Michelle Obama, more celebrity now as a writer than as first lady
Barack and Michelle Obama: divorce rumors, according to an American magazine
The Obama marriage has once again shown that everything it touches turns it into gold. At the recent Oscars, they won an award for best documentary for American Factory , the first feature film by the producer Higher Ground Productions that they founded after leaving the White House, one of the many projects they have been investing in since Barack and Michelle Obama moved out of 1,600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
When he started his presidency in 2009, they did not arrive empty-handed, because they already had a small fortune of just over a million dollars, largely due to the profits they obtained thanks to the memoir books written by the then-senator for Illinois and the successful lawyer who decided to leave everything to accompany her husband in his assault on the White House.
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To his literary successes - Michelle Obama's Becoming book became the best selling of 2018 and was number one on the Amazon charts for longer than the previous record set by Fifty Shades of Gray in 2012 - they have also added their real estate investments, proving to have a good eye because they have added a couple of millionaire properties since they gave the witness to Donald Trump.
First the mansion of the exclusive neighborhood of Kalorama in Washington DC where they moved after leaving the White House in 2017, for which they disbursed about eight million dollars, and a couple of months ago a spectacular summer home in one of the areas with more cache of the east coast, the island of Martha's Vineyard that they put on the map of the jet set the Kennedy, for which they paid almost 12 million dollars.
Michelle Obama's last bet is social networks. The former first lady, who has shown her willingness to leave a mark as soon as she is challenged, launched a new collaboration with the ATTN agency last January in which, through a series of six episodes that will be published on Instagram Television he conducts a program called A Year Firsts to tell the stories of different university students.
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The former president's wife also made headlines a few weeks ago because she won her first Grammy Award for the "audiobook" version of her bestselling Becoming in which she talks about her years at the White House. Another recognition for this family that Barack Obama had already achieved in the past, with his memoirs Dreams of My Father (2006) and The Audacity of Hope (2008).
Two kings measure of the 21st century who are taking advantage to continue fattening their bank accounts at a fast pace, thanks also to the hundreds of thousands of dollars they charge for their conferences. Making calculations on how much your assets amount to is very complicated, among other reasons because some of the agreements they have closed, such as their collaboration with the Netflix platform or their literary phenomena, are secret .
Their names also do not appear in the lists of the biggest fortunes of the planet, because they are still light years away from the big billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett or Bill Gates to be included in the Forbes magazine rankings, but different media say they closed the year 2019 with a heritage that exceeds 240 million dollars, although other more conservative figures leave it at less than 100 million.
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