Dany Garcia Wiki, Bio, Net Worth

Dany Garcia, the ex-wife of WWE superstar turned actor Dwayne The Rock Johnson, is also the woman behind his multi-million-dollar enterprise. Before transitioning to Hollywood to manage Rock’s career, Garcia worked in finance and was the associate vice president at the prestigious Merrill Lynch.

Garcia has proven her versatility by making, even more, success in the entertainment world. Under her management, The Rock’s net worth has enjoyed an exponential increase. In 2016, he was the highest-paid actor in the world with earnings of over $64 million.

Garcia is the CEO of Garcia Companies, a media management firm and co-CEO of Seven Bucks Productions. Amazingly, she is also a professional bodybuilder. Here is about everything you need to know about Dany Garcia.

Dany Garcia was born on 29 November 1968, in New Jersey to Cuban immigrants who struggled to make ends meet. Garcia has revealed that her mom entered the US at 16 and her dad at 14. As a child growing under difficult circumstances, Garcia vowed to one day become a millionaire so she could adequately take care of her parents. Almost right away, Garcia, at the age of 12, began working towards her dream. She ran a barn in New Jersey and in high school, where she was an active athlete, she still made out time to sell business suits.

After graduating from high school, Garcia was accepted at the University of Miami, Florida where she would meet fellow undergrad Dwayne Johnson who was on a football scholarship. In college, Garcia continued as an athlete and kept working to keep her millionaire dreams alive.

She graduated in 1992 with an international marketing and finance. Immediately, she began working in the financial sector and rose up the ranks to VP at Merrill Lynch, as well as an executive at Pierce, Fenner & Smith. She also founded her own wealth management firm.

All the while, she also took out time to advise Johnson who had launched a career in professional wrestling. She spoke with the WWE leadership and execs and helped seal deals that would help turn The Rock into one of the indelible faces of the WWE franchise.

After leaving Merrill Lynch to become The Rock’s full-time manager, Garcia set up Garcia Companies and Seven Bucks Productions.

Her production company co-owned with Johnson, Seven Bucks Productions formed in 2012 has already produced a number of films worth mentioning, they include; Baywatch (which was heavily criticized by critics but was a box office success), Jumanji, and HBO TV series Ballers. The company has over 50 projects including a reboot of the cult film “Big Trouble in Little China” and a spin-off of The Rock’s character in The Fast and The Furious film franchise.

Source: https://heightline.com

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