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Laura Dekker Net Worth
Laura Dekkers's Net Worth as of 2024
$500 Thousand
Laura Dekker was born on 20 September 1995, in Whangarei, New Zealand, of Dutch and German descent. Laura is a sailor, best known for being the youngest person to sail around the world solo. Her trip took almost two years, and this effort has helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Laura Dekker? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $500,000, mostly earned after her solo circumnavigation success. She’s been featured in news all over the world, and has written a book about her experience. She’s also appeared in numerous events, and as she continues her career her wealth will likely increase.
Laura Dekker Net Worth $500,000
Laura spent a lot of her early life at sea, often joining her father in sailing to various countries. She eventually learned to sail on her own and was given several boats to use. During her teens, she started to take more adventurous trips, for example joining her father in a 24-hour sailing race. She also went on a 6-week sailing tour accompanied only by her dog. The success of her trip prompted her to take a loan from her father to buy her own Hurley 700 boat which she used to cruise the Netherlands during a summer vacation.
In 2008, Dekker started plans for a round-the-world tour, and her father eased her into the open ocean by giving her the goal of sailing to England. The solo trip alarmed local authorities because of her age, but she was able to complete the trip.
The following year, Laura announced through a national newspaper named “Algemeen Dagblad” that she would be travelling around the world in a span of two years. Her father supported the plan, and both of them made the necessary preparations for long distance solo sailing. The plan was to make 26 stops during the trip with some locations having support teams. She also continued her education through self-learning modules from the Wereldschool institution and started her trip in August 2010.
The local authorities first objected her trip because of her age and the fact that she was still under parental custody. The issue would go on and gain international attention, but eventually the Dutch court decided that the issue would be up to her parents and released supervision in July 2010. She then started sailing from the Netherlands the following month, and her first stop would be to Portugal. However this was not part of the solo circumnavigation as her father accompanied her to help prepare the boat. Her trip would finally begin from Lisbon.
She departed from Portugal and arrived at Lanzarote a few days later, staying there because of the hurricane season, and then departing in November to Cape Verde. She sailed to Sint Maarten in December, reaching Simpson Bay Lagoon after 17 days. Afterwards, she would depart in January towards the Carribean, visiting various islands such as Dominica and Bonaire. She then took a short flight back home to speak at various events, as her popularity was increasing significantly. In April 2011, she was able to sail through the Panama Canal, and near the end of the month she reached the Galapagos Islands, then departing towards Hiva Oa which took 18 days in the open sea. In June, she went on a seven day journey to Tahiti, and on to reach Vava’u, Tonga. In the middle of July she reached Fiji, and in early August she headed towards Australia through one of the toughest parts of her journey. She departed from Darwin on 25 September and then reached South Africa by November 12. She continued her passage through South Africa, eventually passing around the Cape of Good Hope and reaching Cape Town by 12 December. She finally reached home on 21 January 2012, completing her journey.
For her personal life, it is known that she married Daniel Thielman in May 2015.
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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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Pontius Pilatus
February 28, 2017 at 4:48 pm
Laura is absolutely likeable! Busy, diligent, brave; a serene person, likes to be with children; sportive, enjoys to make music. – I´m glad, her and her husbands Daniels ways crossed. They very well fit to each other. – And Laura is modest: In her blog about the 14th of October 2011 she wrote about waves, 6 m high, very steep. “Until now I had never worried about Guppy being knocked down by waves but it certainly can happen here!” On enquiry she explained, 6 m was the average height of the waves, some had 12 (or more) m. – In 2013 she got an “Award of Merit” by the international “Ocean Cruising Club”. Many of her fans know about this only, because one fan, very likely a sailor, congratulated her to this in her guestbook. – Best blesses to her, hers and all!