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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lena Heady

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lena Heady
Lena Heady is an English actress and is most popularly known for starring in the popular television series Game of Thrones, for which she earned her an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.. Unfortunately she went completely broke after she was caught in an ugly divorce and a custody battle for her child. She went completely broke and lost all her money. She ended up having to sell her house just so she could afford to buy food!

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lindsay Lohan

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, model, and singer. She began her career as a child fashion model when she was three, most famous for starring in the films The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, and Mean Girls, she has had a great deal of success throughout her short life, and she is quite talented; however, she has run into a great deal of trouble. Being arrested, partying hard, car crashes, and a countless number of visits to rehab had caused the IRS to seize her bank accounts after she decided not to pay over $900,000 in back taxes.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lorraine Bracco

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco is most famous for starring as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the HBO series The Sopranos. Lorraine is now over 60 years old and has starred as Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles. After five long years of custody battle with her ex over their daughter Stella, Lorraine ended up filing for bankruptcy. As soon as she started more acting she was able to pay back her dept, but the bitter custody battle/divorce from Harvey Keitel had at one time left her penniless.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: M C Hammer

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: M C Hammer
M.C. Hammer is an American rapper, dancer, entrepreneur, spokesman and actor, also known as Stanley Kirk Burrell. His songs feature outstanding dance moves and lyrics that rhyme and are quite catchy. At one point in his career his net worth was a whopping $33 million. However, his spending like crazy lifestyle dragged him into a huge amount of debt. He claimed to have at least 200 staff members that he was paying and even a $12 million mansion. In 1996 he was forced to file bankruptcy and has been struggling with money ever since! His outrageous spending, think luxury cars, airplanes, a record company, the largest entourage in celeb history, and a $30 million mansion, complete with a bowling alley, 17-car garage and a baseball diamond, has served as a cautionary tale to the newly famous. In the early '90s, the rapper was apparently 2 legit 2 live on a budget. He squandered his millions on a ridiculously extravagant lifestyle and was $13.7 million in debt when he filed for bankruptcy back in 1996.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Marion Jones

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Marion Jones
Marion Jones is a former world champion track and field athlete, a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA. She won 3 gold medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, and was the first woman to win five track-and-field medals at a single Olympics, but was later stripped of the titles after admitting doping. Not only did she admit to taking performance-enhancing drugs throughout her career, she was also down to a bank balance of only $2,000. Crazy in debt, she lost her mansion, two other properties and was stripped of her medals. These days, Jones is helping others to learn from her mistakes through her Take a Break program, encouraging young people to think twice before taking life-altering decisions.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Marvin Gaye

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He helped to shape the sound of Motown Records in the 1960s with a string of hits, and he has sold multi-million dollar records which makes it quite unbelievable that he ended up going broke. In 1979, Marvin ended up filing for bankruptcy. According to Rolling Stone magazine, after Marvin went broke he ended up living in a bread van for a few years. How in the world did Marvin Gaye manage to go broke? The iconic crooner filed for bankruptcy in 1976 after a court ruled that the royalties from his upcoming album, Here, My Dear, were to be paid to his ex-wife for alimony.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Meat Loaf

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf is an American musician and actor, also known as Michael Lee Aday or Marvin Lee Aday. This musician and singer’s most famous songs is known worldwide is “I’d Do Anything for Love” and “Bat Out of Hell”. Throughout the mid to late 1980s, Meat Loaf began to experience a great deal of financial problems and was even forced to file for bankruptcy. To make matters worse, not only was Meat Loaf broke, but his ex-songwriting partner had also filed a lawsuit against him. Talk about bad luck! He declared bankruptcy in the mid-1980s.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Michael Jackson

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor, who is also known as the King of Pop, had not always been rich. As a successful entertainer, he embarrassingly had to file for bankruptcy because he went too far with his life of luxury. He was forced to file for bankruptcy in 2007 when he was unable to pay back the loan for the Neverland Ranch that he had purchased.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Michael Vick

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Michael Vick
Michael Vick was an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League. He has previously played for the Atlanta Falcons and Philadelphia Eagles. He has been very successful in his football career. However, apparently all the money he earned was not enough. After Michael Vick spent 21 months in prison in 2008 for operating a dog-fighting ring, the former quarterback filed for bankruptcy. At one time, Michael was ranked the NFL’s 4th highest rated player by Forbes, to the tune of $37.5 million, but then the extravagance started. He supported a thirty-person entourage. He bought his mom a 7,800 square foot mansion. Business partners started investing obscene amounts of cash in silly businesses. After the dog-fighting scandal, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback went bankrupt in prison in 2008. In 2005, Vick was one of the highest-paid athletes in the world. By 2008, he was broke. Three years of splashing money around on mansions, a double-digit entourage and fruitless business ventures followed by the dog-fighting scandal cost the Atlanta Falcons player to lose almost every dime he had.

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Mickey Rooney

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Celebrity That Lost A Fortune: Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney was an American actor of film, television, Broadway, radio, and vaudeville. Starting off as a child actor and moving up playing the role of Andy Hardy in many films, he was quite successful and talented. It was once stated that his personal fortune was worth about $12 million. However his popularity eventually began to dwindle, and by 1962 he filed for bankruptcy and listed his assets at only $500.

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