Travis Barker net worth
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What is the net worth of Travis Barker?
Travis Barker is an American drummer, musician and reality TV celebrity with a net worth of US$50 million. Buck is best known for playing drums in the Blink-182 band, but he also appeared on the MTV reality show “Meet the Barkers”, published a memoir, and founded a fashion company and a record company. Blink-182’s most successful album “Enema of the State” has sold more than 15 million copies, and “Rolling Stone” magazine included Travis in the 2016 “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” list.
In 2008, Travis was a passenger on a private plan that crashed during takeoff in South Carolina. Four people died. Travis and DJ AM were seriously injured, and Barker suffered burns on 65% of his body. He underwent 27 operations and recovered in the hospital for four months.
In October 2021, Travis was engaged to Courtney Kardashian.
Early life and education
Travis Barker, formerly known as Travis Landon Barker, was born on November 14, 1975 in Fontana, California. He grew up with his mother Gloria (who used to be a nanny), his father Randy (a mechanic) and 2 sisters. Barker’s mother gave him a set of drums when he was 4 years old, and he started classes the following year. Travis also took a trumpet class. In junior high school, he learned to play the piano and briefly joined a choir. He considered becoming a professional surfer or skater, but he felt that his drums were the best way to express himself. Sadly, Buck’s mother died of Sjogren’s syndrome before his first day in high school. When attending Fontana High School, Travis claimed to be a stonemason and played drums in military bands and jazz bands.
Profession
After graduating from high school, Buck joined the Snot and Feeble bands, and then joined the Scarpunk band Aquabats founded by the Feeble band member Chad Larson in 1996. Travis and Aquabats recorded an album, and the band toured with Blink-182; when the drummer of Blink-182 left the band, Barker replaced him and became the permanent drummer of the band in 1998. In June 1999, Barker and Blink-182’s first album “Enema of the State” was released, and the band grew rapidly. Star, thanks for the singles “All the Little Things”, “What’s My Age?” and “Adam’s Song”. “All the Small Things” ranked first on the Modern Rock Tracks rankings and 6th on the Billboard Hot 100 rankings, and the video won the MTV Music Video Award in 2000. The band started touring in the fall of 1999, but Travis had to miss several dates due to a broken finger. Barker also released 5 albums through Blink-182: “Take Off Pants and Jacket” in 2001, “Blink-182” in 2003, “Neighbors” in 2011, “California” in 2016, and “California” in 2019. Nine”.
In 2002, Travis began performing with Transplants, a rock/rap super duo formed by Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, playing on their 4 albums. Barker released a solo album “Give the Drummer Some” in 2011, and released albums with +44, TRV$D JAM, Box Car Racer, Expensive Taste, Goldfinger, Yelawolf and several other bands.
Barker founded the clothing line Famous Stars & Straps in 1999 and the record company LaSalle Records in 2004. In 2015, he released his memoir “What Can I Say: Live Big, Cheating Death, Drums, Drums, Drums”,” he appeared in many movies and TV shows, including “American Pie” and “Two Men , A girl and a pizzeria”, “The Simpsons” and “Crime Scene Investigation”.
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personal life
Travis married Melissa Kennedy in 2001, but the couple divorced nine months later. He married former Miss America Shanna Mockler on October 30, 2004, and they welcomed their son Langdon a year later. They also have a daughter, Alabama (born in December 2005). Moakler has a daughter from a previous relationship with Oscar De La Hoya. The family starred in the reality show “Meet the Barkers”, which aired 16 episodes in 2005 and 2006. Barker and Moakler divorced in 2008. In 2014, Travis and Shanna were arrested after the police were summoned to their common home. Barker allegedly threatened to kill Mockler, and she threatened to have her boyfriend beat Travis.
In February 2016, Travis submitted a legal document requesting that his monthly child support payments of US$19,000 be reduced to US$2,900, claiming that his annual income has fallen from approximately US$2 million per year to approximately US$600,000. In the document, Buck listed net assets of approximately US$40 million.
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Buck became addicted to painkillers after breaking up with Mokler, but he overcame the addiction after the plane crash. He also believes that the plane crash made him pay more attention to his health. After being discharged from the hospital, he started swimming and running every day and started to be vegetarian; he has been a vegetarian since he was a teenager, but had to eat meat during the hospital to speed up the healing process.
In January 2021, Travis began dating Courtney Kardashian. They were engaged in October 2021.
Plane crash
On September 19, 2008, a private jet carrying Travis, Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), security Che Still, and personal assistant Chris Baker crashed into the embankment while taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, South Carolina. explode. Despite this, Baker and the two pilots were killed, and Buck and Goldstein were taken to the Joseph M. Steele Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia. As more than 65% of his body was burned, Buck underwent 27 operations and skin grafts during the four months he spent in burn centers and hospitals.
Understandably, Travis refused to get on the plane for more than a decade after the crash. This means that whenever Blink-182 performs overseas, he must be replaced. In 2021, 13 years after the crash, he flew with Kourtney Kardashian for the first time.
real estate
In 2014, Buck spent US$4 million to purchase a four-bedroom house in the Cheviot Hills community in Los Angeles. He sold it for nearly $4.5 million in 2017. Also in 2017, Barker purchased a 7,200 square foot mansion in Calabasas, California for $2.8 million. He put it on the rental market in 2019, asking for a monthly price of US$27,500. Travis also purchased a Calabasas mansion worth US$9.5 million in 2007, a Bel Air home worth US$1.5 million in 2010, Rancho Cucamonga home worth US$1.3 million in 2010, and a US$480,000 home in 2004. Lake Elsinore residence.
