Dr Dre
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Business Ventures: Aftermath and Beats Electronics
Dr. Dre is a founder and the current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment, a label that signed and launched the careers of several successful artists, most notably Eminem and 50 Cent. Prior to this, he was a co-owner and key artist at Death Row Records during its influential run in the 1990s.
Quick Facts
- Birth Date
- 18 Feb, 1965
- Age
- 55 yrs
- Citizenship
- United States of America
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- Birth Place
- Compton
- residence
- Beverly Hills
- Education
- John C. Fremont High School
Centennial High School - Gender
- Male
- Description
- American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur and actor from California
- Twitter Id
- Drdre
- Net Worth 2021
- 800 million
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In addition to his contributions to music, Dr. Dre co-founded Beats Electronics, a premium audio products company best known for its line of headphones. In 2014, Apple Inc. acquired Beats Electronics for $3 billion, significantly contributing to Dre’s wealth. That year, Forbes ranked him as the top-earning figure in hip-hop with an estimated pre-tax income of $620 million—at the time, the highest one-year earnings total ever recorded by a musician. His net worth was estimated at over $550 million.
Personal Life
Dr. Dre has six children, including four sons and two daughters. His first son, Curtis Young, was born when Dre was 16 years old and his then-girlfriend, Cassandra Greene, was 15. Dre later married Nicole Threatt, the former wife of NBA player Sedale Threatt. The couple has two children together, though they have since separated in 2020.
