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What Is Kim Novak’s Net Worth?Kim Novak is an American actress and painter who has a net worth of $15 million. The winner of two Golden Globes, Kim Novak began her acting career in the ’50s and retired from the business in the early ’90s after appearing in the 1991 film “Liebestraum.” Kim has more than 30 acting credits to her name, including the films “Phffft” (1954), “Picnic” (1955), “The Man with the Golden Arm” (1955), “Pal Joey” (1957), “Vertigo” (1958), “Bell, Book and Candle” (1958), “The Great Bank Robbery” (1969), and “The White Buffalo” (1977), and she played Kit Marlowe on the CBS primetime soap opera “Falcon Crest” from 1986 to 1987. Since her retirement from acting, Novak has devoted her time to painting, and Ohio’s Butler Institute of American Art exhibited a retrospective of Novak’s art in 2019 and published the book “Kim Novak: Her Art and Life.”Early LifeKim Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak on February 13, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois. Kim is the daughter of Blanche Kral and history teacher/freight dispatcher Joseph Novak, and both of her parents appeared in her film “The Notorious Landlady.” Novak’s older sister, Arlene, grew up to become a fashion designer. Kim studied at William Penn Elementary and Farragut High School, then she enrolled at Wright Junior College. Novak earned two scholarships to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and before her final semester of junior college, she spent the summer traveling around the U.S., modeling at trade shows for a refrigerator company.CareerWhile visiting Los Angeles, the refrigerator company crowned Kim “Miss Deepfreeze.” When Novak and two other models were standing in line to be extras in the RKO films “Son of Sinbad” and “The French Line,” Kim caught the attention of an agent, and she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures. Harry Cohn, Columbia’s chief, wanted Novak to change her name, telling her, “Nobody’s gonna go see a girl with a Polack name!” Kim responded, “I’m Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it’s my name!” Though Cohn wanted her to use the stage name “Kit Marlowe,” the two compromised on “Kim Novak” (and Kim would later play a character named Kit Marlowe on “Falcon Crest”). Novak made her film debut with an uncredited role in 1953’s “The French Line,” and the following year, she appeared in “Pushover” and “Phffft,” winning a Golden Globe for “Phffft.” In 1955, she had an uncredited role in “Son of Sinbad,” appeared in “5 Against the House” and “Picnic,” and co-starred with Frank Sinatra in the drama “The Man with the Golden Arm.” Kim starred in “The Eddy Duchin Story” in 1956, and in 1957, she played the title role in “Jeanne Eagels” and Linda English in the musical comedy “Pal Joey,” which also starred Sinatra and Rita Hayworth. “Pal Joey” earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Film – Comedy or Musical and won a Laurel Award for Top Musical.In 1958, Novak starred as Judy Barton / Madeleine Elster in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” alongside James Stewart. The film was preserved in the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 1989 for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” Kim then appeared in “Bell, Book and Candle” (1958), “Middle of the Night” (1959), “Strangers When We Meet” (1960), “The Notorious Landlady” (1962), “Boys’ Night Out” (1962), “Of Human Bondage” (1964), “Kiss Me, Stupid” (1964), and “The Great Bank Robbery” (1969), and she played the title roles in 1965’s “The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders” and 1968’s “The Legend of Lylah Clare.” After “The Great Bank Robbery,” Novak took a four-year “self-imposed vacation,” then in 1973, she starred in the film “Tales That Witness Madness” and the TV movie “The Third Girl from the Left.” She then appeared in the films “Satan’s Triangle” (1975), “The White Buffalo” (1977), “Just a Gigolo” (1979), and “The Mirror Crack’d” (1980) and the TV movie “Malibu” (1983).In 1985, Kim guest-starred on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and from 1986 to 1987, she played Kit Marlowe in 19 episodes of “Falcon Crest.” In the ’90s, she made two films, “The Children” (1990) and “Liebestraum” (1991), then she retired from acting. In a 2004 interview with the Associated Press, Novak said of “Liebestraum,” “I got so burned out on that picture that I wanted to leave the business. But then if you wait long enough you think, ‘Oh, I miss certain things.’ The making of a movie is wonderful. What’s difficult is afterward when you have to go around and try to sell it. The actual filming, when you have a good script — which isn’t often — nothing beats it.”Personal LifeIn the ’50s, Kim dated Sammy Davis, Jr., and a BBC documentary alleged that Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn enlisted mobsters to threaten Sammy during the relationship, telling him that they would break his legs if he didn’t marry a Black woman within the next two days. In the late ’50s, Novak was engaged to Richard Quine, her “Bell, Book and Candle,” “Strangers When We Meet,” and “The Notorious Landlady” director, and she briefly dated Wilt Chamberlain in the ’60s. Kim married actor Richard Johnson on March 15, 1965, and they divorced in May 1966. That year she left Hollywood and moved to Big Sur, where she spent her time raising horses and painting. In 1974, Novak met equine veterinarian Robert Malloy, and they wed on March 12, 1976. The couple remained together until Robert’s death in November 2020. In 2006, Kim suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung in a horse-riding accident, and in 2010, she was diagnosed with breast cancer after a routine mammogram. Novak’s manager, Sue Cameron, said that Kim was undergoing treatment, and that “all her doctors say she is in fantastic physical shape and should recover very well.”In 2021, Novak spoke to “The Hollywood Reporter” about her life and recalled a disturbing experience at a party at Tony Curtis’ home, stating, “Tony Curtis had brought me a drink. I don’t know, I only had, I think, one drink there. But that’s the last thing I knew. I do not know anything afterward, cross my heart, hope to die. Don’t know what happened after that or how my car got back in front of my apartment.” She added that she thinks Curtis spiked her drink and that when she woke up the next morning, she didn’t have any clothing on. The article also mentioned that a group of boys in Kim’s neighborhood raped her when she was a teenager.Awards and NominationsNovak has won two Golden Globes, Most Promising Newcomer – Female for “Phffft” in 1955 and World Film Favorite – Female in 1957. That year she also earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Actress for “Picnic,” a Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress, and a Photoplay Award for Most Popular Female Star. Kim received Laurel Award nominations for Top Female Star every year between 1958 and 1963, and she has been honored with the Berlin International Film Festival Honorary Golden Berlin Bear (1997), the George Eastman Award (2003), the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society’s S.F. Cinematic Icon Award (2012), and Febiofest’s Kristián Award (2015). In 1960, Novak received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Real EstateFrom 1961 to 1973, Novak lived in a 2,070 square foot home in Carmel, California. In 2021, the home went on the market for $12.5 million. Kim also previously owned a home in Eagle Point, Oregon, but it burned down in 2000, and she lost a Bel-Air home to a mudslide in the ’60s.

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What is Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud’s Net Worth?Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is a Saudi business magnate, investor and philanthropist who has a net worth of $17 billion. He is a member of the Saudi royal family and was listed as one of Time magazine’s Time 100, an annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world in 2008. Waleed is the nephew of the late Saudi King Abdullah, the grandson of Ibn Saud, the first Saudi king, and the grandson of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon’s first Prime Minister.Al-Waleed is the founder, CEO and 95 percent-owner of the Kingdom Holding Company, a Forbes Global 2000 company with investments in companies within various sectors such as banking and financial services, hotels and hotel management companies, mass media, entertainment, retail, agriculture, petrochemicals, aviation, technology and real estate. Al Waleed has owned major stakes in a number of public companies including Citigroup, News Corporation and Twitter. He owns Paris’ Four Seasons Hotel George V as well as part of Plaza Hotel.? Compare Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal Alsaud’s Net WorthWealth PeakAt his all-time peak in roughly 2014, Prince Alwaleed was one of the 10 richest people in the world with a net worth of $36 billion.Early LifeAl-Waleed was born into the royal family on March 7, 1955. His father, Prince Talal bin Abdul-Aziz, was known as The Red Prince and served as Saudi Arabia’s finance minister before he was exiled because he advocated for political reform. His mother was Mona Al Solh, the daughter of Lebanon’s first prime minister. After remaining married for seven years, Al Waleed’s parents separated and he went to live with his mother in Lebanon.He attended a number of schools both in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia during his early life. He attended Pinewood College in Beirut, Lebanon before attending the King Abdul Aziz Military Academy in Riyadh. He then returned to Lebanon to attend the Manor School before moving to the United States, where he enrolled in Menlo College in 1979. From there, he received his bachelor’s degree in business administration before enrolling at Syracuse University and earned a master’s degree in social science in 1985.CareerAl-Waleed has been involved in a wide array of business ventures, all of which began in 1980 after he completed his bachelor’s degree. With the help of some start-up money from his father, Al-Waleed formed Kingdom Establishment. He then took out a loan of $300,000 from the Saudi