Ari Emanuel's Net Worth

About Ariel Emanuel

American entrepreneur Ariel Zev Emanuel is the CEO of Endeavor, a media, and entertainment company that owns the UFC. He helped shape the Endeavor Talent Agency's merger with the William Morris Agency in June 2009 as one of its founding partners.

Emanuel's Net worth

American talent agent Ari Emanuel has a $450 million fortune. The main accomplishment of Ari Emanuel is his role as co-CEO of the media and entertainment company William Morris Endeavor-IMG (WME-IMG). The Jeremy Piven character "Ari" from the HBO series Entourage was modeled after Ari.

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Emanuel's Early Life

On March 29, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois, Ari Emanuel was born. He was raised in Wilmette, an Illinois suburb. He has two biological brothers and a sister by adoption named Shoshana. Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is his brother. Ezekiel Emanuel, a well-known bioethicist, is his other sibling.

Their father, Dr. Benjamin Emanuel, is a pediatrician who served in the Irgun, a hardline Zionist militant group, in Mandatory Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. As a result of these activities, British authorities designated the Irgun as a terrorist organization. While Ari was growing up, his mother Marsha Emanuel, a civil rights activist and the proprietor of a rock and roll club in the Chicago region used to accompany him to protests against the Vietnam War.

When Ari was a child, his mother spent many hours teaching him how to read despite the fact that he was both hyperactive and dyslexic. After graduating from New Trier High School, he attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he shared a room with "Friday Night Lights" director Peter Berg.

Career

Ari Emanuel started working in the entertainment sector with CAA as an apprentice agent. He worked his way up the ladder at ICM Partners and eventually was made a partner. Ari came up with the idea to start their own agency in 1995 together with a few other ICM television agents. ICM Chairman Jeff Berg learned of the scheme and immediately dismissed the four agents. The endeavor was launched by the four on March 30, 1995.

As time went on, they represented a distinguished group of actors, including Adam Sandler, Hank Azaria, Ben Affleck, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kevin James, and David Spade.

Emanuel coordinated the acquisition of rival William Morris, a 111-year-old firm with a prestigious reputation, by Endeavor in April 2009. The action, which the FTC immediately approved, established a new super-agency of sorts with more than 1,000 of the most well-known and accomplished actors, authors, musicians, directors, and producers on its client list. The Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a corporate monster founded by the legendary Michael Ovitz in the mid-'70s, had recently grown so large and so prosperous that it eclipsed every other player in Hollywood. The newly-formed William Morris Endeavor immediately posed a threat to CAA's market dominance.

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Endeavor purchased IMG for $2.4 billion in 2013. The support of private equity firm Silver Lake allowed for the acquisition to be funded. Following the transaction, Silver Lake received a 51% ownership position in the new mega-agency. The remaining 47% went to Ari Emmanuel and his partners.

WME-IMG is currently worth, conservatively, $10 billion. Ari and Patrick each possess stakes valued at about $450 million at that price. Ari and Patrick had 10-year employment contracts with $10 million base salaries when Silver Lake made its investment.

According to an SEC filing, Ari sold his Endeavor equity for $160 million in 2017. In 2013, it came to light that Emanuel had disliked the way NBC anchor Brian Williams had interviewed him and his two siblings. According to reports, he didn't like the interview's "tone." In relation to the situation, his attorney wrote to NBC. Both Emanuel and Whitesell have been recognized as Businesspersons of the Year by Fortune. He was referred to as "one of the biggest guns in the consolidating entertainment world" by Fortune in 2013. Ari has been a director on the board of Live Nation Entertainment since September 2007.

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Personal Life

Ari Emanuel and Sarah Hardwick Addington are married, and the two of them have three kids. When Emanuel urged Hollywood to blacklist Mel Gibson after Gibson made anti-Semitic remarks while being arrested for DUI in July 2006, he attracted a lot of media attention.

In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Emanuel, a Democratic party fundraiser, gave $2,7000 to Hillary Clinton.

Emanuel has long served on the board of trustees of P.S. Arts, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that works to bring art education programs to Southern California schools, and he is an active participant in the philanthropy of the arts. Additionally, he assisted the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in launching MOCAtv, a specific YouTube art channel. He joined the board of the museum in 2012.

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Emanuel's Real Estate Assets

Ari Emanuel invested $9.8 million in a Los Angeles house in 2015, but it is not his primary residence. 

In 2015, Ari Emanuel invested $16.55 million in a home in Los Angeles' Brentwood district. 

He spent $11.5 million to purchase his neighbor's land in 2018, intending to turn it into a magnificent 1.25-acre complex. But he ultimately sold the first Brentwood home for $19.4 million. Sadly, his sale of the second home for $6.5 million—a loss of almost $4 million—wiped out the pleasant win.

Ari invested $27.5 million in a Beverly Hills, California, house in October 2020. Edward Slatkin, the owner of a number of boutique hotels, including the adjacent Shutters on the Beach and Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica, was the seller. The house was initially listed by Slatkin for $36 million.

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Stock holdings & 2021 Compensation

Ari Emanuel and his coworker Patrick Whitesell collectively own 37.6 million shares in Endeavor out of a total of 430 million, according to the company's IPO prospectus published in April 2021. The prospectus was published at a share price of $24 at the time. Both Whitesell and Emanuel would have about $450 million in paper net worth at that point.

According to a March 2022 SEC filing, Ari received $308 million in total pay in 2021. Of that sum, $4 million represented base pay, $10 million represented a cash bonus, and the remaining amount represented stock options.

Ari was the third highest-paid executive of a publicly traded firm in 2021 as a result of the salary sum. The co-CEOs of the private equity firm KKR were the only executives to earn more, with each earning over $500 million.

FAQS

Q: How much is Ari Emanuel worth?

A: Since September 2007, Ariel Emanuel has been a part of the Live Nation Entertainment board of directors. Bloomberg estimates that when Endeavor went public in 2021, Emanuel owned a stake worth $480 million.

Q: How old is Ari Emanuel?

A: Mar 29, 1961 (61 years old)

Q: Where was Ari Emanuel born?

A: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Q: Where did Emanuel go to college?

A: Macalester College, New Trier Township Highschool.

Q: Who is Emanuel's wife?

A: Emanuel and Sarah Hardwick Addington are married, and the two of them have three kids.

Q: What is the name of Emanuel's children?

A:  Noah and Leo Emanuel.