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		<title>&#8220;Vanessa&#8221; And &#8220;Ron&#8221; Explained Why They&#8217;ve Dated For Decades, But Still Not Married</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from The Cosby Show and Darryl M. Bell &#8212; best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on A Different World; and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s School Daze, as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8221; &#8212; have an... </p>
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<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from <em>The Cosby Show</em> and Darryl M. Bell &#8212; best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on <em>A Different World;</em> and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s<em> School Daze,</em> as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8221; &#8212; have an interesting decades-long relationship and they explained why.</p>
<p>By now, many fans know the famed 90s actors, who began dating in 1993 &#8211;five years after Tempestt made a guest appearance on <em>A Different World</em>&#8212; have been together for decades. And although they seem like the traditional couple who follows the traditional social norm, believe it or not, they still aren&#8217;t married. Some people have no idea the two have been happily unmarried for more almost 30 years &#8212; 29 years to be exact. So, how is such a seemingly unbelievable feat possible? Well, there&#8217;s a pretty interesting reason for their decision.</p>
<h3>DARRYL EXPLAINS WHAT&#8217;S TAKING SO LONG TO JUMP THE BROOM</h3>
<p>Although they&#8217;ve lived together for years, Darryl said, in a prior <a href="http://straightfromthea.com/2009/08/20/tempest-bledsoe-darryl-bell-on-househusbands-of-hollywood-video/">V-103 interview</a>, that he&#8217;s still not ready to make that commitment and that &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke&#8221;&#8230; well, you know the rest.  And a few years ago, when Tempestt and Darryl appeared on Fox&#8217;s reality series, <em>Househusbands of Hollywood, </em>it was clear that not only was Darryl comfortable with being happily unmarried to Tempestt, when he stated that he wanted to be a &#8220;Stedman&#8221; to her &#8220;Oprah&#8221;&#8230;but that he was cool with Tempestt being the breadwinner, while he took care of things at home. Darryl does have an hilarious sense of humor though, so we&#8217;re not sure if he was joking about that &#8216;Stedman&#8217; statement, or not.</p>
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<p>During a previous interview with <a href="http://“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends. If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart.”"><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></a>, Darryl also explained why their unconventional, live-in relationship works:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends? If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe in the institution, too. I always say you never know what is going to happen 20 minutes from now, but, at the moment, we are happy and we have been happy, so we will see what the future brings.”</p></blockquote>
<h3>TEMPESTT ASLO HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS&#8230;</h3>
<p>Although fans would probably like to see the typical storybook plot for Tempestt and Darryl, she&#8217;s not giving away any details, reports <a href="http://people.com/archive/tempestt-bledsoe-a-cosby-kids-clean-break-vol-75-no-11/"><em>People</em></a>. She also explained why. &#8220;I wouldn’t say never,” says Bledsoe coyly, “but we feel great about the way things are.” Either way, she’s happy. “This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young,” she says of Hollywood. “I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.”</p>
<p>Well, alright for &#8220;Vanessa&#8221; and &#8220;Ron Johnson&#8221; are doing things their way! No wedding nuptials, but hey, they&#8217;re 30-year courtship has lasted longer than many celebrity marriages, so they obviously are doing something right and that&#8217;s all that matters.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s A Different World&#8221; Actor Lost Millions&#8230;And His Own Family Sued Him Over It</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former It’s A Different World actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and... </p>
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<p>Former <em>It’s A Different World</em> actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and his family, is proof of his personal drama. Darryl is in a great space now, but back in the day, he blew MILLIONS of his rich father’s money. Unfortunately, Darryl learned the hard way, that sometimes mixing money, business, and family is a recipe for disaster.</p>
