The Bengals even designated the franchise tag on him on February 15, 2007. The same year he inked one-year franchise contract that brought him $8.64 million. After that, he signed a six-year, $45 million deal with the San Francisco 49ers. In his tenure with San Francisco, Smith was selected for four consecutive Pro Bowls from 2009 to 2012. Thanks to his outstanding performance on the football field, Justin Smith was presented on the NFL’s Top 100 players of 2012, and was projected by his peers as the 17th best player coming into the 2012 season.

She has also won the year-ending Sony Ericsson Championships twice and the singles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Tennis experts cite her mental toughness, the completeness and variety of her game, her footspeed and footwork, and her one-handed backhand as the principal reasons for her success. When Henin retired for the first time in 2008, Billie Jean King said that “pound for pound, Henin is the best tennis player of her generation” and “Justine is the best women’s athlete I’ve ever seen.

Hassan was a member of the Alaouite dynasty. He allied Morocco with the United States in the Cold War era. He adopted a market-based economy that centered on tourism, agriculture, and phosphates. King Hassan II passed away on July 23, 1999 at the age of 70. He died from natural causes and was buried in the Mausoleum of Mohammed V. He had five children with his wife Lalla Latifa Hammou and none with his wife Lalla Fatima bint Qaid Ould Hassan Amhourak, who he both married in 1961.

It was in April 2012, when Koh spun off Fragrance’s hotel arm into Global Premium Hotels, listing the budget hotel chain, while he is now expanding it into commercial real estate. In addition to his property business, Koh is an avid vintage car collector. As such, he made headlines back in 2008 for suing a Rolls-Royce dealer in Singapore for allegedly selling him a defective Phantom car.

La Fouine’s album Mes Reperes was released in 2009 and reached #2 in France. His mixtape Capitale du Crime Volume 2 was released in 2010 and reached #3 in France. La Fouine’s album La Fouine vs Laouni was released in 2011 and reached #1 in France where it was certified double platinum. His album Drole de parcours was released in 2013 and reached #1 in France and was certified platinum.

Hester’s 15 page lawsuit was filed this week in Los Angeles, California. He is suing the A&E television network and Original Productions LLC, the makers of Storage Wars. For anyone who has never seen Storage Wars, the show follows a group of eccentric characters who earn their livings by bidding blindly on abandoned storage lockers. It’s a lot like bidding for the mystery prize on a game show. The storage units have been known to contain expensive jewelry, cars, motorcycles even valuable artwork but just as easily could be worthless.

The conflict between Gross and Pimco had negative effects on the firm, which was managing nearly $2 trillion at the time. Today, it has shrunk to $1.5 trillion and has lost its place as the world’s largest bond firm. It is reportedly taking steps to preserve the legacy and contributions of its founders, including naming Gross a “director emeritus,” establishing an award in his name, and dedicating a “Founders Room” in its headquarters.

Born in New Jersey during the Great Depression to a blue-collar Irish-American couple, Feeney first showed a propensity for business at the age of 10, when he sold Christmas cards door-to-door. After serving as a radio operator in Japan for the U.S. Air Force, Feeney attended Cornell University on the G.I. Bill. In 1960, Feeney founded Duty Free Shoppers in Hong Kong with business partner Robert Miller. DFS would eventually grow into the largest duty-free retail operation in the world, earning Feeney a slot in the top 25 richest Americans by 1988.

Adrian Abramovich is being accusing of making 96 million illegal telemarketing robocalls over the course of three months. In addition, Abramovich was allegedly tricking people into signing up for time-shares by altering caller ID systems, and sending calls over emergency phone lines meant for medical professionals and hospital call centers. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed that Abramovich be slapped with a $120 million fine, and went on to describe the situation as “one of the largest—and most dangerous – illegal robocalling campaigns that the Commission has ever investigated.

The IRS and the estate are engaged in a court battle in U.S. Tax Court over Jackson’s worth at the time of his death. The IRS first claimed back in 2013 that the Jackson estate had undervalued assets at the time of his death, and are now looking for their cut of the pie in court. But according to an investment banker who testified in the tax trial, Jackson wasn’t worth anything near what the IRS is claiming in court.

