Tyler Perry's Son, Baby Mama, Real Estate, Car Collection & Net Worth

tyler perry is an american actor director author  producer and screenwriter he's best known for his  

medea franchise which has grossed more than 660  million dollars he's a creator and performer of  

the medea character a tough elderly woman tyler  perry films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking  

techniques to film productions of live stage  plays many of his stage play films have been  

subsequently adapted as feature films in 2011  forbes listed him as the highest paid man in  

entertainment earning million us dollars between  may 2010 and may 2011. in 2020 he was included in  

times list of the 100 most influential people that  same year he was awarded the governor's award from  

the prime time emmy awards and the following year  he received the gene herschel humanitarian award  

from the academy awards in 2022 he was inducted  into the black music and entertainment walk of  

fame tyler perry has an estimated net worth of 1  billion u.s dollars about tyler perry's early life  

tyler perry was born emmett perry jr on september  13th 1969 in new orleans louisiana he's the son  

of willie maxine perry who was born in 1945 and  died in 2009 and emmett perry senior a carpenter  

tyler perry has three siblings embry perry yolanda  wilkins and melva porter he once said his father's  

answer to everything was to beat it out of you as  a child he once went so far as to attempt suicide  

in an effort to escape his father's beatings in  contrast to his father his mother took him to  

church each week where he sensed a certain refuge  and contentment at age 16 he had his first name  

legally changed from emmett to tyler in an effort  to distance himself from his father many years  

later after seeing the film precious tyler perry  was moved to reveal for the first time that he  

had been molested by a friend's mother at the  age of 10. he was also molested by three men  

prior to this and later learned his own father  had molested his friend a dna test taken by tyler  

perry indicated that emmett perry smith was not  his biological father while perry didn't complete  

high school he earned a ged in his early 20s while  watching an episode of the oprah winfrey show he  

heard someone describe the sometimes therapeutic  effect the act of writing can have enabling the  

author to work out his or her own problems this  comment inspired him to apply himself to a career  

in writing he soon started writing a series of  letters to himself which became the basis for  

the musical i know i've been changed tyler perry  is six feet five inches tall or 1.96 meters tall  

about tyler perry's personal life on november  30th 2014 tyler perry's partner galileo bakil gave  

birth to their son amman tyler perry in december  2020 he announced that he was a single bachelor  

tyler perry is a christian many of the themes  in his work reflect theology and social behavior  

indicative of the predominantly black church  culture such as the many scenes in both his  

stage and screen work that feature church  settings and worship styles commonly found in  

predominantly african american churches including  showcases of gospel music and artists on july 20th  

2009 tyler perry sponsored 65 children from a  philadelphia day camp to visit walt disney world  

after reading that a suburban swim club the valley  swim club in huntington valley pennsylvania had  

shunned them he wrote on his website i want them  to know that for every act of evil that a few  

people will throw at you there are millions  more who will do something kind for them  

tyler perry has become good friends with janet  jackson will smith and oprah winfrey about tyler  

perry's career tyler perry wrote and produced many  stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s he's  

also developed several television series most  notably tyler perry's house of pain which ran  

for eight seasons on tbs from 2006 to 2012. in  2012 he struck an exclusive multi-year partnership  

with oprah winfrey and her oprah winfrey network  known as own or own the partnership was largely  

for the sake of bringing scripted television to  own based on perry's previous success in this  

area he's created multiple scripted series for  the network the haves and the have-nots crime  

drama being its most successful the haves and the  have-nots gave own some of its highest ratings  

during its eight year series run the program  hailed as one of own's biggest success stories  

with its weekly dose of soapy fun filled with the  typical betrayals affairs and manipulations after  

seven years creating content for oprah winfrey's  own he struck a similar deal with viacom in 2019  

getting 25 of streaming service b-e-t plus  tyler perry has also acted in films not directed  

written or produced by himself including as  admiral barnett and star trek in 2009 the titular  

character in alex cross in 2012 tanner bolt and  gone girl in 2014 baxter stockman and teenage  

mutant ninja turtles out of the shadows in 2016  colin powell and vice in 2018 arthur and those who  

wish me dead in 2021 and jack bremmer and don't  look up in 2021. tyler perry has also done voice  

acting for animated films such as the star in 2017  and paw patrol the movie in 2021 in 2019 he opened  

tyler perry studios a 330 acre property in atlanta  with 12 sound stages and custom sets that include  

a to scale white house tyler perry's first book  don't make a black woman take off her earrings  

medea's uninhibited commentaries on love and  life appeared on april 11 2006 the book sold 30  

000 copies the hardcover reached number one on the  new york times best seller list and remained on  

the list for 12 weeks it was voted book of the  year best humor book at the 2006 quill awards  

his second book higher is waiting was published  on november 14 2017 it debuted at number five on  

the new york times best sellers list about tyler  perry's real estate in 2007 tyler perry bought  

a 17-acre estate in the paces neighborhood of  buckhead atlanta in may 2016 he sold the house for  

17.5 million dollars also closing the biggest deal  ever for a private home in the georgia capital  

in 2013 his company etpc llc purchased around 1  100 acres in the new manchester georgia area of  

douglas county georgia in august 2010 it was  reported that he had purchased dean gardens  

a 58-acre estate in the atlanta suburb of johns  creek he tore down the existing 32 000 square  

foot mansion and planned but never built a new  environmentally friendly home on the property  

tyler is also the owner of a 14 000 square  foot residence on 20 acres on the island of  

white bay k in the bahamas he reportedly paid  6.5 million dollars for the property in 2009.  

in 2018 tyler perry parted ways with a 10 bedroom  home in los angeles mulholland estates that he had  

bought just nine months earlier for 14.5 million  dollars he sold the residence for 15.5 million  

dollars to rapper and songwriter pharrell  williams he still owns another home in los  

angeles located within the uber exclusive gated  community call the beverly ridge estates tyler  

perry custom built what became a 25 000 square  foot mansion on the 22.5 acre property based on  

similar nearby sales this house is worth north of  20 million dollars about tyler perry's private jet  

tyler perry owns a gulfstream 3 private jet  that reportedly costs 126 million dollars  

to acquire and customize the jet features a  screening room with 42 inch lcd flat screen  

and satellite hookup he has used the jet on a  number of occasions to philanthropic missions  

delivering supplies to countries recently hit by  tragedies about tyler perry's car collection tyler  

perry owns or has owned a bentley gt sports  coupe a rolls-royce ghost a range rover l-322  

a cadillac escalade and a rolls-royce wraith  thanks so much for watching today don't  

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