<h2>His Family Was Well-Off</h2>
<p>In case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard, Darryl comes from a well off family. Although the <em>School Daze</em> star became a famous actor, he wasn&#8217;t the only mega-success story in his family, his pops, the late Travers Bell Jr., did so first.</p>
<p>Travers wasn&#8217;t an actor by far, but he was a record breaking businessman. By 1971, Travers Bell Jr. became the first owner and founder of a Black-owned member firm of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/27/obituaries/travers-j-bell-jr-46-founder-of-only-black-firm-on-exchange.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Stock Exchange</a>. With only $175K in capital, he had developed Daniels &amp; Bell Inc., a securities firm on Wall Street, which by the time of his untimely passing in 1988, had grown to a net worth of nearly $15million. Travers was also a major shareholder in Freedom National Bank and Cocoline Chocolate Co. (the company that made chocolate chips for Nabisco).</p>
<h2>Why Darryl M. Bell&#8217;s Fam&#8217; Took Him To Court &amp; HOW MUCH $ He Lost</h2>
<p>As Darryl&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em> stint was coming to an end in 1993, he was embarking on a new dynamic in his life- a 6 month court battle. After Darryl&#8217;s beloved father, Travers, passed away at the age of 46 from a heart attack, he left his multi-million dollar business to Darryl. However, after Darryl ended up losing most of his pop&#8217;s $14.9 million, due to inexperience, his dad&#8217;s widow and two of Darryl&#8217;s aunts (Travers&#8217; sisters) took him to court:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Travers] Bell had also been major shareholder in Freedom National Bank, which was taken over by federal authorities three years after he died. In addition, Cocoline Chocolate Co.,&#8230;filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition [in 1992].</p>
<p>A Superior Court probate judge in Morris County, N.J., ruled&#8230;actor Darryl Bell wasted the $14 million estate left by his late father out of imprudence, rather than wrongdoing as charged in a suit&#8230;While Bell had no experience in the business, court records indicate he put his mother and sister on the payroll and amassed a huge debt on the corporate credit card. As assets and revenue plummeted at the firm, the widow of the late founder, Laura Bell, and two of his sisters, Joanne Walker and Karen Bell McClearin, filed suit charging the young actor mismanaged the established New York securities firm.&#8217; -via Jet Magazine; May 1993</p></blockquote>
<p>After it was all said and done, Darryl&#8217;s father&#8217;s business plummeted from a net worth of $14.9million to $1million. The business owed several debtors, including the IRS, which had a $2.3million stake in the estate at that time.</p>
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<h2>But That&#8217;s Not All, See What Else His Family Claimed</h2>
<blockquote><p>In their suit, the women [Darryl&#8217;s aunts and father&#8217;s widow] had charged [that Darryl M.] Bell had mismanaged the business and misappropriated monies. They also asked the court to name new executors of the will and asked that co-executors, Darryl and his grandfather, be held accountable for replacing $5 million they maintained had disappeared from the estate. In dismissing the case after a six-month trial, [Judge] Stanton attributed the firm&#8217;s hard times to Bell&#8217;s inexperience rather than malicious intent. [&#8230;] [Judge] Stanton said, &#8220;This estate has turned out to be a disaster. It is all very regrettable.&#8221; -via Jet Magazine, 1993</p></blockquote>
<h2>He Credits Spike Lee For His Career</h2>
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<p>On a lighter side of things, Darryl had a successful acting career, which started while he was a Syracuse University college student and he said he <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-01-29/entertainment/8903010113_1_school-daze-spike-lee-talking" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">owes it all</a> to director, Spike Lee:</p>
