“The best captains bring home the catch, boat and crew safely”  -  Sig Hansen

Sig Hansen was born on April 28, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, USA. Sig Hansen’s full name was Sigurd Jonny “Sig” Hansen. He is an American Captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern. He also serves as the technical advisor for the television series Deadliest Catch. He has a net worth of $2 million.  Since 2006,he has been featured in all the seasons of this documentary series.

CHILDHOOD

Sig Hansen was born to Sverre Hansen and Snefryd Hansen in Seattle.He was eldest of three sons (Sigurd, Edgar and Norman) born to them. His family descended from a long lineage of Norwegian ancestry Fishermen. His Father and grandfather were involved opilio  crab fishing in Alaska. He too began fishing at the age of 14, mostly working on his family’s boat. After graduating from Shorewood High School, he began fishing in Alaska and Bering Sea.During the summer, he would fish mackerel and cod in Norway. He liked fishing so much that he would bunk classes at school to go fishing.

REALIZING HIS PASSION

Hansen started experimenting in his father’s boat during his early years to face the strong sea. At the age of 22,he became a “relief skipper” on the Northwestern.

At 24, he had taken charge of Northwestern full time and as the years passed by, the Northwestern had become the top producer with an excellent saftey record. The Northwestern has never had a single death at sea in nearly 20 years and its serious injury rate is significantly lower as compared to other boats in the Bering Sea fleet. The Northwestern also won the titles for the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned between the featured boats in the Deadliest Catch in 2005 ( for King Crab) and 2006 (for Opilio).

Sig Hansen serves as the full time captain during the king and opilio crab seasons, as well as the pot cod fishery on the Northwestern. Edgar and Norman, his younger brothers work as deck boss and deckhand respectively. Sig is a passionate,hard-working captain who can work in extreme conditions. To be a successful fisherman, you need to be a mechanic, navigator, welder, painter, carpenter, and at times, fire fighter.

In March 2010, Hansen released his book, North By Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters, co-written by Mark Sundeen through which he became one of the most renowned published author.

This also made way for his book to reach the bestseller lists of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. This is story of a family of survivors; part memoir and part adventure tale. North by Northwestern is the multi-generational tale of the Hansen’s family.Their story from being Norwegian fishermen to having become modern folk-heroes. No doubt, his book must have sold like hot cakes!!!

On April 29, 2010, Sig Hansen was also chosen to be the guest on a show- “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno”. During the show,he expressed his desire to be a contestant on the ABC reality television  show- Dancing with the Stars. Such was his desire that, Leno’s staff went on to set up a Facebook page to gather support for Hansen to be voted to appear on the show. In September 2010, Hansen announced that  he would stop appearing on the Deadliest Catch. However, on October 8, it was announced that he would return to the show.

He has provided the voice of a boat named Crabby in the Disney Pixar film Cars 2.

PERSONAL LIFE

Hansen is married to June and live with their children,Nina and Mandy,in Seattle.He speaks fluent Norwegian,as his Norwegian parents spoke the language at home. He likes to follow the “Norwegian Fisherman’s Diet” while at sea: coffee, chocolate and cigarettes. He supports the sports teams the Seahawks and the Mariners. Even in his tough times, he is completely aware of his responsibilities towards his family. He stays close to his family. He also treats his crew as his own family by being compassionate to them.Last year, Sig kept deckhand Jake Anderson’s slot open when Jake had to go ashore after his sister’s death.This year, Sig plans to train his brother Edgar to take over as the captain of the Northwestern. Recent reports suggests that his 18 year old daughter Mandy Hansen too, is joining Sig on the Deadliest Catch.

RICHNESS

Sig Hansen is a very rich personality. He has been a star of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch.The show has attracted more than 49 million viewers per season in 150 countries, making it one of the most successful series in the history of cable TV. His hard work has really paid off. Another reason behind the success of the show is its daring camera work, unexpectable and dangerous weather which make this show a unique one. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million. His salary per season on The Deadliest Catch itself is $1 million. Captain Sig Hansen has accumulated his net worth through his career as Captain of a fishing vessel,author of a best seller and his appearance on television’s “Deadliest Catch”.

For nearly two decades, Sig has seen to it that the Northwestern is of the top producers of the Alaskan’s crab industry. Sig considers his performance essential,but he also believes that great accomplishments are due to the lack of any major accidents onboard the Northwestern.

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Rashard Lewis was born on 8 August 1979. He was born in Pineville, Louisiana. His nationality is American. Rashard Lewis is an American professional basketball player. Currently Rashard plays for the Miami heat of the NBA. Talking about his salary, Rashard Lewis get $22.1 million as his salary which made him one of the highest paid NBA players in the world. In the year 2007, Rashard Lewis signed a six year contract with the Orlando Magic but is now playing with Miami Heat.

