Marco "Little Marco" Rubio is a Republican politician and lawyer who has a net worth of $400 thousand. Marco Rubio served as the senior United States senator from Florida since 2011. Previously, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, and unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Among his political positions, Rubio opposes women's rights, gun control, and affordable health care, and denies the reality of climate change.

Financial Problems

Between 1998 and 2008 Marco earned $2.38 million from his law career and House salary. Unfortunately, he did not save very much of this income.

When he was first elected to the House in 2000, he literally reported to have a net worth of ZERO. According to his 2009 financial statement, at that time Marco reported his net worth to be negative $37,000. His finances were being pressured under various student debt and multiple mortgages. At one point a property he owned in Tallahassee was facing foreclosure after he reportedly did not make a mortgage payment for five months. He sold this home at an $18,000 loss in 2015.

In 2012 he earned an $800,000 advance to publish a biography.

In the following years after earning the advance, Marco splurged on a number of frivolous purchases, notably an $80,000 speed boat.

His 2018 financial statement estimated his net worth had fallen all the way down to negative $1.3 million.

Early Life and Education

Marco Rubio was born on May 28, 1971 in Miami, Florida as the third child of Cuban immigrants Oriales and Mario, who had come to the United States in 1956 prior to the Cuban Revolution. He has an older brother named Mario Jr. and an older sister named Barbara, as well as a younger sister named Veronica. Rubio spent part of his childhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, where his father worked as a bartender and his mother as a housekeeper. Back in Miami, he attended South Miami Senior High School, from which he graduated in 1989. Rubio went on to attend Tarkio College in Missouri for a year before transferring to Santa Fe Community College in Florida. He then attended the University of Florida, from which he graduated with his BA in political science in 1993. Rubio subsequently enrolled at the University of Miami School of Law, earning his JD in 1996.

Career Beginnings

While he was still in law school, Rubio interned for US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Two years after graduating from law school, he was elected to a seat as city commissioner for West Miami.

Florida House of Representatives

In late 1999, Rubio ran in a special election for the 111th House District in the Florida House of Representatives. Although he came in second in the Republican primary, he won the runoff election and subsequently beat Democrat Anastasia Garcia to win the seat. Rubio was reelected unopposed in late 2000, and was reelected unopposed again in 2002. He went on to be reelected to third and fourth terms in 2004 and 2006, respectively. During the final years of his tenure, from late 2006 to late 2008, Rubio served as House Speaker. In that position, he was integral in attempting to push Florida to the far political right, and often clashed with the more moderate Florida Senate.

Teaching Career

After leaving the Florida Legislature in 2008, Rubio started teaching as an adjunct professor at Florida International University under a fellowship appointment. He returned to the school in 2011 after he joined the US Senate. Rubio taught in the Department of Politics and International Relations, heading courses on Florida legislative politics.

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US Senate

In 2009, Rubio announced that he would be running for the US Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martínez. Although he initially trailed incumbent governor Charlie Crist, he ultimately overtook him and won the Republican nomination. Rubio went on to win the general election against Democrat Kendrick Meek. After suspending his failed presidential campaign in early 2016, he ran for reelection to the Senate and won a second term. Rubio was reelected to a third term in 2022 by beating Democrat Val Demings. Early in his Senate tenure, he was an influential defender of the US embargo against Cuba, and was a major proponent of the US's involvement in the military campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Meanwhile, he voted against the Budget Control Act of 2011. Later, in 2013, Rubio was part of a bipartisan group advocating for comprehensive immigration reform legislation. He also voted against an expansion of background checks for gun purchases, and voted against publishing the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.

2016 Presidential Campaign

In the spring of 2014, Rubio announced his intention to run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016; he officially launched his campaign the following year. In March of 2016, Rubio suspended his campaign after coming in second place in the primary in Florida, his home state. He later endorsed Donald Trump for president, despite having called him a con artist and "wholly unprepared to be president."

Political Positions

A conservative Republican and a hawk, Rubio prioritizes defense spending, and supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the US's military intervention in Libya in 2011. He opposes women's rights, net neutrality, and affordable health care, and denies the reality of climate change. Additionally, like other members of the GOP, Rubio opposes gun control and is in the pocket of the NRA. In regard to education, he advocates for the expansion of public charter schools and the shuttering of the federal Department of Education.

Rubio has perpetuated GOP lies about election fraud. In 2018, he claimed without evidence that Democrats were part of a conspiracy with election officials to reelect Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson to the Florida Senate. No evidence of voter fraud was found. Later, following the election of Joe Biden to the US presidency in 2020, Rubio defended Trump's choice to lie about fraud in the election. However, he eventually came around to the reality of Biden's victory and voted to certify the election results.

Personal Life

In 1998, Rubio wed former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Jeanette Dousdebes. They have four children together and reside in West Miami, Florida.

Real Estate

At one point in 2001, a year when he made $90,000, the Rubio family's spending was so out of control that Marco and his family moved into his wife's mother's house. Two years later Marco bought the mother-in-law's West Miami house for $175,000.

In 2005 he paid $550,000 for a new home in West Miami.

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Richard Blumenthal is a lawyer and Democratic politician who has a net worth of $85 million. Richard Blumenthal has consistently ranked as one of the richest members of Congress. He owes the majority of his net worth to a business empire inherited from his real estate magnate father-in-law. Richard's father-in-law Peter Malkin is the chairman of Malkin Holdings and Empire State Realty Trust, both of which own and lease office and retail space in Manhattan. The latter company owns the Empire State Building, among many other assets. Today the Malkin empire is run by his brother-in-law Scott Malkin.