That means the vast majority of MJ’s debts to various creditors and other financial entities have been paid off – but they aren’t completely out of the woods yet. There’s still the matter of some outstanding debt involving MJ’s back catalog of music, but the handlers of the estate say that they expect all of Jackson’s debts to be paid off by the end of the year. Of course, a mammoth undertaking like clearing $500 million in various debts doesn’t happen for free, even when you’re managing the estate of one of the most successful recording artists of all time.

The Nike-owned Jordan brand accounts for more than 50% of the basketball sneaker market and made $2.8 billion in revenue for Nike over the past year alone. Nike expects the Jordan brand to bring in $4.5 billion in revenue by 2020. Michael Jordan collects a royalty on every shoe, hoodie, short, etc. sold by Nike. Sales of the Jordan brand for Nike rose 14% last year and has about 30 current NBA players under contract to wear the product on the court, including Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, and Blake Griffin.

Diaz, fresh off an August loss to Conor McGregor at UFC 202, has made it clear that he won’t even pick up the phone without the promise of a huge chunk of change. “I’m only fighting at lightweight for a big fight or 20 million just to take the call,” he said. “Until then, I’m just living my life.” Diaz reportedly made about $2 million from his loss in August plus whatever his share of the pay-per-view intake was.

Upon closer examination, insiders noticed that the contract was “essentially two contracts.” The first was a $8 million incentive with $5 million guaranteed for 2016. The second was an option to pick up another 4-year deal (2017-2020) worth $12 million per year, with a guaranteed $20.5 payout. The contract in itself was a bit low for a position with a rising salary cap. But his biggest gamble proved to be his downfall.

As it turns out, Serbian star, Novak Djokovic, didn’t want to wait until Federer retired. With a win over Japan’s Kei Nishikori in the Finals of the Miami Open, he added another $ 1,028,300 to his career earnings total (giving him a grand total of $98,199,548). Federer slips down to No. 2 with $97,855,881. It was his sixth win at the Miami Open and 63rd career ATP title. Federer surpassed Pete Sampras after making it to the quarter-finals of the 2008 Madrid Masters.

Blanco played for Al Sadd from 2012 to 2014 and scored 11 goals in 39 games. He finished his career with the New York Cosmos from 2014 to 2015, scoring eight goals in 28 appearances. Blanco also represented Spain in international competition at the Under-18, Under-20, Under-21, Under-23, and senior levels, scoring 44 games in 102 caps. Blanco has won six La Liga titles and three UEFA Champions League titles.

The United Kingdom’s version of Celebrity Big Brother is paying Ray J a whopping $1 MILLION to appear on the show, which aired its first episode earlier this week. That amount has been confirmed by paperwork, according to TMZ. The show is also paying him up to $30,000 in order to travel back and forth for the show. He will be the highest paid member of the cast. Naturally when you get that kind of money, you have to figure out a way to spend it all, and Ray J is no different.

While many may not know it, rapper Rick Ross has been quite the connoisseur of fine real estate. Besides previously owning other properties in Florida, the performer bought up quite a unique piece of property in 2014, dropping $5.8 million to claim Evander Holyfield’s massive Georgia mansion. It seems his most recent buy has maintained the title of favorite, as the performer has parted ways with several pieces of property since, and is hoping to make the sale of his Davie, Florida home one for the books.

The Brescia family has taken over the control of a group of companies know as Grupo Brescia, with interests in a vast number of industries like agriculture, fish products, cement, paint products, explosives, welding, insurance, banking, mining and real estate. Rosa, along with her two sons and three daughters, owns 30% of Grupo Brescia, and thus has joined the narrow list of Peruvian billionaires. One of her sons, Bernardo Fort Brescia, is the man who designed Lima’s tallest building, the Westin Lima Hotel, which is owned by the Grupo Brescia, among numerous other buildings in the US and Peru.