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=== Wealth === In 2013, [[Charlie Rose]] estimated David's [[net worth]] at around $500 million.<ref name="absurd">{{Cite web |last=Weisman |first=Aly |date=March 3, 2015 |title=Larry David thinks reports about his massive net worth are 'absurd' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-david-net-worth-2015-3 |access-date=April 20, 2020 |website=Business Insider |archive-date=March 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324194610/https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-david-net-worth-2015-3 |url-status=live }}</ref> Two years later, two other estimates put the number between $400 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://reason.com/2020/04/01/larry-david-says-people-who-object-to-covid-19-lockdowns-are-idiots/|title=Larry David Says People Who Object to COVID-19 Lockdowns Are 'Idiots'|last=Sollum|first=Jacob|date=April 2, 2020|website=Reason.com|access-date=April 2, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404103934/https://reason.com/2020/04/01/larry-david-says-people-who-object-to-covid-19-lockdowns-are-idiots/|url-status=live}}</ref> and $900 million.<ref name="billion">{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.in/heres-why-larry-david-says-he-isnt-really-worth-half-a-billion/articleshow/46449672.cms|title=Here's why Larry David says he isn't really worth half a billion |last=Weisman |first=Aly |date=March 4, 2015 |website=Business Insider|access-date=April 20, 2020}}</ref> In 2020, ''[[National Review]]'' offered an estimate of about $400 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/larry-david-jerry-seinfeld-lennon-mccartney-of-comedy/|title=The Lennon and McCartney of Comedy|last=Smith|first=Kyle|author-link=Kyle Smith (critic)|date=March 20, 2020|website=National Review|access-date=April 23, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308172028/https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/larry-david-jerry-seinfeld-lennon-mccartney-of-comedy/|url-status=live}}</ref> Most of David's wealth originates from [[Syndication exclusivity|syndication deals]] of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', the former having netted $3.1 billion in rerun fees as of 2013.<ref name="billion" /> The syndication of ''Seinfeld'' earned David an estimated $250 million in 1998 alone.<ref name="richest">{{cite news |date=January 1, 1999 |title=Who's the richest? Seinfeld |url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990308/NEWS/303089975&cid=sitesearch |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004085108/http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19990308%2FNEWS%2F303089975&cid=sitesearch |archive-date=October 4, 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2008 |newspaper=[[The Standard-Times (New Bedford)|The Standard-Times]] |location=[[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> In 2008, David was reported to have grossed $55 million, mostly from ''Seinfeld'' syndication and work on ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''.<ref name="richest" /><ref name="forbes">{{cite magazine |date=March 6, 2009 |title=#65 Larry David β The 2009 Celebrity 100 |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/53/celebrity-09_Larry-David_6ZH4.html |access-date=October 5, 2009 |magazine=[[Forbes]] |archive-date=September 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908025403/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/53/celebrity-09_Larry-David_6ZH4.html |url-status=live }}</ref> David's net worth was parodied in a 2001 episode of ''Curb Your Enthusiasm'', "[[List of Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes#Episodes|The Shrimp Incident]]", in which [[HBO]] executive Allan Wasserman yells at David: "If you want shrimp, take your $475 million, go buy a shrimp boat."<ref>{{Cite episode|series=Curb Your Enthusiasm |season=02 |number=04 |title=The Shrimp Incident |network=HBO |date=2001-10-14 }}</ref> In a 2015 interview with [[CBS]], David confirmed that his 2007 divorce reduced his wealth by half in the [[Community property in the United States|community property state]] of California.<ref name="absurd" /> "I have a lot of money", he said, but added that the "figures out there are crazy".<ref name="absurd" />
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