<blockquote><p>Darryl Bell- &#8220;I went to see &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217;&#8230;in New York City. There was a big line outside, and Spike was out front just signing autographs.&#8221; Bell says he told Spike to give him a part in his next movie if he wanted him to buy a $10 &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217; T-shirt. They talked for a while, then Lee gave Bell his address and told him to send some photographs of himself. Soon after, he was auditioning for the role of &#8216;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8217; in &#8216;School Daze.&#8217; &#8220;After the audition, Spike said I&#8217;d definitely hear from him again. [&#8230;] It&#8217;s because of Spike that I&#8217;m in this business. It&#8217;s because of Spike that I met people who helped me get on &#8216;A Different World,&#8217; namely his casting director, Robi Reed.&#8221; -via The Chicago Tribune.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like the old school saying goes, &#8216;We live and we learn.&#8217; Darryl M. Bell took a major &#8216;L&#8217; on the chin, but his life has been a full circle learning lesson for him&#8230;hopefully he&#8217;s become better as a result.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Vanessa&#8221; And &#8220;Ron&#8221; Explained Why They&#8217;ve Dated For Decades But Still Not Married</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from The Cosby Show and Darryl M. Bell &#8212; best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on A Different World; and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s School Daze, as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8221; &#8212; have an... </p>
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<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from <em>The Cosby Show</em> and Darryl M. Bell &#8212; best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on <em>A Different World;</em> and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s<em> School Daze,</em> as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8221; &#8212; have an interesting decades-long relationship and they explained why.</p>
<p>By now, many fans know the famed 90s actors, who began dating in 1993 &#8211;five years after Tempestt made a guest appearance on <em>A Different World</em>&#8212; have been together for decades. And although they seem like the traditional couple who follows the traditional social norm, believe it or not, they still aren&#8217;t married. Some people have no idea the two have been happily unmarried for more almost 30 years &#8212; 29 years to be exact. So, how is such a seemingly unbelievable feat possible? Well, there&#8217;s a pretty interesting reason for their decision.</p>
<h3>DARRYL EXPLAINS WHAT&#8217;S TAKING SO LONG TO JUMP THE BROOM</h3>
<p>Although they&#8217;ve lived together for years, Darryl said, in a prior <a href="http://straightfromthea.com/2009/08/20/tempest-bledsoe-darryl-bell-on-househusbands-of-hollywood-video/">V-103 interview</a>, that he&#8217;s still not ready to make that commitment and that &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke&#8221;&#8230; well, you know the rest.  And a few years ago, when Tempestt and Darryl appeared on Fox&#8217;s reality series, <em>Househusbands of Hollywood, </em>it was clear that not only was Darryl comfortable with being happily unmarried to Tempestt, when he stated that he wanted to be a &#8220;Stedman&#8221; to her &#8220;Oprah&#8221;&#8230;but that he was cool with Tempestt being the breadwinner, while he took care of things at home. Darryl does have an hilarious sense of humor though, so we&#8217;re not sure if he was joking about that &#8216;Stedman&#8217; statement, or not.</p>
<figure style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/64/c1/93/64c193187de837c51f1d4e9c80d7a4a1.jpg" width="380" height="612" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Darryl M. Bell and Tempestt Bledsoe</figcaption></figure>
<p>During a previous interview with <a href="http://“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends. If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart.”"><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></a>, Darryl also explained why their unconventional, live-in relationship works:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends? If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe in the institution, too. I always say you never know what is going to happen 20 minutes from now, but, at the moment, we are happy and we have been happy, so we will see what the future brings.”</p></blockquote>
<h3>TEMPESTT ASLO HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS&#8230;</h3>
<p>Although fans would probably like to see the typical storybook plot for Tempestt and Darryl, she&#8217;s not giving away any details, reports <a href="http://people.com/archive/tempestt-bledsoe-a-cosby-kids-clean-break-vol-75-no-11/"><em>People</em></a>. She also explained why. &#8220;I wouldn’t say never,” says Bledsoe coyly, “but we feel great about the way things are.” Either way, she’s happy. “This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young,” she says of Hollywood. “I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.”</p>
<p>Well, alright for &#8220;Vanessa&#8221; and &#8220;Ron Johnson&#8221; are doing things their way! No wedding nuptials, but hey, they&#8217;re 29-year courtship has lasted longer than many celebrity marriages, so they obviously are doing something right and that&#8217;s all that matters.</p>
