ELON MUSK
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- $Born in 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa — self-taught programmer who co-founded Zip2 in 1995.
- ▲Riches: Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX, SolarCity, The Boring Company and Neuralink.
- ▼Rags: the $44 billion Twitter purchase becomes his biggest spending catastrophe.
- ▲Riches: notoriety grows alongside the SpaceX commitment to reach Mars.
STEVE JOBS
Ending net worth
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- $Middle class to
- ▲Riches (obviously) to
- ▼Vengeance — fired by the man he hired — to
- ▲Riches, then firing the man who fired him, and financing Lucasfilm.
BURT REYNOLDS
Ending net worth
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- $College football star to
- ▲Riches (Smokey & the Bandit) to
- ▼Rags — extravagant spending leads to bankruptcy in 1996 — to
- $Paying the mortgage with six movies made in 2017, just before his death.
SINBAD
Ending net worth
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- $US Air Force to
- ▲Riches (jingle all the way to the bank) to
- ▼Rags (better to owe the mob than the IRS) to
- $Financially solvent — and still pretty funny.
WILLIE NELSON
Ending net worth
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- ▼Great Depression to
- ▲Riches — outlaw country pays well — to
- ▼Rags: the tax man cometh, to the tune of $16 million, to
- $Solvent again, with another visit to the White House.
LARRY KING
Ending net worth
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- ▼Rags — dad died when he was nine — to
- ▲Riches (radio wunderkind) to
- ▼Rags (too many losing ponies) to
- ▲Riches — he bet on cable and won big.
GEORGE FOREMAN
Ending net worth
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- ▼Rags — mugging for cash in his teens — to
- ▲Riches (heavyweight champ) to
- ▼Rags (15 Cadillacs) to
- ▲Riches — hamburgers, anyone?
JOHNNY DEPP
Ending net worth
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- ▼Rags — telemarketing jobs to eat — to
- ▲Riches (21 Jump Street, Edward Scissorhands) to
- ▼Rags — roughly a million a month in expenses — to
- ▲Riches: pirates ahead.
MC HAMMER
Ending net worth
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- ▼Rags — a family of ten living in three rooms — to
- ▲Riches (Hammer time) to
- ▼Rags — $500K a month in expenses — to
- ▲Riches as a pastor and real estate agent extraordinaire.
WESLEY SNIPES
Ending net worth
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- $Middle class (SUNY Purchase) to
- ▲Riches — top box office five years in a row — to
- ▼Rags: pay those taxes, to
- $Trying to be rich again.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Ending net worth
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- $Middle class in Woodside, Queens to
- ▲Riches — leave the gun, take the cannoli — to
- ▼Rags: musicals don’t sell, back to
- ▲Riches with Godfather III.
TONYA HARDING
Ending net worth
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- ▲Riches (US Olympic team hopeful) to
- ▼Rags — lifetime ban from figure skating — to
- ▲Riches via reality television.