Bethenny Frankel, who won the Realty Royalty Award at the MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED presentation on June 5, fought arduously for many years to establish herself as an actor and businesswoman.
Before she made it big by earning a position on The Real Housewives of New York City’s first season, she had a career full of stops and starts. She has become not only one of the most well-known Bravo personalities since the show’s 2008 debut but also among the wealthiest Housewives ever.
Bethenny Frankel Net Worth?
An American reality television star and businesswoman, Bethenny Frankel has an estimated net worth of $80 million. Her career in reality television and selling her Skinnygirl cocktail brand are the primary sources of her wealth. She has been a reasonably successful home renovator and flipper in recent years.
Bethenny Frankel Early Years
On November 4, 1970, Frankel was born in New York City. Her mother, Bernadette Birk, worked as an interior designer, while her father, Robert J. Frankel, trained horses. When Frankel was barely four years old, her father abandoned her, and when she was five, her mother remarried John Parisella, another horse trainer.
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Frankel’s early years were challenging; she moved around a lot and attended numerous schools as she grew older until she enrolled in boarding school. She completed her education at the Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before enrolling in the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, spending two years at Boston University, and finally earning a psychology and communications degree from New York University.
Bethenny Frankel Career Start-Up
Frankel relocated to Los Angeles in 1992 with aspirations of becoming an actor. Despite the short lifespan of her first firm, In Any Event, an event planning company, she developed connections while working in modest acting parts and jobs like nannthe y to Paris Hilton and personal assistant to Jerry and Linda Bruckheimer.
Bethenny Frankel Presentations on television
In 2003, Frankel founded BethennyBakes, a business that delivers ‘healthy’ baked products and meals in New York City. She made it through the process to become one of the finals and was featured on the reality competition series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005. DespEven though business failed in 2006, Frankel’s time on the reality competition show served as the launchpad for her career in the genre.
The Real Housewives of New York City cast members chose her to be a part of their cast in 2008. She left Real Housewives in September 2010 for personal reasons, and after a three-season hiatus, she camereturned2014. In August 2019, she abruptly departed the show once gaining she wanted to concentrate on her personal life.
Frankel was a part of the Bravo reality series Bethenny Getting Married? which covered the couple’s engagement, wedding, and daughter’s birth. Her co-star at the time was Jason Hoppy. Following the start of negotiations in 2011 for her to host a show, she also obtained her talk show. On September 9, 2013, The Bethenny Show debuted; it was short-lived and ended on February 14, 2014.
Bethenny Frankel Skinnygirl Income
Frankel founded and served as CEO of Skinnygirl Cocktails, which accounts for the lion’s share of her wealth. A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life (2011), the novel Skinnydipping, Naturally Thin: Unleash Your SkinnyGirl and Free Yourself from a Lifetime of Dieting (2009), The SkinnyGirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life (2009), and the SkinnyGirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life (2009) are just a few of the books and DVDs that (2012).
The big profit came in 2011 when she sold Beam Global of Fortune Brands, her brand of alcoholic beverages (which is now part of Suntory). At first, it was said that Frankel’s Skinnygirl Drinks had been bought for $120 million. Later rumours put the cost of the transaction at $8.1 million. That estimate was mocked by Bethenny, who said, “Let’s go. It is absurd that it could be the brand of alcohol with the greatest growth rate that it would have sold for that little. I’ll be paying a whole in taxes than $8.1 million.”
Bethenny Frankel Individual Life
Entertainment industry executive Peter Sussman was Frankel’s first spouse, whom she wed in 1996 and later divorced. On the programme Bethenny Getting Married?, her second marriage to pharmaceutical sales executive Jason Hoppy was shown.
They were married in March 2010; they divorced in January 2013 after theiseparatingDecember 2012. Although Page Six revealed in August 2019 that Hoppy and Frankel technically remained married, their divorce was finalised in July 2016, nearly four years after they first ways. Hoppy and Frankel had a daughter together.
Bethenny Frankel Actual Estate
Bethenny has purchased and sold nusomenificent houses in New York City, Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Hamptons. The list of the top purchases and sellsalesbroken out as follows: Bethenny spent $4.995 million in 2011 to purchase a penthouse in NYC’s Tribeca district. She then reportedly carried out modifications, estimated to have cost $500,000 in 2016, she put this house up for sale for $6.95 million, and in ONE DAY, she found a buyer willing to pay the total asking price.
Bethenny purchased a two-bedroom condo on Mercer Street in New York City for $4.2 million in 2014. She once more carried out some extensive improvements. She tried to sell this house in 2016 for $5.25 million, but in 2020 she settled for $3.65 million.
She invested $2.7 million in a property in the Hamptons in 2015. She still possesses this property now. She purchased a second home in the Hamptons in 2017, intending to rent it out. She invested $2 million in this home but later regretted it and sold it for $2.3 million in 2020.
In the SoHo district of New York City, Bethenny purchased a 4-bedroom condo for $4.2 million in 2017. She then carried out a thorough renovation. Bethenny put the property on the market in December 2021 for just $7 million. This condo’s video tour is provided here: