Richard Quest Net Worth

What Is Richard Quest's Net Worth?

Richard Quest is an English journalist, news anchor, reporter, and author who has a net worth of $5 million. Richard Quest works for CNN International and has anchored "Quest Means Business" since 2010. He has also hosted the monthly TV series "CNN Business Traveler," "CNN Marketplace Europe," and "Quest," and the daily program "CNN Today," and he began hosting the travel show "Quest's World of Wonder" in 2018. Richard worked for the BBC News 24 channel before joining CNN in 2001, and he served as the BBC's North American business correspondent out of New York City. Quest is CNN's Aviation Correspondent, and he extensively covered the 2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. In 2016, he published the book "The Vanishing of Flight MH370: The True Story of the Hunt for the Missing Malaysian Plane."

Early Life

Richard Quest was born Richard Austin Quest on March 9, 1962, in Liverpool, England. His heritage is Sephardic Jewish. Quest attended Roundhay School, a state comprehensive school in Leeds, then he studied at Airedale and Wharfedale College before earning a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Leeds in 1983. He then went to the U.S. and attended Tennessee's Vanderbilt University for the 1983–1984 academic year. During his time at Vanderbilt, Richard was the news director of the student-run radio station WRVU.

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Career

In 1985, Quest joined the BBC as a trainee journalist and began working in the network's financial section in 1987. In 1989, he relocated to New York City, where he worked as the BBC's North American business correspondent. Richard worked for the network from the U.S. as part of its new BBC News 24 channel. There, he served as a business correspondent and reported on the world stock market in the "World Business Report" segment, which he presented with Paddy O'Connell. Quest was sometimes a presenter on the BBC's "Business Breakfast" program. In 2001, he joined CNN and began co-hosting the new show "Business International." From 2002 to 2005, Richard was the host of "BizNews," a European morning show. While working for CNN, Quest has covered events such as the Concorde's final official commercial flight. In 2006, he was offered a position at the news channel Al Jazeera English, but he turned it down "on the grounds that being gay and Jewish might not be suitable." In 2010, he started hosting "Quest Means Business," on which he and "a team of correspondents analyze the facts and figures from the business world to help people earn money and spend it wisely." In 2015, Richard hosted the ABC game show "500 Questions" and competed on "The CNN Quiz Show: The Seventies." In 2018, he began hosting the travel show "Quest's World of Wonder." On the program, Quest "travels to different cities to discover and learn things about it in a way tourists can't."

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2008 Arrest & Personal Life

In 2008, Richard was arrested in Central Park "with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot." He was arrested for violating the park's curfew, and as he was being escorted out, he told the police that he had "meth in [his] pocket."

In a June 2014 episode of "Quest Means Business," Richard publicly came out as gay. He stated, "If I remember back to when I wasn't open about my sexuality, I spent a great deal of time worried about it…. about what my family would think, what would my friends, my colleagues would think, and of course, what would you think. Would the fact that I'm gay affect my credibility as a business journalist? Would you watch the program differently?" In October 2020, Quest announced on social media that he had married his long-term partner, Chris Pepesterny.

Awards and Nominations

In 2024, Quest won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage for "Israel-Hamas War." He was previously nominated in that category for "Manchester Concert Attack" in 2018 and for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form for "CNN Breaking News: Terror Attempt on U.S. Airliner" in 2010.

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