Maria Menounos

 Maria Menounos, a Greek-American actress and journalist, has a net worth in excess of $20 million. Maria Menounos is most well-known for her role as a correspondent and actor on Today, Extra and Access Hollywood. She was born to Costas Menounos and Litsa Menounos, Greek immigrants from Boston, Massachusetts on June 8th, 1978. Her parents were immigrants from America who had arrived in the United States before her birth. They worked as cleaners in the Boston nightclub. She was a member of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church growing up. She was a student at Medford High School. Menounos, then 17, was the producer of "Land of Merry Missfits" which was an independent film fairy tale. She started competing in beauty pageants in 1995, and was named Miss Massachusetts Teen USA in 2006. In the following years, Menounos went to Emerson College and participated in Emerson Independent Video, an award-winning group. She graduated from Emerson in the year 2000. While in school, she had worked as a reporter for Channel One News. In her ten minute segments Menounos had many memorable assignments such as traveling to El Salvador to report on the El Salvador earthquakes,