Ben Shapiro net worth
What is Ben Shapiro’s Net Worth?
Ben Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, author, columnist, lawyer and radio host. Ben Shapiro has a net worth of $20 million. Ben built fame and fortune as the founder of The Daily Telegraph. He has a huge social media audience on multiple platforms.
early life
Shapiro was born on January 15, 1984 in Los Angeles, California. He grew up in a conservative Jewish family where both his parents worked in Hollywood, as his mother was a television executive and his father was a composer. Shapiro played the violin as a child and did well in school, escaping third and ninth grades. After graduating from Yeshiva University High School in Los Angeles in 2000 at the age of 16, he enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the age of 20 and then attended Harvard Law School. After graduation, he worked at the law firm of Goodwin Procter, before starting his own legal consulting firm, Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting.
Profession
Shapiro began his public career as a writer and writer, having his first national syndication column at the age of 17. By the age of 21, he had published two books. In his first book, “Brainwashing: How Colleges Indoctrinate America’s Youth,” he discusses his view that U.S. colleges cannot tolerate non-left ideologies and perspectives. His next book, The Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Destroying Our Future, was published in 2005, and his third, Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House, was published in 2008 . His 2011 book, “Prime Time Propaganda: The Real Hollywood Story of How the Left Takes Over Television,” discusses Hollywood’s advancement of the leftist agenda through television and film. He published his fifth book, another critique of leftist culture, in 2013, and then in 2017, his first novel, True Loyalty.
Shapiro’s sixth book, “The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great,” focuses on Judeo-Christian values and the decline of those values in the United States. He will publish his seventh book, The Moment of Authority, in 2021.
While writing the book, Shapiro has held a number of other roles. In 2012, he became a contributing editor for Breitbart News, a very conservative news site founded by Andrew Breitbart. He resigned from the position in 2016 after he said the site lacked support for Michelle Fields, a journalist who was allegedly attacked by Donald Trump’s former campaign manager. Since then, Shapiro has been a frequent target of the alt-right movement, which regularly attacks him with anti-Semitic rhetoric and rhetoric.
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Shapiro also does a lot of work as a radio host. In 2012, he joined KRLA-AM 870 as co-host of the morning show. In 2016, he joined KRLA’s conservative radio show “The Morning Answer.” During the show, Shapiro was criticized for not being more supportive of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
In 2015, Shapiro founded The Daily Telegraph. He serves as editor emeritus and also hosts his own online podcast on a platform called “The Ben Shapiro Show.” The podcast was voted the second most popular podcast in the US in 2019 and airs every day of the week. It became syndicated in 2018 and is carried out by more than 200 different markets. Shapiro began hosting the “Ben Shapiro Election Special” on Fox News ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. He also appears frequently on PragerU’s work, discussing topics such as intersectionality and Hollywood influence.
Through all his various platforms, Shapiro is known for some of his radical views on political and social issues. He supports a blanket ban on abortion, with the only exceptions in extreme cases where the mother’s life is at risk. His views on homosexuality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, transgender rights and Islam have also sparked controversy. He has also been reluctant to acknowledge the effects of climate change and has been critical of the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that there is no systemic injustice that pervades African Americans today.
personal life
Shapiro married Israeli doctor Mor Toledano in 2008. The couple live in Los Angeles, California, where they have three children. They raised their children in Orthodox Judaism. In September 2020, Shapiro moved his family to South Florida and moved the headquarters of The Daily Telegraph from California to Nashville, Tennessee.
Shapiro and his family have been subject to many threats due to his career and political views. The FBI arrested a man in 2019 for making death threats to the Shapiro family. Shapiro’s sister, an opera singer, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic online trolls because of her relationship with her brother.
real estate
In 2015, Ben and Mor paid $1.7 million for a 6,500-square-foot home in Valley Village, California. In late 2020, Ben announced that he would be leaving California for Tennessee. In October 2020, Mor and Ben listed their home for just under $2.9 million.
