Heather Mills asked a judge for £125 million when she divorced Paul McCartney. She fired her lawyers and argued the case herself. The judge gave her £24.3 million. In the courtroom that day she poured a jug of water over the head of McCartney's lawyer.
March 17, 2008. The front morning.
They married in June 2002. He was a Beatle. She was a former model who campaigned against landmines. Their daughter Beatrice was born in 2003. In 2006 they announced the marriage was over.
The divorce went to the High Court in London. McCartney offered £15.8 million.
Mr Justice Bennett found McCartney's assets were worth about £400 million, not the £800 million that had been suggested. He set Mills' income needs at £600,000 a year.
The award: £14 million, plus £2.5 million for a house in London, on top of the £7.8 million in assets she already had. Total £24.3 million. McCartney would also pay Beatrice £35,000 a year, plus her nanny and school fees.
Outside court Mills said lawyers "couldn't get anywhere near this figure." Inside, she had emptied a jug of water over Fiona Shackleton, McCartney's divorce lawyer.
Half the internet says she walked away with a fortune after 4 years of marriage. The other half says £24.3 million was about 6% of what the judge found he had.
She asked for £125 million. She got about a fifth of it, and a jug of water people still talk about.
Was Heather Mills a gold digger who overplayed her hand, or the only person in that courtroom who wasn't afraid of a Beatle?
March 17, 2008. The front morning.
They married in June 2002. He was a Beatle. She was a former model who campaigned against landmines. Their daughter Beatrice was born in 2003. In 2006 they announced the marriage was over.
The divorce went to the High Court in London. McCartney offered £15.8 million.
Mr Justice Bennett found McCartney's assets were worth about £400 million, not the £800 million that had been suggested. He set Mills' income needs at £600,000 a year.
The award: £14 million, plus £2.5 million for a house in London, on top of the £7.8 million in assets she already had. Total £24.3 million. McCartney would also pay Beatrice £35,000 a year, plus her nanny and school fees.
Outside court Mills said lawyers "couldn't get anywhere near this figure." Inside, she had emptied a jug of water over Fiona Shackleton, McCartney's divorce lawyer.
Half the internet says she walked away with a fortune after 4 years of marriage. The other half says £24.3 million was about 6% of what the judge found he had.
She asked for £125 million. She got about a fifth of it, and a jug of water people still talk about.
Was Heather Mills a gold digger who overplayed her hand, or the only person in that courtroom who wasn't afraid of a Beatle?
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Hugh Jackman and his wife of 27 years split a reported $387 million fortune. He kept their $23 million New York penthouse and was soon seen with his Broadway co-star. Months later his Deadpool & Wolverine made $1.3 billion, the biggest R-rated movie ever. His ex-wife, the bigger starit "betrayal."
Before that, Wolverine and The Greatest Showman, a $435 million hit, had made him one of the biggest stars in the world.
In the video below, Hugh remembers the day he met her on his first job out of drama school. "I remember thinking, I like this girl."
1995. He is a nobody on an Australian TV show called Correlli. Deborra-Lee Furness is the star. She is 13 years older.
They marry a year later. They adopt 2 children, Oscar and Ava.
For 27 years they are one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.
2022. He stars on Broadway in The Music Man with Sutton Foster.
September 2023. Hugh and Deb announce they are separating.
4 months later he is seen with Sutton.
July 2024. Deadpool & Wolverine opens. $1.3 billion worldwide.
October 2024. Sutton files for divorce from her husband of 10 years.
May 2025. Deb files for divorce. The split is settled. He reportedly keeps the $23 million Chelsea penthouse.
Her only public words: "My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal."
In 1995 she was the star. In 2024 he had a $1.3 billion movie and a new life.
Was it a marriage that just ran out, or the most expensive betrayal in Hollywood?
Before that, Wolverine and The Greatest Showman, a $435 million hit, had made him one of the biggest stars in the world.
In the video below, Hugh remembers the day he met her on his first job out of drama school. "I remember thinking, I like this girl."
1995. He is a nobody on an Australian TV show called Correlli. Deborra-Lee Furness is the star. She is 13 years older.
They marry a year later. They adopt 2 children, Oscar and Ava.
For 27 years they are one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.
2022. He stars on Broadway in The Music Man with Sutton Foster.
September 2023. Hugh and Deb announce they are separating.
4 months later he is seen with Sutton.
July 2024. Deadpool & Wolverine opens. $1.3 billion worldwide.
October 2024. Sutton files for divorce from her husband of 10 years.
May 2025. Deb files for divorce. The split is settled. He reportedly keeps the $23 million Chelsea penthouse.
Her only public words: "My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal."
In 1995 she was the star. In 2024 he had a $1.3 billion movie and a new life.
Was it a marriage that just ran out, or the most expensive betrayal in Hollywood?
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Hugh Jackman and his wife of 27 years split a reported $387 million fortune. He kept their $23 million New York penthouse and was soon seen with his Broadway co-star. Months later his Deadpool & Wolverine made $1.3 billion, the biggest R-rated movie ever. His ex-wife, the bigger starit "betrayal."
Before that, Wolverine and The Greatest Showman, a $435 million hit, had made him one of the biggest stars in the world.
In the video below, Hugh remembers the day he met her on his first job out of drama school. "I remember thinking, I like this girl."
1995. He is a nobody on an Australian TV show called Correlli. Deborra-Lee Furness is the star. She is 13 years older.
They marry a year later. They adopt 2 children, Oscar and Ava.
For 27 years they are one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.
2022. He stars on Broadway in The Music Man with Sutton Foster.
September 2023. Hugh and Deb announce they are separating.
4 months later he is seen with Sutton.
July 2024. Deadpool & Wolverine opens. $1.3 billion worldwide.
October 2024. Sutton files for divorce from her husband of 10 years.
May 2025. Deb files for divorce. The split is settled. He reportedly keeps the $23 million Chelsea penthouse.
Her only public words: "My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal."
In 1995 she was the star. In 2024 he had a $1.3 billion movie and a new life.
Was it a marriage that just ran out, or the most expensive betrayal in Hollywood?
Before that, Wolverine and The Greatest Showman, a $435 million hit, had made him one of the biggest stars in the world.
