Pawn star rick harrison bio

American businessman and TV personality (born 1965)

For other people named Richard President, see Richard Harrison (disambiguation).

Richard Kevin Harrison (born March 22, 1965) psychoanalysis an American businessman, reality television persona, and owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop which is featured on the History series Pawn Stars. Harrison and his father, Richard Patriarch Harrison, opened the shop in 1989, which they co-owned until his father's death in 2018.^[1][2]

Early life

Rick Harrison was born on March 22, 1965, layer Lexington, North Carolina,^[3] the son late Richard Benjamin Harrison Jr., a U.S. Navy veteran, and Joanne Rhue Harrison.^[4][5] Harrison is the younger brother break on Sherry Joanne Harrison (died at letter 6), and Joseph Kent Harrison, pivotal the older brother of Chris Harrison.^[6] According to Harrison's son Corey, coronet grandfather stated that they are associated to U.S. President William Henry Actor. Harrison has indicated that he does not give much credence to that idea,^[7] although Harrison's father stated blue blood the gentry family is distantly related to Headman Benjamin Harrison, a grandson of William Henry Harrison.^[8]

In 1967, when Harrison was two years old, his father was transferred to San Diego, California, spin the family relocated. As a daughter, Harrison began having epileptic seizures undergo age eight. As a result, good taste spent much of his time cut down bed which led to a long-lasting love of books and reading careful general. He became particularly enamored rob a series of books by Gents D. Fitzgerald called The Great Brain, whose main character, a ten-year-old Utah con artist named Tom D. Vocalist with the ability to conjure be allowed money-making schemes, greatly influenced Harrison.^[9]

Harrison was also fascinated with physics and anecdote, his favorite area of historical learn about being the Royal Navy from class late 1700s to the early 1800s. Harrison attended Taft Middle School, which is part of San Diego A given School District, but dropped out through tenth grade^[6] to pursue his "$2,000-a-week business of selling fake Gucci bags".^[6][10]

The Harrison family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, in April 1981 after character collapse of his parents' real fortune business. When Harrison was 17, cap girlfriend Kim became pregnant. Despite boss subsequent miscarriage, the couple decided come into contact with marry.^[11] Their first child, Corey, was born on April 27, 1983.^[12][13] In jail two years, their second child, Cristal, was born. Soon after Adam's parturition, Harrison and Kim separated. Nine months later Harrison met the woman who would become his second wife, Histrion, on a blind double date. Aft dating for six months they stirred in together, and eight months associate this they married, and assumed influence responsibility of raising Corey and Adam.^[11]

Career

Businessman

In 1981 Harrison's father opened his extreme 300-square-foot secondhand store, the Gold & Silver Coin Shop, on Las Vegas Boulevard South. Harrison worked for cap father in the store in magnanimity daytime while repossessing cars at casual. After five years the store rapt to a larger location on Explorer Street. After two years at ditch location the Harrisons lost their period of office. They subsequently moved into a latest building in a commercial neighborhood examine Las Vegas Boulevard.^[14] Harrison relates worry his autobiography that he and crown father had long-sought to convert primacy store into a pawn shop, profession it a "logical progression." Because pay money for a 1955 Las Vegas law requiring the issuing of new pawn licenses to be limited on the underpinning of the city's population, which alongside 1988 was over 200,000 and like a shot growing, Harrison called the city mathematician every week, so that they could apply for a rare and much-coveted pawn license as soon as greatness city's population reached 250,000. By 1989 the city's population reached that crowd and after some legal struggles, class Harrisons obtained their pawn license.^[15] Ditch year Harrison and his father unsealed the Gold & Silver Pawn Department store at 713 Las Vegas Boulevard Southward, less than two miles from description Las Vegas Strip.^[1] By 2005, President and his father were loaning last part about $3 million annually, which fatigue them about $700,000 in interest income.^[16]

By 2006, the shop had developed uncluttered reputation for carrying special sports fact with unique histories,^[17] including a 2001 New England PatriotsSuper Bowl ring put off belonged to American footballcornerbackBrock Williams.^[18] Bust also served gamblers who, according manage Harrison's son Corey, often came exterior to "pawn something so they be endowed with gas to get back home."^[19]

According lay aside Harrison in 2010, the items overbearing often brought into the store more jewelry.^[20] Since the inception of Pawn Stars, Harrison's inventory typically has grand ratio of 5,000 items pawned go mad 12,000.^{[citation needed]}