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		<title>Mo&#8217; Money, Mo&#8217; Probs: &#8220;Different World&#8221; Actor Lost Millions &#038; His Family Sued Him Over It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former It’s A Different World actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and... </p>
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<p>Former <em>It’s A Different World</em> actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and his family, is proof of his personal drama. Darryl is in a great space now, but back in the day, he blew MILLIONS of his rich father’s money. Unfortunately, Darryl learned the hard way, that sometimes mixing money, business, and family is a recipe for disaster.</p>
<h2>His Family Was Well Off</h2>
<p>In case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard, Darryl comes from a well off family. Although the <em>School Daze</em> star became a famous actor, he wasn&#8217;t the only mega-success story in his family, his pops, the late Travers Bell Jr., did so first.</p>
<p>Travers wasn&#8217;t an actor by far, but he was a record breaking businessman. By 1971, Travers Bell Jr. became the first owner and founder of a Black-owned member firm of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/27/obituaries/travers-j-bell-jr-46-founder-of-only-black-firm-on-exchange.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Stock Exchange</a>. With only $175K in capital, he had developed Daniels &amp; Bell Inc., a securities firm on Wall Street, which by the time of his untimely passing in 1988, had grown to a net worth of nearly $15million. Travers was also a major shareholder in Freedom National Bank and Cocoline Chocolate Co. (the company that made chocolate chips for Nabisco).</p>
<h2>Why Darryl M. Bell&#8217;s Fam&#8217; Took Him To Court &amp; HOW MUCH $ He Lost</h2>
<p>As Darryl&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em> stint was coming to an end in 1993, he was embarking on a new dynamic in his life- a 6 month court battle. After Darryl&#8217;s beloved father, Travers, passed away at the age of 46 from a heart attack, he left his multi-million dollar business to Darryl. However, after Darryl ended up losing most of his pop&#8217;s $14.9 million, due to inexperience, his dad&#8217;s widow and two of Darryl&#8217;s aunts (Travers&#8217; sisters) took him to court:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Travers] Bell had also been major shareholder in Freedom National Bank, which was taken over by federal authorities three years after he died. In addition, Cocoline Chocolate Co.,&#8230;filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition [in 1992].</p>
<p>A Superior Court probate judge in Morris County, N.J., ruled&#8230;actor Darryl Bell wasted the $14 million estate left by his late father out of imprudence, rather than wrongdoing as charged in a suit&#8230;While Bell had no experience in the business, court records indicate he put his mother and sister on the payroll and amassed a huge debt on the corporate credit card. As assets and revenue plummeted at the firm, the widow of the late founder, Laura Bell, and two of his sisters, Joanne Walker and Karen Bell McClearin, filed suit charging the young actor mismanaged the established New York securities firm.&#8217; -via Jet Magazine; May 1993</p></blockquote>
<p>After it was all said and done, Darryl&#8217;s father&#8217;s business plummeted from a net worth of $14.9million to $1million. The business owed several debtors, including the IRS, which had a $2.3million stake in the estate at that time.</p>
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<h2>But That&#8217;s Not All, See What Else His Family Claimed</h2>
<blockquote><p>In their suit, the women [Darryl&#8217;s aunts and father&#8217;s widow] had charged [that Darryl M.] Bell had mismanaged the business and misappropriated monies. They also asked the court to name new executors of the will and asked that co-executors, Darryl and his grandfather, be held accountable for replacing $5 million they maintained had disappeared from the estate. In dismissing the case after a six-month trial, [Judge] Stanton attributed the firm&#8217;s hard times to Bell&#8217;s inexperience rather than malicious intent. [&#8230;] [Judge] Stanton said, &#8220;This estate has turned out to be a disaster. It is all very regrettable.&#8221; -via Jet Magazine, 1993</p></blockquote>
<h2>He Credits Spike Lee For His Career</h2>
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<p>On a lighter side of things, Darryl had a successful acting career, which started while he was a Syracuse University college student and he said he <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-01-29/entertainment/8903010113_1_school-daze-spike-lee-talking" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">owes it all</a> to director, Spike Lee:</p>