In the video below, Hugh remembers the day he met her on his first job out of drama school. "I remember thinking, I like this girl."
1995. He is a nobody on an Australian TV show called Correlli. Deborra-Lee Furness is the star. She is 13 years older.
They marry a year later. They adopt 2 children, Oscar and Ava.
For 27 years they are one of the longest marriages in Hollywood.
2022. He stars on Broadway in The Music Man with Sutton Foster.
September 2023. Hugh and Deb announce they are separating.
4 months later he is seen with Sutton.
July 2024. Deadpool & Wolverine opens. $1.3 billion worldwide.
October 2024. Sutton files for divorce from her husband of 10 years.
May 2025. Deb files for divorce. The split is settled. He reportedly keeps the $23 million Chelsea penthouse.
Her only public words: "My heart and compassion goes out to everyone who has traversed the traumatic journey of betrayal."
In 1995 she was the star. In 2024 he had a $1.3 billion movie and a new life.
Was it a marriage that just ran out, or the most expensive betrayal in Hollywood?
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Elton John spent about £40 million in 20 months. £293,000 of it went on flowers. The world found out in 2001, in a court case he started himself against the people who had looked after his money. He lost, and was left facing a legal bill of about £8 million.
April 12, 2001. The e day after the ruling.
John Reid was Elton's manager for more than two decades. Reid's company, John Reid Enterprises, handled the business side of his career, including the tours. In 1998 they split, and Elton went after his former advisers, saying he had been wrongly charged for the costs of his overseas tours.
Reid settled before trial and paid $5 million, about £3.4 million. That left Andrew Haydon, the former managing director of Reid's company, and the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elton sued them for negligence.
The trial at the High Court in London did not go the way he planned. His own spending became the headline. About £40 million in 20 months on property and personal items. £293,000 on flowers alone.
On April 11, 2001 Mr Justice Ferris ruled that Haydon had not been negligent. The touring costs Elton was complaining about should have been paid by one of his own companies, the judge said.
PwC called it "a case wholly without merit." Elton said he was disappointed and was considering an appeal. His manager was asked if the star would now spend less. "I don't think he will cut back on his flowers."
Half the internet says he was let down by the people paid to protect him. The other half says nobody could have protected that budget.
He sued to find out where his money went. The court's answer: mostly to him.
Was Elton John failed by his advisers, or did he simply spend faster than anyone could count?
April 12, 2001. The e day after the ruling.
John Reid was Elton's manager for more than two decades. Reid's company, John Reid Enterprises, handled the business side of his career, including the tours. In 1998 they split, and Elton went after his former advisers, saying he had been wrongly charged for the costs of his overseas tours.
Reid settled before trial and paid $5 million, about £3.4 million. That left Andrew Haydon, the former managing director of Reid's company, and the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elton sued them for negligence.
The trial at the High Court in London did not go the way he planned. His own spending became the headline. About £40 million in 20 months on property and personal items. £293,000 on flowers alone.
On April 11, 2001 Mr Justice Ferris ruled that Haydon had not been negligent. The touring costs Elton was complaining about should have been paid by one of his own companies, the judge said.
PwC called it "a case wholly without merit." Elton said he was disappointed and was considering an appeal. His manager was asked if the star would now spend less. "I don't think he will cut back on his flowers."
Half the internet says he was let down by the people paid to protect him. The other half says nobody could have protected that budget.
He sued to find out where his money went. The court's answer: mostly to him.
Was Elton John failed by his advisers, or did he simply spend faster than anyone could count?
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Elton John spent about £40 million in 20 months. £293,000 of it went on flowers. The world found out in 2001, in a court case he started himself against the people who had looked after his money. He lost, and was left facing a legal bill of about £8 million.
April 12, 2001. The e day after the ruling.
John Reid was Elton's manager for more than two decades. Reid's company, John Reid Enterprises, handled the business side of his career, including the tours. In 1998 they split, and Elton went after his former advisers, saying he had been wrongly charged for the costs of his overseas tours.
Reid settled before trial and paid $5 million, about £3.4 million. That left Andrew Haydon, the former managing director of Reid's company, and the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elton sued them for negligence.
The trial at the High Court in London did not go the way he planned. His own spending became the headline. About £40 million in 20 months on property and personal items. £293,000 on flowers alone.
On April 11, 2001 Mr Justice Ferris ruled that Haydon had not been negligent. The touring costs Elton was complaining about should have been paid by one of his own companies, the judge said.
PwC called it "a case wholly without merit." Elton said he was disappointed and was considering an appeal. His manager was asked if the star would now spend less. "I don't think he will cut back on his flowers."
Half the internet says he was let down by the people paid to protect him. The other half says nobody could have protected that budget.
He sued to find out where his money went. The court's answer: mostly to him.
Was Elton John failed by his advisers, or did he simply spend faster than anyone could count?
April 12, 2001. The e day after the ruling.
John Reid was Elton's manager for more than two decades. Reid's company, John Reid Enterprises, handled the business side of his career, including the tours. In 1998 they split, and Elton went after his former advisers, saying he had been wrongly charged for the costs of his overseas tours.
Reid settled before trial and paid $5 million, about £3.4 million. That left Andrew Haydon, the former managing director of Reid's company, and the accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Elton sued them for negligence.
The trial at the High Court in London did not go the way he planned. His own spending became the headline. About £40 million in 20 months on property and personal items. £293,000 on flowers alone.
On April 11, 2001 Mr Justice Ferris ruled that Haydon had not been negligent. The touring costs Elton was complaining about should have been paid by one of his own companies, the judge said.
PwC called it "a case wholly without merit." Elton said he was disappointed and was considering an appeal. His manager was asked if the star would now spend less. "I don't think he will cut back on his flowers."
Half the internet says he was let down by the people paid to protect him. The other half says nobody could have protected that budget.
He sued to find out where his money went. The court's answer: mostly to him.
Was Elton John failed by his advisers, or did he simply spend faster than anyone could count?
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Jennifer Lopez spent $20 million of her own money on a movie about her love for Ben Affleck. 6 months later she filed for divorce on their 2nd wedding anniversary, reportedly with no prenup. Their $60.85 million mansion is now listed at $49.95 million, almost $11 million under e last buyer walked away after putting down a deposit.