Richad Blumenthal has served as the senior US senator from Connecticut since 2011. Before that, he was Attorney General of Connecticut from 1991 to 2011, and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987. Earlier in his career, Blumenthal served in the US Marine Corps Reserve and practiced private law.

Early Life and Education

Richard Blumenthal was born on February 13, 1946 in New York City to Jewish parents Jane and Martin. His father was a German immigrant, and his mother was from Nebraska. He has a brother named David who went on to become a doctor and the president of the Commonwealth Fund. As a youth, Blumenthal was educated at Riverdale Country School in the Bronx. He went on to attend Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1967. Over one of his summers, he interned as a reporter for the Washington Post in the London Bureau, and was selected for a Fiske Fellowship. This allowed him to study at both Trinity College and the University of Cambridge for one year following his graduation from Harvard. After that, Blumenthal attended Yale Law School, from which he obtained his JD in 1973.

Military Service

During the Vietnam War, Blumenthal received five draft deferments based on his education and occupation. He ended up enlisting in the US Marine Corps Reserve in 1970, and served in units in Washington, DC and Connecticut until 1976, attaining the rank of sergeant.

Career Beginnings in Law and Politics

After law school, Blumenthal passed the bar and began his professional career doing administrative and clerical work for various Washington, DC figures. He assisted Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff, Judge Jon O. Newman, and Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, among others. Blumenthal subsequently became a partner in the law firm Cummings & Lockwood, and then in Silver, Golub & Sandak. From 1977 to 1981, he served as US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. After leaving that position, Blumenthal formed and became the chair of the Citizens Crime Commission of Connecticut, a private nonprofit. He was also a volunteer counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1981 to 1986, and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987.

Attorney General of Connecticut

In 1990, Blumenthal was elected as Attorney General of Connecticut. He was reelected four more times, serving until 2011. During his tenure, Blumenthal focused on a wide variety of issues, from ameliorating interstate air pollution to cracking down on sexual predation on the Internet. He also helped lead major lawsuits against various entities and individuals, including the tobacco industry, Microsoft, the Tomasso Group, Countrywide Financial, Computer Plus Center of East Hartford, and Robin Barnes, the president and treasurer of the Village Academy charter school in New Haven. Among his other notable actions, Blumenthal led legal proceedings by the Big East football schools against the Atlantic Coast Conference, alleging that the ACC was conspiring to dismantle the Big East.

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US Senator

After US Senator Chris Dodd announced his retirement from the Senate in early 2010, Blumenthal announced he would run for Dodd's seat. He ultimately won the election in November, beating professional wrestling magnate Linda McMahon with 55% of the vote to her 43%. Following the retirement of Joe Lieberman in 2013, Blumenthal became the senior senator from Connecticut. He was reelected in 2016 with 63.2% of the vote over Republican Dan Carter, in the process becoming the first candidate ever to earn over a million votes in a statewide Connecticut election. Blumenthal was reelected again in 2022 by defeating Leora Levy.

During his tenure in the US Senate, Blumenthal has worked with Senator Mark Kirk to eliminate pensions for Congress members convicted of felonies while in office. He also partnered with Representative John Conyers Jr. to lead a group of 196 congressmen in filing a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump for violating the US Constitution's emoluments clause. In the wake of the US Capitol attack in 2021, Blumenthal called on Mike Pence to invoke the 25^th Amendment to remove Trump, whom he declared had "incited, instigated, and supported" the attack.

Political Positions

A lifelong Democrat, Blumenthal supports progressive causes. He supports women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and the rights of immigrants. Notably, he is one of Congress's most outspoken critics of arbitration clauses and class action waivers. In 2019, Blumenthal and other senators introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, which created hundreds of thousands of new child care jobs and supported universal access to high-quality preschool programs. He is also a staunch advocate of gun control.

Personal Life

In June of 1982, Blumenthal married Cynthia Malkin, the daughter of real estate investor Peter L. Malkin. She is a fellow alum of Harvard. Together, Blumenthal and Malkin have four children, including Matt, who was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 2018.

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Adam Schiff is an American politician who has a net worth of $2 million. According to his financial disclosures, in 2008 Adam Schiff's net worth was $560,000. His most recent report estimated his net worth at $2 million.

Adam Schiff is a lawyer and Democratic politician who has served as a US representative from California since 2001. Prior to that, he was a member of the California State Senate from 1996 to 2000. Schiff chaired the House Intelligence Committee from 2019 to 2023, and was previously on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Early Life and Education

Adam Schiff was born on June 22, 1960 in Framingham, Massachusetts to Jewish parents Sherrill and Edward. His mother worked in real estate, while his father sold clothing. The family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1970, and then to Alamo, California in 1972. Schiff was educated as a teen at Monte Vista High School in Danville, California, where he played soccer and was voted class salutatorian. He went on to attend Stanford University, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1982. Schiff subsequently went to Harvard Law School, from which he obtained his Juris Doctor in 1985.

Law Career

After earning his law degree, Schiff spent a year as a law clerk for Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. of the US District Court for the Central District of California. Subsequently, from 1987 to 1993, he served as an Assistant US Attorney in the office of the US Attorney for the Central District of California. In that position, Schiff gained recognition for prosecuting the case of FBI agent-turned-Soviet spy Richard Miller, who was convicted in a third trial.

