Burt Reynolds is an American actor, director and producer who has starred in many films, and has made millions of dollars from them all and from all his awards. However, after Burt saw how much money he was making he started spending like crazy. This caused him to go broke. In the late 70s and early 80s, the Smokey and the Bandit hunk was number one at the box office, five years in a row, and the record is still undefeated, but an ugly divorce from his ex-wife, Loni Anderson, and a failed restaurant chain resulted in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1996. Fifteen years later, his mansion was foreclosed on due to terrible investments.

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Brett Butler is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, best known for playing the title role in the comedy series Grace Under Fire. From 1993 to 1998, the Golden Globe-nominated actress was living the high life, thanks to her wildly popular show, but when ABC cancelled the series, due in part, to her rampant drug addiction, she quickly lost everything. She bounced from her LA mansion to a Georgia farm, and ended up destitute in a homeless shelter.

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Brendan Fraser is an American and Canadian actor, best known for the Mummy film series and many other movies as well. At age 46, Brendan Fraser can proudly say he has had a very successful career as an actor. Rumors were going around saying that Brendan made $200k in just one month! Yet, he had a great deal of fees including child support, which caused him to file for bankruptcy.

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Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Well know for his first hit song, "Piano Man". Sadly, the iconic musician has gone bankrupt three different times, and has lost about $90 million, due to his, and his brother-in-law’s mismanagement of his money.

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Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. She has declared bankruptcy due to $4.1 million in outstanding debts owed to manufacturers, including jewelers, watchmakers, banks and accountants.

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Allen Iverson is an American retired professional basketball player who played for four different teams Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Memphis Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons, and in 1996, he was NBA Rookie of the Year, a bonafide superstar, raking in $154 million during his career, but due to a his ridiculously huge entourage and love of bling (he once owed $860,000 to a jeweler), he lost everything in 2012, including his career and marriage.

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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He led the United States through its Civil War, which is considered its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis, but even the 16th President of the United States had money troubles! Abraham Lincoln not only filed for bankruptcy once, but twice! Abraham Lincoln went to court many times over his debt and was paying off everything he owed for years and years!

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Tara Correa-McMullen was an American actress, known for her role in Judging Amy in1999, Rebound in 2005, and Zoey 101 2005. The young star, whose character was killed by gang members, met a similar fate when a shotgun blast killed her instantly. She died October 21, 2005 at the age of 16.

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Skye McCole Bartusiak was an American film and television actress. She appeared in The Patriot in 2000, Don't Say a Word in 2001, as Rose Wilder in Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder in 2002, 24 in 2002 & 2003, Boogeyman in 2005 and Kill Your Darlings in 2006. Died of a drug overdose, the Harris Texas County Institute of Forensic Sciences said, "The exact cause of death is an accident due to the combined effects of hydrocodone and difluoroethane with carisoprodol”. She died July 19, 2014 at the age of 21.

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Scotty Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later co-starred on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. His descent into a life of alcoholism, drugs, and crime remains one of the most tragic of Hollywood stories. He was discovered after his father was hospitalized and Scotty would frequently entertain his dad by singing songs. During one such visit, a Hollywood casting director happened to notice the cherubic youngster and told his parents he had movie potential. After a momentous career he began to gain notoriety not only for his acting, but also for his nocturnal activities, part of the young Hollywood jet set. Eventually his death was caused by an overdose of barbiturates. He died May 10, 1968 at the age of 38.

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Sammi Kane Kraft was an American recording artist, child actress and baseball player. She stared in the "Bad News Bears "remake, and was featured in an ESPN.com Page 2 story about her athletic skills, and competed in the Junior Olympics. While in a car as a passenger, it was rear ended by a semi truck and subsequently crushed into another vehicle. She died from injuries sustained in the accident on October 9, 2012 at the age of 20.

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Rusty Hamer was an American actor best known for his role as Rusty Williams in the popular ABC/CBS situation comedy Make Room for Daddy. A deadpan, freckle-faced, curly-haired child actor of the late 50s, Rusty Hamer entered films at age 5 and became a precocious TV celebrity the very next year, trading quips with top comedian Danny Thomas as his lippy, obnoxious son. The talented kid had become an awkward teen and the offers dried up, immediately. He left Hollywood and came back only once, for Make Room for Granddaddy in 1971. The show was not successful, and nothing else came his way. The aimless, embittered man left for good this time and his life quickly fell apart. Left with no job skills, he had extreme difficulty finding direction, consequently living a wanderlust lifestyle, taking jobs that ranged from work on oil rigs to work in cafes. He became poverty-ridden, causing him to spiral into deep depression and, eventually, alcohol abuse, which led to an increasingly violent and delusional state. He shot himself to death January 18, 1990 at the age of 42

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Rob Knox was an English actor who portrayed the character of Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in 2009 and had signed to appear in the planned film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2010. He died while defending his brother from an attacker. His death was caused by stab wounds from a knife during an attack outside a bar in southeast London. He died May 24, 2008 at the age of 18.