In the video below, the trailer for her documentary. Her wedding to Ben, Ben behind the camera, and Jennifer saying "I've been married four times now" and "I'm not just financing it."
They got engaged the first time in 2002. A reported $2.5 million pink diamond. The wedding was called off days before it happened.
20 years later they got back together. July 2022, Las Vegas. August 2022, a second wedding at Ben's estate in Georgia.
May 2023. They buy a 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills for $60.85 million.
February 2024. Her album, her movie and her documentary all come out within 2 weeks. All about him. The movie alone cost $20 million, all hers.
Tour dates start disappearing. Reports say tickets aren't selling. On May 31 the whole summer tour is cancelled.
In her divorce papers, she would later list their separation date as April 26. Before the tour was even cancelled.
July 2024. The mansion goes up for $68 million.
August 20, 2024. On their anniversary, she files for divorce. No lawyer. It is finalized in January.
The mansion doesn't sell. $68 million. Then $52 million. Then Ben signs his half over to her. Then $49.95 million. In July a buyer puts down a deposit and backs out.
She made a movie called This Is Me... Now. Two years later, the house is the only part still for sale.
Was it the greatest love story never told, or the most expensive one?
In the video below, the trailer for her documentary. Her wedding to Ben, Ben behind the camera, and Jennifer saying "I've been married four times now" and "I'm not just financing it."
They got engaged the first time in 2002. A reported $2.5 million pink diamond. The wedding was called off days before it happened.
20 years later they got back together. July 2022, Las Vegas. August 2022, a second wedding at Ben's estate in Georgia.
May 2023. They buy a 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills for $60.85 million.
February 2024. Her album, her movie and her documentary all come out within 2 weeks. All about him. The movie alone cost $20 million, all hers.
Tour dates start disappearing. Reports say tickets aren't selling. On May 31 the whole summer tour is cancelled.
In her divorce papers, she would later list their separation date as April 26. Before the tour was even cancelled.
July 2024. The mansion goes up for $68 million.
August 20, 2024. On their anniversary, she files for divorce. No lawyer. It is finalized in January.
The mansion doesn't sell. $68 million. Then $52 million. Then Ben signs his half over to her. Then $49.95 million. In July a buyer puts down a deposit and backs out.
She made a movie called This Is Me... Now. Two years later, the house is the only part still for sale.
Was it the greatest love story never told, or the most expensive one?
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Jennifer Lopez spent $20 million of her own money on a movie about her love for Ben Affleck. 6 months later she filed for divorce on their 2nd wedding anniversary, reportedly with no prenup. Their $60.85 million mansion is now listed at $49.95 million, almost $11 million under e last buyer walked away after putting down a deposit.
In the video below, the trailer for her documentary. Her wedding to Ben, Ben behind the camera, and Jennifer saying "I've been married four times now" and "I'm not just financing it."
They got engaged the first time in 2002. A reported $2.5 million pink diamond. The wedding was called off days before it happened.
20 years later they got back together. July 2022, Las Vegas. August 2022, a second wedding at Ben's estate in Georgia.
May 2023. They buy a 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills for $60.85 million.
February 2024. Her album, her movie and her documentary all come out within 2 weeks. All about him. The movie alone cost $20 million, all hers.
Tour dates start disappearing. Reports say tickets aren't selling. On May 31 the whole summer tour is cancelled.
In her divorce papers, she would later list their separation date as April 26. Before the tour was even cancelled.
July 2024. The mansion goes up for $68 million.
August 20, 2024. On their anniversary, she files for divorce. No lawyer. It is finalized in January.
The mansion doesn't sell. $68 million. Then $52 million. Then Ben signs his half over to her. Then $49.95 million. In July a buyer puts down a deposit and backs out.
She made a movie called This Is Me... Now. Two years later, the house is the only part still for sale.
Was it the greatest love story never told, or the most expensive one?
In the video below, the trailer for her documentary. Her wedding to Ben, Ben behind the camera, and Jennifer saying "I've been married four times now" and "I'm not just financing it."
They got engaged the first time in 2002. A reported $2.5 million pink diamond. The wedding was called off days before it happened.
20 years later they got back together. July 2022, Las Vegas. August 2022, a second wedding at Ben's estate in Georgia.
May 2023. They buy a 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom estate in Beverly Hills for $60.85 million.
February 2024. Her album, her movie and her documentary all come out within 2 weeks. All about him. The movie alone cost $20 million, all hers.
Tour dates start disappearing. Reports say tickets aren't selling. On May 31 the whole summer tour is cancelled.
In her divorce papers, she would later list their separation date as April 26. Before the tour was even cancelled.
July 2024. The mansion goes up for $68 million.
August 20, 2024. On their anniversary, she files for divorce. No lawyer. It is finalized in January.
The mansion doesn't sell. $68 million. Then $52 million. Then Ben signs his half over to her. Then $49.95 million. In July a buyer puts down a deposit and backs out.
She made a movie called This Is Me... Now. Two years later, the house is the only part still for sale.
Was it the greatest love story never told, or the most expensive one?
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Nick Leeson was 27, on a £50,000 salary with a £130,000 bonus, when his secret trades lost £827 million and broke Barings, Britain's oldest merchant bank. The bank was 233 years old. It had helped finance the Louisiana Purchase. A Dutch bank, ING, bought what was left for £1.
He I'm sorry" and fled.
February 1995. The front page above covers the weekend Barings went under. Leeson ran the bank's trading floor in Singapore and was its star. On paper he had made Barings £10 million in a single year.
In reality he had been hiding losses since 1992 in an error account numbered 88888. By the end of that first year it held more than £2 million.
Instead of owning up, he doubled down. He bet that the Japanese stock market would stay calm.
On January 17, 1995 an earthquake hit Kobe. The Nikkei fell hard. Leeson kept buying, trying to win it all back.
By late February the hole was £827 million, twice the bank's available trading capital. On February 23 he walked out of the Singapore office. That weekend the Bank of England tried to arrange a rescue and failed.
