Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10,1949 and is an American businesswoman, investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality.
18 Facts About Barbara Corcoran
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Barbara Corcoran founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter exited the company.
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One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in all 14 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank to date.
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Barbara Corcoran is a columnist for More, The Daily Review, and Redbook, writes a weekly column in the New York Daily News, and has written several books.
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Barbara Corcoran has been featured on Larry King Live and NBC's Today show, and hosts The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC.
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Barbara Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second of 10 children in a working class Irish-Catholic family.
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Barbara Corcoran remembers her father as a man who occasionally drank too much and treated her mother with disrespect and condescension, particularly when he'd been drinking.
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Barbara Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling, later learning that she had dyslexia.
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Barbara Corcoran attended a local Catholic elementary school and started high school at St Cecilia High School in Englewood.
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Barbara Corcoran graduated from St Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971, faring better than she had in her previous schooling.
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Barbara Corcoran had worked a total of 20 jobs by the time she was 23, including a side job renting apartments in New York City.
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Barbara Corcoran wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973, while working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers' real estate company in New York City, co-founded The Corcoran-Simone with her boyfriend, who loaned $1,000.
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In 2001, Barbara Corcoran sold her business to NRT for $66 million.
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In September 2017, Barbara Corcoran was announced as a contestant for season 25 of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with Keo Motsepe.
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Barbara Corcoran gave birth to their son in 1994, via in vitro fertilization, with an egg donated by her sister Florence.
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In 2015, Barbara Corcoran purchased a penthouse unit on Fifth Avenue for $10 million.
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Barbara Corcoran's hobbies include skiing and going to the beach.
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Barbara Corcoran has dyslexia and was labeled the "dumb kid" by her teachers and classmates.