Billionaires

Janet Jackson Officially Joins The Billionaires Club

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:46:44 GMT

Source: www.seattlepi.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Janet Jackson Officially Joins The Billionaires Club Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 7:33 am, Thursday, May 23, 2013 According to Variety, the singer's big bank account is thanks to decades in the music and acting business. Jackson reportedly earned $458 million from her concert tours, $304 million from acting, $260 million in album sales and over $81 million from sponsorships and licensing fees. ...

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Thu, 23 May 2013 19:40:40 GMT

Source: www.thereformedbroker.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Janet Jackson Joins Billionaire Husband Wissam in ‘Billionaires Club’

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:25:09 GMT

Source: www.popularcritic.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Janet Jackson Joins Billionaire Husband Wissam in ‘Billionaires Club’ Janet Jackson has joined the exclusive Billionaires club thanks to her mega-successful albums, tours and acting roles, Variety reports. According to the publication, Jackson has raked in a total of $260 million in album sales thanks to her hit albums “Control” (1986), “Janet” (1993) and “Rhythm Nation” 1814 (1989), and another $81 million off music and publishing fees. Her sold-out world tours have earned her another $458 million, with an additional $81.5 million coming from tour sponsorships and licensing fees. And let’s not forget that Jackson is an actress too — her roles in “The Nutty Professor,” “The Klumps,” “Poetic Justice” and “For Colored Girls” has banked her a whopping $304 million. Though Jackson of course isn’t the only billionaire in her marriage — her husband, retail entrepreneur Wissam Al Mana (whom she married last year in a private ceremony), is a billionaire all on his own. Jackson joins the exclusive list of celebrity Billionaires which includes Madonna, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey. Source: Wonderwall Popular Critic - Entertainment News & Lifestyle Her Way ...

Janet Jackson joins billionaires’ club

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:00 GMT

Source: www.iol.co.za --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
The star has entered the league of the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and J.K. Rowling. ||| London - Janet Jackson has become a billionaire. The 'Rhythm Nation' hitmaker has hit a lofty milestone, with her personal wealth exceeding more than $1 billion this year, following an incredible career in entertainment spanning four decades, according to Variety. The 47-year-old star - whose brother, the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, also amassed a vast fortune over the course of his career - is thought to have made her windfall from years of touring, album sales and roles in movies such as 'The Nutty Professor II'. Janet reportedly made $458 million from various concert tours, a further $304 million from movie roles - including the Eddie Murphy comedy and Tyler Perry's box office hit, 'For Colored Girls' - as well as $268 million in album sales and $81 million in endorsement and sponsorship deals. The famous Jackson sibling joins an elite club of celebrity Billionaires including talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, legendary film director Steven Spielberg and 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling. As well as her own fortune, Janet shares the wealth of her billionaire tycoon husband Wissam Al Mana. The 'Control' singer secretly wed the retail magnate, who earned his fortune investing in the Middle East, last year. Although Janet's career has put her musical career on the backburner in recent years, the singer is planning a comeback t ...

Janet Jackson Joins The Billionaires' Club

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:21:50 GMT

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
After four decades of working in the entertainment industry, Janet Jackson is reportedly now a billionaire . Multiple outlets report that Variety tallied up the 47-year-old's earnings over the years and found that Jackson is now a card-carrying billionaire. According to E! News, the multi-talented performer reportedly earned $458 million from her concert tours ; $304 million from her roles in films including, "The Nutty Professor" and "For Colored Girls"; $260 million in album sales; and netted more than $81 million from sponsorship deals. In addition to pulling in huge amounts of money over the course of her career, Jackson is also married to a fellow billionaire. In February, the "Together Again" singer admitted she had secretly tied the knot with Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana. Rumors that the two were planning to marry started soon after the couple began dating in 2010, and Jackson even went on "Good Morning America" in October 2010 to deny the reports, before finally opening up about their secret marriage. "The rumors regarding an extravagant wedding are simply not true. Last year we were married in a quiet, private, and beautiful ceremony," the couple said in a joint statement to "Entertainment Tonight" in February . "Our wedding gifts to one another were contributions to our respective favorite children’s charities. We would appreciate that our privacy is respected and that we are allowed this time for celebration and j ...

Guitars, Eccentric Billionaires, and Space Travel

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:48:29 GMT

Source: www.strike-the-root.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
Guitars, Eccentric Billionaires, and Space Travel Space travel, once the domain of Russian dogs and astronaut golfers, is being taken over by private enterprise and entertainment moguls. And it's fabulous news. ...

Janet Jackson joins the billionaires club!

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:55:20 GMT

Source: whynotcoconut.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
If we are going to count all of Janet Jackson ‘s earnings from her mega-successful albums, tours and acting roles, it would all add up to billions! And that qualifies her to be in the Billionaires club. Let us all see below: Jackson has raked in a total of $260 million in album sales thanks to her hit albums “Control” (1986), “Janet” (1993) and “Rhythm Nation” 1814 (1989), and another $81 million off music and publishing fees. Her sold-out world tours have earned her another $458 million, with an additional $81.5 million coming from tour sponsorships and licensing fees. And her earnings as an actress in “The Nutty Professor,” “The Klumps,” “Poetic Justice” and “For Colored Girls” has banked her a whopping $304 million. Now that she’s happily married (to businessman Wissam Al Mana), she’s ready to get back in the studio. Jackson recently revealed in an interview on her next venture: “I am working on a new project now. We are creating the concept and initial thoughts on the music.” ...

