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Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Sammi Kane Kraft
Sammi Kane Kraft was an American recording artist, child actress and baseball player. She stared in the "Bad News Bears "remake, and was featured in an ESPN.com Page 2 story about her athletic skills, and competed in the Junior Olympics. While in a car as a passenger, it was rear ended by a semi truck and subsequently crushed into another vehicle. She died from injuries sustained in the accident on October 9, 2012 at the age of 20.

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Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Scotty Beckett
Scotty Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later co-starred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. His descent into a life of alcoholism, drugs, and crime remains one of the most tragic of Hollywood stories. He was discovered after his father was hospitalized and Scotty would frequently entertain his dad by singing songs. During one such visit, a Hollywood casting director happened to notice the cherubic youngster and told his parents he had movie potential. After a momentous career he began to gain notoriety not only for his acting, but also for his nocturnal activities, part of the young Hollywood jet set. Eventually his death was caused by an overdose of barbiturates. He died May 10, 1968 at the age of 38.

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Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Skye McCole Bartusiak
Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American film and television actress. She appeared in The Patriot in 2000, Don't Say a Word in 2001, as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder in 2002, 24 in 2002 & 2003, Boogeyman in 2005 and Kill Your Darlings in 2006. Died of a drug overdose, the Harris Texas County Institute of Forensic Sciences said, "The exact cause of death is an accident due to the combined effects of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol”. She died July 19, 2014 at the age of 21.

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Celebrity Death, Former Child Actor: Tara Correa-McMullen
Tara Correa-McMullen was an American actress, known for her role in Judging Amy in1999, Rebound in 2005, and Zoey 101 2005. The young star, whose character was killed by gang members, met a similar fate when a shotgun blast killed her instantly. She died October 21, 2005 at the age of 16.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Abraham Lincoln

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He led the United States through its Civil War, which is considered its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis, but even the 16th President of the United States had money troubles! Abraham Lincoln not only filed for bankruptcy once, but twice! Abraham Lincoln went to court many times over his debt and was paying off everything he owed for years and years!

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Allen Iverson

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson is an American retired professional basketball player who played for four different teams Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, and in 1996, he was NBA Rookie of the Year, a bonafide superstar, raking in $154 million during his career, but due to a his ridiculously huge entourage and love of bling (he once owed $860,000 to a jeweler), he lost everything in 2012, including his career and marriage.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Betsey Johnson

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Betsey Johnson
Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. She has declared bankruptcy due to $4.1 million in outstanding debts owed to manufacturers, including jewelers, watchmakers, banks and accountants.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Billy Joel

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Billy Joel
Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Well know for his first hit song, "Piano Man". Sadly, the iconic musician has gone bankrupt three different times, and has lost about $90 million, due to his, and his brother-in-law’s mismanagement of his money.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Brendan Fraser

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser is an American and Canadian actor, best known for the Mummy film series and many other movies as well. At age 46, Brendan Fraser can proudly say he has had a very successful career as an actor. Rumors were going around saying that Brendan made $200k in just one month! Yet, he had a great deal of fees including child support, which caused him to file for bankruptcy.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Brett Butler

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Brett Butler
Brett Butler is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, best known for playing the title role in the comedy series Grace Under Fire. From 1993 to 1998, the Golden Globe-nominated actress was living the high life, thanks to her wildly popular show, but when ABC cancelled the series, due in part, to her rampant drug addiction, she quickly lost everything. She bounced from her LA mansion to a Georgia farm, and ended up destitute in a homeless shelter.

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    • Velma Bullard, later Velma Barfield, was born on October 29th, 1932 to a poor family in South Carolina. Her life of crime began early, when, after starting to attend school at age seven, she noted th…
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    • It is being reported that ABC Family has renewed Melissa & Joey for a fourth season. The network has ordered 20 new episodes of the series, which makes it their first comedy to reach the 100-episode …
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    • Fox announced that New Girl has been renewed for a sixth season. The Zooey Deschanel-led comedy, which recently surpassed the 100-episode milestone, will continue its impressive run for the 2016-20…
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    • Netflix cut back its superhero fare further today, cancelling Daredevil after three seasons. The somewhat surprising move comes the month after fellow Marvel entries Luke Cage and Iron Fist were al…
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    • Revenge and Suburgatory both passed the ratings test last night with ample performances. Suburgatory drew 8.75 million viewers and a 3.0 rating in the adult demo, just a tick down from last week. Rev…
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    • Syfy announced today that The Expanse has been renewed for a third season. The space opera is currently midway through its sophomore run, where it continues to draw a consistent audience and favora…
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    • AMC announced today that Into the Badlands will not continue past its current third season. The news was somewhat expected, as it has been nearly two years since its last renewal and the cable netw…
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    • CBS announced today that Blue Bloods has been renewed for a ninth season. The long-running Tom Selleck police drama has been a Friday night staple on the network, where it continues to garner consi…
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    • The CW announced late today that The Originals will be returning for a fifth season. The veteran drama, which got its start as a spin-off of the recently-concluded The Vampire Diaries, will be retu…
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    • FOX announced yesterday that it has ordered nine additional episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The order tops up the freshman comedy's first season to a full 22 episodes. The network also announced tha…
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    • NBC has cancelled freshman series Go On after one season. The Matthew Perry-led laugher premiered last September and was picked up for a full season a month later. Ratings for the show were solid dur…
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    • AMC announced today that it has renewed The Walking Dead for a fourth season. The network also confirmed that current showrunner and executive producer, Glen Mazzara - who helmed the series for the p…
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    • Franco and Hathaway each have a movie out right now, Franco's "127 Hours" and Hathaway's "Love and Other Drugs." Both films have been getting good reviews. Franco has even been in the conversation fo…
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    • CBS announced today that Blue Bloods has been renewed for an eighth season. The long-running Tom Selleck police drama, which recently aired its 150th episode, has been a Friday night staple on the …
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    • The CW announced today that Arrow has been renewed for a second season. The superhero drama has been having an impressive freshman run since debuting last October, where it had the network's best ser…
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    • Tom Sherak, former Academy president and studio executive at 20th Century Fox and Revolution Studios,died Jan. 28 at his home in Calabasas, Calif., after battling prostate cancer for a dozen years. H…
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    • Paul John Knowles, a.k.a. "Lester Daryl Gates" aka "Daryl Golden" was an American spree killer, also known as The Casanova Killer, tied to the deaths of 18 people in 1974, though he claimed to have t…
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