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Michael Andretti Net Worth
Michael Andretti's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million
Michael Mario Andretti was born on the 5th October 1962, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania USA, and is a former racing driver, best known for driving Formula One with McLaren and also as one of the greatest CART drivers with 42 wins. Since retiring from the tracks, Michael owns an IndyCar team as well as a team in the FIA Formula E Championship. Being a successful driver and running his teams has significantly improved his net worth. Andretti’s driving career lasted from 1980 to 2007.
Have you ever wondered how rich Michael Andretti is, as of mid-2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Michael’s net worth is as high as $20 million, earned through his successful career as both a driver and racing team owner.
Michael Andretti Net Worth $20 Million
Michael Andretti was born to Mario Andretti, a legendary racing driver, and Dee Ann. He is from a family of successful drivers; his father competed in Formula 1, CART and NASCAR, his brother Jeff Andretti competed in IndyCar, his uncle Aldo was an open wheel racer while Aldo’s son John Andretti raced in both IndyCar and Nascar. Michael’s son Marco is following the steps of his father, and began racing in 2005.
Michael’s career started in 1980 when he obtained an SCCA National License; he won the SCCA’s Northeast Division Formula Ford championship in 1981. A year later, Andretti clinched the Robert Bosch US Formula Super Vee Championship and then moved to drive in Formula Atlantic. His debut in CART came in 1983 with the Kraco Enterprises team, and he finished in 7th position in his rookie season, winning the Rookie of the Year award.
Andretti won his first IndyCar race in 1986 in Long Beach at the Toyota Grand Prix but finished second overall behind Bobby Rahal for two consecutive seasons in 1986 and 1987. Nevertheless, this success certainly increased his net worth by a large margin. In 1989, Michael changed teams, and went to compete with Newman/Haas Racing, finishing the 1990 season as a runner-up again. He finally won his only title in the 1991 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, increasing further his net worth; this time around Rahal finished second.
However, it was the same old story in 1992; after having a great season, Andretti lost the title to Rahal by only four points, after which he decided to move to Formula 1, and a former F1 champion Nigel Mansell took his place in Newman/Hass Racing team. In his debut F1 season in 1993, Andretti competed in a Marlboro McLaren and his partner was the famous Ayrton Senna. He drove Ford HBD V8 powered MP4/8, but managed to finish in the points on only three occasions, and Andretti left the team by mutual agreement with just three races remaining in the season.
Andretti returned to Indy Car racing where he stayed until 2003, retiring as the third most successful driver with 42 wins, behind only his father Mario with 52 wins, and A.J. Foyt with 67 wins. He now owns the Andretti Autosport team racing and acts as both owner and team strategist.
Andretti was inducted into National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2002, and also in Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2008 and Indianapolis Speedway’s Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2012, among others awards.
Regarding his personal life, Michael Andretti was married to Sandra Spinozzi from 1985 to 1996, and the pair has two children together. His second wife was Leslie Wood(1997-2004) and has a son Luca with her. In 2006, Michael married former Miss Oregon Teen USA 1994 Jodi Ann Paterson, and they have twins.
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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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