2023-09-24 04:36:00
Hannah Spearritt, Jocelyn Wildenstein, Amber Heard, R. Kelly and Richard Dreyfuss, fallen from grace
No matter how successful they were, many rappers, actors, budding reality stars, and even outlandish media people ended up with serious financial problems. Whether due to bad investments or behavior that harmed them. Here, celebrities who once had it all. And today, they have almost nothing…
Jon and Kate Gosselin earned a prominent place in the American television channel TLC’s cabinet of curiosities when they added sextuplets to their family of four. In 2009, during an appearance on Larry King Live (CNN), Jon said that they had been paid $22,500 for each episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8. But Kate would hit the jackpot after the couple’s divorce that same year. year: the program was simply called Kate Plus 8. And for taking care of the children without Jon’s help on the program, she began receiving $250,000 per episode.
Kate Gosselin (Getty Images)
At the same time, Kate would begin to spend excessive amounts on her appearance: at the time, hairstylist Ted Gibson told Radar that he put $7,000 worth of hair extensions on her. It was estimated that her net worth was around $5 million. But a few years later, in 2013, the media told People that she was struggling with financial insecurity: she was no longer filming Kate Plus 8, and returning to her old career as a nurse was not an option because she would have to spend too much money on care. of the kids.
“I use discount coupons, we don’t even carry the top brands,” he lamented in an interview for Today NBC. Gosselin managed to hold on to reality fame for a while longer when TLC resumed filming Kate Plus 8, but that return ended definitively in 2017. In 2022, The US Sun obtained legal documents in which the woman admitted to having taken $100,000 from her children’s trust fund: “I’ll have to keep borrowing from it to survive,” she explained. That same year, Daily Mail reported that Kate had indeed returned to work as a nurse.
Amber Heard, en Aquaman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Amber Heard should have ridden the wave of success as Aquaman’s character Mera. But during the defamation trial between her and Johnny Depp in 2022, producer Kathryn Arnold testified that the actress only received two million dollars for her role in the sequel to the aquatic superhero film.
Arnold also testified that Depp’s lawyer’s comments had severely damaged Amber’s reputation, costing her up to $50 million in potential future income over a five-year period. After jurors awarded Johnny more than $10 million, his ex-partner appealed the case. But, according to The Daily Beast, the actor agreed to a million-dollar out-of-court settlement to avoid another costly legal battle. Although it was much less than the original sentence, it was still a large sum for Heard.
Amber Heard y Johnny Depp (Getty Images)
In June 2022, sources told the New York Post that Amber was bankrupt after spending too much to maintain her Hollywood lifestyle and pay high legal costs. TMZ reported that the actress sold her Yucca Valley home for just over $1 million that July, and as of mid-2023, Celebrity Net Worth estimates the value of her assets to be around $500,000.
Since then, Amber decided to start over in Spain, where the cost of living is more than 40% lower than in the United States.
Jocelyn Wildenstein, known as Cat Woman or the first skinny legend, is a New York City celebrity famous for her cosmetic surgeries and body modifications. But this is not her only claim to fame. As Washington Monthly recalls in 1997, the socialite made headlines for claiming that her wealthy ex-husband Alec Wildenstein – the French billionaire to whom she was married until 1999 – threatened her with a gun after she caught him cheating on her
Alec was an art dealer whose family owned works by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Picasso and Monet. While the marriage lasted, Jocelyn had a chauffeur, maid, butler, personal assistant and chef. According to The Guardian, she also amassed a $10 million jewelry collection, which included several pieces inspired by big cats. Cat Woman was able to continue living the lavish lifestyle she was accustomed to thanks to a $2.5 billion divorce settlement and $100 million annual payments from her wealthy ex.
But Alec died in 2008, and Jocelyn said her family cut off her only source of income in 2015. She had to declare bankruptcy three years later, and she was forced to vacate Trump Tower from her.
In a 2023 interview with The Telegraph, Cat Woman said she agreed to appear in an HBO documentary because she was unhappy with her late ex’s family’s decision to wipe out their cash flow. Although she still had no income, she had a designer fiancé, Lloyd Klein, who expressed hope that her story would one day be turned into a film.
In the ’90s and early ’00s, Robert Sylvester Kelly – better known by his stage name: R. Kelly – was flying high. The Chicago native rapper, songwriter and music producer regularly released hit songs, such as the world-famous “I Believe I Can Fly.” In addition, he became the first music star to play professional basketball, when he signed in 1997 with The Atlantic City Falcons, which placed him among the most beloved idols of the moment.
In 2010, Billboard included him in the list of the 50 best R&B and hip-hop artists of the last 25 years. By then, R. Kelly had sold more than 30 million records, but he was already having serious financial problems. Among Kelly’s lavish purchases was a mansion in Chicago valued at $5.2 million. But, according to NBC Chicago, after he stopped paying the mortgage, the property was sold in 2013 for a fraction of that price at a foreclosure auction.
A year earlier, TMZ had reported that Kelly owed more than $6 million in back taxes. Among the many shocking revelations that came to light in her 2018 song “I Admit,” Kelly would admit that that number actually eventually skyrocketed to 20 million. In 2019, The Blast reported that her bank accounts had just over $600 left after her funds were confiscated to comply with a judgment that awarded one of her former landlords $173,000 in rent. defaults.