<blockquote><p>Darryl Bell- &#8220;I went to see &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217;&#8230;in New York City. There was a big line outside, and Spike was out front just signing autographs.&#8221; Bell says he told Spike to give him a part in his next movie if he wanted him to buy a $10 &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217; T-shirt. They talked for a while, then Lee gave Bell his address and told him to send some photographs of himself. Soon after, he was auditioning for the role of &#8216;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8217; in &#8216;School Daze.&#8217; &#8220;After the audition, Spike said I&#8217;d definitely hear from him again. [&#8230;] It&#8217;s because of Spike that I&#8217;m in this business. It&#8217;s because of Spike that I met people who helped me get on &#8216;A Different World,&#8217; namely his casting director, Robi Reed.&#8221; -via The Chicago Tribune.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like the old school saying goes, &#8216;We live and we learn.&#8217; Darryl M. Bell took a major &#8216;L&#8217; on the chin, but his life has been a full circle learning lesson for him&#8230;hopefully he&#8217;s become better as a result.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former It’s A Different World actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between he and his... </p>
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<p>Former <em>It’s A Different World</em> actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between he and his family, is proof of his personal drama. Darryl is in a great space now, but back in the day, he blew MILLIONS of his rich father’s money. Unfortunately, Darryl learned the hard way, that sometimes mixing money, business, and family is a recipe for disaster.</p>
<h2>His Family Was Well-Off</h2>
<p>In case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard, although Darryl became a famous actor, he wasn&#8217;t the only mega-success story in his fam&#8217;&#8230;his pops, the late Travers Bell Jr., did so first.</p>
<p>Travers was a record breaking businessman. By 1971, Travers Bell Jr. became the first owner and founder of a Black-owned member firm of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/27/obituaries/travers-j-bell-jr-46-founder-of-only-black-firm-on-exchange.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Stock Exchange</a>. With only $175K in capital, he had developed Daniels &amp; Bell Inc., a securities firm on Wall Street, which by the time of his untimely passing in 1988, had grown to a net worth of nearly $15million. Travers was also a major shareholder in Freedom National Bank and Cocoline Chocolate Co. (the company that made chocolate chips for Nabisco).</p>
<h3>Why Darryl M. Bell&#8217;s Fam&#8217; Took Him To Court &amp; HOW MUCH $ He Lost</h3>
<figure style="width: 564px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/cf/2f/05/cf2f050d5cbf2adc4af3bb912b89e40d.jpg" width="564" height="423" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Darryl M. Bell</figcaption></figure>
<p>As Darryl&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em> stint was coming to an end in 1993, he was embarking on a new dynamic in his life- a 6 month court battle. After Darryl&#8217;s beloved father, Travers, passed away at the age of 46 from a heart attack, he left his multi-million dollar business to Darryl. However, after Darryl ended up losing most of his pop&#8217;s $14.9 million &#8212; reportedly due to his inexperience &#8212; his dad&#8217;s widow and two of Darryl&#8217;s aunts (Travers&#8217; sisters) took him to court:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Travers] Bell had also been major shareholder in Freedom National Bank, which was taken over by federal authorities three years after he died. In addition, Cocoline Chocolate Co.,&#8230;filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition [in 1992].</p>
<p>A Superior Court probate judge in Morris County, N.J., ruled&#8230;actor Darryl Bell wasted the $14 million estate left by his late father out of imprudence, rather than wrongdoing as charged in a suit&#8230;While Bell had no experience in the business, court records indicate he put his mother and sister on the payroll and amassed a huge debt on the corporate credit card. As assets and revenue plummeted at the firm, the widow of the late founder, Laura Bell, and two of his sisters, Joanne Walker and Karen Bell McClearin, filed suit charging the young actor mismanaged the established New York securities firm.&#8217; -via Jet Magazine; May 1993</p></blockquote>
<p>After it was all said and done, Darryl&#8217;s father&#8217;s business plummeted from a net worth of $14.9million to $1million. The business owed several debtors, including the IRS, which had a $2.3million stake in the estate at that time.</p>
