram (7.5 million followers). He shares makeup tutorials and product reviews across his social media channels. Jeffree earns about $4,500 a day from his YouTube channel alone. That's $1.7 million a year! But that's pennies compared to Star's other business…

Jeffree's eponymous makeup line started with liquid lipsticks and now sells eye shadows, highlighter palettes, lip products, clothing, and accessories. He brings in money from his cosmetics, touring, and deals with brands such as Morphe makeup brushes. But it's the makeup line that is the real gold mine. He also has rumored lines with Cardi B and SOPHIE in the works.

It is hard to mention Star without talking about the controversies he has been embroiled in. First, there were the old videos that surfaced of him shouting racial slurs. Last year, he made a video apologizing for his racism in the past, claiming he has grown in the decade since the worst of the videos were posted. The most significant scandal Jeffree has been involved in is a video that Star seems to have intended as comedy in which he talked about throwing battery acid on an African American girl's face to lighten her skin so that her foundation matches.

We've known for a few years that the most popular YouTube stars make crazy money. Star's $18 million haul and 5^th place ranking show that he is here to stay.

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Phil Ruffin, a long-time Las Vegas casino owner is expanding to Miami. It was announced this week that he purchased Casino Miami, which is located on the northwest corner of Miami International Airport. He told the Miami Herald that he plans to bring Las Vegas to Florida. Just last month, Amendment 3 passed in Florida, putting commercial gaming license approval in the hands of Florida voters rather than the lawmakers in Tallahassee. As a result, Ruffin believes that existing gaming licenses like Casino Miami's are much more valuable. Casino Miami generated $60 million in revenue from January through the end of October. That's an 8% increase over last year and double the average in Florida.

Ruffin is best-known for selling Las Vegas' New Frontier casino for a then record $1.2 billion in 2007. These days, the 83-year-old owns the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. He is also a close friend of Donald Trump. The president was the best man at his wedding in 2008 when Ruffin, then 72, tied the knot with then 26-year-old Miss Ukraine 2004 title holder, Oleksandra Nikolayenko. Ruffin, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion, also owns a 50% stake in Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The two are so close, in fact, that Ruffin will be spending New Year's with Donald and Melania at Mar-a-Lago.

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Ruffin was born in March 1935 near Amarillo, Texas. He was raised in Wichita, Kansas, where his father ran a grocery store. He graduated from Wichita North High School in 1953 and attended Washburn University and Wichita State University, but never finished his degree. In 1972, Ruffin brought self-serve gasoline to Kansas when he created a chain of 60 convenience stores in the Midwest. In 1987 he took the cash from the convenience store business and built his first hotel – a Marriott in Wichita. In 1994, Ruffin leased his convenience stores to Total and used the cash proceeds from that to buy more hotels. In 1995, he bought the Crystal Place resort and casino in the Bahamas and mortgaged it to buy the New Frontier Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1998.

When he purchased the New Frontier Hotel and Casino, it had been mired in the longest running, and often violent, strike with the Culinary Workers Union in the history of America. He settled the strike. In 2005, he demolished the hotel with plans to replace it with a new hotel and casino called The Montreux. That development never happened. In 2007, he sold the land the former New Frontier stood on to El Ad Properties for $1.2 billion. The 36-acre sale was the largest per-acre price in The Strip's history at the time.

In 2008, Ruffin bought the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino from MGM Mirage in 2008 for $600 million in cash and $175 million in secured notes. Ruffin estimated that to build a resort like Treasure Island from the ground up it would cost $2.7 billion, so he got a deal.

The Casino Miami purchase included 21 undeveloped acres. Ruffin plans to add a hotel to the property.  The lot size is more than 300,000 square feet. The 150 employees of the casino and hotel will keep their jobs. The property is nearly 100 years old and was sold by Fronton Holdings, which bought the property in 2014 at a bankruptcy auction for $155 million.

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It's no surprise now that YouTube can allow the criminally young to make huge amounts of money making simple videos that appeal to millions of other kids. But it's still hard not to do a double-take when you see that a popular toy reviewer on the platform known as "Ryan ToysReview" made a reported $22 million in the last year between June 1st, 2017 and June 1st, 2018, even though he's only seven years old.

Ryan ToysReview began his illustrious career in March of 2015, when he was only four. The channel began under the auspices of his parents, who say the boy became interested in the medium of toy review videos as a fan first, asking his parents why he couldn't review toys on his own. That ended up being a pretty good question because soon after he began the kid had his first viral hit in July of 2015, with a video reviewing a line of toys based on Pixar's Cars franchise.

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The Ryan ToysReview channel is updated almost every day, usually with reviews of new toys or candy products, and with Ryan's parents, sometimes heard from off camera and sometimes appearing in the videos themselves. This has been a wildly successful formula, and the last year has been a banner year for the channel, with $22 million in revenue doubling what the channel made in the previous year.

As of this writing, Ryan has about 17 million YouTube subscribers and his videos have a combined 26 billion views and counting. Earlier this year, he struck a deal with Wal-Mart to sell a signature toy line known as Ryan's World. And just think, toy companies are likely to send such a popular media figure free toys in the hopes of being features on his channel, so he probably doesn't even have to pay for his own toys anymore.