He was arrested in Frankfurt and sent back to Singapore. 6 and a half years in Changi Prison. He served about 4. A film about him, Rogue Trader, came out the year he got out.
Today he gives paid talks on risk.
Barings paid him £180,000 for profits that only existed on paper. He cost them 4,600 times that.
Who really broke Barings, the trader who hid the losses, or the bank that never checked his numbers?
He I'm sorry" and fled.
February 1995. The front page above covers the weekend Barings went under. Leeson ran the bank's trading floor in Singapore and was its star. On paper he had made Barings £10 million in a single year.
In reality he had been hiding losses since 1992 in an error account numbered 88888. By the end of that first year it held more than £2 million.
Instead of owning up, he doubled down. He bet that the Japanese stock market would stay calm.
On January 17, 1995 an earthquake hit Kobe. The Nikkei fell hard. Leeson kept buying, trying to win it all back.
By late February the hole was £827 million, twice the bank's available trading capital. On February 23 he walked out of the Singapore office. That weekend the Bank of England tried to arrange a rescue and failed.
He was arrested in Frankfurt and sent back to Singapore. 6 and a half years in Changi Prison. He served about 4. A film about him, Rogue Trader, came out the year he got out.
Today he gives paid talks on risk.
Barings paid him £180,000 for profits that only existed on paper. He cost them 4,600 times that.
Who really broke Barings, the trader who hid the losses, or the bank that never checked his numbers?
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Nick Leeson was 27, on a £50,000 salary with a £130,000 bonus, when his secret trades lost £827 million and broke Barings, Britain's oldest merchant bank. The bank was 233 years old. It had helped finance the Louisiana Purchase. A Dutch bank, ING, bought what was left for £1.
He I'm sorry" and fled.
February 1995. The front page above covers the weekend Barings went under. Leeson ran the bank's trading floor in Singapore and was its star. On paper he had made Barings £10 million in a single year.
In reality he had been hiding losses since 1992 in an error account numbered 88888. By the end of that first year it held more than £2 million.
Instead of owning up, he doubled down. He bet that the Japanese stock market would stay calm.
On January 17, 1995 an earthquake hit Kobe. The Nikkei fell hard. Leeson kept buying, trying to win it all back.
By late February the hole was £827 million, twice the bank's available trading capital. On February 23 he walked out of the Singapore office. That weekend the Bank of England tried to arrange a rescue and failed.
He was arrested in Frankfurt and sent back to Singapore. 6 and a half years in Changi Prison. He served about 4. A film about him, Rogue Trader, came out the year he got out.
Today he gives paid talks on risk.
Barings paid him £180,000 for profits that only existed on paper. He cost them 4,600 times that.
Who really broke Barings, the trader who hid the losses, or the bank that never checked his numbers?
He I'm sorry" and fled.
February 1995. The front page above covers the weekend Barings went under. Leeson ran the bank's trading floor in Singapore and was its star. On paper he had made Barings £10 million in a single year.
In reality he had been hiding losses since 1992 in an error account numbered 88888. By the end of that first year it held more than £2 million.
Instead of owning up, he doubled down. He bet that the Japanese stock market would stay calm.
On January 17, 1995 an earthquake hit Kobe. The Nikkei fell hard. Leeson kept buying, trying to win it all back.
By late February the hole was £827 million, twice the bank's available trading capital. On February 23 he walked out of the Singapore office. That weekend the Bank of England tried to arrange a rescue and failed.
He was arrested in Frankfurt and sent back to Singapore. 6 and a half years in Changi Prison. He served about 4. A film about him, Rogue Trader, came out the year he got out.
Today he gives paid talks on risk.
Barings paid him £180,000 for profits that only existed on paper. He cost them 4,600 times that.
Who really broke Barings, the trader who hid the losses, or the bank that never checked his numbers?
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Prince Andrew paid a reported £12 million, about $16 million, to end a sex abuse lawsuit he says was false. He lived over 20 years in a 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle. Now his "Prince" is gone, his only reported income is a £20,000 navy pension, and in February police handed back the keys, he got £302,000 in compensation. A royal source says his brother, the King, paid it out of his own income.
In the video below, the 2019 BBC interview that ended his royal life. Asked about a night with his accuser, he says he was at a Pizza Express in Woking, and that he couldn't sweat at the time.
He was the Queen's second son. The Falklands veteran, the Navy helicopter pilot. From 2001 to 2011, Britain's official trade envoy.
In 2007 he sold Sunninghill Park, the Queen's wedding gift to him, to a Kazakh billionaire for £15 million. £3 million over asking.
His friend was Jeffrey Epstein. Emails later released show meetings at Royal Lodge in 2010 "to discuss all finances," with Epstein consulted.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, said she was forced to have sex with him three times. He denies all of it.
November 2019. The Newsnight interview airs. Days later he steps back from royal duties.
February 2022. He settles with Giuffre, with no admission. The reported figure is over £12 million, including a donation to her charity.
October 30, 2025. The King strips his titles and orders him out of Royal Lodge. He had a 75-year lease there, for which he paid £1 million up front and £7.5 million in repairs.
February 2026. He moves to a farmhouse on the King's private estate. Two weeks later he is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police are looking at whether he passed confidential government material to Epstein as trade envoy. He is released and has not been charged.
Before the interview he received an estimated £13 million in official royal money. Now his only reported income is £20,000 a year.
A Pizza Express alibi cost him £12 million, a 30-room mansion and the word "Prince."
Is Andrew the royal family's scapegoat, or did they protect him for far too long?
In the video below, the 2019 BBC interview that ended his royal life. Asked about a night with his accuser, he says he was at a Pizza Express in Woking, and that he couldn't sweat at the time.
He was the Queen's second son. The Falklands veteran, the Navy helicopter pilot. From 2001 to 2011, Britain's official trade envoy.
In 2007 he sold Sunninghill Park, the Queen's wedding gift to him, to a Kazakh billionaire for £15 million. £3 million over asking.
His friend was Jeffrey Epstein. Emails later released show meetings at Royal Lodge in 2010 "to discuss all finances," with Epstein consulted.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, said she was forced to have sex with him three times. He denies all of it.
November 2019. The Newsnight interview airs. Days later he steps back from royal duties.
