🔺 EXCLUSIVE: When David Beckham — the football-mad only son of a heating engineer and a hairdresser — joined the Manchester United academy in July 1991 aged 16, he earned £29.50 per week.
From humble beginnings to running a global empire: The Sunday Times can reveal today that Sir David and his wife, Victoria, are now valued at £1.185 billion, thanks to shrewd investments across football, food and drink, property and fashion.
The valuation, compiled for the annual Sunday Times Rich List, makes Beckham the first British billionaire sportsman and means the couple’s wealth has more than doubled over the past year, when they were worth £500 million.
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