Former American quarterback, who has registered dozens of National Football League records in his account regarding his quarterback position, Daniel Constantine ‘Dan’ Marino Jr. have also credited $35 million in his net worth. Played for Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, Dan Marino is the synonym for the greatest quarterbacks in the history of American football. 2005 saw his entry into the Hall of Fame.
From College Football to National Football
With his roots laid in Italian and Polish culture, Marino was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and brought up in South Oakland. Dan Marino is the eldest child of Daniel and Veronica Marino, and has two sisters, Cindi and Debbie.
He started his career in baseball when he was studying in Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, and eventually shifted his focus towards football when he won All American honor in football from American nationwide Sunday Newspaper ‘Parade’. 1979 paved way to his fortune by Kansas City Royals signing him as an amateur for their football team, but instead Marino selected to be with college team. Marino played football on behalf of his college, University of Pittsburgh’s, whose team was also known as ‘Pitt Panthers’. Starting as a freshman, Marino led his team to coup over West Virginia and Penn State in 1979 and last minute triumph over Georgia Bulldog in 1982. Consecutively during the three seasons that took place from 1979 to 1981, Marino made sure that he was in the top 5 rankings of media poll.
Marino’s senior year saw his tumbling football career as well as Pitt team’s bad fate. This even led to a halt in Marino’s selection in 1983 National Football League regarding his downgraded performance in the senior years as well as widespread rumours of his drug use. In Miami Dolphin’s list Marino was the 27th pick in the first round.
In the history of the United States Football League, Marino was the first draft pick selected by Los Angeles Express. Again, he decided to go with Dolphins instead of signing Los Angeles Express. He was given a start in 6th week against the Buffalo Bills. Both Miami and Marino lost the game, but this loss turned out to be victory for both Marino and his team because of the various records that Marino had afforded in the season. Second season saw Marino breaking many records and made him the ‘Most Valuable player’ in the National Football League. Marino’s only Super Bowl appearance was in Super Bowl XIX, where Miami Dolphin’s confronted San Francisco 49ers and Joe Montana in Palo Alto, California and lost the game by 38-16.
In 1993, Miami Dolphins tried for a comeback in American Football Conference Championship and thought of making it to Super Bowl series, but with Marino’s small vacation with the game, he fell down hurting his Achilles tendon during the play and was out for the season. Soon in 1994, Marino again showed up in the season as starting quarterback, with a special shoe on one foot and having an atrophied right calf.
Personal Life

In 1985, Marino wedded Claire D Veazey. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his wife and has six children – Daniel Charles, Michael Joseph, Joseph Donald, Alexandra Claire, Nia and Niki Lin.
Apart from the football life, Marino had also made small appearances in the small as well as big screen. Some of his notable performances are – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); Little Nicky (1994); Holy Man (1999); Bad Boys-2 (1999). He had also made his appearance in advertisement campaigns for Hooters, NutriSystem weight loss programs, Maroone, Papa John’s, Nutrasource.com and Empi Select (a TENS device).
Philanthropy

In 1992, Marino and his wife Claire, established a foundation for people with autism, called Dan Marino Foundation; after their own son Michael was diagnosed with autism. They have also opened a integrated neurodevelopment center, Dan Marino Center, alongside Miami Children’s Hospital, where children with developmental risk and psychological problems are diagnosed and treated. On March 23, 2010, The Dan Marino Foundation held its first “Walk about Autism”. Over 6000 walkers participated, as well as 420 volunteers provided by the Miami Dolphins Special Teams.
Net worth
Marino owns vacation homes in Kiawah Island, South Carolina. He also owns two restaurants in Miami and Las Vegas (Dan Marino’s Fine Food and Spirits). Marino is a partner/investor in a Florida-based restaurant group named Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza. Marino had investments in MMD Realty, a real estate company. Marino earned more than $1 million a year from endorsements for AutoNation (the car dealership chain) as well as Nabisco (a subsidiary of Kraft Foods). By the time he retired, he was earning a handsome amount of around $6 million a year.

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The all time flavor boy, ‘William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.’, more popularly known by his stage name ‘Flavor Flav’, has topped the list of richest rappers with a whooping estimated net worth of $9 million dollars. 2011 saw this rapper’s career in a pitiable condition, but sudden miracle pulled his drowning career to the highest peak when Flava Flav was recorded as the highest paid rapper with a $58 million in between April 2013 to April 2014. Popularly known for his yelling words ‘Yeah boy!’ and ‘Flavor flav!’ in between his stage performances, Flavor Flav is the element behind popularizing the role of hype man in stage shows.