February 2022. He settles with Giuffre, with no admission. The reported figure is over £12 million, including a donation to her charity.
October 30, 2025. The King strips his titles and orders him out of Royal Lodge. He had a 75-year lease there, for which he paid £1 million up front and £7.5 million in repairs.
February 2026. He moves to a farmhouse on the King's private estate. Two weeks later he is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police are looking at whether he passed confidential government material to Epstein as trade envoy. He is released and has not been charged.
Before the interview he received an estimated £13 million in official royal money. Now his only reported income is £20,000 a year.
A Pizza Express alibi cost him £12 million, a 30-room mansion and the word "Prince."
Is Andrew the royal family's scapegoat, or did they protect him for far too long?
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Prince Andrew paid a reported £12 million, about $16 million, to end a sex abuse lawsuit he says was false. He lived over 20 years in a 30-room mansion near Windsor Castle. Now his "Prince" is gone, his only reported income is a £20,000 navy pension, and in February police handed back the keys, he got £302,000 in compensation. A royal source says his brother, the King, paid it out of his own income.
In the video below, the 2019 BBC interview that ended his royal life. Asked about a night with his accuser, he says he was at a Pizza Express in Woking, and that he couldn't sweat at the time.
He was the Queen's second son. The Falklands veteran, the Navy helicopter pilot. From 2001 to 2011, Britain's official trade envoy.
In 2007 he sold Sunninghill Park, the Queen's wedding gift to him, to a Kazakh billionaire for £15 million. £3 million over asking.
His friend was Jeffrey Epstein. Emails later released show meetings at Royal Lodge in 2010 "to discuss all finances," with Epstein consulted.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, said she was forced to have sex with him three times. He denies all of it.
November 2019. The Newsnight interview airs. Days later he steps back from royal duties.
February 2022. He settles with Giuffre, with no admission. The reported figure is over £12 million, including a donation to her charity.
October 30, 2025. The King strips his titles and orders him out of Royal Lodge. He had a 75-year lease there, for which he paid £1 million up front and £7.5 million in repairs.
February 2026. He moves to a farmhouse on the King's private estate. Two weeks later he is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police are looking at whether he passed confidential government material to Epstein as trade envoy. He is released and has not been charged.
Before the interview he received an estimated £13 million in official royal money. Now his only reported income is £20,000 a year.
A Pizza Express alibi cost him £12 million, a 30-room mansion and the word "Prince."
Is Andrew the royal family's scapegoat, or did they protect him for far too long?
In the video below, the 2019 BBC interview that ended his royal life. Asked about a night with his accuser, he says he was at a Pizza Express in Woking, and that he couldn't sweat at the time.
He was the Queen's second son. The Falklands veteran, the Navy helicopter pilot. From 2001 to 2011, Britain's official trade envoy.
In 2007 he sold Sunninghill Park, the Queen's wedding gift to him, to a Kazakh billionaire for £15 million. £3 million over asking.
His friend was Jeffrey Epstein. Emails later released show meetings at Royal Lodge in 2010 "to discuss all finances," with Epstein consulted.
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, said she was forced to have sex with him three times. He denies all of it.
November 2019. The Newsnight interview airs. Days later he steps back from royal duties.
February 2022. He settles with Giuffre, with no admission. The reported figure is over £12 million, including a donation to her charity.
October 30, 2025. The King strips his titles and orders him out of Royal Lodge. He had a 75-year lease there, for which he paid £1 million up front and £7.5 million in repairs.
February 2026. He moves to a farmhouse on the King's private estate. Two weeks later he is arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Police are looking at whether he passed confidential government material to Epstein as trade envoy. He is released and has not been charged.
Before the interview he received an estimated £13 million in official royal money. Now his only reported income is £20,000 a year.
A Pizza Express alibi cost him £12 million, a 30-room mansion and the word "Prince."
Is Andrew the royal family's scapegoat, or did they protect him for far too long?
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O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in 1997. By 2015 they had collected about $132,000. That's 0.4%. He kept his Florida house and his NFL pension, and by 2024 the bill had grown to $117 million.
His estate agreed only have $500,000 to $1 million to pay it.
February 1997. The front page above covers the week a civil jury in Santa Monica found him liable for both deaths, 16 months after a criminal jury acquitted him.
$8.5 million in compensatory damages. $25 million in punitive damages.
Simpson said he had nothing to give. He gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where the state constitution protects a home from creditors with no limit on its value. His pension was protected by federal law.
So the Goldmans went after everything else. His Heisman Trophy was sold at auction. Jerseys. Even his 1984 Olympics press pass.
In 2006 he wrote a book called If I Did It, a "hypothetical" account of the murders. The backlash killed it. In 2007 a bankruptcy judge in Florida handed the rights to the Goldman family. They published it as If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
Later that year he was arrested in Las Vegas for taking back his own memorabilia with men carrying guns. He served 9 years.
After his death, his executor said he hoped the Goldmans would get "zero, nothing." He reversed himself. In November 2025 he accepted a $58 million claim.
Simpson always said he couldn't pay. The interest kept counting for 27 years.
Did the law protect a broke man, or did it protect O.J. Simpson's money from the families?
His estate agreed only have $500,000 to $1 million to pay it.
February 1997. The front page above covers the week a civil jury in Santa Monica found him liable for both deaths, 16 months after a criminal jury acquitted him.
$8.5 million in compensatory damages. $25 million in punitive damages.
Simpson said he had nothing to give. He gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where the state constitution protects a home from creditors with no limit on its value. His pension was protected by federal law.
So the Goldmans went after everything else. His Heisman Trophy was sold at auction. Jerseys. Even his 1984 Olympics press pass.
In 2006 he wrote a book called If I Did It, a "hypothetical" account of the murders. The backlash killed it. In 2007 a bankruptcy judge in Florida handed the rights to the Goldman family. They published it as If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
Later that year he was arrested in Las Vegas for taking back his own memorabilia with men carrying guns. He served 9 years.
After his death, his executor said he hoped the Goldmans would get "zero, nothing." He reversed himself. In November 2025 he accepted a $58 million claim.
Simpson always said he couldn't pay. The interest kept counting for 27 years.
