What is Jeremy Piven’s net worth and salary?
Jeremy Piven is an American film producer and actor who has a net worth of $30 million. Jeremy Piven is perhaps most famous for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series, Entourage, for which he won several Emmy Awards.
Youth
He was born Jeremy Samuel Piven on July 26, 1965, in Manhattan, New York City. His parents are Byrne Piven and Joyce Hiller Piven, both actors and drama teachers. His sister is director Shira Piven. Through Shira, Jeremy’s brother-in-law is director Adam McKay.
The Pivens grew up in Evanston, Illinois, where Jeremy graduated from Evanston Township High School. He trained at the Piven Theater Workshop, which was founded by his parents.
Piven honed his acting skills at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before leaving after his sophomore year to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He left Tisch in his senior year to pursue a career in acting.
Screen career
Piven has appeared in a number of films with John Cusack, who is also from his hometown of Evanston, and attended the Piven Theater Workshop. One of his first roles was as Spike in 1986’s Lucas.
Piven didn’t get his own major role until 1992, when he became a regular cast member on HBO’s “The Larry Sanders Show.” He played the role of the main writer Jerry. However, he left the series after season two, citing that the character was not given enough backstory. In 1993, he portrayed George Costanza in the “show-within-a-show” scene in “The Pilot” episode of “Seinfeld.” Piven played the recurring role of Ellen Degeneres’ cousin Spence in the last three seasons of her sitcom “Ellen.” Piven also starred in and produced the short-lived ABC drama “Cupid.”
Since then, he has worked steadily on both stage and screen, spending over 20 years of his career in supporting roles. It’s beyond doubt that he became a familiar face to moviegoers during the same period, but he was never considered or a box-office draw until his breakout gig on “Entourage.” His incredible performance on the show made him an instant TV star in 2004. He continued to impress audiences as Ari Gold throughout the show and the movie ‘Entourage’. For his work on the series, he received five Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor from 2005 to 2008, and won the award in 2006, 2007, and 2008. 2009 was the show’s only year in which Piven did not receive a Amy. numbers. Piven also received
He has appeared in other TV and film projects, including voicing the Elongated Man in Justice League Unlimited. His other notable films include “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “Very Bad Things,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Old School,” “Rush Hour 2,” and “Cars.” Piven starred in the British television drama series Mr. Selfridge” from 2013-2016. The semi-fictional story based on the life of Harry Selfridge (who founded the famous London department store Selfridge’s) aired on ITV in the UK and PBS in the US.
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Other Appearances
Piven appeared in the 2007 video for rapper Common’s single “Drivin’ Me Wild”. The two had been co-stars on “Smokin Aces” and reunited when Piven hosted “Saturday Night Live” in January 2007.
Piven appeared in David Mamet’s Speedthe Plow, the first Broadway revival of the venue. Production opened in October 2008 and was to run for nearly a year and a half. However, Piven missed several performances, and on 17 208, the agent announced that, due to an undisclosed illness, Piven December would put the play.
In August 2009, Piven guest hosted the WWE Raw Wrestling program.
Allegations of sexual harassment
Reality TV personality Ariane Bellamar made allegations via Twitter in October 2017 that Piven groped her. Cassidy Freeman came to Bellamar’s defense via Instagram when she alluded to her own troubled past with Piven, who she claims had predatory behavior towards her. A week later, publicity executive Tiffany Bacon Scourby alleged that Piven sexually assaulted her in 2003. Later that month, “Entourage” extra Anastasia Taneie alleged that Piven sexually assaulted her. On November 27, 2017, CBS pulled the plug on “Wisdom of the Crowd,” in which Piven had been seen, in light of the allegations as well as poor ratings. In January 2018, Buzzfeed published an article in which three other women accused Piven of sexual misconduct or inappropriate behavior. Buzzfeed News corroborated the stories with eight people who said the women shared their dates. Piven again denied all the allegations.
Personal life
The undisclosed illness that caused him to miss the “Speed the Plow” race turned out to be hydrargyria, which is caused by high exposure to mercury. Rumors indicated that it was probably caused by Piven’s habit of eating fish twice a day.
Piven lives in Malibu, California.
Salary Jeremy Piven Entourage
How much did Jeremy Piven earn per episode of Entourage? At his peak, his salary per episode was $350,000. In his eight seasons as the lead performer on Entourage, Jeremy earned a total of at least $15 million. He then earned $2 million to appear in the 2015 film Entourage, bringing his total earnings from the series to $17 million.
Jeremy Piven Real Estate
In 2004, Jeremy bought a beachfront home in Malibu for $3.5 million. In 2017, he put the house up for sale for $10.5 million. He dropped the price of one later to $9 million. He finally sold the house in February 2019 for $6.6 million. Around the same time, he sold a duplex penthouse in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood for $7.8 million. He sold that property in 2011 for $4.7 million. In 2017, what is today his primary residence, a $6.8 million house above Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, was completed.
