John Paul DeJoria Bio, Age, Wife, Children and Net Worth

John Paul Dejoria Biography

John Paul DeJoria (John Paul Jones DeJoria) is a Greek-Italian-American entrepreneur, a self-made billionaire, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of the Paul Mitchell line of hair products and The Patrón Spirits Company.

John Paul Dejoria Age

Paul DeJoria was born on April 13, 1944, in Echo Park, Los Angeles, U.S. He is 74 years old as of April 2018.

John Paul Dejoria Family

Paul DeJoria comes from a family of an Italian immigrant father and a Greek immigrant mother, being the second son. They lived in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. His parents divorced by the time he was two years old and when he was nine he began selling Christmas cards and newspapers with his older brother to support his family.

He grew up in Atwater Village on Garden Avenue and then Revere where he attended Atwater Elementary School and John Marshall High School. Later when his single mother proved unable to support both children, they were sent to an East Los Angeles foster home.

John Paul Dejoria Wife

Paul DeJoria married his wife Eloise Broady DeJoria in 1993 (age 61). Eloise is an American business owner, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Her business achievements include Ultimate Face Professional, Arbor Behavioral Healthcare, and Renew Logic. She is involved in numerous other charitable efforts including Help Clifford Help Kids, The Palmer Drug Abuse Program, The Austin Recovery Center, The Austin Children’s Shelter, Helping Hands, as well as Club 100, Long Center for the Performing Arts, The Paramount Theater, and The Austin Film Society. The couple has four children.

John Paul Dejoria Children

Paul DeJoria and his wife Eloise have four children, Alexis DeJoria (daughter), John Anthony DeJoria (son), Michaeline DeJoria (daughter), Michael DeJoria (son), Justin DeJoria (son) and John Paul DeJoria II (son).

John Paul Dejoria Career

Paul DeJoria spent two years in the United States Navy, serving on the USS Hornet and after that held a series of jobs including janitor, door-to-door encyclopedia salesman, and insurance salesman. He entered the world of hair care as an employee of Redken Laboratories where he was fired from this position, he claims over a disagreement on business strategies. In 1980, he formed John Paul Mitchell Systems with hairdresser Paul Mitchell and a loan for $700 and while living in a 20-year-old Rolls Royce automobile.

DeJoria co-founded the Patrón Spirits Company in 1989, and also is a founding partner of the House of Blues nightclub chain, and has interests in Madagascar Oil Ltd., Pyrat Rum, Smokey Mountain Bison Farm, llc, Ultimat Vodka, Solar Utility, Sun King Solar, Touchstone Natural Gas, Three Star Energy, Diamond Audio, a Harley-Davidson dealership, a diamond company (DeJoria), mobile technology developer ROK AMERICAS, the John Paul Pet Company which does hair and personal grooming for animals, and J&D Acquisitions LLC, the parent company for the Larson, Striper, Triumph, Marquis and Carver boat companies formed with Minneapolis-based investor Irwin L. Jacobs.

DeJoria has been active in the film industry as an executive producer and actor who made a cameo appearance as himself, in the 2008 comedy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, and also in The Big Tease as the fictional John Paul Mitchell. He also made a cameo appearance in the Showtime series Weeds season 2, narrated and appeared in television commercials for Patron in November 2011.

He appeared on the November 1, 2013, broadcast of the ABC reality series Shark Tank as a guest investor, replacing series regular Robert Herjavec. With a 2017 net worth of US $3.1 billion, he is the 3rd richest “shark” of all time on the show, behind series regular Mark Cuban (2017 net worth: US $3.3 billion) and fellow “guest shark” Sir Richard Branson (2017 net worth: US $5.1 billion).

DeJoria owns the Patrón Tequila Express, a historic private railroad car which was built in 1927, and was previously used by the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad as Car No. 50. DeJorias bought the train car in 1996 and spent $2 million to renovate it. The train car is 85 feet (26 m) long and contains three staterooms (each with a bathroom and shower), a kitchen, a dining room, an observation room, and an outdoor deck. In addition to the mileage fees paid to Amtrak to transport the train car across the US, it costs $10,000 a month to staff, maintain, store, and insure the Patrón Tequila Express.

John Paul Dejoria Net Worth

Paul Dejoria’s current net worth is estimated to around 2.6 billion dollars.

John Paul Dejoria Quotes

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
When you start with next to nothing, all you’ve got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
Success unshared is a failure.
By loving yourself, you’re going to be a happy person. A lot of people don’t like themselves for whatever reason.
You’d be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.
I don’t micromanage, but I do care deeply about every product we make. Every one goes through me, and I try most of our products before they go to market, including our John Paul Pet flea and tick shampoo. If I don’t like it, it’s not coming out.
Why pour shampoo into a rabbit’s eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult’s eyes before they go blind? I’ll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else.
Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there’s nothing compared to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.
Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed.

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