Famous People Who Filed Bankruptcy

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Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States Benedict Arnold Betrayed colonists to British John James Audubon Illustrated Birds of America P.T. Barnum The Great American circus owner John Barrymore Actor; Romeo & Juliet Lionel Bart British composer – lyricist – playwright (1972) Kim Basinger Oscar – winning actress (1993) Frank Baum Wizard of Oz author Barbara Bel Geddes Actor; Miss Elle on Dallas Bunny Berigan Jazz trumpeter great George Best Manchester United soccer John Wayne Bobbitt Penectomy survivor Peter Bogdanovich American Filmographer Bjorn Borg Pro tennis player Lorraine Bracco Oscar-nominated actress (1999) Matthew Brady portrait / US Civil War photographer (1872) Toni Braxton rock star (1998) Louise Brooks Actor; Pandora’s Box Sylvia Browne Afraid to accept Randi’s $1 million challenge Lenny Bruce Comic; Multiply obscene comic Buffalo Bill Wild West showman Gary Burghoff Radar O’Reilly in M*A*S*H Anita Bryant singer 1958 Miss America 2nd runner up (1997) Crazy Cabbie Radio personality on the Howard Stern menagerie Tia Carrere Actor; Wayne’s World Nell Carter Actor; Housekeeper on Gimme a Break Raymond Carver Author; Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? Miguel de Cervantes Novelist Don Quixote George Clinton rock star (1984) (note: this is not the composer George S. Clinton) Natalie Colesinger Gary Coleman actor (1999) Concrete Blonde rock group John Connally Former Texas Governor, wounded in 1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas (1987) Francis Ford Coppola Oscar-winning film writer; director; producer (1999) Cathy Lee Crosby Actress; American Author (1992) David Crosby singer / songwriter Aleister Crowley Wickedest man in the world Vic Damone singer (1971) Dorothy Dandridge Oscar-nominated actress; singer (1963) Daniel Defoe Author Robinson Crusoe Lee De Forest Oscar-winning film/sound synchronization pioneer, producer (1937) Dino De Laurentis Oscar-winning film producer (1988) John DeLorean Automobile designer and entrepreneur Walt Disney Oscar-winning film producer, animation & theme park pioneer (1923) Henry Dunant Red Cross founder William C. Durant Founder of General Motor Eddy “the eagle” Edwards Great Britain’s first Olympic ski jumper (1991) Keith Famie Survivor II: The Australian Outback contestant, chef-restauranter, American Author (1996/97) Freddy Fender Musician; Before the Next Teardrop Falls Stephin Fetchit Actor Professional black stereotype Eddie Fisher Singer; crooner dumped by Liz Taylor Mick Fleetwood rock star, lead member of “Fleetwood Mac” (1984) Heidi Fleiss Clothing line founder; American author Henry Ford Automobile manufacturer

