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People Who Declared Backrupcty

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States

Benedict Arnold – Betrayed colonists to British

John James Audubon – Illustrated Birds of America

P.T. Barnum – The Great American circus owner

John Barrymore – Actor; Romeo & Juliet

Lionel Bart – British composer – lyricist – playwright (1972)

Kim Basinger – Oscar – winning actress (1993)

Frank Baum – Wizard of Oz author

Barbara Bel Geddes – Actor; Miss Elle on Dallas

Melvin Belli – Famous Lawyer known as ‘The King of Torts’

Bunny Berigan – Jazz trumpeter great

George Best – Manchester United soccer

Jay Black – rock star, lead member of “Jay and the Americans” (1986)

John Wayne Bobbitt – Penectomy survivor

Peter Bogdanovich – American Filmographer

Bjorn Borg – Pro tennis player

Lorraine Bracco – Oscar – nominated actress (1999)

Matthew Brady – portrait / US Civil War photographer (1872)

Toni Braxton – rock star (1998)

Louise Brooks – Actor; Pandora’s Box

Sylvia Browne – Afraid to accept Randi’s $1million challenge

Lenny Bruce – Comic; Multiply obscene comic

Buffalo Bill – Wild West showman

Anita Bryant – singer, 1958 Miss America 2nd runner up (1997)

Gary Burghoff – Radar O’Reilly in MASH

Gary Busey – Actor, Lethal Weapon

Crazy Cabbie – Radio personality on the Howard Stern menagerie

Nicolas Cage – Actor

Tia Carrere – Actor; Wayne’s World

Nell Carter – Actor; Housekeeper on Gimme a Break

Raymond Carver – Author; Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

Miguel de Cervantes – Novelist; Don Quixote

George Clinton – rock star (1984) (note: this is not the composer George S. Clinton)

Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) – best – selling American author – humorist (1894)

Natalie Cole – singer

Gary Coleman – actor (1999)

Concrete Blonde – rock group

John Connally – Former Texas Governor, wounded in 1963 Kennedy assassination in Dallas (1987)

Francis Ford Coppola – Oscar – winning film writer – director – producer (1999)

Cathy Lee Crosby – Actress – American Author (1992)

David Crosby – singer / songwriter

Aleister Crowley – Wickedest man in the world

Vic Damone – singer (1971)

Dorothy Dandridge – Oscar- nominated actress singer (1963)

Daniel Defoe – Author; Robinson Crusoe

Lee De Forest – Oscar-winning film/sound synchronization pioneer, producer (1937)

Dino De Laurentis – Oscar – winning film producer (1988)

John DeLorean – Automobile designer and entrepreneur

Walt Disney – Oscar – winning film producer, animation & theme park pioneer (1923)

Henry Dunant – Red Cross founder

William C. Durant – Founder of General Motor

Eddy “the eagle” Edwards – Great Britain’s first Olympic ski jumper (1991)

Keith Famie – Survivor II: The Australian Outback contestant, chef-restauranter, American Author (1996/97)

Freddy Fender – Musician; Before the Next Teardrop Falls

Stephin Fetchit – Actor; Professional black stereotype

Eddie Fisher – Singer; crooner dumped by Liz Taylor

Mick Fleetwood – rock star, lead member of “Fleetwood Mac” (1984)

Heidi Fleiss – Clothing line founder; American author

Henry Ford – Automobile manufacturer

William Fox – Co-Founder of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (1936)

Red Foxx – actor – entertainer

R. Buckminster Fuller – Architect-futurist-invented the geodesic dome

Zsa Zsa Gabor – Cop-slapping Gabor sister

Marvin Gaye – singer (1970s)

Andy Gibb – rock star (1987)

Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll Part 2

Bernhard Goetz – Subway vigilante criminal

Charles Goodyear – 19th century American inventor, who discovered how to vulcanize rubber

Ulysses S. Grant – 18th US President; Civil War general, best-selling American Author, face is pictured on the US fifty dollar bill ( 1884 after leaving office)

Elizabeth Ward Gracen – actress; model; Miss America 1982 (1999)

Bob Guccione – publisher and founder of Penthouse magazine (2003)

Johannes Gutenberg – Inventor of movable type

Tony Gwynn – Batted .394 in 1994 for the Padres

Merle Haggard – country music star (1993)

Corey Haim – actor (1997)

Frans Hals – Dutch portraitist

Dorothy Hamill – Olympic gold-medal ice-skater (1996)

M.C. Hammer – rock star (1996)

George Frideric Handel – Messiah composer

Richard Harris – Oscar-nominated actor-producer-director

Isaac Hayes – Oscar-winning songwriter – composer – musician -singer (1976)

Margaux Hemingway – Troubled actress OD’d on klonopin

Sherman Hemsley – actor (2002)

Ty Herndon – Country music star caught in cruisy park

Milton Snavely Hershey – founder of Hershey’s chocolate

Kent Hovind – Creation Science huckster

Steve Howe – MLB pitcher

E. Howard Hunt – Coordinated Watergate break-in

Nelson Bunker Hunt – Tried to corner the silver market

Ron Isley – Rhythm-and blues singer (mid late 1990s)