American Bank to keep the business afloat before experiencing his first business success in 1982 after partnering with a South Korean construction company, which helped him earn enough money to begin investing in real estate and the stock market.His next success came after he acquired United Saudi Commercial Bank, which later became a leading Middle Eastern bank called United Saudi Bank after mergers with the Saudi Cairo Bank and the Saudi American Bank in 1999. He had also begun purchasing stakes in other businesses, like Canary Wharf and the Four Seasons Hotel Group, making him a billionaire in his own right by 1989. He invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Citicorp Bank in 1990, helping keep the bank afloat through a tough financial market in the early 1990s.Al-Waleed also continued focusing on both luxury and high-profile brands, purchasing a 10 percent state in Saks Fifth Avenue for $100 million in 1993, leading to the first store of its kind in Riyadh. Over the next few years he bought a 50 percent controlling interest in the Fairmont hotel group, a 22 percent stake in the Four Seasons, a 42 percent state in the Plaza Hotel, and he outright purchased the George V hotel in 1996. Additionally, he bought a 24 percent stake in Euro Disney in 1994.Additionally, his investment strategy also included media and technology companies, as he purchased a 5 percent stake in Apple Inc. in 1997, making him the largest shareholder at the time. He also  invested in Motorola, Netscape, Fox Broadcasting, Priceline.com, and News Corporation. In 2015, he invested $300 million in Twitter.In 2002, he formed Kingdom Hotel Investments to focus exclusively on all of his hotel assets and holdings, which he continued to increase over the years as he invested in and later purchased the Savoy Hotel in London and the Monte Carlo Grand Hotel in Monaco. After maintaining his large interest in the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts group, he acquired the company in 2006 in a partnership with an American real estate firm.In 2011, Al-Waleed announced a massive building project when he unveiled that his company planned to construct the world’s tallest building, the Kingdom Tower, which was to stand at least 1,000 meters high. The cost of the project was budgeted at $20 billion and construction began in 2013.Arrest and DetentionOn November 4, 2017, Prince Al-Waleed and 300+ fellow prominent Saudis were arrested and held at the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh. He and his fellow millionaires/billionaires were accused of bribery, money laundering and extortion. Prince Al-Waleed was released on January 27, 2018, after 84 days.He was released after reaching a financial settlement that was reported to be worth well north of $1 billion. It had been reported that he paid as much as $6 billion to secure his release. The exact details of the settlement have not been publicly disclosed. Interestingly, the person demanding the settlement, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is Prince Al Waleed’s cousin.PhilanthropyThe prince is also a philanthropist, consistently donating and investing large amounts of money in philanthropic causes and organizations. He has been a long-time political supporter of Palestine, having invested $10 million in the Palestinian Investment and Development Company in 1997. He later donated $18.5 million to Palestinian families during a Saudi organized telethon that was designed to help the families of Palestinians who were affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.His stance on Palestine has caused conflict as well, such as when he attempted to donate $10 million to the city of New York City following the September 11 terrorist attacks. Along with his check, he commented that the United States should likely reexamine its position towards Palestine, which caused then Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, to return the check.He has also donated large amounts of money to institutions of higher education in the United States and Europe. In 2005, he donated $20 million to Georgetown University to create the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding within the School of Foreign Service. He gave a similar grant of 16 million British pounds to Edinburgh University in order to create a center focused on the study of contemporary Islam. Both Harvard University and the University of Cambridge also have centers of Islamic Studies that are named for the prince.In 2015, he announced that he planned to donate $32 billion in the future to a number of philanthropic causes including disaster relief, the women’s movement, and disease eradication, among others.Net Worth detailsPrince Alwaleed owns a 95 percent stake in Kingdom Holding and is invested in real estate, media, stocks, aircraft, and private equity. Al Saud owns an amazing 420 room palace and owns other residences and the top three floors of Kingdom Tower. Altogether his properties are worth more than $4.5 billion. Alwaleed owns 80.5 percent of television broadcaster Rotana which is worth over a billion dollars. He also owns more than 30 million Twitter shares.