Early Life

Born as ‘William Jonathan Drayton Jr. on March 16, 1959, Flavor Flav had registered his presence in multiple platforms – as musician, actor, rapper, television figure and comedian. Born in Roosevelt, New York and brought up in Hempstead, New York, Flav began playing piano at the age of five and eventually became capable of playing 15 instruments. He was school dropout and has been on a jail stroll for many robbery and burglary.
He met Carlton Ridenhour, popularly known as ‘Chuck D’, in Adelphi University from where they first collaborated in Chuck D’s hip hop college radio show and moved on to rapping.

Career

1982 witnessed the entrance of some hot blooded American talents like Chuck D, Flavor Flav, DJ Lord, The S1W group, Khari Wynn and Professor Griff into the rap world with an American hip-hop group ‘Public Enemy’, that criticised the American media and sang the frustrations of Afro – Americans. Within a short span of time, this group was able to attract much audience and get gold or platinum certification for its album released in between 1980s to 1990s.
In 1984, the group got attention of Def Jam Records with their ‘Public Enemy #1’ track and released their first album in collaboration with Def Jam Records – ‘Yo! Bum Rush the Show’ (1987). In 1988 the group came up with another track ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back’, that shooted to double platinum and 1989 saw the release of political single ‘Fight the Power’. ‘Life of a Nigerian’ was Flav’s first solo rap track. In 2006, Flav appeared with a first solo album that was released during the second season of ‘Flavour of Love’.
Taking some time away from the music world, Flav tried his luck in television too, where he participated in the third season of VH1’s reality show ‘The Surreal Life’ and developed a relation with actress Brigitte Nielsen. With the end of ‘The Surreal Life’, Flav and Brigitte were casted in VH1’s another reality show named ‘Strange Love’. This one hour 11 episodes show focused solely on the love and relation of Flav and Brigitte. But throughout the episodes the duo went on constant fights and yells due to mutual jealousy and ended up in separation. After separation, Brigitte Nielsen patched up with her Italian boyfriend Mattia Dessi and Flav set out to find his love through his another reality show ‘Flavour of Love’. It is an American reality show where 20 different ladies compete for Flav’s love living together in a home. To find his lady love Flav is assisted by his mother, ex-girlfriend Brigitte Nielsen (only for first season), his bodyguard named Big Rick and Tiffany Pollard (second season).

Personal Life and Legal issues

In 1991, Flav was sentenced to 30 days jail for assaulting his then girlfriend – Karen Ross. This led him to deep addiction. In 1993, Flav was charged with 90 days imprisonment for murder attempt and domestic violence. Flav’s father died of diabetics in 1997, followed by which Flav decided to re-join the rehabilitation centre at Long Island for recovering from drug addiction.
Flav dated Beverly Johnson and moved to a small apartment in the Bronx with her and her two children from her previous marriage. In 2002, Flav was jailed for driving with a suspended license, numerous parking tickets, and showing up late for appointments with his probation office. After released from jail, Flav broke up with Johnson and moved in with his mother on Long Island.
Flav has seven children. Shaniq, Karen, William Jr. were with were with Karen Ross; Dazyna, Quanah and Kayla were with his ex-girlfriend Angie Parker and Liz is the mother of his youngest child, Karma. As of at least October 2012, Elizabeth Trujillo, then 39, lived with him in Las Vegas and had been his fiancee for eight years. Flav’s lost his mother Anna Drayton, on December 31, 2013.

Net Worth

His fortune paved way to riches with his earnings from his TV shows. For ‘The Surreal Life’ he bagged $25000, for ‘Strange Love’ he got $50000 and for ‘Flavor of Love’ he got $100000. His cashed his fortune from smart stock investments, substantial property holdings and lucrative endorsement deals with Cover Girl cosmetics. He also owns several restaurants in Washington. In March 2012, on his 53rd birthday, he inaugurated his another restaurant – House of Flavors, in Las Vegas. He owns a Football Team – Roosevelt Angels, has his own brand of Vodka – Pure Wonderflav, and a top-selling perfume – With Love from Flavor Flav and a fashion line called Flavor Flav Seduction.

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