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River Phoenix was an American actor, musician and activist. He was the older brother of Rain Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix, Summer Phoenix and Liberty Phoenix. His work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers in 1985.His death occurred after speed-balling cocaine and morphine. He collapsed outside of The Viper Room nightclub, while then owner Johnny Depp was performing onstage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers's Flea, and the Butthole Surfer’s Gibby Haynes. As news circulated through the club about Phoenix's collapse outside, the show stopped, but he was never revived. With him at the time were his brother, Joaquin Phoenix, as well as friends Johnny Depp and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was rushed to the hospital and died October 31, 1993 at the age of 23.

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Norman 'Chubby' Chaney was an American child actor, notable for appearing in 19 Our Gang comedies as "Chubby" from 1929 to 1931, and the films Pups Is Pups, Bear Shooters and School's Out in 1930. He died from complications that arose from a surgery to correct a glandular disorder on May 29, 1936 at the age of 21.

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Michelle Thomas was an American actress and comedian. She played Justine Phillips in The Cosby Show and Myra Monkhouse in Family Matters. She succumbed to a rare form of stomach cancer in a New York hospital. She died December 22, 1998 at the age of 30.

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Michael Cuccione was a Canadian child actor, singer, dancer, author, and cancer research activist. When he was only 9 years old, he was diagnosed with 2A Hodgkin's Disease. He recovered from two bouts of the cancer, but was left with permanent damage to and around his heart and lungs due to the massive doses of treatment he received. He later co-wrote a book with his grandmother, "There Are Survivors". He stared of the popular made for TV movie "2ge+her". He died January 13, 2001 at the age of 16.

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Matthew Garber was a British child actor, best known for his role as Michael Banks in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. He also starred in two other Disney films, The Three Lives of Thomasina and The Gnome-Mobile. He contracted hepatitis whilst in India in 1976/77 he said he had eaten "bad meat" there and died from Haemorrhagic Necrotising Pancreatitis on June 13, 1977 at the age of 21.

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Lucille Ricksen was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era. She was known for Edgar, the Explorer in1920, Edgar's Little Saw in1920 and Behind the Curtain in1924. She fell extremely sick during a filming and was subsequently diagnosed with tuberculosis. She died two weeks after her mother, who had kept vigil on her ailing daughter, suffered a fatal heart attack at her daughter's bedside. She died March 13, 1925 at the age of 14.

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Lee Thompson Young was an American actor. He was known for his teenage role as the title character on the Disney Channel television series The Famous Jett Jackson. His death is considered one of the most recent and tragic child star deaths and died by a gunshot to the head and was ruled a suicide. He died on August 19, 2003 at the age of 29.

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Justin Pierce was a British and American actor and skateboarder, known for his role as Casper in the highly controversial 1995 film Kids and the 2000 film Next Friday, He was discovered hanging in his room in a hotel. He died July 10, 2000 at the age of 25.

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Judith Barsi was an American child actress. She began her career in television, making appearances in commercials and television shows, and later appeared in the films Jaws: The Revenge, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven. She starred in Jaws: The Revenge and provided the voice of The Land Before Time. She died in a murder-suicide carried out by her father. Judith and her mother were shot, killed, and subsequently set on fire before he shot himself to death in the family's garage. She died July 25, 1988 at the age of 10.

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Josh Ryan Evans was an American actor who became known for his role of Timmy in the soap opera Passions. Despite being one of the smallest actors in Hollywood at 37 inches, Josh proved quality early on in his life by creating and distributing his own business cards before he was even a teenager, Josh landed a spot on "The Dancing Baby" ice cream commercial, which led to his role in Baby Geniuses in 1999, where he played all the babies and did all the dancing. When the Passions star died his soap opera character was killed off, the diminutive star died of a congenital heart defect at a San Diego hospital on August 5, 2002 at the age of 20.

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Jonathan Brandis was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Notable for staring in Ladybugs and SeaQuest DSV, was found alive, but unconscious, hanging from the neck in his home. It was later ruled a suicide. The friend who happened upon the scene summoned paramedics immediately, but the star died at Cedars-Sinai hospital the next day. He died November 12, 2003 at the age of 27.

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Jessica Madison Wright Morris was an American actress. Who is known for her role in Grace Under Fire fell to a heart attack the day after her wedding after having received a heart transplant in 2000 to correct a heart muscle disease and having years of respiratory problems. She died July 21, 2006 at the age of 21.

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Heather O'Rourke was an American child actress. She was discovered at the age of five. Sadly, she passed away during surgery complications for acute bowel obstruction. She played Carol Anne in the 1982 film Poltergeist. She died February 1, 1988 at the age of 12.

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Gary Coleman was an American actor known for his childhood role as Arnold Jackson in Diff'rent Strokes. He slipped into a coma and passed away from a brain hemorrhage shortly after being taken off life support in a hospital near his Provo, UT home. Born in Illinois in 1968, e had multiple health problems stunting his growth at 4 feet 8 inches. However, Coleman's small stature and charming personality made him perfect for Hollywood. He died May 10, 2010 at the age of 42.

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