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Wes Miller missed the NCAA Tournament in all five of his seasons at Cincinnati. He'll still make millions after getting fired.

Quincy Jones' estate just sold a major portion of his legendary catalog. The price tag remains a mystery, but by comparing the assets involved to recent blockbuster deals, it's likely this transaction landed somewhere in the $300–$500 million range.

Kate Hudson co-founded the athleisure brand "Fabletics" in 2013, and more than a decade later the company has grown into a $1+ billion revenue powerhouse. If the privately held company ever goes public near its rumored $5 billion valuation, Hudson's estimated 20% stake could push her into the billionaire club.

Winning an Oscar is Hollywood's ultimate honor, but for a select group of winners it also came with extraordinary wealth. Here are the 30 richest Academy Award winners of all time, a list that includes billionaires, media moguls, music legends, and actors who turned cinematic success into massive fortunes.

The Ravens offered two first-round draft picks for Maxx Crosby before backing out of the deal—only to sign another defensive end instead.

Former Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis has been released from prison after serving 17 months of a 40-month sentence tied to the NBA's health care fraud scandal. The former NBA champion now heads to a halfway house as he begins the long process of rebuilding his life after the scheme that involved nearly 20 former players.

He made "Jaws," "E.T.," and "Jurassic Park." But Steven Spielberg's most lucrative deal isn't a movie—it's a quiet contract that pays him tens of millions every year, just because Universal has theme parks. And the kicker? It was signed in 1987 and lasts forever.

If you invested $10,000 in the Microsoft IPO 40 years ago today, how rich would you be? See how stock splits and DRIP turned $10k into a massive fortune and incredible annual dividend earnings.

For people who enjoy reading stories about extreme wealth, March 13 should be a holiday. What happened 40 years ago today? A little software company in Seattle called Microsoft went public.

Kyler Murray spent seven seasons in Arizona. He'll be playing for the Minnesota Vikings this year, but the Cardinals owe him a ton of money.

Before he became a billionaire selling Patrón tequila for $5.1 billion, John Paul DeJoria was homeless and living out of his car. Now the self-made mogul is selling one of the most unusual homes in Hawaii, a Balinese temple-style compound he had built in Indonesia, dismantled, shipped across the Pacific, and rebuilt overlooking the Big Island for $32.5 million.

"Seinfeld" may have been a show about nothing, but financially it became one of the most valuable television franchises in history. More than 25 years after the finale, the sitcom has generated billions in revenue and made its creators extraordinarily wealthy, while its supporting stars earned huge salaries but only a small slice of the long-term profits.

In 1989, Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld sat down to write a pilot for NBC. That pilot was titled, as you may have guessed, Seinfeld, and it went on to run for nine seasons from 1989 to 1998. It is the most profitable and popular half-hour television series in the history of TV.

Daniel Jones joined the Indianapolis Colts last season, unsure if he'd win the starting job. He just signed a deal worth up to nine figures.

A brilliant deep-sea treasure hunter found the legendary "Ship of Gold" and recovered a fortune in lost treasure—only to become a fugitive, vanish with 500 missing gold coins, and end up behind bars for a decade… until his release this week.