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Hugh Grant Saved A Fortune By Inventing A Fictitious Agent. It Helped Him Accrue


Hugh Grant Saved A Fortune By Inventing A Fictitious Agent. It Helped Him Accrue $150 Million From Acting, Real Estate And Art
Hugh Grant Saved A Fortune By Inventing A Fictitious Agent. It Helped Him Accrue $150 Million From Acting, Real Estate And Art

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Hugh Grant is known for inventing extensive backstories for the characters he plays. However, his vivid imagination doesn’t end there, and it’s made him a lot of money.

The actor — whose new film “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” — has just been released, revealed on the Howard Stern show several years back that he never had an agent for an extended period of his career. Instead, he invented one — James Howe Ealy — taking the surname from an old crush and creating a separate e-mail for him, which Grant administered.

“I saved a fortune,” the actor quipped.

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It’s not the only savvy financial move Grant, who now has a real agent, has made. He made $25.5 million from selling an Andy Warhol painting of Elizabeth Taylor after buying it for $2.5 million. Some shrewd real estate investments and his prodigious acting career have helped the him amass a net worth of around $150 million.

His involvement in multiple hit films made him box office gold early in his career. His breakthrough “Four Weddings And A Funeral” (1994), followed by “Notting Hill,” (1997) “Bridget Jones Diary,” (2001), and “Love Actually” (2003), collectively grossed $3 billion worldwide. At the peak of his leading man rom-com fame, Grant earned between $10 million and $15 million per film.

The impressive strike rate didn’t last as rom-coms; his calling card became less popular. During a few years of being out of the spotlight, Grant turned his attention to activism in the UK. He recently took an “enormous sum” to settle a lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper.

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Recently, he has enjoyed a career resurgence, beginning with “Florence Foster Jenkins” playing opposite Meryl Streep in 2016. Diverse and successful films and mini-series followed:  HBO‘s “The Undoing,” Netflix’s (NASDAQ:NFLX)  “A Very British Scandal,” “Paddington 2,” “Wonka,” and most recently “Heretic.”



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