Famous people who have filed bankruptcy, but come back as winners

Rembrandt (7/15/1606 – 10/4/1669)

Many well known people have faced serious financial problems in the past, and have gone on to succeed in life, after filing personal bankruptcy. Some of the better known include the following people:

Benedict Arnold
PT Barnum
Kim Basinger
Lorraine Bracco
Toni Braxton
Lenny Bruce
Buffalo Bill
Tia Carrere
Gary Coleman
Francis Ford Coppola
David Crosby
Walt Disney
Rembrandt (in the year 1656!)
Lawrence Taylor
Burt Reynolds
Mickey Rooney
Anna Nicole Smith
Lynn Spears (Britney’s Mother)
Donald Trump
Mark Twain
Mike Tyson
Mick Fleetwood
Heidi Fleiss
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Marvin Gaye
Ulysses S. Grant
Dorothy Hamill
MC Hammer
Isaac Hayes
Milton Hershey
Don Johnson
Meat Loaf
Abraham Lincoln (1833)
Margot Kidder
Larry King
Suge Knight
Cyndi Lauper
Jerry Lee Lewis
William McKinley
Willie Nelson
Wayne Newton
Tom Petty
Tammy Wynette

By: Michael B. Katz, Esq.