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Roman Polanski Net Worth
Rajmund Roman Liebling's Net Worth as of 2024
$45 Million
Rajmund Roman Thierry Polanski was born as on the 18th August 1933, in Paris, France, and is a French-Polish film director, actor, producer, and writer, best known for his films “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968), “Chinatown” (1974), and “The Pianist” (2002). Polanski is one of the most acclaimed directors of our time, and has won numerous awards including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and three BAFTA Awards. Polanski’s career started in 1954.
Have you ever wondered how rich Roman Polanski is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Roman Polanski’s net worth is as high as $45 million, an amount earned through his successful career in cinema. In addition to being highly-rated director and writer, Polanski has also worked as an actor and producer which improved his wealth.
Roman Polanski Net Worth $45 Million
Roman Polanski was born a son of Ryszard Polanski, a painter and manufacturer of sculptures, and Bula. His father was Jewish from Poland and mother half-Jewish from Russia. The family moved to Krakow from Paris in 1936 and stayed there during the WWII. Polanski managed to escape and find shelter with Polish Roman-Catholic family, while his father was sent to concentration camp Mauthausen in Austria, and his mother to Auschwitz where she died.
Roman developed an interest in the cinema from an early age and often went to see movies with his parents before the war started. He later went to the National Film School in Łódź and began his acting career in Andrzej Wajda’s movie “Pokolenie (A Generation)” in 1955. He later acted in such films as “Zaczarowany rower” (1955), “Wraki” (1957), “Koniec nocy” (1957), “Speed” (1959), ‘Do widzenia, do jutra…” (1960), ‘Innocent Sorcerers” (1960), and “Samson” (1961).
Polanski had his debut as a writer and director in 1955, but these were mainly short films. However, in 1962, his first feature film “Knife in the Water” saw the light, and was immediately noticed in Hollywood, winning an Oscar for Best Foreign Movie. It was also nominated for a BAFTA and won the FIPRESCI Prize at Venice Film Festival. The movie was Polanski’s breakthrough, and he would later make several classics. He spent more time directing and writing, but also had some acting roles, usually in his own movies.
In 1965, Polanski wrote and directed “Repulsion” starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, and John Fraser. The “Cul-De-Sac” (1966) with Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, and Lionel Stander was his next film, and later he directed, wrote, and starred in “The Fearless Vampire Killers” (1967). In 1968, Polanski wrote and directed the masterpiece “Rosemary’s Baby” starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, and Ruth Gordon, which won an Oscar and Golden Globe, and significantly improved Polanski’s net worth as well as reputation.
In the ’70’s, Polanski filmed “Macbeth” (1971) with Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, and Martin Shaw, and the blockbuster “Chinatown” (1974) starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston, which was Polanski’s highest-rated to date, and won an Oscar with ten more nominations, won five Golden Globes, and three BAFTA’s. He later continued with “The Tenant” (1976) in which he starred with Isabelle Adjani and Melvyn Douglas, and “Tesa” (1979) starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, and Leigh Lawson, which won three Oscars, two Golden Globes, and a BAFTA.
Polanski had problems with authorities concerning an alleged sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey in 1977, and since 50 years in prison was the sentence that waited him, he decided to get out of USA and go to London and later France, where he currently resides. Since he’s France’s citizen, he cannot be extradited, but during the 80’s and 90’s he made fewer movies than usual. However, he filmed “Pirates” (1986), “Frantic” (1989) starring Harrison Ford, “Bitter Moon” (1992) with Hugh Grant, “Death and the Maiden” (1994) starring Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, and Stuart Wilson, and “The Ninth Gate” (1999) with Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, and Lena Olin, all adding to his net worth..
These movies weren’t very successful, but Polanski managed to get back into the stars with his film “The Pianist” (2002) starring Adrien Brody, which won three Oscars including for Best Director, but Polanski couldn’t receive his only Academy Award, being a fugitive from US justice; Harrison Ford took it on his behalf. It also additionally improved his net worth.
Polanski later directed “Oliver Twist” (2005), “The Ghost Writer” (2010) starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, and Olivia Williams, “Carnage” (2011) with Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, and Christoph Waltz, and “Venus in Fur” (2013) starring Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric. Most recently, Polanski is filming a drama called “Based on a True Story” that will come out in 2018.
Regarding his personal life, Roman Polanski was married to Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass from 1959 to 1962. His second wife was the late Sharon Tate from 1968 to her death in 1969, when members of Charles Manson’s “family” broke into her home and stabbed her to death. Polanski’s third wife is Emmanuelle Seigner, since 1989.
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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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Paul Heyman Net Worth
Paul Heyman was born on 11 September 1965, in Westchester County, New York City USA, and is an entertainment producer, performer, marketing guru, and a businessman. In particular, he is a vital member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (a.k.a. the WWE). Heyman’s versatility has made a great impact on his net worth.
So just how rich is Paul Heyman? The latest information from authoritative sources as of mid-2016, estimates that Paul’s net worth is over $10 million, accumulated during his working life now spanning 30 years.
Paul Heyman’s Net Worth $10 Million
Paul was born into the Jewish family of personal injury attorney Richard, and Sulamita Heyman, actually a holocaust survivor. At 11 he started his first business attempt, selling celebrity and sports memorabilia. His educational background comes from Suny Purchase, New York, and Westchester Community College, where he was also employed as a radio station host and later a producer, and was famous/notorious even then for his bold, controversial and opinionated statements.While still a teenager, Heyman hustled his way as a photo journalist into a World Wide Wrestling Federation event at Madison Square Garden, and was paid by the company for several photos he had taken. This is considered as a first step into his later career, and which talent he expanded into the creation of a wrestling magazine “The Wrestling Times Magazine“, and wrote for wrestling publications such as “Pro Wrestling Illustrated”.
Paul then successively worked for Capitol Wrestling Corporation, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling, in various guises including promoter, producer, trainer, and manager, and then with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as a commentator and broadcaster from the turn of the century. Additionally, he is also the manager of such famous wrestlers as Brock Lesnar and a group of wrestlers called Paul Heyman Guys. The training career income is considered to be one of the main flows into Heyman’s account as well.
Paul Heyman pursues a separate career as a businessman as well, as he has also co-founded and co-owns a branding and advertising marketing firm The Looking4Larry Agency, based in New York City. The company is mostly known for its activities in viral video production as well as social media marketing. Heyman employed award winning NYC ad executive Mitchell K. Stuart of HQ-Creative Services and their very first client was EA Sports. After successful viral campaigns with EA, The Looking4Larry Agency became the agency of record for THQ video games, where Heyman and Stuart wrote, directed, and produced viral videos for THQ games such as All Stars, WWE ’12, and WWE ’13.
Heyman also launched a multimedia project called The Heyman Hustle, featuring a video of him interacting with celebrities from several areas of entertainment on the streets of New York City, and articles about professional wrestling.
Additionally, Heyman was cast by producer Michael Tadross as “Gino” in the film adaptation of the off-Broadway show “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding”, and Heyman also made a cameo appearance in the WWE Studios film, “Countdown”.
In his personal life, Paul Heyman married Maria, but is reputed to be raising their two children as a single father. There is little other private information available to the media.
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