Read more: Ryan ToysReview: A 7-Year-Old Toy Reviewer Made $22 MILLION On YouTube Last Year

Tyler Perry got into the holiday giving spirit in a big way according to a recent TMZ report. The writer/director/actor/playwright wrote two massive checks at two Walmarts near his Atlanta home base. Both six figure checks went towards outstanding layaway costs for customers at the two stores, which doubtlessly made a ton of holiday seasons in and around Atlanta better this year.

The first check was to an East Point, ATL Walmart for $178,000, while the second went to another Walmart in nearby Douglasville. In a video posted to Perry's official Twitter account, he says that he intended the gesture to remain anonymous, but due to unspecified circumstances (probably TMZ getting a hold of the story), that was no longer practical:

I was trying to do this anonymously but oh well!!! pic.twitter.com/T0dhRHyU66

— Tyler Perry (@tylerperry) December 6, 2018

In the video, he directs anyone with any items on layaway at the two Walmarts in question to head to the store and pick up their items for the price of one cent, presumably since the items could no longer be kept on layaway without a balance of some kind remaining – which makes you wonder if it might be a good idea for Walmart and other stores to make it easier for people in Perry's position to make similar contributions for the holidays.

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Perry's been on a hot streak with the goodwill gestures lately, and not just for the holiday season. This wasn't an act of charity per se, but he still earned some good karma when he hired Cosby Show alum Geoffrey Owens for his show The Haves and the Have Nots, and he also got some good headlines earlier this year when he purchased an old house for a struggling friend of his mother's.

Read more: Tyler Perry Paid Off More Than $400,000 In Outstanding Layaway At Two Atlanta Walmarts

We are well aware that the biggest YouTube stars make crazy money. One of those people, 29-year-old Mark Fischbach, who goes by Markiplier, made $17.5 million over the past year, making him the 6^th highest-paid YouTube star. As of August 2018, his channel has over 10 billion total video views and 22.4 million subscribers and is currently the 37^th most subscribed channel on YouTube. He launched his channel in 2012 and found an audience through clips in which he played video games while providing witty running commentary on the game. Today, he has 22.4 million YouTube subscribers and 10 billion views of his videos.

Fischbach was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989 at the Tripler Army Medical Center. His father was in the military. His mother is of Korean descent. After he was born, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of the marching band in high school. He enrolled in the University of Cincinnati as a biomedical engineering student. He was in the middle of a rough patch – he broke up with his girlfriend, was laid off from his job, and had surgery to remove a tumor on his adrenal gland – and didn't feel like he had any control over his life. He started recording audio segments as practice for a potential career in voice overs and hit upon the idea for his YouTube channel. Mark dropped out of school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career as a YouTube star.

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Markiplier participates in the category known as Let's Play. He plays indie and horror games including Five Nights at Freddy's, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Minecraft, Slender: The Eight Pages, and a number of others. He is known for his sensationalized commentary on the games he is playing. He uses profanity and often cries. When he subtitles his videos, he doesn't write out the profanity. He uses luck or duck for f*ck and itch for bitch.

This fall, Fischbach co-founded an athleisure line called Cloak with fellow YouTuber Sean McLoughlin, aka "Jacksepticeye." Jacksepticeye came in 8^th on this year's list with $16 million.

Basically, Mark Fischbach makes $17.5 million for playing video games.

Read more: Highest Paid YouTube Stars: Markiplier, The $17.5 Million Man

New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. wants to stick to this football thing for the long haul, and part of the way to do that is maintain physical conditioning even in between seasons. In a recent episode of his weekly documentary series I am more: OBJ, Beckham revealed that that sort of thing doesn't come cheap, and that he invests more than $300,000 taking care of his body in the offseason. As he put it:

"I take care of my body each and every day… I put, probably, over $300,000 in my body in the offseason. It's a lot to upkeep. I don't ever want to decline."

While everybody declines eventually, 26-year-old OBJ is spending top dollar to postpone that decline as much as possible. His estimate above obviously isn't a precise accounting, but when you're paying doctors, trainers, massage therapists, and various specialists (NFL trainer Jamal Liggin and trainer to the stars Colt Colletti among them) to keep you in top shape, the expenses pile up.

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Beckham says he's inspired by the longevity of Tom Brady's career in football, and that he wants to stay in the game at least as long. The actions he's taken obviously aren't just financial, either — his diet is about 80 percent vegetables, he focuses on flexibility rather than strength exercises, and he says he goes to sleep at 8:30 PM every night, all in the name of dedication to physical longevity.

Fortunately for Beckham, his dedication is more likely to run out than his money, thanks to a $90 million contract and plenty of lucrative endorsements, all of which add up to dropping $300,000 or so in between NFL seasons can be seen as an investment in his most important asset. And it's working, as he says in the episode:

"I feel like next year I'll be even better."

Optimism doesn't hurt when you're trying to stay fit, either.

Read more: Odell Beckham Jr. Says He Spends More Than $300K Taking Care Of His Body In The Offseason