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<h2>But That&#8217;s Not All, See What Else His Family Claimed</h2>
<blockquote><p>In their suit, the women [Darryl&#8217;s aunts and father&#8217;s widow] had charged [that Darryl M.] Bell had mismanaged the business and misappropriated monies. They also asked the court to name new executors of the will and asked that co-executors, Darryl and his grandfather, be held accountable for replacing $5 million they maintained had disappeared from the estate. In dismissing the case after a six-month trial, [Judge] Stanton attributed the firm&#8217;s hard times to Bell&#8217;s inexperience rather than malicious intent. [&#8230;] [Judge] Stanton said, &#8220;This estate has turned out to be a disaster. It is all very regrettable.&#8221; -via Jet Magazine, 1993</p></blockquote>
<h2>Darryl Credits Spike Lee For His Career</h2>
<p>On a lighter side of things, Darryl had a successful acting career, which started while he was a Syracuse University college student and he said he <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-01-29/entertainment/8903010113_1_school-daze-spike-lee-talking" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">owes it all</a> to director, Spike Lee:</p>
<blockquote><p>Darryl Bell- &#8220;I went to see &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217;&#8230;in New York City. There was a big line outside, and Spike was out front just signing autographs.&#8221; Bell says he told Spike to give him a part in his next movie if he wanted him to buy a $10 &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217; T-shirt. They talked for a while, then Lee gave Bell his address and told him to send some photographs of himself. Soon after, he was auditioning for the role of &#8216;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8217; in &#8216;School Daze.&#8217; &#8220;After the audition, Spike said I&#8217;d definitely hear from him again. [&#8230;] It&#8217;s because of Spike that I&#8217;m in this business. It&#8217;s because of Spike that I met people who helped me get on &#8216;A Different World,&#8217; namely his casting director, Robi Reed.&#8221; -via The Chicago Tribune.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like the old school saying goes, &#8216;We live and we learn.&#8217; Darryl M. Bell took a major &#8216;L&#8217; on the chin, but his life has been a full circle learning lesson for him&#8230;hopefully he&#8217;s become better as a result.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Vanessa&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Ron&#8221; Explained Why They&#8217;ve Dated For Decades But Still Not Married</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from The Cosby Show and Darryl M. Bell, best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on A Different World; and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s School Daze, as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision.&#8221; But they have an... </p>
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<p>Tempestt Bledsoe a.k.a. &#8220;Vanessa Huxtable&#8221; from <em>The Cosby Show</em> and Darryl M. Bell, best known for his portrayal of &#8220;Ron Johnson, Jr.&#8221; on <em>A Different World;</em> and also in Spike Lee&#8217;s<em> School Daze,</em> as &#8220;Big Brother X-Ray Vision.&#8221; But they have an interesting decades-long relationship and they explained why below&#8230;</p>
<p>By now, many fans know the famed 90s actors, who began dating in 1993 &#8211;five years after Tempestt made a guest appearance on <em>A Different World</em>&#8212; have been together for decades. And although they seem like the traditional couple who follows the traditional social norm, believe it or not, they still aren&#8217;t married. Some people have no idea the two have been happily unmarried for more almost 30 years &#8212; 27 years to be exact. So, how is such a seemingly unbelievable feat possible? Well, there&#8217;s a pretty interesting reason for their decision.</p>
<h3>DARRYL EXPLAINS WHAT&#8217;S TAKING SO LONG TO JUMP THE BROOM</h3>
<p>Although they&#8217;ve lived together for years, Darryl said, in a prior <a href="http://straightfromthea.com/2009/08/20/tempest-bledsoe-darryl-bell-on-househusbands-of-hollywood-video/">V-103 interview</a>, that he&#8217;s still not ready to make that commitment and that &#8220;If it ain&#8217;t broke&#8221;&#8230; well, you know the rest.  And a few years ago, when Tempestt and Darryl appeared on Fox&#8217;s reality series, <em>Househusbands of Hollywood, </em>it was clear that not only was Darryl comfortable with being happily unmarried to Tempestt, when he stated that he wanted to be a &#8220;Stedman&#8221; to her &#8220;Oprah&#8221;&#8230;but that he was cool with Tempestt being the breadwinner, while he took care of things at home. Darryl does have an hilarious sense of humor though, so we&#8217;re not sure if he was joking about that &#8216;Stedman&#8217; statement, or not.</p>
