Celebrities
Bobby Knight Net Worth
Bobby Knight's Net Worth as of 2024
$15 Million
Robert Montgomery Knight, also known as “The General”, was born on the 25th October 1940 in Massillon, Ohio, USA, and is a former basketball coach, probably best recognized for being a head coach of four college teams, as well as the USA Men’s Olympic Team. He is also known for having over 900 career wins, and three national titles with Indiana University. His career was active from 1962 to 2008.
So, have you ever wondered how rich Bobby Knight is? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Knight’s net worth is over $15 million as of early 2017, accumulated through his successful involvement in the sports industry. Other sources are coming from his autobiographical book, and appearing in several film titles.
Bobby Knight Net Worth $15 Million
Bobby Knight was raised in his hometown as a single child by his parents Pat and Hazel Knight. At a young age, he showed interest for various sports and became a talented multisport athlete. He was a star basketball player while he attended Orrville High School, and continued playing basketball at Ohio State University, being a reserve player but still a key contributor in their winning of the 1960 NCAA Championship. He graduated with a BA degree in History and Government in 1962, and in the same year his career as a coach began.
Bobby went on to work as an assistant coach at Cuyahoga Falls High School, and subsequently at the United States Military Academy (Army), then In 1965, he became the youngest varsity basketball head coach in the history of NCAA. His unique coaching philosophy – one which put the accent on disciplined, unselfish plays in the offense and relentless lockdown in defense – proved immensely successful and this marked the beginning of an increase of his net worth.
In 1971, he began coaching at Indiana University, where he would win three championship titles – in 1976, 1981 and 1987 over the span of 29 years as a head coach of The Hoosiers, increasing further his net worth. Beside that, he also won the Big Ten championship several times. However, his infamous temperamental behavior and alleged verbal and physical abuse of players and university employees led to many controversies and eventual dismissal of Knight from the position of head coach in 2000.
However, Knight was also head coach of the United States Pan American team in Puerto Rico in 1979, winning the gold medal, and in 1984 he coached the USA Men’s Basketball Team to the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
In 2001, he signed as the head coach at Texas Tech University, which added a considerable amount to his net worth. It didn’t take him long to get the Red Raiders into shape and achieve similar success and fame with his new team, going on to win 20 games in four consecutive seasons, which had never been done before in school history, including in 2005 advancing to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. In January 2007, Knight broke the record for the most wins by a men’s basketball coach in Division I history, by surpassing Dean Smith with his 880th career victory. In 2008, he made the decision to retire, ending his career with a record of 902 wins and 371 losses.
Thanks to his accomplishments in the sports industry, Knight received a number of awards and honors, including four National Coach of the Year awards, eight Big Ten Coach of the Year awards, and a Naismith Coach of the Year award, among many others. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.
Since his retirement, Knight has served as a studio analyst and a part-time commentator with ESPN. In 2009, together with Championship Productions he produced three instructional coaching DVD libraries concerning some of the cornerstones of his coaching philosophy. Additionally, Knight published an autobiography entitled “Knight: My Story” in 2003, which he wrote together with Bob Hammel. Beside this, he has appeared in a couple of films and television productions. His net worth is certainly rising.
In his personal life, Bobby Knight has been married to Karen Vieth Edgar, a former Oklahoma High School basketball coach, since 1988. Previously, he was married to Nancy Falk (1963-1985), with whom he has two sons, one of whom, Pat Knight, is a head coach at Texas Tech and Lamar University.
Celebrities
Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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