Did you know that in 2012, Arsenio Hall andDonald Trumphad a moment?
Hall wasn’t a Trump fan: he didCelebrity ApprenticebecauseNBCwanted him to.
“It was a job and I was trying to support my family,” he explained toDeadline.
The stand-up comedian was talking about his son, Arsenio Cheron Hall Jr., born in 1999.
Shortly after Arsenio Jr. was born, Hall split up with his son’s mother.
Soon after, he quit his job.
But that was it," he wrote inNewsweek.
He dedicated his life to single-parenting.
Today, he thinks of himself back then as a kind of “black Twitter.”
The comedian, perCelebrity Net Worth, has saved up a sizable chunk of change.
And occasionally, they even grab Starbucks together.
I leave $5.
Eddie will leave them a Rolls-Royce tire."
Real estate riches aside, Hall didn’t step out of the business bankrupt.
At its height,The Guardiansays thatThe Arsenio Hall Showwas bringing in 50 million a year for Paramount.
