Early Life and Education Maye Musk was born as Maye Haldeman on April 19, 1948 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada to Winnifred and Joshua, the latter a chiropractor, aviator, and politician. She has a twin sister named Kaye, plus three other siblings. In 1950, the family moved to Pretoria, South Africa, and for over ten years spent time searching for the fabled Lost City of the Kalahari in the Kalahari Desert. Musk had the first taste of her future modeling career in 1969, when she became a finalist in the Miss South Africa beauty pageant....

He needed three years to turn the company around, selling it for £1.3 million. His second significant acquisition was the Hawley-Goodall, after which many other followed. Aside from his business, Michael Ashcroft has also served as the Conservative Party’s treasurer and its deputy chairman. Not being on good terms with the media, he won a court fight against U.K.’s Independent newspaper, suing it for libel in 2009. He has a rare collection of 180 Victoria and George crosses, the highest honor Britain grants to its military and honorary civilians....

Franzese was indicted on 14 counts of racketeering, counterfeiting, and extortion from the gasoline bootlegging racket in 1986 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and $14 million in restitution. Michael was released in 1989, but he was sentenced to four years in 1991 for violating probation and was released in 1994. Franzese is the founder and chairman of the Breaking Out Foundation and is a motivational speaker. He has published the books “Quitting the Mob” (1992), “Blood Covenant” (2003), “The Good, the Bad and the Forgiven” (2009), “I’ll Make You an Offer You Can’t Refuse” (2011), “From the Godfather to God the Father” (2014), and “Mafia Democracy” (2022)....

If you’re reading this in the western hemisphere, there’s a chance you won’t know what was so special about this $91,000 serial number. It was “66,” a number that is twice as lucky as 6 in Chinese numerology, and thus a hot item for eager online bidders for the phone – more than 92,000 of them, to be more precise. Together, they all managed to raise the price of this otherwise insignificant smartphone to a price that more than doubles the price for the previous most expensive Iron Man Galaxy phone, an S6 that somehow went for around $35,000....

He played on the album There Is Nothing Left to Lose in 1999. Foo Fighters released the album One by One in 2002 which reached #1 in the UK and #3 in the US. They released the successful albums In Your Honor in 2005 and Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace in 2007. Foo Fighters released the album Wasting Light in 2011 which reached #1 in several countries including the US....

Early Life Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on October 5, 1958, in Manhattan, New York City. His mother, Sunchita, worked as a gerontologist for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and his father, Cyril (who passed away in 2016), was a sociologist, human resource commissioner, and Director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited. Neil grew up in Tyson Hill and Riverdale with brother Stephen and sister Lynn and has been interested in astronomy since the age of 9 when he began spending time at the Hayden Planetarium....

Early Life and Musical Beginnings Born on May 8, 1951, in Denver, Colorado, Philip Bailey grew up in a household where music was always present. His early exposure to gospel music in church laid the foundation for his musical sensibilities. As a young man, Bailey studied music at the University of Colorado, focusing on drums and percussion before discovering his exceptional vocal talents. In the late 1960s, Bailey performed with local R&B bands in Denver, including Friends & Love....

Early Life Porter Wagoner was born on August 12, 1927 in West Plains, Missouri as the fifth and last child of Bertha and Charles. Career Beginnings Wagoner began his music career with the band the Blue Ridge Boys, performing on the radio station KWPM-AM from a butcher shop in West Plains. After that, in 1951, he began performing on KWTO in Springfield, Missouri. This eventually resulted in a record contract with RCA Victor....

Ray Lankford was born in Los Angeles, California in June 1967. He was a center fielder and left fielder who batted and threw left handed. Ray’s uncle Carl Nichols was a professional baseball player. Lankford made his Major League Baseball debut for the St. Louis Cardinals in August 1990. He played for the Cardinals from 1990 until 2001. Lankford joined the San Diego Padres from 2001 to 2002 before finishing his career back with the Cardinals in 2004....

Flicker graduated from Monmouth University and has been working as a matchmaker for over 20 years. Her book Write Your Own Fairy Tale was published in 2015. Flicker has a weekly podcast called Just Sayin’ along with Sammi Sweetheart and Clare Galterio. She has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Mob Wives: The Sit Down, Good Afternoon America, Big Morning Buzz Live, Project Runway, Project Runway All Stars, Fox and Friends, Today, Steve Harvey, Dr....