California State Senate

In 1996, Schiff was elected to the California State Senate representing the state's 21^st district. During his four-year term, he chaired the Judiciary Committee and Select Committee on Juvenile Justice, as well as the Joint Committee on the Arts. Schiff created several measures that were enacted into law, including one that continued work on the Blue Line light rail extension to Pasadena. He also authored some controversial, unsuccessful measures that adopted the reactionary "tough on crime" attitude of other politicians.

US House of Representatives

In 2000, Schiff ran for the US House of Representatives, challenging Republican incumbent James E. Rogan for California's 27^th congressional district. He ultimately won, becoming only the second Democrat to represent the district since it was created in 1913. Following the 2000 census, the district was renumbered the 29^th and made substantially more Democratic, leaving Schiff few serious challengers over the ensuing years. As a result, he was reelected 11 times. The district was renumbered as the 28^th in 2010 and the 30^th in 2020, becoming only more Democratic each time.

Early in his career in the House, Schiff voted in favor of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Less controversial were his introduction of US House Resolution 106, which recognized the Armenian genocide; his formation of the bipartisan and bicameral Congressional Caucus for the Freedom of the Press; and his support of surveillance reforms, including his Telephone Metadata Reform Act. Later, in 2019, Schiff became chair of the House Intelligence Committee. In that role, he initiated an investigation into Donald Trump's connections to Russia, and was among the lead investigators in Trump's first impeachment inquiry. Schiff was subsequently appointed to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th Attack on the US Capitol.

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US Senate Campaign

In early 2023, Schiff announced his campaign for US Senate in the 2024 elections. Not long after his announcement, incumbent Dianne Feinstein announced she would not seek reelection. Feinstein soon confirmed that she would retire in early 2025.

Writing

In 2018, the New Yorker reported that Schiff was writing screenplays as a side hobby, including a murder mystery and a spy drama. He went on to publish a non-fiction book in 2021 entitled "Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could," about the harmful effects of the Trump presidency.

Personal Life

Schiff married his wife, tennis player Eve Sanderson, in 1995. Together, they have two children named Lexi and Elijah and reside in Burbank, California.

An endurance athlete, Schiff has participated in many marathons and triathlons. In 2010, he was the only US representative to compete in the inaugural Washington, DC triathlon. Since then, he has participated in races in several other cities, including the AIDS/LifeCycle charity bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

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Newt Gingrich is a Republican politician who has a net worth of $12 million. According to his own financial disclosure in 2006, at that time Newt Gingrich's net worth was $2.4 million. In 2011, when he was a candidate for President, Newt reported his net worth to be $6.7 million. The majority of his net worth comes from a "multi-million-dollar promissory note from the Gingrich Group, LLC to Gingrich Productions, Inc., entities that are part of Gingrich's eponymous network of nonprofit and for-profit organizations." The value range he gave in 2011 for that promissory note was $5 to $25 million.

Newt Gingrich served as the Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999, and as the US representative for Georgia's 6^th congressional district from 1979 until 1999. In 2012, he unsuccessfully ran for the Republican presidential nomination.

Early Life and Education

Newt Gingrich was born as Newton McPherson on June 17, 1943 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to single mother Kit, whose marriage to his biological father Newton Sr. last just days. His mother remarried, to career Army officer Robert Gingrich, in 1946. A decade later, the family moved to Europe, living for periods in France and Germany. Gingrich has three younger half-siblings from his mother: Candace, Susan, and Roberta. He also has a half-sister and half-brother from his biological father. When Gingrich was a junior in high school, he moved with his family to Fort Benning, Georgia. He went on to attend Baker High School in Columbus, graduating in 1961. For his higher education, Gingrich attended Emory University, from which he earned his BA in history, and then Tulane University, where he obtained his MA and PhD in European history.

Career Beginnings

Due to his status as a student and a father, Gingrich received deferments from the military during the Vietnam War. He continued on in academia after earning his PhD, first in the history department of West Georgia College, and subsequently in the school's geography department. Gingrich left in 1977 after being denied tenure.

Gingrich became heavily involved in politics in the 1970s. In 1974, he made his first bid for political office running as a Republican for Georgia's 6^th congressional district. He ultimately lost to incumbent Democrat Jack Flynt. Gingrich ran again in 1976, losing to Jimmy Carter.

US House of Representatives

Gingrich finally won election to the US Congress on his third attempt, in 1978. He would go on to be reelected five times from Georgia's 6^th congressional district, serving until 1999. During his final years in Congress, he also served as the 50^th Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Early in his congressional career, Gingrich co-founded the Military Reform Caucus and the Congressional Aviation and Space Caucus, and founded the Conservative Opportunity Society.

In 1989, he became House Minority Whip, giving him a new level of power in the Republican Party. The following year, Gingrich led a protest against George H. W. Bush's deficit reduction package, leading to a federal government shutdown. His efforts and those of other GOP members culminated in the 1994 Republican Revolution, when the Party gained 54 seats and took control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

With the Republicans having taken the House, Gingrich became the new Speaker in 1995. In his role, he oversaw the passage of welfare reform legislation and a capital gains tax cut, and was responsible for numerous government shutdowns. Gingrich was also central to the Republican Party's increasingly close alignment with Christian conservatism.

Gingrich received 84 ethics charges, and in early 1997 was reprimanded by the House for claiming tax-exempt status for a college course he had run for political reasons. Pressured by Republican colleagues, who were planning to rebel against him, Gingrich resigned from the House in early 1999.

