Chris Wallace Net Worth
US TV host Chris Wallace is best known from the Fox News Sunday show. He is the three-time Emmy Awards winner and he was also awarded with Dupont-Columbia Silver Baton Award. Wallace also managed to acquire a sizable wealth. As of 2016, Chris Wallace’s current net worth is approximately 8 million dollars.
Chris was born on October 12th, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois. His father was Mike Wallace, a CBS 60 Minutes reporter, who died in 2012. He was raised by a stepfather, Bill Leonard, future CBS News President. His first experience with reporting news was on the student radio station WHRB. He didn’t go to the prestigious Yale Law School although he was accepted and started working with The Boston Globe instead.
In 1975, Chris started his network journalism career and worked with NBC as a reporter, a political correspondent, co-anchor for Today, a chief White House correspondent, anchor for Sunday Nightly News, and moderator of Meet the Press. In 1989 he left for ABC and in 2003 he started his work for Fox News Channel. His decision to focus on media instead on investing into the law degree eventually paid off. Today, Wallace’s annual salary is estimated to be about $1 million.
In 1973, Chris Wallace married Elizabeth Farrell. They have 4 kids together, Peter, Catherine, Margaret, Andrew. However they eventually divorced and Chris married Lorraine Smothers in 1997. She too has kids from previous marriage. Wallace;s political views are left-leaning.
