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Suze Orman

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Producer, Co-producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor
Born:
June 5, 1951 in Chicago, IL
Biography:The daughter of a working-class Chicago-area deli owner, Suze Orman developed an attitude of self-determinism at an early age, and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she earned her degree in social work. In the early '70s, Orman joined some friends, piled into a van and moved to Berkeley, CA, where she took a job as a waitress at the local Buttercup Bakery (and reportedly only made 400 dollars a month); when the restaurant blossomed under her, its growth inspired her to borrow 50,000 dollars from friends to start her own business, a combination spa and restaurant. Instead, she took the money, invested it with Merrill Lynch, and promptly lost it all -- but undaunted, decided to go to work for Lynch as an alternate option. A series of related financial planning jobs followed (including a much coveted VP post at Prudential Bache Securities) until Orman left to found her own... Full Biography
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(L-R) Financial adviser Suze Orman, Arianna Huffington and TV personality Joy Behar attend Time's...
(L-R) TV personality Barbara Walters, Financial adviser Suze Orman and TV personality Joy Behar...
(L-R) Writer Arianna Huffington and Financial adviser Suze Orman attend Time's 100 Most Influential...
(L-R) Actress Whoopi Goldberg, TV persoanlity Oprah Winfrey and Financial adviser Suze Orman attend...
Suze Orman and managing editor of TIME magazine, Richard Stengel attends the Time's 100 Most...
Suze Orman and managing editor of TIME magazine, Richard Stengel attends the Time's 100 Most...
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