Paul was born on 27 August 1952 under the zodiac sign of Virgo. He was born in New York in United States of America. Later his family moved to Florida and that is where his childhood was spend.  Name of Paul’s father is Milton Rubenfeld and his mother’s name is Judy Rubenfeld. His parents used to be in a business of lamps and at the same time his father works as a salesman at one of the automobile showrooms and his mother worked as a teacher.


It is also known that Paul’s father fought in World War II and he was a pilot in the Royal Air force as well as American Air Force. His father was also associated with the Air Force of Israel. Paul has two siblings and one of his sibling works as a lawyer and the other one works as a dog trainer. Paul completed his schooling from Sarasota High School and he later got admission in North western University. After receiving his degree from North Western University, Paul started studying at Boston University. He later started his journey at California Institute of the Arts.

To meet his expenses, Paul worked at a restaurant and he also worked as a salesman at the same time. Paul later led to the inception of the character of Pee Wee. The character was really famous and children really loved the character. Paul was also featured on The Pee Wee Herman Show and the show was aired between 1981 and 1984. The show was quite popular and Paul made appearance on several TV shows.

Paul was also hired by Warner Bros and they together developed a movie. The name of the movie was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. This movie was released in 1985 and it made a huge profit at the box office. Paul was also awarded with Harvard Lampoon’s Elmer award and he was given this award under the category of Lifetime Achievement in Comedy.

Talking about his personal life, it is known that Paul dated Debi Mazar and it is known that Debi is also an actress. It is also known that Paul had been arrested a couple of times. For the first time he was arrested in 1991 and he was arrested because he was caught masturbating in a theatre. He was also arrested for the possession of Marijuana. Paul had been at the receiving end of a lot of negative publicity but he still managed to be highly successful.

He also appeared on several interviews and during all the interviews, he thanked his girlfriend for helping him in curing depression. He said that he was depressed since his arrest and it took him some time to recover. It was assumed that Paul is a gay but he never revealed anything about the same. Paul was again arrested in 2002 but he was later released and most of the charges were dropped. Paul’s actual annual salary is not known but it is estimated that his net worth is around 5 Million US Dollars.

Last Modified: Apr 6, 2020


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