James Randi Net Worth

James Randi Net Worth: James Randi is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has a net worth of $1.5 million. James Randi was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in August 1928. Randi is best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience. He founded the James Randi Educational Foundation. He started his career as a magician and went by the name The Amazing Randi until he retired at 60 to focus on investigating the paranormal and supernatural claims. Randi has been referred to as a debunker although he dislikes the term and calls himself an investigator. He has been a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and was featured on the TV series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. His JREF sponsors the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge which offers a prize of $1 million to applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, occult, or supernatural power or event under test conditions agreed on by both parties. In 2014 the film An Honest Liar was released which focuses on Randi's life and investigations including his relationship with longtime partner Jose Alvarez. He holds two Guinness World Records including breaking Harry Houdini's record for longest time in a sealed casket underwater at 1 hour and 44 minutes.