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Post-Speakership Career

After leaving the House, Gingrich remained involved in public policy and political consultation. He founded and chaired a number of policy think tanks, including the Center for Health Transformation and American Solutions for Winning the Future. The former filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2012, while the latter, which promoted the deregulation and increase of offshore oil drilling, was shuttered in 2011. Gingrich has also served on various commissions, such as the Hart-Rudman Commission, and has taught at such institutions as Air University and the National Defense University. Elsewhere, he served as an advisor to the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold. On the media front, Gingrich created his own production company, Gingrich Productions.

2012 Presidential Campaign

In 2012, Gingrich sought to return to political office as a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination. After struggling in the Iowa Republican caucuses and New Hampshire Republican primary, he bounced back to win the South Carolina Republican primary. Later, following a disappointing showing in the Delaware primary, Gingrich suspended his campaign.

Relationship with Donald Trump

Leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Gingrich was among the first establishment Republicans to endorse Donald Trump. He consulted on Trump's campaign and encouraged other Republicans to unify behind him. Later, when Trump lost the 2020 election, Gingrich perpetuated the Big Lie that the election had been stolen. He even called for the arrest of poll workers in Pennsylvania.

Personal Life

Gingrich has been married multiple times. His first wife was Jacqueline Battley, his high school geometry teacher; they married in 1962 when Gingrich was 19 and she was 26. The couple had two daughters, Kathy and Jackie. During the marriage, Gingrich had multiple affairs with his congressional campaign volunteers. He ended up divorcing Battley in 1980 after beginning an affair with Marianne Ginther, whom he wed the following year. Once again, Gingrich had an extra-marital affair, this time with Callista Bisek, a House of Representatives staffer two decades his junior. During this affair, he led the impeachment of Bill Clinton on charges related to Clinton's infidelity. Gingrich got divorced from Ginther in 2000 just months after Ginther was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; he subsequently married his mistress Bisek.

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Nigel Farage is a British broadcaster and former politician who has a net worth of $4 million. Nigel Farage served as the leader of the UK Independence Party from 2006 to 2009 and again from 2010 to 2016, and leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. He was also a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 until the UK's exit from the EU in 2020. As a broadcaster, he hosted "The Nigel Farage Show" on the talk radio station LBC from 2017 to 2020.

Fox News Salary

In 2018, Nigel released financial disclosures that showed he had earned around $1 million from media appearances, primarily on Fox News between 2014 and 2018.

Early Life and Education

Nigel Farage was born on April 3, 1964 in Farnborough, England to Barbara and stockbroker Guy. An alcoholic, his father left the family home in the late 1960s. Farage was educated at the Greenhayes School for Boys in West Wickham as well as a school in nearby Eden Park. From 1975 to 1982, he attended Dulwich College in south London.

Career Beginnings

Farage had his first major job trading commodities at the London Metal Exchange in the 1980s. He started out with the American commodity operation of Drexel Burnham Lambert before transferring to Crédit Lyonnais Rouse. Later on, Farage would join Refco and Natixis Metals. Meanwhile, in politics, he joined the Conservative Party. After being in that party for 14 years, he left in 1992 in protest of Prime Minister John Major's signing of the Treaty on European Union.

European Parliament

In 1999, Farage was elected to the European Parliament as a member from South East England; he was reelected in 2004, 2009, and 2014. During his tenure, he campaigned for the UK's withdrawal from the EU and served as president of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, a Eurosceptic political group.

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UK Independence Party

In 2006, Farage was elected as leader of the rightwing populist UK Independence Party, which he had co-founded in 1993 after leaving the Conservative Party. He went on to lead UKIP through the 2009 European elections, when it won the second-highest share of the UK popular vote. After that, he stepped down to focus on contesting newly elected Speaker John Bercow's constituency of Buckingham. Farage ultimately lost the contest, coming in third. He subsequently stood again for UKIP leadership in 2010 following the resignation of Lord Pearson, and won. In 2013, Farage led UKIP to its best-ever performance in a UK election, winning 147 council seats.

In the 2014 European elections, UKIP won 24 seats, which was more than either the Labour or Conservative Parties won. Moving on to the 2015 general election, UKIP garnered over 3.8 million votes, but only managed to secure a single seat. When he failed to win the South Thanet seat, Farage announced his resignation; however, his resignation was rejected. He went on to become a leading figure in the successful Brexit campaign in the 2016 EU membership referendum. Following the vote to leave the EU, Farage resigned as leader of UKIP but remained as an MEP. He stood down from UKIP in late 2018.

Brexit Party

After leaving UKIP, Farage joined the rightwing populist Brexit Party, which he helped launch. In March of 2019, he was made the new leader in the wake of former leader Catherine Blaiklock's resignation. A few months later, in the European Parliament election, Farage led the Brexit Party to a 29-seat victory, the highest share of the vote. The UK consequently withdrew from the EU in early 2020. Later that year, amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Farage rebranded the Brexit Party as Reform UK and focused on anti-lockdown campaigning. He resigned as leader in March of 2021.

International Political Involvement

Beyond the UK, Farage has supported various rightwing populist leaders in other countries. Notably, he has supported Donald Trump in the US, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2015 and meeting with Trump after the presidential election in 2016. Farage was later listed as a person of interest in the FBI's investigation of possible Russian interference in the election. In 2021, he toured the US to address Republican grassroots audiences.

Elsewhere in the world, Farage has supported such far-right politicians as Austria's Norbert Hofer, France's Marine Le Pen, and Germany's Beatrix von Storch. He has also commented that Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was a consequence of the expansion of the EU and NATO.