Money was not the worst of his problems. In 2019, Kelly was charged with ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, arrested on federal charges alleging sex crimes, human trafficking, child pornography, extortion, and obstruction of justice. In 2021 he faced a total of 22 federal charges, including child pornography, kidnapping and forced labor. A federal court jury found him guilty of nine counts of racketeering and violating the Mann Act, which prohibits white slavery, making it a federal crime to transport women from one state to another for “immoral purposes.”
Finally, in 2022 he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for illicit association and sex trafficking. According to Celebrity Net Worth, his net worth as of today is a negative $2 million.
Armand Douglas Hammer is an American actor known for his performance in the biographical drama film The Social Network and the title character of the western The Lone Ranger, among others. Armie comes from wealth: according to Forbes, his great-grandfather Armand Hammer was an oil tycoon whose estimated net worth was around $200 million, in the years before his death in 1990.
His great-grandson set out to make his own fortune in Hollywood, and in 2019 Celebrity Net Worth estimated that he had built a fortune of $16 million. But two years later, multiple women came out of the woodwork to make serious accusations against Hammer.
It started with a young woman named Effie, who alleged that Hammer had raped and physically assaulted her, according to USA Today. Other complainants shared screenshots of messages describing cannibalistic fantasies that were supposedly from Armie. Effie ended up losing the criminal case against Hammer because there was not enough evidence to press charges against the actor.
However, his film career continued to decline. Armie was removed from the films Wedding Bomb, The Bid and The Billion Dollar Spy. By 2022 he had already found work in another field: People reported that he had become a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands. According to a source, “his father no longer helps him and he lost his job, so he went to work.”
Like his career, Hammer’s net worth took a hit: it currently sits at around $100,000.
Richard Dreyfuss (Getty Images)
With roles in such beloved classics as Jaws (1975), Summer Madness (1973), and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), you’d think Richard Dreyfuss would have it all by now. But the Oscar winner didn’t spend his golden years lounging on the beach. Instead, he jumped back into the ocean when he joined the cast of the film Poseidon in 2006. When asked why he decided to return to film, he told MovieWeb: “For money! Big surprise, they offered me a lot of money and I love money, and I didn’t have much, and I thought this would be a good way to do it.”
Dreyfuss attempted to retire after that filming and spent some time studying civics at Oxford. In 2016, he told Daily Mail that he had returned to acting because he was “broke.” He explained that throughout his life he had been a fairly frivolous spender, and that this bad habit was causing him quite serious financial consequences.
Two years later, retirement was still difficult for Richard, he told The Daily Telegraph. “I’m going to do it until I don’t have to and I hope to find other sources of income. “I’m writing and teaching, maybe that’s one way.” Although up to this point, at 75 years old, his efforts have been useless.
Hannah Spearritt (in white) with Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens, Jon Lee, Jo O’Meara, Tina Barrett and Bradley McIntosh, at the announcement of the S Club 7 Reunited tour, in February 2023, in London (Dave J. Hogan for XIX Management)
As a member of the British pop group S Club 7, Hannah Spearritt contributed to three platinum albums and won two Brit Awards. Even so, according to Mirror, her parents decided to take the group’s manager, Simon Fuller – the brains of the Spice Girls – to court in 2003, because Hannah earned a pittance compared to what he earned. Apparently, Fuller earned about 75 million euros, while Hannah and her bandmates received annual payments of 150,000 euros each. What’s more, Hannah’s father explained that the band members often had to fight to get paid.
After the group broke up that same year, Hannah decided to pursue acting and landed roles in the horror film Son of Chucky and the television series Primeval. Although as a pop star she earned much more than the average Briton, it was not enough to live comfortably for years. In fact, he told The Sun that he and his family became homeless during the 2022 holidays. They were given two months’ notice to vacate their London house: “Our landlord needed the money and the property sold very quickly. . “We ended up having less than two days to leave.”
Because short-term rentals were very expensive, the family ended up living in a friend’s office before moving between multiple other temporary residences. At the time, Hannah and her partner were working on opening a bar that would hopefully help them get back on their feet.
Blac Chyna, on the red carpet at the Oscars 2020 (REUTERS)
Angela Renée White, better known as Blac Chyna, is an American model and businesswoman who became famous in 2011 for her love relationship with rapper Tyga. She also shares a son with a member of one of the richest families in Hollywood showbiz: the Kardashians.
But in a 2022 tweet – now deleted – Chyna complained that Rob Kardashian was not paying child support. She also claimed that she had had to sell three of her cars because she was very tight financially. In the comments section of The Shade Room’s Instagram post, Rob wrote, regarding his claim: “I pay 37 thousand a year for my daughter’s school. I take care of all medical expenses. I pay for all his extracurricular activities. I have my daughter from Tuesday to Saturday. Why would she pay support?”
Chyna also took the Kardashian family to court for defamation. In the lawsuit, worth $108 million, she accused them of having pressured for one of her sources of income, the reality show Rob & Chyna, to be cancelled. In June 2022, TMZ reported that the Kardashians intended to recover from Blac the costs of the litigation, which amounted to about $390,000, in addition to his attorney’s fees. The model’s lawyer told the outlet that spending that amount of money would “ruin her financially.”
In a 2023 interview with TikTok star Mister Lewis, Chyna described herself as a bankrupt businesswoman, revealing that she only had three thousand dollars in her checking account. But she also pointed out that she owned her $3.8 million home, so she’s not completely bereft of valuable assets.
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