Thursday, June 19, 2008

Bankrupt! 65 Famous People Who Lost It All

If those double short crude oil ETN's mentioned below don't work out we'll be expanding this list. After each name popcrunch has a one paragraph note. HT to Mental Floss, to whom I'll be linking in the next post.
From popcrunch:

Personal finance is all over the news lately what with the economy being in full on meltdown mode. It’s not always just average people who struggle though. Sometimes people make fortunes only to lose them later, for all sorts of reasons. We’ve compiled a list of 65 famous people who found themselves destitute despite once having been extremely well off. On to the list:

1. Benedict Arnold...
2. P.T. Barnum...
3. Kim Basinger...
8. Lenny Bruce...
13. Francis Ford Coppola...

And sixty More.