Multi-millionaires actors and entrepreneurs have ditched their high school to pursue their career and to start building their multimillion dollar fortune. Here are the top 5 multi-millionaire who ditched their high schools to make multi-million fortunes.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, a Welsh actress started her career on stage in childhood. Catherine quit school at 15 to pursue her stage career in London. The actress became famous in the late 90’s with her performance in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of Zorro and the 1999 crime thriller film Entrapment.
Her best role was in the 2000 film Traffic, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. But she mesmerized audiences as Velma Kelly in the blockbuster musical Chicago in 2002 for which the actress earned an Oscar, BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Zeta-Jones’s estimated net worth is nearly $45 million.
REUTERSRobert De Niro is an American actor, director, and producer. REUTERSJessica Simpson, a reality TV star, an American singer, actress, fashion designer and reality TV star is a dropped out of high school. Jessica became famous after 1999, she has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, three gold and two multi-platinum Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified studio albums.REUTERSBilly Joel is an American musician, pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Billy, the six-time Grammy Award winner has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
“If I’m not going to Columbia University, I’m going to Columbia Records and you don’t need a high school diploma over there,” Billy Joel once famously declared after learning he had fallen one credit short of his high school graduation requirement in 1967, expensive point reported. His estimated net worth is $160 million.
REUTERSThis 25-year-old home is the founder and CEO of the short- form blogging platform Tumblr. The creator of the Tumblr was dropped out of Bronx Science High School at 15 to establish his own Web development company. Tumblr gets 2 million posts and averages 15,000 new users per day. Tumblr
