.:Famous Bankruptcies:.

Bankruptcy can happen to anyone. Throughout the history of the United States there have been many famous people who have filed for Bankruptcy and utilized their right to a fresh financial start.

P.T. Barnum - American circus owner
Kim Basinger - Actress
Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz author
Melvin Belli - Famous Lawyer
Bjorn Borg - Pro tennis player
Lorraine Bracco - Actress (The Sapranos)
Buffalo Bill -Wild West showman
Gary Burghoff - Radar O'Reilly in MASH
Anita Bryant - 1958 Miss America
Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain") - Author
John Connally -Former Texas Governor
Francis Ford Coppola - Oscar winning film writer
Cathy Lee Crosby -Actress
John DeLorean -Automobile designer and entrepreneur
Walt Disney - Film maker
Mick Fleetwood - Rock star
Henry Ford - Automobile manufacturer
William Fox -Co-Founder 20th Century Fox
Red Foxx - Actor
Zsa Zsa Gabor - Actress
Charles Goodyear - American inventor
Ulysses S. Grant - 18th US President
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - Miss America 1982
Bob Guccione -Publisher Penthouse magazine
Merle Haggard - Country music star
Dorothy Hamill - Olympic gold-medal ice-skater
M.C. Hammer - Rock star
Isaac Hayes - Oscar-winning songwriter
H.J. Heinz - Founder of Heinz Ketchup
Milton Snavely Hershey - Founder of Hershey's chocolate
Steve Howe - MLB pitcher
Ron Isley - R&B singer
La Toya Jackson - Rock star
Don Johnson - Actor
Eli Jacobs - Baltimore Orioles owner
Al Jolson Actor -Miami Vice, Nash Bridges
George Jones -Country singer
Chaka Kahn - Rock star
Bernard Kerik - NYC Police Commissioner
Larry King - Talk-show host
Bowie Kuhn - US baseball commissioner
Lorenzo Lamas - Actor
Cyndi Lauper - Rock star (1983)
Jerry Lewis -Comic
Jerry Lee Lewis -Rock n' Roll star
Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States
Meat Loaf - Rock star
Joe Louis - Boxer
George McGovern - Politician
William McKinley - 25th US President
Melba Moore - Singer /Actress
Willie Nelson - singer-songwriter-actor
F. Donald Nixon - Nixon's brother
Ted Nugent - Rock Star
Tom Petty - Rock star (1979)
Gaylord Perry -baseball player
Buddy Post -Lottery millionaire
Randy Quaid - Actor
Rembrandt - Dutch Painter
Burt Reynolds - Actor
Debbie Reynolds - Actress/singer
Mickey Rooney - Actor
Run DMC - Rap Group
Harry Saltzman - James Bond Producer
Derek Sanderson- Hockey Player
Billy Sims - Detroit Lions RB
Anna Nicole Smith - Model/ctress
Lynne Spears - Mother of Britney Spears
Leon Spinks - Boxer
J. Fife Symington - Governor of Arizona (filed while still in office)
Lawrence Taylor - NFL hall of famer
Donald Trump - billionaire entrepreneur
TLC - rock group
Mike Tyson - Boxer
Johnny Unitas - Hall of Fame football quarterback
Oscar Wilde - Poet/Author
James Wilson - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Tammy Wynette - Country music star