Ryan Gosling Is a High School Drop-Out! 12 Celebrity Drop-Outs Who Are Filthy Rich and Famous

Now worth well over $350M, Simon Cowell truly worked his way from the very bottom to the very top of the record industry. Dropping out of school at 16, he took a job as a mail clerk at EMI records, where he was on his way to earning a producer title at the same time his former classmates were just graduating! Between the success of American Idol, The X Factor and his mega-company Syco Entertainment, Simon proves that it doesn’t take a piece of paper to find success — now if only he could be a bit nicer about it…