Broadcasting Career

As a broadcaster, Farage hosted his own talk radio show, "The Nigel Farage Show," on LBC from 2017 to 2020. Meanwhile, in 2018, he hosted a podcast for LBC called "Farage Against the Machine." The podcast was canceled after Farage was sent a cease and desist letter from the rock band Rage Against the Machine, which demanded that he change the name of the podcast. In 2021, Farage joined the British news channel GB News to host its Sunday morning political discussion show "The Political Correction." He later began hosting its weekday evening program. Among his other broadcasting contributions, Farage has provided commentary for the US channels Fox News and the Fox Business Network.

Personal Life

Farage married his first wife, Irish nurse Gráinne Hayes, in 1988. They had two sons named Samuel and Thomas before divorcing in 1997. Farage subsequently married German national Kirsten Mehr in 1999; they have two children together. In early 2017, Farage reported that he had separated from Mehr.

Farage has been in some major accidents. In late 1985, he was hit by a car and was put in a cast for 11 months. Later, in 2010, he was in a plane crash that resulted in his sternum and ribs being broken and his lung punctured. The pilot of the aircraft ended up being charged with threatening to kill Farage in a completely separate incident.

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Farah Pahlavi is an Iranian Empress who has a net worth of $200 million. Farah Pahlavi is the former Queen and exiled Empress of Iran. Through her marriage to the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Farah was Queen and Empress of Iran from 1959 until they were exiled in 1979 as part of the Iranian Revolution. Her husband made her an Empress. She was the first and last Empress of modern Iran. In the late 1970s before being exiled, the Shah's personal fortune was estimated at $1-2 billion, and the Pahlavi Foundation, a charitable organization controlled by the royal family, was worth an estimated $12 billion.

Farah Pahlavi attended multiple international schools in Iran then went on to study architecture at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris. As Iranian students abroad were funded by the state, all students met with the Shah whenever he traveled. She was presented to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi while studying in Paris. After a very intricate and heavily managed courtship, they were married in 1959. She became quite popular for her active interest in educational, health, and cultural initiatives.

The Pahlavis' extravagant lifestyle was a source of public criticism. Many Iranians felt that the royal family was out of touch with the needs of the people, and that their wealth was a symbol of their corruption. The Pahlavis lived a lavish lifestyle. They had a fleet of private jets, a yacht, and several palaces. They also owned a vast collection of art, jewelry, and other valuables. Farah Pahlavi had expensive tastes. She loved to shop, and she often bought clothes, jewelry, and other items from the most expensive designers in the world. She also had a passion for collecting art, and she spent millions of dollars on paintings, sculptures, and other works of art. The Pahlavi Foundation's assets were seized by the Iranian government, and the royal family's personal fortune was largely lost. Despite the loss of their wealth, Farah Pahlavi and her husband have continued to live a comfortable lifestyle. They have homes in Europe and the United States, and they receive financial support from supporters around the world.

Early Life

Farah Pahlavi was born on October 14, 1938 in Tehran, then in the Imperial State of Iran, and given the name Farah Diba. She was born into an upper-class family, the daughter of Captain Sohrab Diba and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi. Her father was an officer in the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces and a graduate of the French Military Academy of St. Cyr. Pahlavi was very close to her father and was profoundly affected by his death in 1948 when she was ten years old. After his death, the family was forced to move from their large villa in northern Tehran into a shared apartment with another family member.

Pahlavi began her education at Tehran's Italian School. She then continued studying at the French Jeanne d'Arc School until the age of 16, at which time she moved to the Lycée Razi. In her youth, she was an athlete and became the captain of her school's basketball team. After finishing her secondary studies, she pursued her interest in architecture at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris where she studied under Albert Besson.

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Empress of Iran

Pahlavi's career in the public eye began after her marriage to the Shah of Iran in 1959. It was unclear at first what her role would be other than producing a male heir for the Shah. However, after she successfully gave birth to a son in 1960, she was free to devote her time to more official state pursuits. Initially, she limited herself to a mostly ceremonial role. She was responsible for befriending the French culture minister André Malraux, which led the two to arrange the exchange of cultural artifacts between French and Iranian art galleries and museums. This trade continued until the Iranian revolution of 1979. She also spent much of her time attending the openings of various health and education institutions.

Pahlavi at first did not involve herself with too many controversial issues. However, as time progressed, she became more actively involved in government affairs when they concerned issues that she felt deeply about. She used her proximity and influence with her husband to secure funding and focus attention on areas like women's rights and cultural development. One of her main initiatives was founding Pahlavi University, which was meant to improve the education of Iranian women. It was the first American style university in Iran as previous universities had been modeled on the French style.

Additionally, she worked long hours at her charitable activities. Over time, she came to preside over a staff of 40 who helped her manage all of official and charitable duties. She became one of the most highly visible figures in the Imperial Government and the patron of 24 different educational, health, and cultural organizations. She was also instrumental in encouraging the development of an active art scene in Iran and highlighting the existing art in the country. Due to all of her humanitarian activities, she became immensely popular with the public, particularly during the early 1970s. She travelled extensively throughout Iran, visiting some of the most remote parts of the country to meet local citizens. She had also officially been named the regent of Iran by the Shah in the case that he die before the Crown Prince's 21^st birthday. The naming of a woman as regent was highly unusual for a Middle Eastern or Muslim monarchy.

