celebrity bankruptcies

For decades, Schubach Jewelry has been a staple in Utah’s jewelry business. Long before you had a friend in the diamond business, before he went to Jared, or even before every kiss began [...]

What would you do if you won the lottery? With the Mega Millions lottery at over $1.5 billion, that’s a question lots of people are having fun kicking around. How would you spend your [...]

Sears, purveyor of the iconic Sears catalog, the original wish list, finally filed bankruptcy today, fulfilling speculation that had raged for years about its fate. Sears had been described as [...]

Rapper 50 Cent’s bankruptcy continues its roller-coaster ride. Back in January I wrote a post about how 50 Cent might be in trouble with the bankruptcy court because he posted on Instagram [...]

Earlier this month it was reported that Lisa Marie Presley was in debt to the tune of a cool $16.7 million and that her liquid assets were less than $20,000. This came from public records of her [...]

Last year in a post I wondered if 2017 would be the year of the retail bankruptcy. Now that 2017 is in the books we can look back and see that the trend of brick and mortar retailers filing [...]

Twice before I’ve written about rapper 50 Cent’s financial problems, here and here. Now it seems he’s put them all behind him, courtesy of $8 million in Bitcoins he forget he [...]

Toys R Us is in bankruptcy, in case you missed that. Like a lot of retailers, Toys R Us has felt the squeeze of changing consumer habits and online shopping. Toys R Us filed Chapter 11 in an [...]

OJ Simpson, one of the best-known football stars and actors of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, was paroled from prison on Friday after nine years behind bars for theft. Simpson, known during his [...]

A post from earlier this year speculated that 2017 could be the year of retail bankruptcies.  Payless Shoes has become 2017’s first bankruptcy casualty in the retail world. On April 4, [...]