The stars didn’t even finish school: Kidman, Rihanna and other millionaires without education

Few people know, but Joaquin Phoenix barely graduated in the ninth grade. The point is that the future Oscar-winning actor grew up in a sectarian family. When the child was still very young, the family moved often. Later, mom and dad tied the kids to filming in commercials. From then on, Joaquin and his brother were mostly home schooled and didn’t spend much time in classes.

Now Phoenix will earn several million dollars for the project. For his role in the movie “Joker”, which brought Joaquin an “Oscar”, he received 4.5 million dollars. The actor spends most of the money on charity.

Nicole Kidman was a diligent student. However, the future star had to leave school when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. With no one to care for the woman except her beautiful daughter, the girl had to sacrifice her education for the sake of her family.

Nicole had to work as a masseuse to earn at least some money. Around the same time, she began acting in films and appearing on television. After the release of the film “Dead Calm” in 1989, it became a significant success.

Quentin Tarantino dropped out of high school at 15. His mother gave the go-ahead with one condition: her son had to find a job.

The future director kept his promise: he got a job as an usher at a local movie theater in Torrance and went to study acting with James Best. A few years later, Quentin started working at a video store, where his directorial vision developed.

According to experts, Tarantino’s net worth for 2019 was estimated at $120 million. And that’s not the limit.

When Harry was 16 years old, he took part in the popular X Factor project. After some time, the young man became part of One Direction and began to actively tour. The aspiring artist simply didn’t have school, so he never graduated from school.

Styles bet on music and didn’t lose. Last year alone, this handsome man earned 12 million pounds (about 1 billion rubles). Isn’t that a success?

The founder of the Inditex group of companies left school at the age of 12. Amancio Ortega was born into a poor, large family. He had a difficult childhood, so from an early age the boy only thought about how to help his loved ones escape from poverty.

“I remember one afternoon after school I went to get some food with my mother. I was very young and she met me at school. Then we went shopping very often. The store we went to was one of those big grocery stores with such a high counter, so high that I couldn’t really see who was talking to my mother, but I could hear a man’s voice saying what I had gone through.
time and never forget: “Josef, I’m sorry, but I can no longer sell you goods on credit.” I experienced a shock. I was only 12,” the billionaire later recalled.

His first position was that of an assistant in a shop-studio. Later, he and his brother founded their first company. “We opened an account with 2,500 pesetas (less than 20 euros today). My half-sister, who could sew, and my first wife, Rosalia, made the famous quilted gowns, very fashionable at the time,” Ortega said in an interview. Now he and his family members are one of the richest people on the planet.

“I don’t have high school or college, but still, in order to be able to properly articulate your thoughts, you have to study,” Jay-Z said during one of the conferences. According to the artist, he studied at the Trenton School in New Jersey, but left her to work in a grocery store.

Later, for easy money, Sean (the real name of the artist. – Approx. ed.) began to sell drugs, but in time he settled down and decided to start a new life. He is currently the only billionaire among hip-hop artists.

At 16, Rihanna dropped out of school in Barbados and signed with Def Jam Recordings. Classmates of the star said that Riri studied well, but chose a career at the first opportunity. And this is understandable: the future artist grew up in a poor family.

For a long time, she sold clothes in a market in a small town, and when she was offered to move to the United States, she agreed without hesitation. Now Rihanna is one of the most popular artists of our time and her family can be proud of her.

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