Sign In
  • Best Buys
  • Household Money
  • Banking & Borrowing
  • Mortgages & Home
  • Saving & Making Money
  • Rights, Scams & Politics
  • Motoring & Travel
  • Investing & Pensions
  • Savings & ISAs
  • Features
  • Compare

People who used to be super-rich but blew it all

Super-rich people who blew their cash
Martine McCutcheon: previously worth $2.5 million (£2m)
Clarissa Dickson Wright: previously worth $3.5 million (£2.8m)
Ibi Roncaioli: previously worth C$5 million ($3.7m/£2.9m)
John Roberts: previously worth $4.4 million (£3.5m)
Marvin Gaye: previously worth $5 million (£3.9m)
Kim Basinger: previously worth $5.4 million (£4.3m)
Peter Kyle: previously worth $6.6 million (£5.1m)
Lawrence Candilsh: previously worth $7.1 million (£5.5m)
Sharon Tirabassi: previously worth C$10.5 million ($7.8m/£6m
Bryan Magee: previously worth $8.14 million (£6.4m)
Lee Ryan: previously worth $8.4 million (£6.5m)
Keith Gough: previously worth $11.6 million (£9m)
Michael Carroll: previously worth $12.3 million (£9.7m)
John McGuinness: previously worth $12.9 million (£10m)
William Post: previously worth $16.2 million (£12.6m)
Tori Spelling: previously worth $17 million ($13m)
Janite Lee: previously worth $18 million (£14m)
Boris Becker: previously worth $25 million (£19m)
David Lee Edwards: previously worth $27 million (£21m)
Dennis Rodman: previously worth over $27 million ($21m)
John Hervey: previously worth $28.5 million (£22.5m)
MC Hammer: previously worth $33 million (£26m)
Michael Vick: previously worth $50 million (£39m)
Maureen O’Connor: previously worth $50 million (£39m)
Mark Brunell: previously worth $50 million (£39m)
Burt Reynolds: previously worth $60 million (£47m)
Patricia Kluge: previously worth $100 million (£79m)
Jack Whittaker: previously worth $113 million (£87.6m)
Betsey Johnson: previously worth $150 million (£118m)
Nicolas Cage: previously worth $150 million (£118m)
50 Cent: previously worth $155 million (£122m)
Toni Braxton: previously worth $170 million (£133m)
Dionne Warwick: previously worth $245 million (£193m)
Mike Tyson: previously worth $300 million (£235m)
Barbara Hutton: previously worth $959 million (£757m)
Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson: previously worth $1.1 billion (£868m)
Michael Jackson: previously worth $1.1 billion (£868m)
Aubrey McClendon: previously worth $1.2 billion ($940m)
Clint Murchison Jr: previously worth $1.4 billion (£1.1bn)
Vijay Mallya: previously worth $1.5 billion (£1.2bn)
Allen Stanford: previously worth $2.2 billion (£1.7bn)
Jocelyn Wildenstein: previously worth $2.5 billion (£2bn)
Elizabeth Holmes: previously worth $4.5 billion (£3.6bn)
Sean Quinn: previously worth €4.7 billion ($5.2bn/£4.1bn)
Adolf Merckle: previously worth $12.8 billion (£10bn)
Bernie Madoff: previously worth $17 billion (£13.4bn)
Eike Batista: previously worth $34 billion (£27bn)
1 of 48
Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock

Super-rich people who blew their cash

Some people seem to be made of money, others don't seem to know how to keep hold of it. From costly divorces to lottery winners who spent it all, to dodgy investments and Ponzi schemes, here is our round up of people who made their fortune, then blew it.
Gallery view |
List View

Natalie Marchant

14 June 2019

Features

See more on this topic

Share the love