Hollywood superstar actor Samuel L. Jackson was raised by his mother, Elizabeth Jackson.
Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up an only child in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father left the family when Jackson was an infant. The actor said that he had only met his father twice during his life.
To support her family, Elizabeth Jackson worked in a factory and later as a supplies buyer for a mental institution.
Samuel has an estimated net worth of $150 million.
NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal was primarily raised by his mother, Lucille O’Neal. O’Neal was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up estranged from his biological father, Joseph Toney.
Toney struggled with drug addiction and by 1973, was imprisoned for drug possession, while O’Neal was an infant. Upon his release, Toney did not resume a place in O’Neal’s life.
His mother worked hard to raise her son on her own and later married Phillip A. Harrison, a career Army Reserve sergeant, who stepped in to help raise the basketball star.
On his 1994 rap album, Shaq Fu: Da Return, O’Neal voiced his feelings of disdain for Toney in the song, Biological Didn’t Bother, dismissing him with the line, “Phil is my father.”
Shaquille has a net worth of $250 million.
