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HOW RICH IS DIPLOMAT, MILLITARY LEADER- COLIN POWELL
Colin Luther Powell worth $45 million, born on April 5, 1937 in Harlem near New York City, Manhatten. His parents Maud Arial and Luther Theophilus Powell were from Jamaica. His ancestors were Scottish. He was brought up in the South Bronx and went to Morris High School, got graduated in 1954. He received his BS degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1958. Powell is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, worked under U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. He is the first African American who worked as States Secretary. He was the National Security Advisor during
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She completed her Secondary School in Columbia. The supermodel has an estimated net worth of $2 million. Her parents are from airline industry and are descendents of Iran and Ukrain.
Rocha has been a devotee of Jehovah's Witness since childhood. According to her "she is a Christian first and a model second", and says that due to her faith she will not pose nude, with cigarettes, nationalistic emblems or religious icons.
She signed an exclusive contract with photographer Steven Meisel, and appeared in an editorial with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore. Also got the cover of the April 2006 issue of Vogue Italia. In March, she walked the Fall/Winter 2006 ready-to-wear show at New York Fashion Week, for Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs. In Paris Fashion Week she walked for big designers like Stella McCartney, Shiatzy Chen, Christian Lacroix, Emanuel Ungaro, and Marc Jacobs. In 2008 Rocha has got many cover of top fashion magazines including American, Brazilian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Mexican and Spanish
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Rocha hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet. Host and head judge Tyra Banks called her "The Queen of Posing" in America’s next top model where she was the guest judge, 2011.
In 2013, Rocha was one of three judges (along with Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell) on the first season of the Oxygen network reality show The Face.
In 2010, Coco Rocha got Marie Claire's Prix d’Excellence as their model of the year at a ceremony in Paris.
Rocha married artist James Conran on June 9, 2010. And In, 2011,they both received awards for their excellent work at the Pay It Fashion Forward event in Manahattan, NY. In 2012, she was declared as one of the 30 models of 2000s in Vogue Paris
One of her biggest achievements n, 2014, Rocha was awarded the "Model of the Year Award" at the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards in Toronto,

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