How much is Molly Bloom worth?
| Net Worth: | $400 Thousand |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Author |
| Date of Birth: | April 21, 1978 (age 44) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
About Molly Bloom
Molly Bloom is an American author, entrepreneur, and speaker. She rose to prominence with her memoir Molly’s Game and for running a high-stakes poker tournament that attracted wealthy and sports figures as well as Hollywood celebrities. Her best-selling book eventually inspired a film adaptation, starring Jessica Chastain, and it was released in December 2017.
American entrepreneur, speaker and author Molly Bloom has an estimated net worth of $400 thousand dollars, as of 2023. Bloom is the author of “Molly’s Game”. Previously, she trained for years to become an Olympic skier, but was injured while trying to qualify for the Olympics.
Molly Bloom became famous when she ran a high-stakes poker game in April 2013. She was born on April 21, 1978, in Loveland, Colorado. She is the third child to Larry and Char Bloom. Her father is a clinical physiologist and a professor at the Colorado State University, while her mother is a ski and snowboard instructor as well as a professional fly-fisher that has her own clothing line. Her older brother is Jordan who works as a surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her younger is Jeremy Bloom, an Olympic skier and NFL football player that is part of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Molly spent most of her youth in her home state where she finished her education. She attended the local Loveland High School and after her graduation in 1996 went on to study at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she remained for four years and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2000. Prior to that, just like her younger brother she had hopes of becoming a competitive skier. Her biggest accomplishment is ranking third at the women’s Nor-Am Cup in the late 1990s.
After she injured herself during her training for the 1998 Winter Olympics and abruptly ending her ski career, Molly decided to pursue a career in business. She moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and began working as a barmaid. Just a few years later, she met Darin Feinstein, one of the owners of The Viper Room nightclub and apparently actor Tobey Maguire, and developed a passion for the poker game. She was first recruited by Feinstein to cater to the players and manage the game, earning an estimated $10,000 per game.
By 2008, she started her own business and registered the company Molly Bloom Inc. After signing a contract with catering and other relevant companies, she began hosting her own poker tournaments. In less than a year, the hands went as high as an estimated $5 million and her games took place in million-dollar mansions and hotels such as the Peninsula Beverly Hills. Besides earning an estimated $300,000 over some months of hosting, Molly also is said to have had client celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Macaulay Culkin, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Alex Rodriguez and Dan Bilzerian among many other celebrities, according to History vs. Hollywood.
After the controversy around her poker games and the release of her memoir, Molly Bloom also became a speaker and television personality. She first appeared on the talk show Good Morning America, which was then followed by appearances on Fox and Friends, The View, and The Insider. Most recently, she wrote and starred in her own documentary titled Molly’s Game: Building an Empire.
In addition to running high-stakes poker tournaments, what makes the so-called “Poker Princess” so successful are the millions that she made as an author, entrepreneur, speaker, and television personality. After a hard time suffering from bankruptcy and charged with fraud, extortion, and money laundering (during which she was arrested and fined $1.5 million), Molly began working on her first book.
In the end, in May 2014, Bloom pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to one year of probation and 200 hours of community service. At the sentencing, Bloom’s lawyer, Jim Walden, told the court that Bloom was in severe debt which included forfeiting $125,000 in poker proceeds as part of the plea. An argument was made that Bloom had “been ordered into the gambling business” by her boss at a Los Angeles real estate company, and only after that went on to create her own poker game in New York in 2009.
In the memoir Molly Bloom details her experiences. Titled Molly’s Game it was published in 2014. Three years later, an eponymous film adaption of the book was created. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2017 and even had an Academy Award nomination for “Best Adapted Screenplay”. Molly Bloom was played by American actress, Jessica Chastain.
Summing-Up
Molly Bloom is a high achiever that is best known as the “Poker Princess”. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in political science and injuring herself, which abruptly ended her aspirations to become a skier, she focused on poker. Molly became a sensation in the early 2000s when she founded her own company and began running poker tournaments. Since her rise to prominence, the Colorado native became a best-selling author of the book Molly’s Game that inspired an award-winning film by Aaron Sorkin. In addition to that, she also an inspirational keynote speaker and entrepreneur that regularly appears on television shows and realities.
