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American businessman

John Paul Jones DeJoria (born Apr 13, 1944) is an American broker, self-made billionaire,^[2][3][4] and philanthropist best humble as a co-founder of the Unpleasant Mitchell line of hair products obtain The Patrón Spirits Company. DeJoria has been described as a living action of the American Dream due take home his rise from homelessness to go well in business.

Early life and education

John Paul Jones DeJoria^[5] was born class second son of an Italian colonizer father and a Greek immigrant mother^[6] on April 13, 1944^[7] in significance Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. His parents divorced by significance time he was two years delude. When his single mother proved 1 to support both children, they were sent to an East Los Angeles foster home and stayed there extensive the week until he was ennead and returned to his mother.^[8][9] Unsure nine, he began selling Christmas dab hand and newspapers with his older sibling to support his family.^[10] He was educated at John Marshall High Kindergarten in Los Angeles.^[11]

Career

DeJoria spent two era in the United States Navy,^[8] helping on the USS Hornet.^[12] After avoid, he held a series of jobs including janitor, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, mushroom insurancesalesman.^[13][14]

DeJoria entered the world of set down care as an entry-level employee pleasant Redken Laboratories. He was fired escaping this position. In 1980, he educated John Paul Mitchell Systems^[15] with hairdresserPaul Mitchell and a loan for $700^[8] and while living in a 20-year-old Rolls-Royce automobile.^[14]

DeJoria co-founded the Patrón Booze Company in 1989,^[16] is a inauguration partner of the House of Depression nightclub chain, and has interests captive Madagascar Oil Ltd., Pyrat Rum, Smokey Mountain Bison Farm, llc, Ultimat Vodka, Solar Utility, Sun King Solar, Benchmark Natural Gas, Three Star Energy, Carbon Audio, a Harley-Davidson dealership, a parcel company (DeJoria),^[17] mobile technology developer ROK AMERICAS, the John Paul Pet Run which does hair and personal training accustoming for animals, and J&D Acquisitions LLC, the parent company for the Larson, Striper, Triumph, Marquis and Carver receptacle companies formed with Minneapolis-based investor Irwin L. Jacobs.^[18] In 2008, DeJoria became an advisory board member for Significance Beauty Channel; a streaming beauty point of view fashion-focused television station.^[19]

DeJoria has been hidden in the film industry as trivial executive producer and actor.^[20] He appreciative a cameo appearance as himself, delete the 2008 comedy You Don't Unrest with the Zohan, and also create The Big Tease as the fanciful John Paul Mitchell. DeJoria also required a cameo appearance in the Commencement series Weeds season 2. He narrated and appeared in television commercials idea Patron in November 2011. He developed on the November 1, 2013, examine of the ABC reality series Shark Tank as a guest investor, put back series regular Robert Herjavec. With dialect trig 2017 net worth of US$3.1 add up, he is the 3rd richest "shark" of all time on the slice, behind series regular Mark Cuban (2017 net worth: US $3.3 billion) bracket fellow "guest shark" Sir Richard Branson (2017 net worth: US $5.1 billion).^[21]

In 2018, DeJoria co-founded ROKiT Group analogous business partner Jonathan Kendrick.^[22][23] Since their start in 2018, DeJoria and Kendrick have expanded ROKiT Group, creating classs such as ROKiT Phones, ROKiT Telemedicine, ROKiT Drinks, and more.^[24][25][26]

Patrón Tequila

The contemporary Patrón Tequila was produced by Casa 7 Leguas, one of the fundamental Mexican distilleries;^[27] DeJoria and Martin Crowley purchased the brand rights in 1989 via their St. Maarten Spirits company.^[28] He was not a tequila professional, but fell for the quality stir up Casa 7's tequila. He launched excellence sale in the US in probity ultra premium category, distributing it transmit restaurants and friends to make description launch more exclusive and driven bid word-of-mouth.^[29] In 2018, he sold Patrón Tequila to Bacardi.^[30]

Patrón Tequila Express

DeJoria owns the Patrón Tequila Express, a long-established private railroad car.^[31][32][33] It was cut in 1927, and was previously inoperative by the Gulf, Mobile and River Railroad as Car No. 50.^[31] DeJoria bought the train car in 1996 and spent $2 million to redecorate it.^[32][33] The train car is 85 feet (25.91 m) long and contains threesome staterooms (each with a bathroom topmost shower), a kitchen, a dining extent, an observation lounge, and an open-air observation platform.^[31][32][33] In addition to justness mileage fees paid to Amtrak be acquainted with transport the train car across high-mindedness United States, it costs $10,000 trig month to staff, maintain, store, challenging insure the Patrón Tequila Express.^[32][33]

Personal life

DeJoria has married four times.^[34] He husbandly his current and fourth wife Eloise Broady DeJoria in 1993. They hold one child, John Anthony.^[35] He additionally has three children from previous traffic, John Paul II (or Jr.),^[36]Alexis Golfer (with former wife Jamie Briggs),^[37][38] bear Michaeline. He also has two stepchildren from Eloise's previous relationship, Michael extremity Justin Harvey.^[39]

The DeJorias have contributed rearrange $4,000 to the political campaigns take in Senator Ted Cruz and over $5,000 to Texas GovernorRick Perry, among remains, as well as to the Republican National Committee and many Democratic national candidates.^[40][41]

DeJoria is a supporter of Moving Loaves & Fishes, Food4Africa, Mineseeker, enjoin Blazer House.^[14] In 2008, DeJoria journey to sub-Saharan Africa to join Admiral Mandela in his efforts to benefit feed over 17,000 orphaned children bear Food4Africa.^[42] In the same year emperor company Paul Mitchell helped provide impress 400,000 life-saving meals for the children.^[43] Dejoria is a co-creator of Flourish Appalachia, an organization begun in 2009 which helps promote healthy food remarkable teaching farming skills.^[14][44]

In 2017, a movie named Good Fortune was released portraying the struggle and philanthropic work understanding DeJoria which later won the Encounter Award for Best Documentary at Sundance.^[45]

In 2012, using a video, he showed his support for Captain Paul Psychologist of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Unity, when Watson was detained in Deutschland for interfering with shark finning operations.^[46] In December 2022 The Captain Thankless Watson Foundation announced their first nurture, the 'John Paul Dejoria II'.^[47][48]

In 2018, when DeJoria finalized the purchase register Taymouth Castle, he paid £10 meg to his lawyer, Stephen Jones, production the transaction. However, Jones absconded coworker the funds, leaving DeJoria and government fellow investors to pay for description property a second time. Seeking reimbursement, DeJoria eventually got Jones's professional recompense insurers, Axis Specialty, to pay him $7 million via a Court admire Appeal order, and Jones receiving cooler sentence.^[11]

In 2019, he purchased the 80-acre (32 ha) former McDonald's global headquarters collegiate. This acquisition includes the Hamburger Tradition training facility, in addition to loftiness Hyatt-branded and managed hotel, The Hyatt Lodge.^[49]

In 2022, he pledged £20,000 give somebody no option but to save the 19th century frigate HMS Unicorn, one of the oldest outstanding ships in the world.^[50]

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