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David H. Murdock, a Rags-to-Riches Corporate Raider, Dies at 102 He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor and chief of Dole he became a billionaire.

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Peacock's 'Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy' has set its Emmy submissions. Renée Zellweger eyes history as an Oscar & Emmy nominee for the same role.

He filed his lawsuit last July. He retired from PepsiCo in 2019 and launched a career as a motivational speaker, largely on his rags-to-riches story of how he was working as a janitor at Frito-Lay’s ...

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 ...

Lea Michele will return to Broadway starring with Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher in the long-rumored "Chess" revival.

By her own admission, Stacey Abrams has made a number of "personal financial missteps” in her career. Despite a history marked by bill collectors, tax liens, and ethics investigations, the ...

Lea Michele said "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy was the one who first told her about the online rumors that she can't read.

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Mitchell Yellen was abandoned at the age of 11 by his mother at a Boy Scout camp in New York, and left with a father whom he couldn’t rely on. Yellen said, “I just … ...

From Kendrick Lamar to Missy Elliot, The Best Rags To Riches Stories in Hip-Hop Several MCs including 50 Cent, Missy Elliot and DMX went through some incredibly difficult times to achieve success.

Investors allege in court their money disappeared To investors, cannabis entrepreneur Vincent Mehdizadeh pitched himself as a rags-to-riches Los Angeles success story.