You are not alone!
Even some of the "Rich & Famous" have had to file bankruptcy...
Phineas Taylor Barnum (P.T.)
- founder "The Greatest Show on Earth"
Lionel Bart - British composer-lyricist-playwright
Kim Basinger - Oscar-winning actress
Frank Baum - Author, famous for the Wizard of Oz
Jay Black - rock star, lead member of Jay and the Americans
Concrete Blonde - rock group
David Bowie - singer/actor
Loraine Bracco - who stars as Dr. Jennifer Melfi in 'The Sopranos'
Matthew Brady - famous. Civil War photographer (1872).
Toni Braxton - rock star
Anita Bryant - singer (twice)
Nell Carter - Actress
Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain") - best-selling American
author-humorist
George Clinton - rock star
Natalie Cole - singer
Gary Coleman - actor
John Connelly - former Treasury secretary and Texas governor
Francis Ford Coppola - Oscar-winning film writer-director-producer
Seymour Cray - inventor of the Cray supercomputer
Cathy Lee Crosby - actress, author
Doris Day - actress
Vic Damone - singer
Dorothy Dandridge - Oscar-nominated actress-singer
Lee de Forest - Oscar-winning film/sound synchronization pioneer;
producer (1937)
Dino De Laurentis - Oscar-winning film producer
Walt Disney - Oscar-winning film producer; animation & theme park
pioneer (1923)
Eddy "the Eagle" Edwards - Great Britain's first Olympic ski
jumper
Keith Famie - Survivor II: The Australian Outback contestant
Eddie Fisher - singer -- declared bankruptcy four times!
Mick Fleetwood - rock star; leader of "Fleetwood Mac"
Heidi Fleiss - Clothing line founder; author, Infamous Madame
William Fox - co-founder of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (1936)
Marvin Gaye - singer
Linda Georgian - spokesperson for Psychic Friends Network
Andy Gibb - rock star
Ulysses S. Grant - 18th U.S. President; Civil War general; author;
pictured on the U.S. fifty dollar bill (in 1884, after leaving office)
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - actress; model; Miss America 1982
Bob Guccione - publisher and founder of Penthouse magazine
Merle Haggard - country music star
Corey Haim - actor
Dorothy Hamill - olympic gold medalist figure skater
M.C. Hammer - rapper
Richard Harris - Oscar-nominated actor-producer-director (twice bankrupt)
Isaac Hayes - Oscar-winning songwriter-composer-musician-singer
Sherman Hemsley - actor
Paul Heyman - founder and CEO of ECW
Ron Isley - rhythm-and-blues singer (The Isley Brothers)
La Toya Jackson - rock star
Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S. President
Sir Elton John - singer, songwriter, knighted
Don Johnson - actor-producer
Janice-Marie Johnson - rock star/disco diva
Kacey Jones - country music star; musical humorist
Clay Jordan - Survivor V: Thailand contestant; restaurateur
Chaka Kahn - rock star
Margot Kidder - actress, famous for playing Lois Lane in the Superman
movies
Larry King - host of the Larry King Live
Bowie Kuhn - former U.S. baseball commissioner
Gary Kurtz - Oscar-nominated film producer (Star Wars, American Graffiti)
Veronica Lake - actress (1951)
Cyndi Lauper - rock star, boxing manager/promoter
Stan Lee - comic book industry pioneer (Spider Man,The Incredible
Hulk,The X-Men and more, 'nuff said)
Jerry Lewis - actor, comedian, fundraiser
Jerry Lee Lewis - rock star
Abe Lincoln - former US president and all-around good guy
Mindy McCready - country music star
Denny McLain - baseball pitcher
Ashley MacIsaac - musician
Meat Loaf - actor, rock star
Melba Moore - singe, actress
Lorrie Morgan - country music star, author
Motor City Five/MC5 - 1960's rock group
Willie Nelson - singer-songwriter-actor, author
Wayne Newton- singer, actor, entertainer, Las Vegas legend
Mary Nolan - actress
Johnny Paycheck - country music star
Tom Petty - singer/songwriter
Susan Powter - exercise/fitness expert; talk-show host, author
Randy Quaid - actor/producer
Burt Reynolds - actor
Debbie Reynolds - actress
Mickey Rooney - Oscar-nominated actor
Harry Saltzman - film producer (James Bond movies)
Anna Nicole Smith - model-actress; 1993 Playboy magazine "Playmate
of the Year"
Leon Spinks - heavyweight Boxer and olympic gold medalist
J. Fife Symington - Governor of Arizona (filed while still in office)
TLC, Vocal group
Donald Trump - businessman (casinos: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc.)
(1992; 2004)
Mike Tyson - boxer
Johnny Unitas - legendary Hall of Fame football quarterback
Rembrandt Haremenszoon Van Rijn - famous Dutch painter (1656)
Oscar Wilde - Irish Playwrite (1897)
Tammy Wynette - country music star