Did the law protect a broke man, or did it protect O.J. Simpson's money from the families?
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O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay $33.5 million to the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson in 1997. By 2015 they had collected about $132,000. That's 0.4%. He kept his Florida house and his NFL pension, and by 2024 the bill had grown to $117 million.
His estate agreed only have $500,000 to $1 million to pay it.
February 1997. The front page above covers the week a civil jury in Santa Monica found him liable for both deaths, 16 months after a criminal jury acquitted him.
$8.5 million in compensatory damages. $25 million in punitive damages.
Simpson said he had nothing to give. He gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where the state constitution protects a home from creditors with no limit on its value. His pension was protected by federal law.
So the Goldmans went after everything else. His Heisman Trophy was sold at auction. Jerseys. Even his 1984 Olympics press pass.
In 2006 he wrote a book called If I Did It, a "hypothetical" account of the murders. The backlash killed it. In 2007 a bankruptcy judge in Florida handed the rights to the Goldman family. They published it as If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
Later that year he was arrested in Las Vegas for taking back his own memorabilia with men carrying guns. He served 9 years.
After his death, his executor said he hoped the Goldmans would get "zero, nothing." He reversed himself. In November 2025 he accepted a $58 million claim.
Simpson always said he couldn't pay. The interest kept counting for 27 years.
Did the law protect a broke man, or did it protect O.J. Simpson's money from the families?
His estate agreed only have $500,000 to $1 million to pay it.
February 1997. The front page above covers the week a civil jury in Santa Monica found him liable for both deaths, 16 months after a criminal jury acquitted him.
$8.5 million in compensatory damages. $25 million in punitive damages.
Simpson said he had nothing to give. He gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where the state constitution protects a home from creditors with no limit on its value. His pension was protected by federal law.
So the Goldmans went after everything else. His Heisman Trophy was sold at auction. Jerseys. Even his 1984 Olympics press pass.
In 2006 he wrote a book called If I Did It, a "hypothetical" account of the murders. The backlash killed it. In 2007 a bankruptcy judge in Florida handed the rights to the Goldman family. They published it as If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
Later that year he was arrested in Las Vegas for taking back his own memorabilia with men carrying guns. He served 9 years.
After his death, his executor said he hoped the Goldmans would get "zero, nothing." He reversed himself. In November 2025 he accepted a $58 million claim.
Simpson always said he couldn't pay. The interest kept counting for 27 years.
Did the law protect a broke man, or did it protect O.J. Simpson's money from the families?
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Hybe is really bad at choosing people. They really ruined what BTS built. Fck u Hybe. Without BTS, hybe won't exist.
Justin Bieber sold his songs for $200 million in 2023. 18 months later he owed $31.5 million to the company of Scooter Braun, the man who discovered him at 13, and TMZ reported the $200 million was already gone. He'd taken a $40 million advance for a tour he cancelled, and ed $26 million to cover it.
His own business manager claimed Scooter had been overpaid $26 million in commissions. An outside audit by PwC said the opposite: Justin owed Scooter $8.8 million.
In the video below, Scooter Braun is asked where things stand with Justin Bieber now.
2022. Justin's Justice World Tour. Promoter AEG paid him $40 million up front. He pulled the plug early.
AEG wanted $26 million back. HYBE, the company Scooter ran, paid it. Justin agreed to pay HYBE back over 10 years.
He reportedly made 1 payment.
Weeks after the tour stopped, he sold his catalog of 291 songs to Hipgnosis for about $200 million.
Then the fight over who owed who. His business manager Lou Taylor said Scooter took $26 million too much. HYBE's internal audit said Justin owed Scooter $1 million. PwC spent 6 months on it and landed on $8.8 million.
In July 2025 they settled. Justin pays HYBE the full $26 million plus half of $11 million in back commissions. About $31.5 million.
TMZ's sources said there wasn't enough left from the $200 million after taxes, managers, lawyers and spending.
So the plan was to pay after his wife Hailey sold her beauty brand Rhode for $1 billion. Justin, an investor, was reported to get around $50 million.
Scooter doesn't see a cent of it. He'd already left HYBE.
15 years together. One audit to end it.
Did Scooter Braun take advantage of Justin Bieber, or did Justin spend $200 million and blame the man who made him?
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Another funny thing is that Hailey literally saved Justin by selling Rhode. Who is married to who now
Justin Bieber sold his songs for $200 million in 2023. 18 months later he owed $31.5 million to the company of Scooter Braun, the man who discovered him at 13, and TMZ reported the $200 million was already gone. He'd taken a $40 million advance for a tour he cancelled, and ed $26 million to cover it.
His own business manager claimed Scooter had been overpaid $26 million in commissions. An outside audit by PwC said the opposite: Justin owed Scooter $8.8 million.
In the video below, Scooter Braun is asked where things stand with Justin Bieber now.
2022. Justin's Justice World Tour. Promoter AEG paid him $40 million up front. He pulled the plug early.
AEG wanted $26 million back. HYBE, the company Scooter ran, paid it. Justin agreed to pay HYBE back over 10 years.
He reportedly made 1 payment.
Weeks after the tour stopped, he sold his catalog of 291 songs to Hipgnosis for about $200 million.
Then the fight over who owed who. His business manager Lou Taylor said Scooter took $26 million too much. HYBE's internal audit said Justin owed Scooter $1 million. PwC spent 6 months on it and landed on $8.8 million.
In July 2025 they settled. Justin pays HYBE the full $26 million plus half of $11 million in back commissions. About $31.5 million.
TMZ's sources said there wasn't enough left from the $200 million after taxes, managers, lawyers and spending.
So the plan was to pay after his wife Hailey sold her beauty brand Rhode for $1 billion. Justin, an investor, was reported to get around $50 million.
Scooter doesn't see a cent of it. He'd already left HYBE.
15 years together. One audit to end it.
Did Scooter Braun take advantage of Justin Bieber, or did Justin spend $200 million and blame the man who made him?
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What the actual fucking fuck is this nigga Bieber doing?!
