| Net Worth | $3 Million |
| Wife | Jessica Halpin |
Who is Robert J. O’Neill?
Robert J. O’Neill, who was a former United States Navy SEAL and currently contributes to TV news. He enlisted on January 29, 1996, and joined the Navy SEALs the following year. O’Neill enrolled in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado and finished BUD/S class 208. He caused a stir after joining SEAL Team Six for Operation Neptune Spear in May 2011 by claiming to be the only person to kill Osama bin Laden.
Is Robert J. O’Neill married?
In March 2004 O’Neill married Jessica Halpin. By February 2013, he and his spouse had obtained legal separation.
Robert J. O’Neill Net Worth 2024
Robert O’Neill is a War Hero with an estimated net worth of $3 Million. He has amassed a fortune of wealth through his profession.
Robert J. O’Neill Age
Robert was born on April 10, 1976 in Butte, Montana. As of 2024 he is 48 years old. He is Tom O’Neill’s brother and the son of Jim and Diane Johnson.
Osama Bin Laden Murder
In February 2013, during Operation Neptune Spear, O’Neill told Esquire in an anonymous interview that he had killed Osama bin Laden. Several former members of the special forces released O’Neill’s name in late 2014 in protest over his breaking “a code of silence that forbids them from publicly taking credit for their actions.” This came before related pieces on the same subject from the Washington Post and Fox News. O’Neill claimed to have cornered bin Laden with an unidentified second member of SEAL Team Six; after the other SEAL fired and missed, O’Neill fatally shot the terrorist leader in the head.
Fellow SEAL Matt Bissonnette claims in No Easy Day that the deadly shots were fired by the unidentified point man. The Intercept quoted a former SEAL Team 6 member as saying that when O’Neill got to the terrorist leader, bin Laden was “bleeding out on the floor, possibly already dead, after being shot in the chest and leg by the lead assaulter on the raid.” According to a second SEAL, O’Neill just went up to the unmoving al-Qaeda chief and shot him twice in the head.
As of August 2020, neither the U.S. government nor Rear Admiral Brian L. Losey had refuted O’Neill’s claims, but Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci and Losey urged all SEALs to honor their rule of silence.
Regarding his decision to take credit for killing bin Laden, O’Neill remarked, “It’s a hard secret to keep, everyone was proud.” It was evident, I think, that we had succeeded. In 2015, O’Neill and his family were purportedly threatened by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
