The GOP candidate more than tripled his net worth to $1.17 million in 2022, according to afiled with the state of Florida Friday, a steep increase from the $319,000 he declared in June of 2021.
DeSantis listed just two sources of income last year: his governor’s salary of $141,400, and $1.25 million from HarperCollins Publishers. The payout was part of a reported $2 million advance on his February memoir, “The Courage to Be Free.”The book, a New York Times bestseller, sold nearly 170,000 print copies through mid-June, the“The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival” is a non-fiction book written by Gov. DeSantis, and helped made him a millionaire.DeSantis — who sold his family home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Instead, he parked his cash in checking and savings accounts with USAA, a bank for military members and veterans, and a pair of retirement funds. But the 44-year-old is still carrying more than $18,000 of student loan debt from his college days at Yale University and Harvard Law, paying down about $2,600 of it last year as heThe book, a New York Times bestseller, sold nearly 170,000 print copies through mid-June, the Wall Street Journal reported.“It’s very unfair to have a truck driver have to the pay back a loan from somebody that got like a Ph.D.