Early Life

Rashard Lewis was born in Louisiana and was recruited to play in college by Florida State, Kansas. After this he was recruited to play on University of Houston but Lewis by passed college and instead find the other way to enter in the 1998 NBA draft. Lewis was drafted by the Seattle Super Sonics with the third pick of the second round. Not only is this, he was one of the top 15 draft prospects in the green room during the time of his selection for the team. In the seasons of 2004-2005 and 2008-2009 had a solid career as a forward including two All-Star berths. Talking more of his achievements, he hit a game-winning shot in the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2009 NBA playoff’s which is known as the biggest shot of his career till now. If he continues to play like this, he may achieve big thing one day. Lewis, in his 10-year career holds an average of 16.8 points per game and talking about his highest points he made 22.4 points in the season of 2006-2007. In the year 2009, he was tested positive for the banned substance which is the biggest drawback of him of his career.

Career

Rashard started his career with Seattle Supersonics. Lewis has twice been named in the 2004-05 season and in 2008-2009 season. In the year 2001, he was selected to play for the USA in which the y won the Gold Medal in the Goodwill Games. In the year 2003, he scored 50 points to pass Clyde Drexler who made 41 points in the single game in japan. On November 22, 2005 Lewis got the Supersonics record for the most three pointers and passed dale Ellis for the second place. Moving over his play for Orlando Magic, Lewis came here after playing 9 seasons for the Seattle Supersonics. In the first season itself Lewis was moved from small forward position to power forward. Lewis contributed much in the Magic such that during the playoffs, the Magic reached the second round contributing a 33 point performance against the Detroit Pistons and help in win the series. In the 2009 playoffs, the magic won the series and advanced to the NBA Finals. In the NBA Finals they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. It is said the Lewis was the magic’s top scorer and set personal records in points rebounds and assists. After finding positive in the test against the banned substance. Lewis was suspended for the first ten games of the 2009-2010 season. Talking about his other works, Lewis was traded to the Washington Wizards for the Gilbert Arenas. In the year 2012, he was acquired by the New Orleans Homets in a trade that sent Trevor Ariza and Emeka Okafor to the wizards. On July 11, 2012 Lewis signed with Miami Heat on a 2 year deal of $2.8 million. Not only is this, Lewis won his first championship on June 20, 2013. At this time Miami Heat defeated the San Antino Spurs in a seven game series.

Richness

Rashard Lewis is a very rich man. He is the multi-millionaire of the era. His net worth is $60 million. His main source of wealth is basketball. He is a very talented player and is famous all very the world. He influenced a lot of children by his playing skills and continues to play the same. He got the best playing skills but once he was caught positive for the banned substance for which he was not allowed to play for some time. He is now playing for the Miami heat. On July 11, 2007 Lewis signed a six year sign and trade deal which is worth $118 million with the team of Orlando Magic. In the year 2009, Lewis was one of the best team scorer which earned him an appearance in NBA All-Star game. Not only is this, he also signed with the Miami Heat on a 2-year which is worth $2.8 million deal. Talking about his achievements, he won his first championship on June 20, 2013 when he defeated the San Antonio spurs in a seven game series.

He can afford all the luxuriousness available. Though he lived very simple, he own a car named, Dodge Challneger SRT8 whose hand-worked body is really beautiful work. This s customized car which Lewis himself was interested. Lewis was married on August 13, 2011. His wedding took place at a very beautiful place in Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes. It was reported that the wedding was chic to casual and was completed with family including 250 guests and their two kids also. Talking about the bride who was in beautiful was wearing a gorgeous flowing ivory Vera Wang gown walking down the ailse to Alicia keys.

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Jeff Bezos, the real king of internet world. He is an American investor and a successful entrepreneur. He is currently the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, an online shopping website for books and electronics item. He is also the owner of ‘The Washington post’ newspaper.

Profile:
Jeff Bezos, initially was been named as Jeffery Preston Jorgensen. He was born on 12th January’1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Jacklyn (mother) and Ted Jorgensen (father). Jeff was a man who was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth; he has struggled a lot to achieve this position. Jeff’s mother was a teenager at the time of his birth and his parents’ marriage lasted a year. Jeff’s mother remarried when he was four to Mike Bezos, who was a Cuban immigrant. When Mike married to Jeff’s mother, they moved to Houston, and Mike became an engineer for Exxon. Jeff’s maternal ancestors were from Texas, he used to spent most of his summer with his grandfather working on various experiments.