According to WABC in New York, Bookman isn’t really in a laugh-it-off kind of mood about the mistake, especially since Resorts World Casino, where the malfunction happened, ended up deciding to offer her nothing more than a free steak dinner. In video taken by Bookman’s partner, viewers can see the chaos that erupted around her after the machine made its faulty display. She was whisked off the floor by casino security and told to come back the next day for a ruling on the incident, which ended up being not in her favor....

It’s almost like a charitable variant of the famous McDonald’s “millions sold” counter on some of their signs, and for Benedict it’s a way to not just create an “an atmosphere of generosity where everyone is welcome,” but also a tip of the hat to demographics not normally catered to by successful restaurants: the elderly and military veterans. Those demographics also represent the majority of Benedict’s charitable giving, including most recently the funding of an honor flight to Washington, DC for 47 veterans....

She traveled around France and appeared on television programs. In 1998 she first appeared on television as herself in the series Fort Boyard and Une famille en or. In 1999 she started co-hosting Telefoot and did so for three seasons. She co-hosted Y’as pas photo, Les Petits Princes, Combien ca coute?, Le betisier du sport, Vous pouvez repeter la question?, Le matin de Diane, Sophie club, J’ai aime un cheval, and Ch’val dire a Sophie....

Fittingly given its current film-loving owner, the first of those amenities mentioned in the brief description on the Seven Seas’ listing on yacht sale site Yacht Harbor is its “large cinema” and “several large televisions.” The listing goes on: “Seven Seas is a 86.00m (282.15 ft) luxury motor yacht. She was built by Oceanco in 2010 making the yacht 5 years old. With a beam of 14.02m and a draft of 3....

Early Life and Education T’Keyah Crystal Keymáh was born as Crystal Walker on October 13, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois to Chicago State University student Arlene and state police trooper William. When Keymáh was two years old, her mother passed away, and she was subsequently raised by her maternal grandparents Mary and Carneil. As a teenager, she attended Academy of Our Lady, graduating in 1981. Keymáh went on to attend Florida A&M University, where she studied business....

The Palm Beach Daily News reported at the time that the 12,483-square-foot, 11-bedroom mansion is located just over a half mile from the area’s Palm Beach Country Club. Here’s how the mansion was described in its official marketing materials from Sotheby’s International Realty: “Quite possibly the most romantic period oceanfront mansion available in Palm Beach today, held by the same family since it’s design by Addison Mizner in 1919. One of the last Great Houses of Palm Beach, a legend of architectural and historic significance....

Terry Gou founded the multinational electronics contract manufacturing company Hon Hai, better known as Foxconn, in 1974, and he previously served as the company’s chairman and CEO. The company has grown into the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer. Gou’s factories, which produce popular gadgets like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Xbox, PlayStation and the Wii, amass around 40% of the world’s consumer electronic products, but at a high cost, i.e., under serious allegations of unfair and unsafe labor practices....

However, times are a-changing and in today’s world, hitting the millionaire mark is just what it used to be. According to a 2016 survey from the US Federal Reserve, nearly 15 million U.S. households have over a million dollars in net worth. If that figure is adjusted for inflation, there are now just over 9.1 million households that would have been millionaires back in 1995. According to recent research by New York University economist Edward Wolff, there was little growth in the ranks of millionaires in the decade prior to 1995....

There is no standard per-carat price for diamonds, as each one is valued by market forces and more vague qualities, like the beauty and “illusion” of the diamond itself. Consequently, the CEO of mining company Lucara, William Lamb, was unable to attach a specific price to the huge rock. Some reports have come in placing the diamond’s value in the neighborhood of $60 million, and Lamb himself said in an interview with CNN Money that he’d already gotten an offer via email to buy the gem for $40 million....

Wait, what was that last part? Twilight fan? Yup. That wasn’t a typo. Believe it or not, E.L. James (working under the pen name “Snowqueen’s Icedragon”) wrote the earliest version of “Fifty Shades” as Twilight Fan Fiction that was published to a series of Twilight fan pages. The early versions, which were totally free to download in the beginning, received equal amounts of praise and hatred for containing lots of over-the-top graphic sex scenes between Bella and Edward....