<figure style="width: 380px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" class="size-full-size" src="https://i.pinimg.com/564x/64/c1/93/64c193187de837c51f1d4e9c80d7a4a1.jpg" width="380" height="612" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Darryl M. Bell and Tempestt Bledsoe</figcaption></figure>
<p>During a previous interview with <a href="http://“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends. If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart.”"><em>Entertainment Tonight</em></a>, Darryl also explained why their unconventional, live-in relationship works:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think it is that it is really important that we are able to make each other laugh. Have you noticed that some of the ugliest stand-up comedians have some of the cutest girlfriends? If you can make a woman laugh, you will find your way into her heart,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe in the institution, too. I always say you never know what is going to happen 20 minutes from now, but, at the moment, we are happy and we have been happy, so we will see what the future brings.”</p></blockquote>
<h3>TEMPESTT ASLO HAD SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS&#8230;</h3>
<p>Although fans would probably like to see the typical storybook plot for Tempestt and Darryl, she&#8217;s not giving away any details, reports <a href="http://people.com/archive/tempestt-bledsoe-a-cosby-kids-clean-break-vol-75-no-11/"><em>People</em></a>. She also explained why. &#8220;I wouldn’t say never,” says Bledsoe coyly, “but we feel great about the way things are.” Either way, she’s happy. “This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young,” she says of Hollywood. “I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.”</p>
<p>Well, alright for &#8220;Vanessa&#8221; and &#8220;Ron Johnson&#8221; are doing things their way! No wedding nuptials, but hey, they&#8217;re 27 year courtship has lasted longer than many celebrity marriages, so they obviously are doing something right and that&#8217;s all that matters.</p>
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		<title>Mo&#8217; Money, Mo&#8217; Probs: &#8220;Different World&#8221; Actor Lost Millions &#038; His Own Family Sued Him</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former It’s A Different World actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and... </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former <em>It’s A Different World</em> actor, Darryl M. Bell (who played “Dwayne Wayne’s” friend, “Ron Johnson”) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment biz&#8217; and in his personal life. In fact, the situation that happened between him and his family, is proof of his personal drama. Darryl is in a great space now, but back in the day, he blew MILLIONS of his rich father’s money. Unfortunately, Darryl learned the hard way, that sometimes mixing money, business, and family is a recipe for disaster.</p>
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<h2>His Family Was Well Off</h2>
<p>In case ya&#8217;ll haven&#8217;t heard, Darryl comes from a well off family. Although the <em>School Daze</em> star became a famous actor, he wasn&#8217;t the only mega-success story in his family, his pops, the late Travers Bell Jr., did so first.</p>
<p>Travers wasn&#8217;t an actor by far, but he was a record breaking businessman. By 1971, Travers Bell Jr. became the first owner and founder of a Black-owned member firm of the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/27/obituaries/travers-j-bell-jr-46-founder-of-only-black-firm-on-exchange.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">New York Stock Exchange</a>. With only $175K in capital, he had developed Daniels &amp; Bell Inc., a securities firm on Wall Street, which by the time of his untimely passing in 1988, had grown to a net worth of nearly $15million. Travers was also a major shareholder in Freedom National Bank and Cocoline Chocolate Co. (the company that made chocolate chips for Nabisco).</p>
<h2>Why Darryl M. Bell&#8217;s Fam&#8217; Took Him To Court &amp; HOW MUCH $ He Lost</h2>
<p>As Darryl&#8217;s <em>It&#8217;s A Different World</em> stint was coming to an end in 1993, he was embarking on a new dynamic in his life- a 6 month court battle. After Darryl&#8217;s beloved father, Travers, passed away at the age of 46 from a heart attack, he left his multi-million dollar business to Darryl. However, after Darryl ended up losing most of his pop&#8217;s $14.9 million, due to inexperience, his dad&#8217;s widow and two of Darryl&#8217;s aunts (Travers&#8217; sisters) took him to court:</p>
