Arts & Entertainment
Schwarzenegger Buys a Professor Job for $20M
Life after governor, movie star, body builder and Kennedy husband.
Former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has co-founded a think-tank with $20 million in personal funds at University of Southern California, according to The Washington Post.
He will hold a professorship at USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, emphasizing bi-partisanship.
Schwarzenegger, both Austrian and U.S. citizens, had dropped from the spotlight after his stint as California governor and separation/divorce from his wife of 25 years Maria Shriver—a niece of U.S President John F. Kennedy.
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Talk of returning to films, reprising Terminator roles and others were on hold with the revelation of his love-child with a housekeeper who worked for Shriver and Schwarzenegger for 20 years.
Schwarzenegger, born in 1947 in Austria, came to the U.S. as a body builder champ, went on to act in Hollywood, started several businesses, and was elected governor in a recall election of California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003.
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