To investors, Vincent Mehdizadeh pitched himself as a rags-to-riches Los Angeles success story — a man whose family fled religious fundamentalism in Iran and who later grew up to transform the ...

Kurt Warner's story is complete - rags to unimaginable riches.The grocery clerk-turned-NFL MVP has a seven-year contract worth $46.5 million. "I don't know if I've ever seen that many zeros before ...

Sometimes, the most entertaining stories come from pure imagination. These made-up rags-to-riches tales might not be real, but they tap into that satisfying feeling of watching someone go from ...