History RichesToRags / RealLife

* Creator/AndyDick has undergone a particularly catastrophic case since his heyday in the 2000s. While starting out as a successful comedian working with a variety of successful comedians on a variety of successful shows, his career eventually shuttered completely by the mid 2010s as a result of him being rendered completely unemployable as a result of his drug problems that also caused him to sexually harass a variety of people, both female and male. This culminated in him becoming a registered sex offender, losing any remaining influence in the Hollywood industry, and even becoming homeless. As of 2024, he spends his time on small live-streaming YouTube channels, being basically manipulated by these channels for what little fame he has left.

* This also happened to Music/MCHammer. During the late-1980s and early-1990s, he was one of the first rappers to achieve mainstream popularity and was wildly successful, but by the mid-1990s as gangsta rap became dominant within the genre, the public had grown bored of Hammer's upbeat, poppy rap style. Combined with the large amounts of money he was spending on friends and family, he eventually found himself $13 million in debt. In 1996 he declared bankruptcy. Since then he has unsuccessfully attempted a few times to revive his music career but has mainly been working as a Christian minister.

** [[Film/TheLastEmperor Puyi]] went through frequent and dramatic changes of fortune during his life. When he was only two [[AChildShallLeadThem he became emperor of China]]. Four years later he was forced to abdicate (well, his aunt abdicated on his behalf, since a six-year-old was obviously unable to make that decision himself). At the age of eleven he was restored to the throne for all of twelve days before the republican army crushed his supporters' rebellion. For the next seven years he lived in the Forbidden City. Then he was driven out by an invading warlord and made the fatal decision to seek refuge with the Japanese. In 1931 they [[UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar invaded China]] and made Puyi their PuppetKing in Manchuria. After the war ended he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, who handed him back to the Chinese, who imprisoned him as a war criminal. He was released ten years later and spent the rest of his life as a commoner.

* Hip-hop producer Scott Storch was once worth $70 million, blowing his fortune on [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll cocaine, celebrity girlfriends]], a mansion, a yacht, jewelry, and private jets. He allegedly spent $30 million in a six-month period alone. Soon afterwards, Storch went to rehab and was later charged for grand theft auto and failing to pay child support. Storch's mansion was later repossessed, and he filed for bankruptcy in June 2015, with only $3,600 in assets (cash, clothes, and a watch).