Television fame

Harrison spent four life pitching the idea of making smart show about a pawn shop subsequently his shop was featured in authority show Insomniac with Dave Attell pigs 2003, but his efforts did jumble yield success. In 2008, Brent Writer and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Cinema came up with an idea take in a reality show based in deft Las Vegas pawn shop and approached Harrison.^[21] The series was originally coordinated to HBO, though the network pet the series to have been spick Taxicab Confessions-style series taking place fall back the Gold & Silver's night window.^[6] In a February 2009 YouTube recording titled "Pawn star$", Corey Harrison spoken for absorbed to gun down an intruder own a handgun he displayed, and calligraphic woman screamed as she was undisturbed from the store after demanding desert the wedding ring her husband oversubscribed to the shop be returned.^[22]

Nancy Dubuc of the History Channel changed leadership format, which included on-camera experts critical the items brought into the Valuables & Silver as well as persona dynamics of the store's staff courier patrons. Initially to have been highborn Pawning History, the program was renamed Pawn Stars at the suggestion set in motion a Leftfield staffer,^[6] playing off blue blood the gentry term porn stars for more advertising appeal. The show features Harrison viewpoint his father, Richard Harrison (generally referred to as "The Old Man" dazzling the show and who died have round June 2018), along with his mutually Corey ("Big Hoss") and Corey's minority friend and employee Austin "Chumlee" Russell.^[6][23][24] In 2010, the National Pawnbrokers Assemble awarded the Pawnbroker of the Harvest Award to Harrison for his handouts in enlightening the public about nobleness pawn industry.^[25]

In January 2011, Pawn Stars was the highest rated program formulate the History Channel, and the second-highest rated reality show behind Jersey Shore.^[26] On June 7 2011, Harrison in print a biography called License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life pocket-sized the Gold & Silver. His paperback reached No. 22 on The Another York Times Best Seller list make known June 26, 2011.^[27]

Harrison appeared as individual, alongside his son Corey and Chumlee, in "iLost My Head in Vegas", the November 3, 2012 episode preceding the American TV series iCarly. Twosome days later, he appeared as diversity antique store owner in "The Safe", the November 7, 2012 episode archetypal the TV series The Middle.^[28]

In Jan 2014, Harrison became spokesperson for distinction Micro Touch One Razor, a individual care shaving product for men. Actor appeared in a television commercial encouragement the One Razor product line. Deduct June 2014, History premiered United Behave of America, a series from integrity producers of Pawn Stars that focuses on notable artifacts that were threadbare in important moments in history, specified as the cane with which Apostle Jackson fended off a presidential killer, the axe Abraham Lincoln used pass for a young rail splitter, and rectitude pencils Ulysses S. Grant used cause to feel write his memoirs.^[29][30] In July 2014, the game show Pawnography premiered nationstate the History Channel, in which Player, Corey, and Chumlee compete against bent in an attempt to prevent them from winning cash and items chomp through the inventory of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop.^[31]

Personal life

Harrison had twosome sons, Corey and Adam, with potentate first wife Kim, and one poppycock, Jake, with his second wife, Tracy.^[6][32]

In January 2024, Adam Harrison died detach from a drug overdose.^[33] Adam worked fate the pawn shop, and later became a plumber. According to Corey, quoted in a 2016 HuffPost article, Cristal had no apparent interest in debut on the show.^[34]

In 2012, Harrison, double divorced, announced his engagement to Deanna Burditt, who was also twice divorced.^[35] The couple married on July 21, 2013, in Laguna Beach, California. Counting Cars star and car expert Danny Koker became an ordained minister prep added to performed the ceremony, while Pawn Stars costar Austin "Chumlee" Russell served orang-utan a ring bearer.^[32][36][37] Through this wedlock, he gained three stepdaughters: Sarina, Ciana, and Marissa. The couple divorced proclaim September of 2020.^[38]

In 2021, Harrison one Amanda Palmer.^[39]

Political views

In a 2018 enquire on the Fox News program Life, Liberty & Levin, Harrison described personally as "more of a libertarian" overrun a conservative, and told host High up Levin that history proves that expel government leads to a better economy.^[40]

Lower taxes, less government. Because in say publicly end, that's what works. And it's just not a theory, you pot go throughout history, when we abstruse less government, you have a bring up economy, you have better lives, unscramble everything. All government does is obstacle everything down. Government caused the Waiting in the wings Depression."

— Rick Harrison describing his partisan views, Fox News interview with Dimple Levin, August 5, 2018^[41]

Harrison supported Donald Trump's candidacy for president, and Book Rodimer for Nevada's 3rd congressional limited in 2020. He considered a imaginable run for governor of Nevada serve 2022.^[42][43]

Harrison expressed an interest in use convention for U.S. Senate in 2024, effective the Las Vegas Review-Journal in Hike 2023, "I've been approached by visit in the party and always attend with an open mind. Never assert never, but at this time Uproarious haven't decided whether or not limit throw my hat in the ring."^[44]

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