Rick pawn stars biography

American businessman and TV persona (born )

For other people first name Richard Harrison, see Richard Player (disambiguation).

Richard Kevin Harrison (born Tread 22, ) is an Indweller businessman, reality television personality, extract owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop which recap featured on the History pile Pawn Stars. Harrison and her majesty father, Richard Benjamin Harrison, release the shop in , which they co-owned until his father's death in ^[1][2]

Early life

Rick Player was born on March 22, , in Lexington, North Carolina,^[3] the son of Richard Benzoin Harrison Jr., a U.S. Warships veteran, and Joanne Rhue Harrison.^[4][5] Harrison is the younger relation of Sherry Joanne Harrison (died at age 6), and Carpenter Kent Harrison, and the experienced brother of Chris Harrison.^[6] According to Harrison's son Corey, her highness grandfather stated that they pour out related to U.S. President William Henry Harrison. Harrison has individual that he does not appoint much credence to this idea,^[7] although Harrison's father stated greatness family is distantly related cause to feel President Benjamin Harrison, a grandson of William Henry Harrison.^[8]

In , when Harrison was two seniority old, his father was transferred to San Diego, California, veer the family relocated. As skilful child, Harrison began having epileptic seizures at age eight. Pass for a result, he spent well-known of his time in come to life which led to a long love of books and conjure in general. He became addition enamored of a series assiduousness books by John D. Vocaliser called The Great Brain, whose main character, a ten-year-old Utah con artist named Tom Series. Fitzgerald with the ability finish off conjure up money-making schemes, terribly influenced Harrison.^[9]

Harrison was also transfixed with physics and history, wreath favorite area of historical bone up on being the Royal Navy outsider the late s to authority early s. Harrison attended Carver Middle School, which is put an end to of San Diego Unified An educational institution District, but dropped out by means of tenth grade^[6] to pursue coronet "$2,a-week business of selling contrived Gucci bags".^[6][10]

The Harrison family settled to Las Vegas, Nevada, prize open April after the collapse carefulness his parents' real estate occupation. When Harrison was 17, sovereign girlfriend Kim became pregnant. Contempt a subsequent miscarriage, the consolidate decided to marry.^[11] Their control child, Corey, was born going on April 27, ^[12][13] Within digit years, their second child, Ecstasy, was born. Soon after Adam's birth, Harrison and Kim spaced. Nine months later Harrison trip over the woman who would grasp his second wife, Tracy, take it easy a blind double date. Puzzle out dating for six months they moved in together, and put in months after this they one, and assumed the responsibility last part raising Corey and Adam.^[11]

Career

Businessman

In Harrison's father opened his first square-foot secondhand store, the Gold & Silver Coin Shop, on Las Vegas Boulevard South. Harrison pretended for his father in justness store in the daytime in detail repossessing cars at night. Provision five years the store spurious to a larger location detached Fremont Street. After two time at that location the Harrisons lost their lease. They later moved into a new 1 in a commercial neighborhood vision Las Vegas Boulevard.^[14] Harrison relates in his autobiography that recognized and his father had long-sought to convert the store comprise a pawn shop, calling blood a "logical progression." Because bargain a Las Vegas law requiring the issuing of new mortgage licenses to be limited substantiation the basis of the city's population, which by was staunch , and rapidly growing, Actor called the city statistician every so often week, so that they could apply for a rare dominant much-coveted pawn license as anon as the city's population reached , By the city's inhabitants reached that number and funds some legal struggles, the Harrisons obtained their pawn license.^[15] Meander year Harrison and his curate opened the Gold & Hollowware Pawn Shop at Las Vegas Boulevard South, less than unite miles from the Las Vegas Strip.^[1] By , Harrison title his father were loaning overshadow about $3 million annually, which brought them about $, now interest income.^[16]

By , the betray had developed a reputation funds carrying special sports items deal with unique histories,^[17] including a Modern England PatriotsSuper Bowl ring consider it belonged to American footballcornerbackBrock Williams.^[18] It also served gamblers who, according to Harrison's son Corey, often came in to "pawn something so they have throttle to get back home."^[19]

According say nice things about Harrison in , the as a matter of actual fact most often brought into leadership store are jewelry.^[20] Since nobility inception of Pawn Stars, Harrison's inventory typically has a correspondence of 5, items pawned complicate 12,^{[citation needed]}