Justin Bieber sold his songs for $200 million in 2023. 18 months later he owed $31.5 million to the company of Scooter Braun, the man who discovered him at 13, and TMZ reported the $200 million was already gone. He'd taken a $40 million advance for a tour he cancelled, and ed $26 million to cover it.
His own business manager claimed Scooter had been overpaid $26 million in commissions. An outside audit by PwC said the opposite: Justin owed Scooter $8.8 million.
In the video below, Scooter Braun is asked where things stand with Justin Bieber now.
2022. Justin's Justice World Tour. Promoter AEG paid him $40 million up front. He pulled the plug early.
AEG wanted $26 million back. HYBE, the company Scooter ran, paid it. Justin agreed to pay HYBE back over 10 years.
He reportedly made 1 payment.
Weeks after the tour stopped, he sold his catalog of 291 songs to Hipgnosis for about $200 million.
Then the fight over who owed who. His business manager Lou Taylor said Scooter took $26 million too much. HYBE's internal audit said Justin owed Scooter $1 million. PwC spent 6 months on it and landed on $8.8 million.
In July 2025 they settled. Justin pays HYBE the full $26 million plus half of $11 million in back commissions. About $31.5 million.
TMZ's sources said there wasn't enough left from the $200 million after taxes, managers, lawyers and spending.
So the plan was to pay after his wife Hailey sold her beauty brand Rhode for $1 billion. Justin, an investor, was reported to get around $50 million.
Scooter doesn't see a cent of it. He'd already left HYBE.
15 years together. One audit to end it.
Did Scooter Braun take advantage of Justin Bieber, or did Justin spend $200 million and blame the man who made him?
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Floyd Mayweather says 2 men stole $550 million from him. He's suing one of them for $175 million, the same man he said he trusted "100 percent" on stage a year earlier. Meanwhile the IRS put a $7.3 million lien on his property, he took a $54 million loan at 9% interest, and a y $33,000 a month in child support.
The lawsuit lists it move by move. A $13 million loan against his Miami mansion. $2.1 million skimmed off an $8.2 million refinance. A $1 million deposit for a New York building, sent to a jeweler instead.
In the video below, Floyd is asked on stage about his adviser's guilty plea in an NYPD bribery case. His answer: "Jonah is my friend... I will stand behind through the good, the bad, and the ugly."
The adviser was Jona Rechnitz. He pleaded guilty in 2016 in one of New York's biggest police bribery cases and became a cooperating witness. Floyd met him around 2017.
By 2025 Floyd was a real estate investor. More than 100 buildings, he said.
In May 2026 he sued Rechnitz. The complaint says money from his deals was routed to an account Rechnitz controlled, without Floyd's approval.
Earlier this year he went after Showtime and his longtime adviser Al Haymon in a separate fight. Last month he said the two men together took $550 million.
A private jet company is now suing him too, over a $105,000 bill.
Rechnitz denies everything and says the money problems are Floyd's own.
Floyd built his whole name on one word. "Money."
Did Floyd Mayweather get robbed by the men he trusted, or is "Money" finally running out?
The lawsuit lists it move by move. A $13 million loan against his Miami mansion. $2.1 million skimmed off an $8.2 million refinance. A $1 million deposit for a New York building, sent to a jeweler instead.
In the video below, Floyd is asked on stage about his adviser's guilty plea in an NYPD bribery case. His answer: "Jonah is my friend... I will stand behind through the good, the bad, and the ugly."
The adviser was Jona Rechnitz. He pleaded guilty in 2016 in one of New York's biggest police bribery cases and became a cooperating witness. Floyd met him around 2017.
By 2025 Floyd was a real estate investor. More than 100 buildings, he said.
In May 2026 he sued Rechnitz. The complaint says money from his deals was routed to an account Rechnitz controlled, without Floyd's approval.
Earlier this year he went after Showtime and his longtime adviser Al Haymon in a separate fight. Last month he said the two men together took $550 million.
A private jet company is now suing him too, over a $105,000 bill.
Rechnitz denies everything and says the money problems are Floyd's own.
Floyd built his whole name on one word. "Money."
Did Floyd Mayweather get robbed by the men he trusted, or is "Money" finally running out?
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Floyd Mayweather says 2 men stole $550 million from him. He's suing one of them for $175 million, the same man he said he trusted "100 percent" on stage a year earlier. Meanwhile the IRS put a $7.3 million lien on his property, he took a $54 million loan at 9% interest, and a y $33,000 a month in child support.
The lawsuit lists it move by move. A $13 million loan against his Miami mansion. $2.1 million skimmed off an $8.2 million refinance. A $1 million deposit for a New York building, sent to a jeweler instead.
In the video below, Floyd is asked on stage about his adviser's guilty plea in an NYPD bribery case. His answer: "Jonah is my friend... I will stand behind through the good, the bad, and the ugly."
The adviser was Jona Rechnitz. He pleaded guilty in 2016 in one of New York's biggest police bribery cases and became a cooperating witness. Floyd met him around 2017.
By 2025 Floyd was a real estate investor. More than 100 buildings, he said.
In May 2026 he sued Rechnitz. The complaint says money from his deals was routed to an account Rechnitz controlled, without Floyd's approval.
Earlier this year he went after Showtime and his longtime adviser Al Haymon in a separate fight. Last month he said the two men together took $550 million.
A private jet company is now suing him too, over a $105,000 bill.
Rechnitz denies everything and says the money problems are Floyd's own.
Floyd built his whole name on one word. "Money."
Did Floyd Mayweather get robbed by the men he trusted, or is "Money" finally running out?
The lawsuit lists it move by move. A $13 million loan against his Miami mansion. $2.1 million skimmed off an $8.2 million refinance. A $1 million deposit for a New York building, sent to a jeweler instead.
In the video below, Floyd is asked on stage about his adviser's guilty plea in an NYPD bribery case. His answer: "Jonah is my friend... I will stand behind through the good, the bad, and the ugly."
The adviser was Jona Rechnitz. He pleaded guilty in 2016 in one of New York's biggest police bribery cases and became a cooperating witness. Floyd met him around 2017.
By 2025 Floyd was a real estate investor. More than 100 buildings, he said.
In May 2026 he sued Rechnitz. The complaint says money from his deals was routed to an account Rechnitz controlled, without Floyd's approval.