La Toya Jackson – rock star (1995)

Don Johnson – actor-producer

Eli Jacobs – Former Baltimore Orioles owner

Janice – Marie Johnson – rock star/disco diva (1980s)

Al Jolson – Miami Vice, Nash Bridges

George Jones – Country singer

Kacey Jones – country music star, musical humorist

Clay Jordan – Survivor V: Thailand contestant; restauranter (2001)

Chaka Kahn – rock star

Charles Keating – Morality crusader, white-collar swindler

Buster Keaton – Actor, The General

Bernard Kerik – NYC Police Commissioner, 2000-2001

Margot Kidder – Lois Lane in Superman movie

Larry King – talk-show host, best selling American author (1978)

Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad author

Bowie Kuhn – former US baseball commissioner

Gary Kurtz – Oscar-nominated film producer

Veronica Lake – actress (1951)

Lorenzo Lamas – actor (2004)

Cyndi Lauper – rock star (1983)

Anton LaVey – Founder of the Church of Satan

Stan Lee – Comic book industry pioneer , co-creator “Spider Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The X-Men” etc (2001)

Jerry Lewis – comic

Jerry Lee Lewis – famous Rock n’ Roll star

Horace Liveright – Publisher of the Modern Library series

Meat Loaf – rock star (1983)

Ashley MacIsaac – musician fiddler (2000)

Jackie Mason – comedian – entertainer

Henry Mayhew – Punch journalist

Mindy McCready – Country Music star , American author

William McKinley – 25th US President 1897-1901

Tom Metzger – white supremacist

Marvin Mitchelson – celebrity divorce lawyer

Melba Moore – Singer – Actress

Debelah Morgan – Singer -Songwriter – Producer (2000)

Lorrie Morgan – Country music star, American Author

Robert Morris – Politician who financed Revolutionary War

Levi P. Morton – Vice President under Benjamin Harrison

Motor City Five/MCS – rock group of the 1960s (1970)

John Nash – British Regency architect

Willie Nelson – singer-songwriter-actor, American Author (1990)

Wayne Newton – singer-actor – entertainer (1992)

Harry Nilsson – singer/songwriter; Me and My Arrow

F. Donald Nixon – Nixon’s brother

Immanuel Nobel – father of manufacturers – philanthropist Alfred Nobel , who founded the Nobel Prize (twice – 1833/year Alfred was born, 1856/ when Alfred was 23)

Mary Nolan – actress (1931)

Emperor Norton – Emperor of the United States and protector of Mexico

Ted Nugent – Rock Star

Kate O’Brien – The Land of Spices novelist

Thomas Paine – Common Sense activist

Johnny Paycheck – country music star (1976)

Tom Petty – rock star (1979)

Gaylord Perry – baseball player

Philip II – King of Spain, 1556-1598

Buddy Post – Lottery millionaire

Susan Powter – Exercise/fitness expert, talk show host, best selling American Author 1995)

Burt Prelutsky – American television writer; screenwriter (1997)

Randy Quaid – actor

Lynn Redgrave – actress

Rembrandt – painter

Tommy Rettig – actor; Jeff Miller in Lassie

Burt Reynolds – Oscar-nominated actor – director , American Author (1995)

Debbie Reynolds – Oscar nominated actress-singer, American Author (1997)

Mickey Rooney – Oscar nominated actor, American Author (1962)

Rick Ross – Activist; cult expert, deprogrammer

Harry Saltzman – film producer (James Bond movies) (1975)

Ray Sawyer – rock star, member of “Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show” (1973)

Oskar Schindler – activist who saved over 1000 Jews from the Nazis

Shenandoah – country music band (1991)

Billy Sims – Detroit Lions RB

Tom Sizemore – Heat, Robbery Homicide Division actor

Anna Nicole Smith – Model-Actress, 1993 Playboy magazine “Playmate of the Year”(1996)

Dee Snider – frontman for Twisted Sister, musician

Wesley Snipes – Actor

Phoebe Snow – Jazz vocalist

Lynne Spears – American author, mother of rock star Britney Spears (1998, filed with husband James prior to Britney’s stardom)

Leon Spinks – boxer

Sheryl Swoopes – Three-time WNBA MVP

J. Fife Symington – Governor of Arizona (1995, while still in office)

Lawrence Taylor – NFL hall of famer

Randall Terry – Operation Rescue founder

Nikola Tesla – Invented alternating current

Donald Trump – billionaire entrepreneur

TLC – rock group (1995)

Chris Tucker – Actor, comedian

Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn author

Mike Tyson – boxer (2003)

Johnny Unitas – legendary Hall of Fame football quarterback

John Whitehead – Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now, musician

Oscar Wilde – acclaimed poet and author

James Wilson – U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1789-1798

Tammy Wynette – country music star (1988)

Florenz Ziegfeld – actor, the Ziegfeld Follies

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