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@DeepValueLedger Who even gets off the couch for a measly $8 million? 😂

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Eminem turned down an $8,000,000 offer for an 8-minute performance at the World Cup without even negotiating:

In late 2022, Qatar approached 50 Cent with a massive budget for a joint World Cup performance.

The total offer was $9,000,000 for one short appearance. 50 Cent would get $1,000,000, while Eminem would get $8,000,000 for just 8 minutes on stage.

That’s $1,000,000 per minute.

50 Cent called Eminem’s manager, Paul Rosenberg, thinking it was an easy payday. Rosenberg took the offer to Eminem and called back ten minutes later:

"Marshall said no."

50 Cent couldn’t believe it. There was no counter-offer, no request for private jets, and no scheduling conflict.

Eminem had no interest in traveling halfway across the world for a corporate event, no matter how many millions were attached to it.

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@robmar_exe @Eminem AHAHAHA

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@Llinkoy I wonder what he was busy with

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@max_bankroll @grok how much does Elon Musk earn per minute ?

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@RumiMirage Eminem aura

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@batagonx Now that’s interesting

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@BRitanySHY the sopranos gave her a ready-made audience most struggling actors cant bring to onlyfans

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@Aannzzo the spreadsheet still needed someone to ship the books

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@darkcrypto_off @OpenAI deepmind cut cooling energy use by up to 40% in a google data center test in 2016, so google was getting results well before alphafold

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@ergodonx farmers helped him get his ranch back after farm aid, so selling records wasnt his only lifeline

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@money_harbor getting rich fast didnt make him good with money

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George Clooney put $1 million in each of 14 bags for the friends who helped him when he was broke.

In 2013, he was 52, single, and making money from his share of Gravity. He told GQ that these were the people who had lent him money and let him sleep on their couches.

They were already in his will. He started wondering why they should have to wait for him to die.

So he picked up $14 million in an old van marked "Florist." His assistant and a couple of security guards knew what he was doing. He bought 14 Tumi bags and packed a million dollars into each.

The next day, he invited his friends over and held up a map. He pointed to the places he'd visited and the things he'd seen because of their help.

Rande Gerber, one of the recipients, remembers opening his bag and finding the money in $20 bills. All 14 of them got the same amount.

Clooney told them they could stop worrying about their children's schooling and their mortgages.

"How do you repay people like that?" he recalled asking. "How about a million bucks?"

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Sylvester Stallone turned down $360,000 from a movie studio when he had just $106 in the bank and a pregnant wife.

In 1975, Stallone was an unknown actor struggling to pay rent. In three days, he wrote a screenplay about an underdog boxer: "Rocky."

Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff loved it. They thought it could be a box-office hit, but they wanted an established star like Burt Reynolds or James Caan, not Stallone.

The studio kept raising its offer for the script:

First offer: $20,000. He said no.

The offer doubled, then hit $100,000.

The final offer reached $360,000, roughly $2 million today.

There was one condition: take the money, hand over the rights, and walk away.

Stallone had $106, an overdue electric bill, and a pregnant wife. That check would have solved his immediate money problems.

As Stallone later put it:

"I figured, I’d rather be broke and play Rocky than have $360,000 and hate myself for the rest of my life watching somebody else play him."

He walked away from the guaranteed payday and took a huge risk:

The budget was slashed to just $1 million. His upfront fee was cut to $35,000, the union
minimum. He would play Rocky and receive 10% of the net profits.

Rocky was shot in 28 days.

It grossed over $225 million, won 3 Oscars, and earned Stallone over $2.5 million from the film’s profits, nearly 7 times the offer he turned down.

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@GuntherWrite Maybe it would've been a hit anyway, but Stallone made rocky feel real. He wasn't just playing an underdog, he was one in real life too

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Sylvester Stallone turned down $360,000 from a movie studio when he had just $106 in the bank and a pregnant wife.

In 1975, Stallone was an unknown actor struggling to pay rent. In three days, he wrote a screenplay about an underdog boxer: "Rocky."

Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff loved it. They thought it could be a box-office hit, but they wanted an established star like Burt Reynolds or James Caan, not Stallone.

The studio kept raising its offer for the script:

First offer: $20,000. He said no.

The offer doubled, then hit $100,000.

The final offer reached $360,000, roughly $2 million today.

There was one condition: take the money, hand over the rights, and walk away.

Stallone had $106, an overdue electric bill, and a pregnant wife. That check would have solved his immediate money problems.

As Stallone later put it:

"I figured, I’d rather be broke and play Rocky than have $360,000 and hate myself for the rest of my life watching somebody else play him."

He walked away from the guaranteed payday and took a huge risk:

The budget was slashed to just $1 million. His upfront fee was cut to $35,000, the union
minimum. He would play Rocky and receive 10% of the net profits.

Rocky was shot in 28 days.

It grossed over $225 million, won 3 Oscars, and earned Stallone over $2.5 million from the film’s profits, nearly 7 times the offer he turned down.

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@Nepp0x the people who loved maggie and paul have to sit through it all again because a court clerk decided the jury needed her personal opinion

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@theosterlingx Yeah, that’s funny

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George Clooney put $1 million in each of 14 bags for the friends who helped him when he was broke.

In 2013, he was 52, single, and making money from his share of Gravity. He told GQ that these were the people who had lent him money and let him sleep on their couches.

They were already in his will. He started wondering why they should have to wait for him to die.

So he picked up $14 million in an old van marked "Florist." His assistant and a couple of security guards knew what he was doing. He bought 14 Tumi bags and packed a million dollars into each.

The next day, he invited his friends over and held up a map. He pointed to the places he'd visited and the things he'd seen because of their help.

Rande Gerber, one of the recipients, remembers opening his bag and finding the money in $20 bills. All 14 of them got the same amount.

Clooney told them they could stop worrying about their children's schooling and their mortgages.

"How do you repay people like that?" he recalled asking. "How about a million bucks?"

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@theosterlingx the 8 million legal bill makes the outcome even harsher, elton spent more fighting the accountants than he recovered from reid

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@RumiMirage covering the taxes too is what takes this from generous to legendary lol