From childhood Jeff had a creative mind, he liked to tinker with things and figures out how they worked. He converted his father’s garage to his own laboratory and there he use to perform his science project. Jeff with his family, then moved to Miami, there he attended Miami palmetto senior high school. Later he graduated from Princeton University in 1986 and obtained B.Sc. degree in Electrical and computer science also. During graduating he was elected to honor societies- Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
In 1993,Jeff married to Mackenzie; she was also a Princeton graduate. They met each other at DE Shaw and soon they fell in love. They have four children. And currently leading there happy life in Seattle.

Career:
After completing his graduation from Princeton University, Jeff was employed at Wall Street in 1989 in the field of computer science, and then he worked on building a network for international trade for a company known as Fitel. Next he worked at banker’s trust and later he was raised to vice president, then he worked for D.E. Shaw &Co. Jeff was having a great future in the Finance sector but latterly he was distracted by the excessive use of internet and hoped for bright career in the web world, therefore he decided to shift to Seattle with his wife to target an untapped potential of internet world by designing a website for online book store.

Jeff initiated his company in his garage with few employees, and stared developing the software, later on they shifted to a two bedroom house equipped with three sun micro stations. After several attempts they finally made the test site and then invited 300 friends for the beta test the site. Hence Jeff launched Amazon.com on 16th July, 1995. Jeff named this site after the name of the American river amazon. The initial success of the company was meteoric. In 30 days, with no press promotion, Amazon had sold books across whole United States in 45 foreign countries, within 2 months sales raised up to $20,000 per week. The business grew faster than Bezos or anyone else could have imagined. When Amazon.com went in public in 1997, then skeptics questioned whether the company could hold its existence when traditional retailers would launch their e-commerce sites. Two years later, the startup was not only at hike but also out spaced competitors and become the e-commerce king. Bezos continued to diversify the stock of the site, later on he added CD’s, videos, electronics, toys, watches and more through major retail partnerships. Hence Amazon’s sales thrived from $510,000 in 1995 to $17 billion in 2013.

In 2007, Amazon.com released a handheld digital book known as Kindle, which allows the users to buy, download, read and store their book selection. In the same year, Jeff also decided to invest in Blue Origin, it was an aerospace company which develop technologies to offer paid space rides to the people. Today Amazon.com is the veteran disruptor in the book, online retail and tablet industries and now he is seeking towards fashion, video and media. With a broad aim in mind, in 2011, Jeff launched another mini tablet computer- Kindle fire, it was launched to compete against apple. With the introduction of this new tablet Amazon captured 95% of the US market of e-books.

Bezos was again in headlines in August’2013, when he decided to purchase ‘The Washington Post’ for $250 million cash, the deal marks to end of four generation reign over The Post Co. by Graham family.
Jeff played an important role in the drastic usage of the internet by people, he transformed the way of reading, shopping, listening of music etc. His creative mindset, methods and belief in his vision made him successful and wealthy. It’s hard to imagine world without Amazon.com.

Wealth:
Jeff likes to invest in the property estate and mansions; Jeff owns one huge apartment and two mansions. His apartment is suited at Manhattan’s central park west; it is liked with three apartments and known as landmark art deco tower. Also Jeff owns two mansions, one is located in Washington and has an area of 29,000 sq. ft. and has separate largest boat/party house of around 200 yards, besides this beautiful mansion he has richest person (Bill gates) as his neighbor. Another mansion is located at Alpine Drive, and it is spread over 12,000 sq. ft. of area.

Jeff owns a 1988 Chevrolet Blazer, which he loves ride in his spare time and likes to drive in a awesome styles.

Awards and Recognitions:
• Jeff was titled as ‘Person of the year’ in 1999, by Time magazines.
• He was also awarded honorary doctorate in science and technology from Carnegie Mellon University in 2008.
• Bezos received Innovation award for Amazon Kindle by The Economist in 2011.
• In 2012, Jeff was named as businessperson of the year by Fortune.
• In 2013, Jeff was ranked as second best CEO in the world after Steve jobs for apple by Harvard Business Review.

Famous quotes by Jeff:
“A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.”
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

“If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”

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CAREER/PROFESSION: ACTOR

This is the person who roamed around the streets dressed as a “not-so-beautiful” woman, this is the person who scared away innocent children with his hook, and this is person who had been in mental institution all his life due to autism…but in movies. In reality, he is the person who is known for his never ending thirst for perfection. And also as a man who is rich.Very rich. However, for the successful Hollywood actors like him, it’s not really a big deal.

But the question is -Dustin Hoffman, one of the most talented and versatile actors alive on earth, is rich, but how much?

DUSTIN WHO?

For those who don’t know much about him…

Hoffman a.k.a perfectionist started off his career after accidentally discovering his passion for acting in college wherein he had taken the subject in order to get “three free credits” that could have saved him from flunking. After some years of struggling, and working and working hard, he finally earned fame (and also an academy award nomination) through his role in The Graduate (1967).  For this film, he was paid 17,000 dollars. And yes, he has come a long long way since then.

