Logan Paul has made the transition from short video hosting application Vine to exposure in Hollywood movies and series. Most notably, he appeared in The Space Between Us (2017), episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Weird Loners.
Paul, who is also a director, screenwriter, and actor/rapper, is currently working toward becoming a white-collar boxer. Yes, he wants to be inducted into the league of men and women of various white-collar trades who have no prior boxing experience and have been trained for special occasions.
Here’s everything you need to know about Logan Paul.
Logan Paul Biography (Age)
Paul was born on April 1, 1995 to Pamela Ann Stepnick and Gregory Allan Paul in Westlake, Ohio, USA. He is said to be of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Jewish descent.
Logan attended Westlake High School, where he played American football and wrestling, notably qualifying for the individual championships at the 2013 Ohio High School Athletic Association games. But before Paul attended high school, he created a YouTube channel at age 10. Channel called Zoosh where he posted videos. The channel had grown to a few thousand followers by the time Paul enrolled at Ohio University to study industrial engineering before later dropping out to pursue a career as an internet personality.
In 2015, he began earning several thousand dollars from ad revenue and was ranked as the 10th most influential figure on Vine. That same year he made his debut in a major production, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, before later appearing in Weird Loners and Stitchers. The following year he trained with established acting coaches to land a starring role in a film. He also trained with a few comedy troupes as he improved his comedy sketch game.
Logan Paul went on to write the adult comedy, ‘Airplane Mode,’ which is due for release sometime in 2018 and has appeared in ad campaigns for HBO and PepsiCo, among others. After editing his scenes in the film Baywatch, Paul did a series of video sketches with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in 2017, notably one in which The Rock told Paul he was cut from the film before he wanted to direct it, according to a Baywatch Film Ambassador .
He is also slated to fight British YouTube personality JJ Olatunji, better known as KSI, in an amateur white-collar boxing match who has previously fought Joe Weller.
Is he dead?
Logan Paul is very much alive despite being involved in several life threatening stunts, one of which left a damaged right testicle.
He was also in the news about a suicide incident in Japan after finding and posting a video of a dead man allegedly taking his own life in Aokigahara, a place called Suicide Forest, at the foot of Mount Fuji. The video was met with an uproar from viewers and other YouTube celebrities, who condemned Paul’s actions. They also urged the petitioners to ask YouTube to delete Paul’s channel and stop collaborating with him.
Paul later apologized for the incident and even though YouTube shelved some of his work, impacting his reportedly multi-million dollar income, he donated a total of $1 million to a number of other suicide prevention agencies.
What is Logan Paul’s net worth?
As previously mentioned, Logan Paul has amassed quite a fortune since dropping out of school to become a full-time YouTube/Internet personality. He was ranked as the 10th highest earner from ads on Vine in 2015 with earnings in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
As of 2018, Paul is said to have an estimated net worth of $6 million. That number is only set to increase in the years to come as the actor works towards a Hollywood breakthrough while owning a clothing line that is said to be the toast of teenagers and young adults.