SHOULD YOU EXCHANGE YOUR LEGS FOR A GOLDEN WHEELCHAIR.
In 1976, Dorothy Hamill won the Olympic gold medal for women’s figure skating, becoming America’s sweetheart and pitch woman for Short n’ Sassy shampoo in the process. In 1996 the skater had to file for bankruptcy. After treatment for breast cancer in 2008, she managed to get back on her feet.
THIS DATA IS TWENTY YEARS OLD. NOW THE TOP 1% OWN 18% OF ALL WEALTH
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English Romantic artist and poet William Blake died in 1827 at age 69, poor as a church mouse, "singing of the things he saw in heaven"
Moby Dick author Herman Melville died in 1891, the New York Times noted in a brief story a few days later he had died "an absolutely forgotten man." Herman and his wife Elizabeth lived out their last decade supported by a legacy from Elizabeth's brother.
Inventor Nikola Tesla die in debt despite being responsible for AC motors and power systems still in use today.