Steve Harvey slept in his car for three years and built a $200 million empire from that Ford Tempo
Billionaires Africa | 16.06.2026 01:33
The 1976 Ford Tempo had no air conditioning. The windows fogged in winter and the seats were too short to stretch out on. Steve Harvey slept in it anyway, washing up in gas station bathrooms and swimming pool showers, surviving on $50 a week, chasing a comedy career that everyone around him had quietly decided was not going to work. This was the late 1980s. He was in his thirties, divorced, occasionally eating out of trash cans, performing stand-up sets wherever anyone would have him.