However, as the 1970s continued, internal dissatisfaction among the people was growing which led to demonstrations against the monarchy. When violent protests broke out in the country, the Shah and Pahlavi left Iran in January of 1979. They then traveled to Egypt, Morocco, the Bahamas, and Mexico. The Shah died from an illness in 1980 and Pahlavi returned to Egypt to live in exile for nearly two years. She later moved to the United States following an invitation from President Ronald Reagan in 1982.

Personal Life

Pahlavi married Shah Mohammed Reza on December 20, 1959 when she was 21 years old. They met while the Shah was making an official visit on behalf of Iran to Paris. After she had returned to Tehran in the summer of 1959, they began a courtship and announced their engagement in November of that year. Her wedding gown was designed by Yves Saint Laurent and she wore the newly commissioned Noor-ol-Ain Diamond tiara. After their marriage, the pressure on Pahlavi to produce a male heir was evident. Though her husband had been married twice before, neither marriage had produced a male heir. The couple subsequently had four children, first a son born in 1969 followed by three daughters born in 1963, 1966, and 1970.

Pahlavi wrote a memoir, "An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah," in 2003. It became a best-seller in Europe. In 2009, the Persian-Swedish director Nahid Persson Sarvestani released a feature length documentary about Pahlavi's life called "The Queen and I." It was screened at various international film festivals like IDFA and Sundance.

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Jon Corzine is an American finance executive, philanthropist and political figure who has a net worth of $50 million. At his peak, Jon Corzine was worth around $500 million. Unfortunately, after forfeiting around $300 million in a divorce settlement and spending $100 million on various political campaigns, Jon is now significantly less rich than he was at one time.

Jon Corzine worked for Goldman Sachs from 1975 until he left in 1999. He served as CEO from 1994 to 1999. When Corzine left Goldman Sachs, he reportedly received around $400 million as his share of the company's initial public offering.

Jon Corzine served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and governor of the state from 2006 to 2010.

Early Life

Jon Corzine was born on January 1, 1947 in Taylorville, Illinois to parents Nancy June and Roy Allen Corzine, Sr. and grew up on a small family farm in Willey Station, Illinois. After completing high school at Taylorville High School, where he had played basketball and football, he enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and graduated with honors in 1969. After college, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and served from 1969 to 1975. While in the reserves, he enrolled at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and earned a Master of Business Administration in 1973.

Goldman Sachs

In 1976, Corzine joined Goldman Sachs as a bond trader. He then became the co-manager of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Division. He became a partner in 1980 and a senior partner in 1994. He also served as chair of the presidential commission on capital budgeting for Bill Clinton and served as Chairman of the United States Department of the Treasury's borrowing committee.

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Political Career

In 1999, he was forced out from Goldman Sachs. He then announced he would be campaigning for a New Jersey Senate seat and won the nomination and then the election over his Republican opponent, Bob Franks. He was sworn into the Senate in January of 2001. His campaign was the most expensive in U.S. history in terms of Senate campaigns. During his tenure in the Senate, he co-authored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was also a sponsor of the Start Healthy, Stay Healthy Act, supported gun control laws, was the chief sponsor of the Darfur Accountability Act, and coauthored a tax-cut proposal that lowered the marginal tax bracket for the lowest of income earners. Additionally, he chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 2003 to 2005 and was a member of the Committees on Banking, Intelligence, the Budget, Foreign Relations, Environment, and Energy and Natural Resources.

Corzine then decided to run for the New Jersey Governor position in 2005. His opponent was Republican Doug Forrester. The two spent $73 million on their gubernatorial campaigns and the main campaign issues were property taxes and the Bush administration as Corzine tried to link his opponent to Bush. Corzine won the race with 54% of the vote and took office in January of 2006. While governor, Corzine focused on balancing the budget and attempted to address the crisis of municipal funding. He also championed expanding governmental health and education programs.

Corzine was one of several United States Governors who were early supporters of Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. He raised over $1 million for her campaign but then became a prominent spokesperson for Barack Obama once Obama won the Democratic nomination.

In 2009, Corzine ran for re-election in the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election against Republican challenger Chris Christie. The race ended up being quite close but ultimately, Corzine lost to Christie by around four points.

Philanthropy

In addition to his political career, Corzine has also been active with a number of philanthropic and civic organizations. He currently serves as a member of the International Board of Covenant House and is on the board of the New Jersey Reentry Corporation. He has also served on the boards of several organizations like the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Child Study Center, and the NYC Partnership. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the University of Chicago and is an ex-officio member of the board of trustees of Princeton University. He also served at Fairleigh Dickinson University as chairman of an advisory board that is working to establish a graduate school of public and global affairs.

Other Work

In 2010, he was appointed CEO and Chairman of MF Global, a multinational futures broker and bond dealer. However, the group collapsed only a year later and declared bankruptcy, one of the ten biggest bankruptcies in U.S. history. Corzine subsequently had to appear before a House committee to answer questions regarding the collapse. Ultimately, Corzine agreed to a settlement order by which he paid a $5 million penalty for his role in the company's collapse.

Personal Life

Corzine married his high school, Joanne Dougherty, in 1969 when he was 22. During their 33 year marriage, they had three children together – Jennifer, Josh, and Jeffrey. In 2002, they separated and then divorced in 2003.

As a divorce settlement, Jon agreed to give Joanne $350 million in cash and assets, almost exactly half of the fortune he earned during his decades at Goldman.

