XXXXX Billy Joel Net Worth , Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story What is Billy Joel's estimated net worth? Billy Joel is an Ame...
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Billy Joel Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
What is Billy Joel's estimated net worth?
Billy Joel is an American singer and songwriter with a $225 million net worth. Billy Joel has sold more than 150 million songs all over the world, making him one of the most popular musicians of all time. His work was at its best in the 1970s and 1980s, when he put out a string of hit albums and singles that are now considered classics.
Category:
Richest Celebrities › Rock Stars
Net Worth:
$225 Million
Date of Birth:
May 9, 1949 (74 years old)
Place of Birth:
The Bronx
Gender:
Male
Height:
5 ft 5 in (1.66 m)
Profession:
Singer-songwriter, Pianist, Lyricist, Composer, Orchestrator, Businessperson, Musician, Voice Actor
Nationality:
United States of America
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Billy Joel is probably best known for his ability to tell stories and for his knack for making catchy, smooth pop songs. His biggest records are "The Stranger" (1977), which has the hits "Just the Way You Are," "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," and "Only the Good Die Young," and "52nd Street" (1978), which won the Grammy for Album of the Year and has the hit "My Life." Also, "Glass Houses" from 1980 has the number one hit "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," and "An Innocent Man" from 1983 pays tribute to different types of music from the 1950s and 1960s.
One of his most popular songs is "Piano Man," which came out on the 1973 album of the same name. This song, which is often thought of as his signature song, shows how well Joel could write stories that people could relate to and set to interesting music.
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Early Years
Martin William Joel was born in the Bronx in New York City on May 9, 1949. His German businessman father was a classical musician who also ran a business. Before they got to the United States, his family went to Switzerland and Cuba to get away from the Nazis. The family of Joel's mother came from Kent, England. In the late 1930s, his parents met at a City College of New York performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan play. When he was young, his family moved to Hicksville, Long Island. There, he and his younger sister, Judy, grew up. In 1957, his parents got a divorce, and his father moved back to Europe and remarried in Austria. Alexander Joel, Joel's half-brother from his father's side, also became a musician. From 2001 to 2014, he was the head of music at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Joel's mother made him start taking piano classes when he was 4 years old. After that, he grew to love and appreciate classical music in a way that he still does today. He joined his first band, The Echoes, when he was only 14. He loved all kinds of music. He went to Hicksville High School, but he didn't get his diploma because he didn't have enough points. He could have taken summer classes to finish school, but instead he chose to pursue music full-time.
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Career
In 1967, Joel left the band The Echoes, which was then called the Lost Souls, and joined the Hassles. The Hassles were signed to United Artists Records and put out a number of songs and albums, but none of them did very well. Joel and the band's drummer, Jon Small, left in 1969 and started the band Attila as a pair. Their self-titled record came out in July 1970, but they didn't work together for long because Joel had an affair with Elizabeth Small, who was married to Small.
Joel went solo in 1971 when he signed a deal with the record company Family Productions and released "Cold Spring Harbour" as his first solo album. Even though the record wasn't a big hit, he was able to get Columbia Records' attention, and they signed him in 1972. With Columbia, he put out the albums "Piano Man" (1973), "Streetlife Serenade" (1974), and "Turnstiles" (1976). But it wasn't until "The Stranger" (1977), his fourth solo album, that he broke into the public. The songs "Just the Way You Are," "Only the Good Die Young," and "She's Always a Woman" were all taken from the album "The Stranger," which sold more than 10 million copies. "52nd Street" (1978), "Glass Houses" (1980), "The Nylon Curtain" (1982), "An Innocent Man" (1983), "The Bridge" (1986), "Storm Front" (1989), and "River of Dreams" (1993) are some of his works that came after "52nd Street."
