Celebrities Who Went From Riches To Rags

Ulysses S. Grant

The 18th president of the USA was a partner in a financial firm with a guy named Ferdinand Ward. In 1884 however, Grand found out that Ward had embezzled all of their money. Penniless, he was unable to cover his medical costs accrued from his advanced throat cancer. Grant passed away while he awaited a series of essays that he asked Mark Twain to write so he could make enough money to keep going. 

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The More You Know

  • Matthew Broderick was convicted of careless driving in a car accident in which two people died.
  • Before she was a megastar, Madonna worked at Dunkin Donuts. She got fired for squirting jelly on a customer.
  • Before he was a star, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. He landed the role of Han Solo in the original Star Wars film. “I was quite surprised when I was offered the part,” Ford later said.
  • Robert Downey Jr. claims that Burger King saved his life from his drug addiction.
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