In 2004, he began dating psychotherapist Sharon Elghanayan. The two married in November of 2010 in a ceremony presided over by Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Stuart Rabner. In 2014, his youngest son Jeffrey committed suicide in Mexico.

Hamptons Mansion/Tepper Revenge

After making $400 million from the Goldman IPO AND getting fired in 1999, Jon and his then-wife Joanne retreated to their 7-acre oceanfront estate in the Hamptons town of Sagaponack. They spent years renovating and improving the property's 6,000 square foot mansion.

In 2002 she filed for divorce. One of Joanne's biggest stipulations in the divorce was that she get the Hamptons house. In the end Corzine grudgingly agreed. In 2010 Joanne sold the home for $45 million to one of Jon's former Goldman Sachs colleagues, a man named David Tepper who in addition to earning billions as a hedge fund manager absolutely HATED Jon Corzine for repeatedly rejecting him for partnership.

In what many have called an extremely cold act of revenge, Tepper proceeded to flatten the former Corzine mansion and replaced it with one double the size.

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Liz Cheney is an attorney and politician who has a net worth of $20 million. Liz Cheney served as the US representative for Wyoming from 2017 to 2023. The eldest daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, she held various positions in the US State Department under George W. Bush, during which time she established a reputation as a staunch neoconservative. Cheney achieved a new level of recognition in 2021 when she served as vice chair of the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol.

Early Life and Education

Liz Cheney was born on July 28, 1966 in Madison, Wisconsin as the eldest of two daughters of Dick Cheney and Lynne Cheney. Her sister is Mary. After Dick was elected to the US Congress in the 1970s, the family divided its time between Casper, Wyoming and Washington, DC. As a teenager, Cheney attended McLean High School, from which she graduated in 1984. She went on to attend Colorado College, and then the University of Chicago Law School, from which she obtained her Juris Doctor in 1996.

Career Beginnings

Before going to law school, Cheney worked for the State Department and the US Agency for International Development for five years. After that, she worked at the consulting firm Armitage Associates. Upon her graduation from law school, Cheney practiced law at the firm White & Case, and served as an international law attorney and consultant at the International Finance Corporation. She also served as a USAID officer in US embassies in Budapest, Hungary and Warsaw, Poland.

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US State Department, 2002-2007

In 2002, Cheney was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the US State Department. As a result, she was given control of the Middle East Partnership Initiative. In 2003, Cheney left her post to work on the Bush-Cheney reelection campaign. She returned to the State Department in early 2005 and was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives. Cheney oversaw the launches of Fund of the Future and Foundation of the Future, designed to promote democracy and freedom of the press. She also headed the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group. During her time in the State Department, Cheney became notorious for her neoconservative policies, including her focus on national security and her hawkish military stance.

Post-US State Department

After leaving the State Department, Cheney co-chaired Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. When he dropped out of the race, she joined Mitt Romney's campaign as a senior foreign policy advisor. In 2009, Cheney partnered with William Kristol and Deborah Burlingame to launch the non-profit organization Keep America Safe, which was intended to uphold the hawkish positions of the Bush-Cheney administration. Cheney went on to become a contributor to Fox News.

US Senate Campaign

In the summer of 2013, Cheney announced her campaign for the US Senate as a Wyoming Republican. Ultimately, her campaign was hobbled by her hawkish foreign policy views and her public spat with her sister over same-sex marriage, as her sister is lesbian. Moreover, Cheney couldn't match the popularity of incumbent Mike Enzi; consequently, she dropped out of the race in early 2014.

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US House of Representatives

Following the retirement of Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis in late 2015, Cheney announced her campaign for Lummis's House seat in early 2016. She ultimately won the seat with more than 60% of the vote. Cheney went on to win reelection in 2018 and 2020. She also served as the chair of the House Republican Conference from 2019 to 2021.

Despite predominantly voting in line with Donald Trump during the first five years of her tenure, Cheney eventually began opposing the president, especially after he instigated the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. Due to her anti-Trump stance, including her support of his second impeachment, the Freedom Caucus of the House Republican Conference attempted to remove her from party leadership in early 2021, but was unsuccessful. A second attempt later in the year worked, and Cheney was removed from her position. In further consequences of her involvement in the investigation of the Trump-led attack on the Capitol, her Wyoming Republican Party membership was revoked in late 2021, and she lost renomination in the US Senate race to Harriet Hageman in 2022.

House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

In the summer of 2021, Cheney was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the bipartisan House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol. She was eventually made vice chair of the Committee. As one of the central figures in reporting on the investigation, Cheney concluded that former president Donald Trump had instigated the attack by spreading false information about the 2020 election and summoning a mob of domestic terrorists to undermine the peaceful transition of power to Joe Biden's administration. The Committee recommended charging the former president on multiple counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and attempts to incite an insurrection.

Personal Life

Cheney married her husband, attorney Philip Perry, in 1993. They have five children: Philip Jr., Kate, Elizabeth, Grace, and Richard.

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Jen Psaki is a political commentator and former government official who has a net worth of $2 million. According to her very first financial disclosure submitted in 2020, at that point Jen Psaki controlled assets worth between $32,000 and $130,000. The same disclosure showed she earned $125,000 in the previous year. Her 2022 disclosure showed that her assets had increased in value to $1.5 million and her income in the year had jumped to $657,000. The vast majority of those earnings came from her consulting company, Evergreen Consulting LLC, which showed business income of $579,918.

