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9 Bankrupt Celebrities – Financial Ups and Downs

 7) Robert Downey, Jr.

After spending a year in prison, fighting a battle against alcohol and drugs, and lowering his salary by 75% (from $ 2 million per project to 150,000), in 2006, he obtained the coveted role of Iron Man in the series of Marvel added an astonishing $ 300 million to his bank account.

Such was the success of Downey Jr. On his return, for the 15 minutes in which he appears in Spiderman: Homecoming, he was paid $ 8.5 million in 2018. A real stroke of luck for the man who was considered the lost case of Hollywood before putting on the superhero suit.

Those who died in poverty

8) Michael Jackson

He was going to start a tour in 2009 to pay part of the $ 500 million he owed in taxes, but he died just before he started. In the last years of his life, he developed a shopping addiction that led him to spend on bizarre items, such as a $ 600,000 necklace for his friend Elizabeth Taylor, $ 4 million bronze Peter Pan statues, $ 75,000 in a bottle of perfume, half a million in a pair of Greek vases and 2 million in zoo animals.

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