<blockquote><p>[Travers] Bell had also been major shareholder in Freedom National Bank, which was taken over by federal authorities three years after he died. In addition, Cocoline Chocolate Co.,&#8230;filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition [in 1992].</p>
<p>A Superior Court probate judge in Morris County, N.J., ruled&#8230;actor Darryl Bell wasted the $14 million estate left by his late father out of imprudence, rather than wrongdoing as charged in a suit&#8230;While Bell had no experience in the business, court records indicate he put his mother and sister on the payroll and amassed a huge debt on the corporate credit card. As assets and revenue plummeted at the firm, the widow of the late founder, Laura Bell, and two of his sisters, Joanne Walker and Karen Bell McClearin, filed suit charging the young actor mismanaged the established New York securities firm.&#8217; -via Jet Magazine; May 1993</p></blockquote>
<p>After it was all said and done, Darryl&#8217;s father&#8217;s business plummeted from a net worth of $14.9million to $1million. The business owed several debtors, including the IRS, which had a $2.3million stake in the estate at that time.</p>
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<h2>But That&#8217;s Not All, See What Else His Family Claimed</h2>
<blockquote><p>In their suit, the women [Darryl&#8217;s aunts and father&#8217;s widow] had charged [that Darryl M.] Bell had mismanaged the business and misappropriated monies. They also asked the court to name new executors of the will and asked that co-executors, Darryl and his grandfather, be held accountable for replacing $5 million they maintained had disappeared from the estate. In dismissing the case after a six-month trial, [Judge] Stanton attributed the firm&#8217;s hard times to Bell&#8217;s inexperience rather than malicious intent. [&#8230;] [Judge] Stanton said, &#8220;This estate has turned out to be a disaster. It is all very regrettable.&#8221; -via Jet Magazine, 1993</p></blockquote>
<h2>He Credits Spike Lee For His Career</h2>
<p>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204822642499808&#038;set=pb.1051004492.-2207520000.1520962787.&#038;type=3&#038;theater</p>
<p>On a lighter side of things, Darryl had a successful acting career, which started while he was a Syracuse University college student and he said he <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-01-29/entertainment/8903010113_1_school-daze-spike-lee-talking" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">owes it all</a> to director, Spike Lee:</p>
<blockquote><p>Darryl Bell- &#8220;I went to see &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217;&#8230;in New York City. There was a big line outside, and Spike was out front just signing autographs.&#8221; Bell says he told Spike to give him a part in his next movie if he wanted him to buy a $10 &#8216;She&#8217;s Gotta Have It&#8217; T-shirt. They talked for a while, then Lee gave Bell his address and told him to send some photographs of himself. Soon after, he was auditioning for the role of &#8216;Big Brother X-Ray Vision&#8217; in &#8216;School Daze.&#8217; &#8220;After the audition, Spike said I&#8217;d definitely hear from him again. [&#8230;] It&#8217;s because of Spike that I&#8217;m in this business. It&#8217;s because of Spike that I met people who helped me get on &#8216;A Different World,&#8217; namely his casting director, Robi Reed.&#8221; -via The Chicago Tribune.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just like the old school saying goes, &#8216;We live and we learn.&#8217; Darryl M. Bell took a major &#8216;L&#8217; on the chin, but his life has been a full circle learning lesson for him&#8230;hopefully he&#8217;s become better as a result.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former &#8220;It&#8217;s A Different World&#8221; actor, Darryl M. Bell, (who played &#8220;Dwayne Wayne&#8217;s&#8221; friend, &#8220;Ron Johnson&#8221;) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment and in his personal life and the situation that happened between he and his family... </p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former &#8220;It&#8217;s A Different World&#8221; actor, Darryl M. Bell, (who played &#8220;Dwayne Wayne&#8217;s&#8221; friend, &#8220;Ron Johnson&#8221;) has had his highs and lows in the entertainment and in his personal life and the situation that happened between he and his family is proof of that. Although Darryl is in a great space now, back in the day he blew MILLIONS of his rich father&#8217;s money. In case you didn&#8217;t know, Darryl comes from a well off family and unfortunately a lot of the time, mixing money, business, and family is a recipe for disaster. Find out what we mean below&#8230;</p>
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