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Billy Joel has sold more than 150 million records all over the world. This makes him one of the best-selling acts of all time. He has been nominated for 23 Grammys and won six of them. He is also in the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1993, Joel stopped actively making songs. He did, however, put out a record called "Fantasies & Delusions" in 2001. The album is different from his normal style and content because it has classical piano pieces played by his longtime friend and pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
Since then, Joel has gone on tours on his own and with other acts like Elton John. He also plays a monthly show at Madison Square Garden. This has been going on since 2014, and on January 25, 2020, he played his 72nd straight monthly show there. Joel is so famous that his greatest hits album, "Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2" (1985), was one of the best-selling albums in the US. In 2013, he was given the Kennedy Centre Honours.
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Financial Problems
In 1989, Billy sued Frank Weber, who had been his manager before, for $90 million. Weber was his brother-in-law in the past. In the lawsuit, it was said that Weber had mismanaged $30 million of the singer's money, and $60 million in damages were asked for. Weber then put himself through bankruptcy. Billy sued his accountants and lawyers, and he is said to have settled for $8 million.
Different Projects
Joel wrote his book "The Book of Joel: A Memoir" in 2011. Fred Schuers helped him write it. He has also owned the Long Island Boat Company and a shop in Oyster Bay, Long Island, where custom bikes with a retro look are made.
Personal Life
Lizzie Weber Small was Joel's first wife. Their relationship began as an affair, because she was still married to Jon Small, who worked with Joel on some of his songs. Joel and Small finally got married in 1973, but they split up in 1982. When Billy left his wife, he was almost broke because Elizabeth's brother Frank had wasted about $30 million and they had to pay a multi-million dollar divorce settlement.
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As he got ready to marry Christie Brinkley, an American model, for the second time, he was in bad financial shape. He was always on tour to make money. That led to a big fight and claims of cheating. They were married from 1985 to 1994, and their daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, was born during that time. From 2004 to 2009, he was married to cook Katie Lee. Alexis Roderick is the name of Joel's fourth wife. He got married to Roderick in 2015, but they'd been dating since 2009. They have two children together. Their names are Della Rose Joel and Remy Anne Joel.
Joel never got his high school diploma because he didn't have enough points to do so in 1967. Instead, 25 years later, he sent essays to the school board of Hicksville High School to make up for the credits he had missed, and at the school's graduation event in 1992, he was given his high school diploma. He has also received many honours doctorates from places like Fairfield University, Berklee College of Music, Syracuse University, the Manhattan School of Music, and Stony Brook University.
Earnings from Billy Joel's Career
Billy Joel made $45 million between June 2017 and June 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, he made $50 million in the same time frame.
When Billy does a residency, like his multi-year stints at Madison Square Garden, he can easily make between $2 and $3 million per show. His show on 2019's New Year's Eve made $4.6 million. Billy made $150 million from his MSG contract between 2014, when it started, and the end of 2019.
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Real Estate
Over the years, Billy Joel has bought and sold a number of impressive homes, mostly in Florida and Long Island, New York. He has sold homes to people like the singer Sting, the comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and the CEO of a shopping chain, Mickey Drexler. He has made fun of himself by calling himself the "realtor to the stars."
Billy paid $22.5 million for a house called Middlesea in 2002. It is on a 14-acre island in Oyster Bay, New York, called Centre Island. With a few more purchases, he grew the land to 26 acres in the end. When he bought the land in 2002, it had a mansion that was 14,000 square feet. He kept growing until he had 20,000 square feet. There is also a helipad, a beach house, and two pools on the site. Billy put this house on the market in May 2023 for $49 million.
Billy has another home in the New York town of Sag Harbour.
In 2014, he spent just under $12 million for two properties in Manalapan, Florida, that are next to each other and cover 4 acres. One of the lots was empty, and the other had a house that was almost 9,000 square feet. In 2015, he put the whole property on the market for $29 million. He asked $19.5 million for the house by itself, without the empty lot. In the end, in January 2020, he took $10,3 million. He did not sell the three-quarters of the four-acre land that was not built on.
Billy paid $5.9 million for a home in New York City in 2006. During their divorce, Katie Lee, who was his ex-wife, got this land. In 2011, she sold it for $12.9 million.
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