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People who wiped a fortune off the value of companies

When talk isn't cheap
Gerald Ratner
David Beckham
Jeffrey Skilling
Tiger Woods
David Shepherd
Barack Obama's Twitter account
Martin Shkreli
Hillary Clinton
Jared Fogle
Eric Van Lustbader
Donald Trump
Jeremy Jordan
John Schnatter
Rihanna
Kylie Jenner
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Jack Dorsey
Sucheta Dalal
Cristiano Ronaldo
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When talk isn't cheap

While building a company from the ground up can take years of hard work, it can take minutes for it to all come crumbling down. From celebrities to CEOs, click or scroll through as we take a look at the people who have managed to wipe huge fortunes from some of the world's biggest companies – sometimes inadvertently – as a consequence of their behaviour. All dollar values in US dollars.

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lovemoney staff

14 July 2021

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