Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie	Novelist	According to CelebrityNetWorth, Salman Rushdie is worth $15 million "through his many publications, his role in film, and his cameo appearances in television shows". So dull are Rushdie's novels that Ruhollah Khomeini ████████████ took pity on the Briton and ordered a fatwa to kill Rushdie — thus catapulting his career to unimaginable success. In June 2007, Rushdie's achievement in helping to spread psychosis-inducing fear worldwide was rewarded by Queen Elizabeth II with a knighthood "for services to literature". At least Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears to have recused himself from accepting a £930,000 book deal in 2011. Such courageous restraint from amassing fortunes off fame gained through intelligence tricks is indeed admirable. Left:  Night bachelor, the Knight Bachelor, suffers the seclusion of a free-speech hero persecuted by the former ████████████████████████ ████████████████████████ Photo credit: The Daily Mail