Brandi Passant net worth
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What is Brandi Passante’s net worth?
Brandi Passante is an American storage hunter and reality TV star with a net worth of US$2 million. Passant was born on May 16, 1980 in Harris County, Texas, and became famous with her long-term boyfriend Jarrod Schultz on the A&E reality show “Storage Wars” (2010-2018). Brandi and Jarrod are called “The Young Guns” in the series, and they also starred in the 2014 A&E special and derivative series, both named “Brandi & Jarrod: Married to Work”. Passante and Schulz appeared in more than 260 episodes of “Storage Wars.”
Profession
Jarrod started the warehouse auction business on the advice of his aunt. He and Brandi opened a thrift store in Orange County, California, called Now and Then Second Hand Store. Although “Storage Wars” originally only wanted Schultz, when the producers came to the store and met Passant, they thought that the show also needed her.
At the beginning of the series, Brandi and Jarrod were portrayed as hunters with the lowest financial resources, but Passant lacked financial resources. She made up for it with fighting spirit, and then impressed the audience with her serious bidding style. One of the reasons Brandi has this “not accepting captives” attitude is because she knows what is at stake: “I have to reverse my scores quickly because they will pay for the next auction. If I don’t flip the items, I No more bids,” she said.
As the show became more successful, Passant and Schultz were able to transform themselves into heavier hitters. Brandi and Jarrod opened their second Now and Then store in Long Beach, California during the fourth season of “Storage Wars” (broadcast in 2013), but the store closed in 2014. Passante and Schulz closed their original Orange County store in 2016.
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personal life
Brandi and Jarrod met in 1999 when she was hired by the carpet cleaning company where Schultz worked. The couple, who never officially married, have two children, son Cameron (born in 2003) and daughter Peyton (born in 2005). Peyton was born deaf and had a cleft palate, and she had to undergo multiple surgeries as a child. In an interview with “Daddy’s Diary” in June 2020, Passant revealed that she and Schultz ended their relationship “two years ago.” In the interview, she also said that she was diagnosed with Covid-19 two weeks ago and had been suffering from severe headaches and lost her sense of taste.
In early 2013, Brandi sued the adult website operator Hunter Moore for publishing a video allegedly showing Passant’s nudity. She asked for compensation of 2.5 million U.S. dollars, but only won 750 U.S. dollars; the video featuring Brandi’s appearance was deleted and the website was shut down. In 2019, Passante served as the host of the Women’s Own Worth charity event, an organization that “enables women and their families to live independently after trauma, so that they can regain their self-worth”. The event raised $100,000 for charity.
