{"id":14874,"date":"2018-07-17T23:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=14874"},"modified":"2018-07-17T23:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T20:50:44","slug":"most-famous-rich-people-in-the-world-who-lost-their-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/most-famous-rich-people-in-the-world-who-lost-their-money\/","title":{"rendered":"A list of the world\u2019s most famous wealthy people who lost their fortunes and went bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d2gr5kl7dt2z3t.cloudfront.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/22091742\/shutterstock_71252071-750x502.jpg\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"438\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u064a\u0639\u064a\u0634\u00a0<em>The richest people in the world<\/em>\u00a0\u0648<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/challenges-faced-by-novice-entrepreneurs\/\">\u0631\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644<\/a> And major investors are all around us, everywhere, and we constantly hear about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/read-this-article-before-presenting-your-project-idea-to-investors\/\">Investments<\/a> new ventures and projects that boost <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">profits. We also hear about mergers between large and small companies and institutions to increase profits, as well as businesspeople whose fortunes have grown. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">At a higher rate than last year, while others saw their wealth decline by less than it did last year. It is unusual, however, to hear of people declaring <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">bankruptcy and becoming poor after once being counted among the world\u2019s richest. In today\u2019s article, you\u2019ll read about wealthy people who lost their fortunes and declared bankruptcy <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">for various reasons, including illegal activities, defrauding others, money laundering, poor management,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/9-commandments-so-as-not-to-sink-into-debt\/\">\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0643\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062f\u064a\u0648\u0646<\/a> economic conditions, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">.<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">\u0642\u0627\u0626\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0634\u0647\u0631\u00a0<strong>The richest people in the world<\/strong>\u00a0\u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a\u0646 \u062e\u0633\u0631\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0645\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0647\u0645:<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">1- Gordon Blover:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">One of the world\u2019s wealthiest people, who managed to make enormous profits of up to $250 million by the age of just 25, through<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> Stock trading, but he lost his fortune when the U.S. government brought charges against him, including money laundering and fraud, and demanded that he pay $100 million <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">in U.S. dollars in exchange for his release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">2- Kim Dotcom:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The man who founded the hugely popular file-upload and download site Megaupload fell after becoming involved in suspicious and criminal activities. He also faced <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">charges of infringing others\u2019 copyrights, as well as allegations of online fraud and embezzlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">3- Allen Stanford:<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The famous cricket player and businessman, and one of the world\u2019s wealthiest people, who served as chairman of the Stanford Financial Group, was charged with numerous offenses, totaling <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">14 charges. He was convicted on 13 of them. The charges included running an unauthorized investment scheme and defrauding investors, among others. He is currently facing <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">A 20-year prison sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">4- \u0627\u0645 \u0633\u064a \u0647\u0627\u0645\u0631:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The famous rapper and entrepreneur built a fortune of $30 million through his work in music and singing, but he spent it all <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">and declared bankruptcy because of poor management<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/%d8%a7%d8%ae%d8%b7%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84-%d9%88%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%ac%d9%86%d8%a8%d9%87%d8%a7\/\"> Money Management<\/a> and unjustified spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">5- \u0634\u0648\u0646 \u0643\u0648\u064a\u0646:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The man whose fortune was wiped out by the latest financial crisis, stripping him of his title as Ireland\u2019s richest businessman and leaving him bankrupt, after he had amassed an estimated $6 billion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">This happened after he decided to invest his money in the Anglo Irish Bank and lost his shares during the global financial crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">6- Patricia Kluge:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">After divorcing her late husband, billionaire John Kluge, and receiving a large sum of money from him, she decided to launch a project on a very large site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\"> It borrowed $70 million, but the project failed during the financial crisis at the start of the 21st century, and the company lost money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">7- The Icelandic billionaire:<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">An Icelandic billionaire who became involved in questionable business dealings and lost a lot of his money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; color: #00ccff;\">8- George Foreman:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">The boxer and heavyweight champion faced financial difficulties when his performance declined, but he managed to make a comeback and invest in a product that is now well known. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">It is the Foreman Grill.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u064a\u0639\u064a\u0634\u00a0\u0627\u063a\u0646\u064a\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u00a0\u0648\u0631\u062c\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0639\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0648\u0643\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0633\u062a\u062b\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0646 \u062d\u0648\u0644\u0646\u0627 \u0648\u0641\u0649 \u0643\u0644 \u0645\u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0648\u062f\u0627\u0626\u0645\u0627\u064b \u0645\u0639 \u0646\u0633\u0645\u0639 \u0639\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u062a\u062b\u0645\u0627\u0631\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062c\u062f\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0634\u0631\u0648\u0639\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0649 \u062a\u0632\u064a\u062f \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0631\u0628\u0627\u062d \u0648\u0646\u0633\u0645\u0639 \u0627\u064a\u0636\u0627\u064b \u0639\u0646 \u062f\u0645\u062c \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0631\u0643\u0627\u062a<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ibtdi_aa_focus_keyword":"","_ibtdi_aa_secondary_keywords":"","_ibtdi_aa_audience":"","_ibtdi_aa_tone":"","_ibtdi_aa_summary":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_name":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_bio":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewer_url":"","_ibtdi_aa_reviewed_date":"","_ibtdi_aa_service_id":"","_ibtdi_aa_related_ids":"","_ibtdi_aa_human_reviewed":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable":"","_ibtdi_aa_disable_links":"","_ibtdi_aa_sources":"","_ibtdi_aa_update_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[16045,16582,16576,5149,16583,16585,16579,16577,7249,16584,16578,16580,16581],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-491","tag-16045","tag-16582","tag-16576","tag-5149","tag-16583","tag-16585","tag-16579","tag-16577","tag-7249","tag-16584","tag-16578","tag-16580","tag-16581"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}