Rob lowe net worth

Rob Lowe was born in 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, where his father was in his senior year of law school at the University of Virginia. Six months later, the family moved back to their hometown of Dayton, Ohio. In his best-selling memoir, Lowe writes: "We moved into a nice three-bedroom house in a leafy suburb. My dad joined a law practice, and my mother gave up her job as a high school English teacher to stay home and raise me."

During his infancy, a bout of mumps left Lowe permanently deaf in his right ear. The next challenge he faced was his parents' separation when he was four. The situation wasn't explained to Lowe at first, and he couldn't understand the sudden disappearance of his father from their home. "It was an unhappy time for my mother, my father, and me," he says. "I began to tune out reality and retreated to a private world. I began, at this very tender age, to block out pain. I was five when I learned my father was never coming home because my parents were getting a divorce. Understanding the effect of losing my father would come much later in life, but at t

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