Janet Jackson Joins Billionaires Club

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:10:34 GMT

Source: www.ibtimes.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Janet Jackson has just joined a very exclusive club. The 47-year-old singer, who is the second most famous member of the Jackson family (next only to late brother Michael, of course), is now a billionaire. ...

Our annual snapshot of the 100 top politicians and CEOs, activist billionaires a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:26:11 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Our annual snapshot of the 100 top politicians and CEOs, activist Billionaires and celebrities, next gen entrepreneurs and philanthropists who matter most: http://bit.ly/10LOYvc ...

Swiss billionaires buy Merck Serono HQ for biotech campus

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:53:57 GMT

Source: www.reuters.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli has bought back the Geneva headquarters of his former biotech firm Serono, hoping to establish a biotech research campus. ...

"“There are fifty or so billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires in Silicon Valley.” Think..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:00 GMT

Source: bryce.vc --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
“ “There are fifty or so Billionaires and tens of thousands of millionaires in Silicon Valley.” Think about that for a second: tens of thousands of millionaires, almost all them created by companies that didn’t exist two decades ago. The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees. Before companies like Fairchild and Hewlett-Packard began the practice fifty years ago, distributing stock options to anyone other than top management was virtually unheard of. But the engineering tradition that spawned Silicon Valley was much more egalitarian than traditional corporate culture. ” - Steven Johnson ...

10 Most Eccentric Millionaires and Billionaires

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:26:59 GMT

Source: realitypod.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Money makes the world go round, its what makes us work late hours, work hard and do everything that we possibly can to earn as much as we can. We all want a life free of worries, sitting by the pool sipping pinacoladas with Ferraris parked in our garage. Some lucky people do get to [...] ...

This contest pits hedge-fund billionaires against service workers making $11,000...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:20:25 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
This contest pits hedge-fund Billionaires against service workers making $11,000 a year. Worth more than a Giant zero bit.ly Concession workers at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, have voted to strike after three years without a raise. ...

Bill Gates back to being the top dog leading the pack of billionaires

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:55:00 GMT

Source: feeds.luxury-insider.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Six years after being knocked off the top spot, Bill Gates reclaims his seat as the world’s richest man with a total worth of a whopping US$73.5 billion. Carlos Slim trails closely behind with US$70 billion. Read the rest of the story at: Bill Gates back to being the top dog leading the pack of Billionaires ...

Coastal Commission investigating billionaires wedding plans

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:41:09 GMT

Source: www.ksbw.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Plans for a $10 million dollar wedding in Big Sur next month could be disrupted by a coastal commission investigation. ...

Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows Why

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:12:27 GMT

Source: evilofindifference.wordpress.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
“Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of Billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast. Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of “disappointing performance” in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods. In the latest filing for Buffett’s holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in “consumer product stocks” by 21%. Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel. With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett’s apparent lack of faith in these companies’ future prospects is worrisome. Unfortunately Buffett isn’t alone.” Via Alt Market ...

Mother Jones: Billionaires Now Own American Politics

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:05:58 GMT

Source: campaignmoney.tumblr.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
Mother Jones: Billionaires Now Own American Politics : Dark money is already shaping the 2016 race as motivated megadonors handpick the candidates and the issues. ...

Billionaires Now Own American Politics

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:06 GMT

Source: www.motherjones.com --- Monday, May 20, 2013
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no limit to the amount of money you can give to elect your friends and allies to political office, to defeat those with whom you disagree, to shape or stunt or kill policy, and above all to influence the tone and content of political discussion in this country. Today, politics is a rich man's game. Look no further than the 2012 elections and that season's biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul Sheldon Adelson . He and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first giving $16.5 million in an effort to make Newt Gingrich the Republican presidential nominee. Once Gingrich exited the race, the Adelsons invested more than $30 million in electing Mitt Romney. They donated millions more to support GOP candidates running for the House and Senate, to block a pro-union measure in Michigan, and to bankroll the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other conservative stalwarts (which waged their own campaigns mostly to help Republican candidates for Congress). All told, the Adelsons donated $94 million during the 2012 cycle—nearly four times the previous record set by liberal financier George Soros. And ...

Forbes Greatest Hits: Billionaires' Oprah, Zuckerberg and more offer their best...

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:52:07 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Sunday, May 19, 2013
Forbes Greatest Hits: Billionaires' Oprah, Zuckerberg and more offer their best tips and advice for recent grads: http://bit.ly/15Z3Zmb ...

Billionaires Betray Americans’ Trust for Profit

Sun, 19 May 2013 05:00:28 GMT

Source: takeactionnews.com --- Saturday, May 18, 2013
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