Shatner isn’t pointing at that mountain to make you admire his its natural beauty. He’s pointing it out to the work crew that’s going to carve Shatneropolis out of it.
As you might have guessed, Shatner isn’t disgustingly rich thanks to his sterling and brilliant film career, or his brilliant innovations in music, even his Star Trek money.
No, apparently the Shat was clever enough to make Priceline pay him in stock. A share cost about as much as two candy bars when Shatner started with them, and now it’s worth $300 a share. So Priceline basically paid Canada’s finest ham nine figures (an estimated $600 million) to do this:
We think Leonard got paid a sandwich for that last ad. Shatner strikes again!
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Fuck, Shatner’s a Ferengi…I will just leave it at that.
$600 million divided by $300 = 2 million shares. Huh? Just how many shares are available in this company? A Bazillion?
45.58 million outstanding shares so yeah :v
Checked yahoo finance and the Shat does not own anywhere near that many shares. If he owned even a tenth of that, he’d be a major holder.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=PCLN+Major+Holders
I like Shatner. He’s a pretty good actor. So he’s rich. Being in the right place at the right time is fate. Not many of us are blessed with good fortune. Good for him. We should congratulate the man not voice our jealousy.