Throughout the history of the United States there have been several famous people who have filed for Bankruptcy and utilized their right to a fresh financial start.
Every person going through bankruptcy feels alone or that they are the only ones suffering from the stress and strain of financial struggles. And now, many people have the wrong impression that bankruptcy relief is no longer available due to the new bankruptcy law changes on October 17, 2005. In fact, the new bankruptcy laws have little effect on most people and in some cases, the new laws are even more favorable then they were before.
Throughout the State of Texas thousands of people and numerous businesses file for bankruptcy every year. It is likely that you may know, friends, family members, coworkers and neighbors who have filed, but they just don't advertise it. There are many famous people who have filed for bankruptcy and due to their celebrity status their bankruptcy filings are disseminated in the media. Bankruptcy relief in the United States has been around since the 1800’s. Even the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln filed for bankruptcy twice to start over. You too have a constitutional right to a fresh financial just like the famous individuals below. Remember that if bankruptcy relief is was used by Abraham Lincoln, former Texas Governor John Connally, and many others to start over or reorganize their debts maybe you can to.
Famous Individuals That Have Filed For Bankruptcy
- 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
- Gary Burghoff
- Radar O’Reilly in MASH
- Anita Bryant
- singer, 1958 Miss America 2nd runner up (1997)
- Crazy Cabbie
- Radio personality on the Howard Stern menagerie
- 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)
- Darren Day
- Music Theater Star
- 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
- Clarissa Dickson Wright
- Star of “Two Fat Ladies” TV cooking show fame (2003)
- 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)
- Chris Eubank
- Former World Champion Boxer (2005)
- 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)
- Paulo Gucci
- 1993
- 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)
- H.J. Heinz
- Founder of Heinz Ketchup
- 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
- Grace Jones Singer
- Entertainer 1992
- 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
- Marion “Suge” Knight
- Death Row Records Rap Producer 2006
- 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)
- Joe Louis
- Boxer 1956
- Ashley MacIsaac
- musician fiddler (2000)
- Jackie Mason
- comedian – entertainer
- Henry Mayhew
- Punch journalist
- Mindy McCready
- Country Music star , American author
- George McGovern
- politician 1991
- 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
- Run DMC
- Rap Group in 1993
- Harry Saltzman
- film producer (James Bond movies) (1975)
- Derek Sanderson
- Hockey Player
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Remember that all these high profile people some who could be considered well off all filed for bankruptcy protection. If someone that well off can get into financial trouble it can happen to anyone. These notable people took advantage of their constitutional right to use bankruptcy to address their financial problems and were given a chance to get a fresh financial start and get their financial affairs back on track. Bankruptcy can be an option for Debt Relief and can put you back in control of your finances. Don’t loose everything. Get help today.
If you have questions about filing for personal bankruptcy please contact The Law Offices of R.J.Atkinson,LLC at 512-617-2899 for a free initial consultation to discuss your legal options. With locations in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas we are a Texas Debt Relief Agency and help people file for Bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Code.