Jen Psaki served under the Obama and Biden presidential administrations. Her last government role was serving as the White House press secretary under Biden from early 2021 until May of 2022. She reportedly earned a salary of $183,000 during her tenure as White House press secretary.

Psaki went on to launch her own weekly Sunday morning television show, "Inside with Jen Psaki," on MSNBC in 2023.

Early Life and Education

Jen Psaki was born on December 1, 1978 in Stamford, Connecticut as the eldest of three daughters of psychotherapist Eileen and retired real estate developer Dimitrios. She is of Greek, Irish, and Polish descent. As a teenager, Psaki attended Greenwich High School, graduating in 1996. She went on to attend the College of William & Mary in Virginia, earning her Bachelor's degree in English and sociology in 2000. In college, Psaki was a competitive backstroke swimmer with the William & Mary Tribe swim team.

Career Beginnings

Psaki began her career in politics in 2001, working on the reelection campaigns for Iowa senator Tom Harkin and Iowa governor Tom Vilsack. A few years later, she served as the deputy press secretary for John Kerry's presidential campaign. From 2005 to 2006, Psaki was the communications director for US representative Joseph Crowley, as well as the regional press secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Obama Administration

Psaki first became involved with Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, when she served as his traveling press secretary. After he won the presidency, she became the White House deputy press secretary. In late 2009, Psaki was promoted to deputy communications director. She left that position in 2011 to become senior vice president and managing director at the Washington, DC office of the PR firm Global Strategy Group. Psaki returned to political communications in 2012 to serve as the press secretary for Obama's reelection campaign. The next year, she became the spokesperson for the US Department of State. In 2015, Psaki returned to the White House to serve as communications director, a role she remained in through the end of Obama's presidency.

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Biden Administration

In late 2020, following the election of Joe Biden to the presidency, Psaki joined Biden's transition team. She was subsequently named the White House press secretary. In that position, Psaki held her first press briefing on the evening of Biden's inauguration in early 2021. She went on to make many historic moves in her position, such as introducing an American Sign Language interpreter to attend every daily briefing. Coming after four years of a rotating gallery of belligerent press secretaries who routinely spread misinformation on behalf of Donald Trump, Psaki was widely praised for her civility and honesty behind the lectern.

A little under four months after she started serving as the White House press secretary, Psaki said in an interview with political consultant David Axelrod that she would leave her position after a year. She ultimately kept her word, as she left the White House on May 13, 2022. Psaki was replaced by her principal deputy, Karine Jean-Pierre.

Political Commentator 

Psaki began doing political commentary on television in early 2017, when she joined CNN. She remained on the network until late 2020, when she left to join Biden's White House transition team. After leaving the Biden administration in May of 2022, Psaki became a contributor to MSNBC, where she helped cover the 2022 midterms. She also appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," on which she discussed the Robb Elementary School mass shooting. In early 2023, MSNBC announced that Psaki would host her own Sunday morning show, "Inside with Jen Psaki." Focusing on public policy issues, the program premiered in mid-March.

Personal Life

In 2010, Psaki married Greg Mecher, who was at the time the chief of staff to congressman Steve Driehaus. He later served as the chief of staff to congressman Joe Kennedy. Psaki and Mecher have two children.

Real Estate

In March 2019 Jen and Greg paid $1.6 million for a 4,500 square foot home in Arlington, Virginia. Today this home is worth an estimated $2.1 million.

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Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician and military veteran who has a net worth of  $1 million. As the first Hindu member of Congress and one of its first female combat veterans, Tulsi Gabbard has been recognized for her commitment to progressive policies and her dedication to public service. Tulsi Gabbard served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Hawaii's 2^nd district, from 2013 to 2021. She earned a wider level of fame after running as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.

Financial Disclosure

According to the financial disclosure she released as part of her 2020 Presidential campaign, at that point Tulsi Gabbard's net worth was $500,000.

Early Life and Education

Tulsi Gabbard was born on April 12, 1981, in Leloaloa, American Samoa, and moved to Hawaii at the age of two. The fourth of five children, Gabbard was raised in a multicultural and multi-religious household, with her father being a Catholic of Samoan and European descent and her mother a Hindu of European descent. Gabbard studied Business Administration at Hawaii Pacific University, graduating in 2009.

Military Service

After the September 11 attacks, Gabbard enlisted in the Hawaii Army National Guard. In 2004, she volunteered to deploy with her fellow soldiers to Iraq and served two tours of combat duty in the Middle East. Gabbard was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and continues to serve as a Major in the Army National Guard. Her military experience greatly influences her views on foreign policy.

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Political Career in Hawaii

Gabbard's political career began in 2002 when, at 21 years old, she was elected to the Hawaii State Legislature, becoming the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature. She then served on the Honolulu City Council from 2011 to 2012, focusing on economic development, budgeting, and local transportation.

U.S. Representative

In 2012, Gabbard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, making her the first Hindu and the first American Samoan elected to Congress. Throughout her tenure, Gabbard was known for her advocacy for veterans, environmental policy, and non-interventionist foreign policy. She served on several committees, including the House Armed Services Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

2020 Presidential Campaign

Gabbard announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2020 election. While her campaign didn't gain significant traction, Gabbard was recognized for her focus on foreign policy, criminal justice reform, and climate change. She dropped out of the race in March 2020 and endorsed Joe Biden.

Real Estate

In 2009 Tulsi paid $39,000 for a foreclosed home in Oklahoma. She sold this property in 2012 for $110,000.

In 2014 she paid $600,000 for a home in Washington DC.

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