William Fox Co-Founder of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (1936) Red Foxx actor – entertainer R. Buckminster Fuller Architect, futurist, invented the geodesic dome Zsa Zsa Gabor Cop-slapping Gabor sister Marvin Gaye singer (1970s) Andy Gibb rock star (1987) Gary Glitter Rock and Roll Part 2 Bernhard Goetz Subway vigilante criminal Charles Goodyear 19th century American inventor, who discovered how to vulcanize rubber Ulysses S. Grant 18th US President; Civil War general, best-selling American Author, face is pictured on the US fifty dollar bill (1884 after leaving office) Elizabeth Ward Gracen actress; model; Miss America 1982 (1999) Bob Guccione publisher and founder of Penthouse magazine (2003) Johannes Gutenberg Inventor of movable type Tony Gwynn Batted .394 in 1994 for the Padres Merle Haggard country music star (1993) Corey Haimactor (1997) Frans Hals Dutch portraitist Dorothy Hamill Olympic gold-medal ice-skater (1996) M.C. Hammer rock star (1996) George Frideric Handel Messiah composer Richard Harris Oscar-nominated actor; producer; director Isaac Hayes Oscar-winning songwriter; composer; musician; singer (1976) Margaux Hemingway Troubled actress OD’d on klonopin Sherman Hemsley actor (2002) Ty Herndon Country music star caught in cruisy park Milton Snavely Hershey founder of Hershey’s chocolate Kent Hovind Creation Science huckster Steve Howe MLB pitcher E. Howard Hunt Coordinated Watergate break-in Nelson Bunker Hunt Tried to corner the silver market Ron Isley Rhythm-and blues singer (mid late 1990s) La Toya Jackson rock star (1995) Don Johnson actor-producer Eli Jacobs Former Baltimore Orioles owner Janice – Marie Johnson rock star/disco diva (1980s) Al Jolson Miami Vice Nash Bridges George Jones Country singer Kacey Jones country music star, musical humorist Clay Jordan Survivor V: Thailand contestant; restauranter (2001) Chaka Kahn rock star Charles Keating Morality crusader, white-collar swindler Buster Keaton Actor, The General Bernard Kerik NYC Police Commissioner, 2000-2001 Margot Kidder Lois Lane in Superman movie Larry King talk-show host, best selling American author (1978) Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Bowie Kuhnformer US baseball commissioner Gary Kurtz Oscar-nominated film producer Veronica Lake actress (1951) Lorenzo Lamas actor (2004) Cyndi Lauper rock star (1983) Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan Jerry Lewis comic Jerry Lee Lewis famous Rock n’ Roll star Horace Liveright Publisher of the Modern Library series Meat Loaf rock star (1983) Ashley MacIsaac musician fiddler (2000) Jackie Mason comedian – entertainer Henry Mayhew Punch journalist

Mindy McCready Country Music star, American author William McKinley 25th US President 1897-1901 Tom Metzger white supremacist Marvin Mitchelson celebrity divorce lawyer Melba Moore Singer – Actress Debelah Morgan Singer -Songwriter – Producer (2000) Lorrie Morgan Country music star, American Author Robert Morris Politician who financed Revolutionary War Levi P. Morton Vice President under Benjamin Harrison Motor City Five/MC5 rock group of the 1960s (1970) John Nash British Regency architect Willie Nelson singer-songwriter-actor, American Author (1990) Wayne Newton singer-actor – entertainer (1992) Harry Nilsson singer/songwriter; Me and My Arrow F. Donald Nixon Nixon’s brother Mary Nolan actress (1931) Emperor Norton Emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico Ted Nugent Rock Star Kate O’Brien The Land of Spices novelist Thomas Paine Common Sense activist Johnny Paycheck country music star (1976) Tom Petty rock star (1979) Gaylord Perry baseball player Philip II King of Spain, 1556-1598 Buddy Post Lottery millionaire Burt Prelutsky American television writer; screenwriter (1997) Randy Quaid actor Lynn Redgrave actress Rembrandt painter Tommy Rettig actor Jeff Miller in Lassie Burt Reynolds Oscar-nominated actor – director , American Author (1995) Debbie Reynolds Oscar nominated actress-singer, American Author (1997) Mickey Rooney Oscar nominated actor, American Author (1962) Rick Ross Activist; cult expert, deprogrammer Harry Saltzman film producer (James Bond movies) (1975) Ray Sawyer rock star, member of “Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show” (1973) Oskar Schindler activist who saved over 1000 Jews from the Nazis Shenandoah country music band (1991) Billy Sims Detroit Lions RB Tom Sizemore Heat, Robbery Homicide Division actor Anna Nicole Smith Model-Actress, 1993 Playboy magazine “Playmate of the Year” (1996) Dee Snider frontman for Twisted Sister, musician Phoebe Snow Jazz vocalist Leon Spinks boxer Sheryl Swoopes Three-time WNBA MVP J. Fife Symington Governor of Arizona (1995, while still in office) Lawrence Taylor NFL hall of famer Randall Terry Operation Rescue founder Nikola Tesla Invented alternating current Donald Trump billionaire entrepreneur TLC rock group (1995) Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn author Mike Tyson boxer (2003) Johnny Unitas legendary Hall of Fame football quarterback John Whitehead Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now, musician Oscar Wilde acclaimed poet and author James Wilson U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1789-1798 Tammy Wynette country music star (1988) Florenz Ziegfeld actor, the Ziegfeld Follies