Later, for the movie- John and Mary, which was released in 1969, he was offered 42,500 dollars. Quite an increase, huh? Courtesy goes to “Oscar -if -not –award-then-at least-a-nomination effect”

But this was just the beginning. One step led to another. And each one of them just took him higher and higher. And now he is the actor who was paid 7.5 million dollars for just a five day shoot for the film “The little Frockers” (released in 2010). And so what the film didn’t have any script. So what it wasn’t able to woo the critics. It still was a huge commercial success.

Hoffman effect?

Hoffman voodoo?

I don’t know what it is. But it was certainly not the script.

So, yes, 7.5 million dollars on Dustin Hoffman? Yeah, nice investment.

Of course, his career hasn’t always been high all this time. Straw Dogs, his movie which was released in 1971, is still remembered for some of its controversial scenes. But Hoffman was praised for his performance. His real tragedy came with movie Ishtar (1987), for which he had been paid $6,000,000, was a critical failure and it was tagged one of the worst movies of all times. We all have bad days, don’t we?

But he made his comeback anyway. After all, it’s Dustin Hoffman we are talking about! There was a temporary setback, yes. But okay, shit happens.

With the passing years, Hoffman was getting more and more entangled in the threads of senescence. And the movies with him as the lead character grew fewer and fewer in number.

He was offered roles for supporting actor, and yeah, it hurt at first, but everybody knows how to adapt and move on. And anyhow, even in his old (but not so old) age, his popularity among the people is way too immortal to be vanished. Ever. There are many of his movies that have come in the past and there are many which are going to come in the future. And so is the money.

WHERE IS HIS MONEY SPENT?

$7.5 million dollars for just five days was just a trailer and there is more to come.

Speaking of wealth, the “master Shifu” of Kung fu panda happens to own at least two houses;

One in Malibu.

And the other in Brentwood, California.

Brentwood is good.

But the one in Malibu seems to be causing quite a trouble.

Estimated to be of at least 7.8 million dollars, the house seems to be surrounded in a little controversy. Of course, it’s not just his house… it’s the houses of all the people (read celebrities) who leave nearby. Apparently, the beach that once used to rest so peacefully in front of the houses has slowly been eroded away. So, it’s not really very cool to jog there unless its low tides. Therefore, the house owners are hiring some engineers and other people to add some sand to the beach but here’s the twist in the story; environmentalists don’t really like this plan.

Anyways, just in case you are curious.

Here are the pictures of his two mansions;

Brentwood house.

Malibu house

Boy oh! boy! Now, you can imagine how costly these houses are. If not then let me tell you, the average cost of a house in Brentwood is 4 million dollars. And that’s average; the house we are looking at is going to be much more than that.

And for those who are not quite satisfied with the houses above, we bring to you his cars;

The ultimate beauty- Porsche 911 (997) Carrera Cabriolet.

The green beauty; Tesla Roadster

The every-celebrity-has-it beauty; Black Toyota Prius

The perfectionist didn’t leave himself untouched from the joys of television shows as well. In year 2011, he starred in TV series Luck. Undoubtedly, it was liked. It was praised. And the fans went crazy. But series never got to make it to its second season due to the controversies associated with the three horses that died on sets.

AHA and PETA were dead furious.

Anyways, getting out of the controversy and stepping into the zone of the noble work, Dustin Hoffman supports five charities which include;

• 826 National; for the writer inside children aging from 6 to 18. It started in San Francisco at 826 Valencia, but now has programs in NYC, Los Angeles, Michigan, Seattle, Chicago and Boston.
• Achievable foundation; for the turning the dreams of people with developmental disabilities into reality.
• Cinema for peace; for peace and international understanding through the medium of films.
• Declare Yourself; for the empowerment of young voters.
• Musicares; For assisting the music people in times of need.

OKAY, NOW, BUT HOW MUCH MONEY DOES HE HAVE?

Well, Dustin Hoffman certainly knows how to spend money. Fancy cars, fancy homes and a lot of charity. The Kramer v/s Kramer star who recently defeated cancer, the actor whose need to be incredibly perfect is so strong that it can annoy his co-actors and the directors to the point of lunacy, is said to be worth a whooping 50 million dollars. (Read as quite a few zeroes that you wouldn’t even bother counting/much much more money than sense/ much much more money than you know how to spend) And in addition to this, he also has two Academy awards, six golden globes, four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, an Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award  and the Kennedy Center Honors. But for the guy  who “decided to become an actor because he was failing in school and needed the credits”, the guy who dreamt, went ahead with his heart and did whatever he could to turn his dreams into reality, it’s justified. Isn’t it?

Author: Saloni Prasad

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