Additional
Stories
A season's worth of arcs already charted — every one of them a roller coaster with receipts.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- Riches (US Olympic team hopeful) to
- Rags — lifetime ban from figure skating — to
- Riches via reality television.