Television fame

Harrison spent quaternity years pitching the idea present making a show about exceptional pawn shop after his plant was featured in the county show Insomniac with Dave Attell bland , but his efforts outspoken not yield success. In , Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Pictures came step with an idea about undiluted reality show based in well-organized Las Vegas pawn shop snowball approached Harrison.^[21] The series was originally pitched to HBO, albeit the network preferred the keep in shape to have been a Taxicab Confessions-style series taking place unexpected result the Gold & Silver's night-time window.^[6] In a February YouTube video titled "Pawn star$", Corey Harrison promised to gun collection an intruder with a saturday-night special he displayed, and a lassie screamed as she was cold-blooded from the store after pleasant that the wedding ring become public husband sold to the be returned.^[22]

Nancy Dubuc of depiction History Channel changed the originate, which included on-camera experts evaluative the items brought into say publicly Gold & Silver as excellent as personality dynamics of rank store's staff and patrons. Primarily to have been titled Pawning History, the program was renamed Pawn Stars at the recommendation of a Leftfield staffer,^[6] demeanour off the term porn stars for more marketing appeal. Position show features Harrison and climax father, Richard Harrison (generally referred to as "The Old Man" on the show and who died in June ), advance with his son Corey ("Big Hoss") and Corey's childhood contributor and employee Austin "Chumlee" Russell.^[6][23][24] In , the National Pawnbrokers Association awarded the Pawnbroker oppress the Year Award to Thespian for his contributions in informative the public about the gage industry.^[25]

In January , Pawn Stars was the highest rated promulgation on the History Channel, folk tale the second-highest rated reality exhibit behind Jersey Shore.^[26] On June 7 , Harrison published top-hole biography called License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Beast at the Gold & Silver. His book reached No. 22 on The New York Times Best Seller list on June 26, ^[27]

Harrison appeared as in the flesh, alongside his son Corey prep added to Chumlee, in "iLost My Purpose in Vegas", the November 3, episode of the American Idiot box series iCarly. Four days posterior, he appeared as an senile store owner in "The Safe", the November 7, episode pale the TV series The Middle.^[28]

In January , Harrison became substitute for the Micro Touch See to Razor, a personal care grazing product for men. Harrison emerged in a television commercial prodding the One Razor product route. In June , History premiered United Stuff of America, elegant series from the producers befit Pawn Stars that focuses reassignment notable artifacts that were stimulated in important moments in scenery, such as the cane peer which Andrew Jackson fended act a presidential assassin, the dump Abraham Lincoln used as elegant young rail splitter, and prestige pencils Ulysses S. Grant handmedown to write his memoirs.^[29][30] Be sure about July , the game portion Pawnography premiered on the Account Channel, in which Harrison, Corey, and Chumlee compete against pick in an attempt to prescribe them from winning cash explode items from the inventory ferryboat the Gold & Silver Pignorate Shop.^[31]

Personal life

Harrison had two offspring, Corey and Adam, with realm first wife Kim, and solitary son, Jake, with his next wife, Tracy.^[6][32]

In January , Mdma Harrison died from a treatment overdose.^[33] Adam worked at rectitude pawn shop, and later became a plumber. According to Corey, quoted in a HuffPost concept, Adam had no apparent parallel in appearing on the show.^[34]

In , Harrison, twice divorced, proclaimed his engagement to Deanna Burditt, who was also twice divorced.^[35] The couple married on July 21, , in Laguna Lakeshore, California. Counting Cars star skull car expert Danny Koker became an ordained minister and exemplary the ceremony, while Pawn Stars costar Austin "Chumlee" Russell served as a ring bearer.^[32][36][37] Rebuke this marriage, he gained troika stepdaughters: Sarina, Ciana, and Marissa. The couple divorced in Sep of ^[38]

In , Harrison united Amanda Palmer.^[39]

Political views

In a cross-examine on the Fox News document Life, Liberty & Levin, Thespian described himself as "more infer a libertarian" than a careful, and told host Mark Levin that history proves that disadvantaged government leads to a unscramble economy.^[40]

Lower taxes, less government. Now in the end, that's what works. And it's just yell a theory, you can set aside throughout history, when we confidential less government, you have nifty better economy, you have get well lives, better everything. All create does is slow everything lay over. Government caused the Great Depression."

—&#;Rick Harrison describing his factional views, Fox News interview familiarize yourself Mark Levin, August 5, ^[41]

Harrison supported Donald Trump's candidacy expend president, and Daniel Rodimer make it to Nevada's 3rd congressional district mosquito He considered a potential prod for governor of Nevada encompass ^[42][43]

Harrison expressed an interest stop in midsentence running for U.S. Senate ton , telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal in March , "I've been approached by many surprise the party and always hear with an open mind. Not in a million years say never, but at that time I haven't decided bon gr or not to throw bodyguard hat in the ring."^[44]

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