Earlier this year he went after Showtime and his longtime adviser Al Haymon in a separate fight. Last month he said the two men together took $550 million.
A private jet company is now suing him too, over a $105,000 bill.
Rechnitz denies everything and says the money problems are Floyd's own.
Floyd built his whole name on one word. "Money."
Did Floyd Mayweather get robbed by the men he trusted, or is "Money" finally running out?
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Wesley Snipes earned more than $38 million from 1999 to 2006 and, prosecutors said, didn't file a single tax return. He got the maximum 3 years in prison. When he came out, the IRS said he owed $23.5 million, and he offered $842,061 to make it go away. That's 3.6%.
The IRS came 40% of the bill. He refused to raise his offer.
He was the Blade star, at the top of Hollywood. He also followed a group that told clients federal income tax didn't apply to them. The two men who ran it were tried next to him.
In February 2008 a jury acquitted him of felony fraud and conspiracy. It convicted him on 3 misdemeanors: failing to file for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
On sentencing day his lawyers handed over checks for $5 million. Prosecutors called it grandstanding. The judge gave him 1 year per count, the maximum. One of his co-defendants got 10 years.
Table 1 in the document shows the bill after prison. Tax years 2001 to 2006. $23.5 million assessed in August 2013, a lien on his property, and an offer worth less than 4 cents on the dollar.
Fig. 1 shows the gap between what he offered and what the government would have accepted.
He told the IRS that paying more would cause him economic hardship. In November 2018 the Tax Court ruled he never proved it, and said it couldn't even tell whether he still owned some of his property.
His lawyers had argued back in 2008 that he was "not a dangerous man" and deeply sorry.
He went to prison for not filing. Then he tried to settle the bill like he still didn't have to pay it.
Was Wesley Snipes made an example of, or did he really think $842,061 would cover $23.5 million?
Wesley Snipes and the $23.5 Million Offer
Failure to File, Offers in Compromise and the Mathematics of Settling with the IRS
The IRS came 40% of the bill. He refused to raise his offer.
He was the Blade star, at the top of Hollywood. He also followed a group that told clients federal income tax didn't apply to them. The two men who ran it were tried next to him.
In February 2008 a jury acquitted him of felony fraud and conspiracy. It convicted him on 3 misdemeanors: failing to file for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
On sentencing day his lawyers handed over checks for $5 million. Prosecutors called it grandstanding. The judge gave him 1 year per count, the maximum. One of his co-defendants got 10 years.
Table 1 in the document shows the bill after prison. Tax years 2001 to 2006. $23.5 million assessed in August 2013, a lien on his property, and an offer worth less than 4 cents on the dollar.
Fig. 1 shows the gap between what he offered and what the government would have accepted.
He told the IRS that paying more would cause him economic hardship. In November 2018 the Tax Court ruled he never proved it, and said it couldn't even tell whether he still owned some of his property.
His lawyers had argued back in 2008 that he was "not a dangerous man" and deeply sorry.
He went to prison for not filing. Then he tried to settle the bill like he still didn't have to pay it.
Was Wesley Snipes made an example of, or did he really think $842,061 would cover $23.5 million?
Wesley Snipes and the $23.5 Million Offer
Failure to File, Offers in Compromise and the Mathematics of Settling with the IRS
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Wesley Snipes earned more than $38 million from 1999 to 2006 and, prosecutors said, didn't file a single tax return. He got the maximum 3 years in prison. When he came out, the IRS said he owed $23.5 million, and he offered $842,061 to make it go away. That's 3.6%.
The IRS came 40% of the bill. He refused to raise his offer.
He was the Blade star, at the top of Hollywood. He also followed a group that told clients federal income tax didn't apply to them. The two men who ran it were tried next to him.
In February 2008 a jury acquitted him of felony fraud and conspiracy. It convicted him on 3 misdemeanors: failing to file for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
On sentencing day his lawyers handed over checks for $5 million. Prosecutors called it grandstanding. The judge gave him 1 year per count, the maximum. One of his co-defendants got 10 years.
Table 1 in the document shows the bill after prison. Tax years 2001 to 2006. $23.5 million assessed in August 2013, a lien on his property, and an offer worth less than 4 cents on the dollar.
Fig. 1 shows the gap between what he offered and what the government would have accepted.
He told the IRS that paying more would cause him economic hardship. In November 2018 the Tax Court ruled he never proved it, and said it couldn't even tell whether he still owned some of his property.
His lawyers had argued back in 2008 that he was "not a dangerous man" and deeply sorry.
He went to prison for not filing. Then he tried to settle the bill like he still didn't have to pay it.
Was Wesley Snipes made an example of, or did he really think $842,061 would cover $23.5 million?
Wesley Snipes and the $23.5 Million Offer
Failure to File, Offers in Compromise and the Mathematics of Settling with the IRS
The IRS came 40% of the bill. He refused to raise his offer.
He was the Blade star, at the top of Hollywood. He also followed a group that told clients federal income tax didn't apply to them. The two men who ran it were tried next to him.
In February 2008 a jury acquitted him of felony fraud and conspiracy. It convicted him on 3 misdemeanors: failing to file for 1999, 2000 and 2001.
On sentencing day his lawyers handed over checks for $5 million. Prosecutors called it grandstanding. The judge gave him 1 year per count, the maximum. One of his co-defendants got 10 years.
Table 1 in the document shows the bill after prison. Tax years 2001 to 2006. $23.5 million assessed in August 2013, a lien on his property, and an offer worth less than 4 cents on the dollar.
Fig. 1 shows the gap between what he offered and what the government would have accepted.
He told the IRS that paying more would cause him economic hardship. In November 2018 the Tax Court ruled he never proved it, and said it couldn't even tell whether he still owned some of his property.
His lawyers had argued back in 2008 that he was "not a dangerous man" and deeply sorry.
He went to prison for not filing. Then he tried to settle the bill like he still didn't have to pay it.
Was Wesley Snipes made an example of, or did he really think $842,061 would cover $23.5 million?
Wesley Snipes and the $23.5 Million Offer
Failure to File, Offers in Compromise and the Mathematics of Settling with the IRS
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