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Charles Payne Net Worth: How Rich is Fox Business Contributor?

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3 years ago

August 18, 2021

Charles Payne is a famed American news anchor and television personality. He is best known for working as a Fox Business Network contributor. He is also known as a host of Fox Business’s show “Making Money with Charles Payne”. As of 2022, Charles Payne net worth is estimated to be around $15 million.

Full Name	Charles V. Payne
Birth Date	September 15, 1960
Birth Place	United States of America
Profession	TV show host
Wife	Yvonne Payne
Net Worth	$15 million

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Early life

Charles Payne was born on the 15th of September, 1960 in the United States of America. Nothing is much known about his past life and parents. He joined the U. S. Air Force when he was 17. After some time, he started working as a security policeman. To conduct his work as a policeman, he was relocated to North Dakota, where he did his duty at Minot Air Force Base.

Charles was continuing his education at the time he was serving as a security policeman. For his study, he initially joined Minot State University, and later got enrolled at Central Texas College. In 1985, he started working as an analyst at a stock brokerage firm, E. F. Hutton. After earning a brief work experience at a stock brokerage firm, he founded his own stock market research firm “Wall Street Strategies” in 1991. However, he had to pay a civil penalty amount of around $25,000, as he was found violating the rules of the SEC.

Charles Payne Net Worth & Career

Charles turned his way towards the journalism field in 2007 by joining as a news contributor on Fox Business. He received wide fame from serving as a contributor on Fox Business. Charles later started hosting his own show for Fox Business “Making Money with Charles Payne”.

Charles was allegedly found to have a romantic relationship with a former regular Fox News guest, Scottie Nell Hughes. Later, he became a part of the controversy when Scottie made a rape accusation against Charles. However, Charles completely denied the accusation. But he accepted that he had 3 years of a love relationship with her.

Scottie further accused him by claiming her appearances on Fox were drastically cut off when she ended her love relationship with him in 2015. After her complaint, Charles was suspended by Fox Business in July 2017.

Charles Payne Personal Life

Charles Payne is married to a lady named Yvonne Payne. He is reported to have two kids with her. His marital status still seems perfectly balanced, even though, he had an extramarital affair with a former married political analyst, Scottie Hughes. Charles even apologized to his wife, kids, and friends for getting into a mess-up act. Everything seems to be going well in his personal life as there is no controversial news regarding him with his wife.