Everyone knows that Hollywood is all about
the glamour, and there's certainly a heck of a lot of money out there for the actors
who make it. Some stars, however, have a lot less money
than you might expect. Here are the actors who are poorer than you
thought. The time when Lindsay Lohan was Hollywood's
hottest young star may seem like the distant past, and it's hard to imagine there was a
time when she was raking in the cash, but she was. In the early 2000s, Lohan was getting paid
up to $7.5 million per film for some of her bigger movies, so it's not too surprising
that the website SheKnows reports that, as of 2004, the then-18-year old had a net worth
of more than $30 million. What is surprising is that in 2020, Celebrity
Net Worth estimated her fortune at just $800,000. Of course, if you've been paying attention,
it'll be pretty obvious where Lohan's money went. As Business Insider reported back in 2010,
the actress had been to rehab three times by the age of 23, and found it difficult to
get acting work because she was impossible to insure as a result of her drug problems. Add to that the declining paychecks for the
work she could get, and you have a recipe for financial disaster on an epic scale. Gary Busey has had a phenomenally successful
career. While never quite achieving superstar status,
over the course of five decades he's compiled nearly 200 acting roles, and has rarely gone
more than a year without a job. Some of those credits were in some pretty
successful films too, such as Under Siege and Point Break. And yet, according to Celebrity Net Worth,
Busey is worth just $500,000. So what happened? As with most people's stories, Busey's is
complicated. He was once regarded as a major leading man
and was even nominated for an Oscar for his work in The Buddy Holly Story in 1978. But in 1988, he suffered a horrific motorcycle
accident that resulted in multiple brain injuries, which changed his behavior in ways, and had
a long-lasting impact on his career. "'Cause I'd seen things I'd seen before, but
it was like it was the first time I was seeing them." Busey's actor son, Jake, says his father's
inability to censor his thoughts has made it harder for both of them. In a 2019 interview with Hollywood Reporter,
he explained: "The same Busey name that helped me 30 years
ago has become a scorpion's tail because it's associated with insanity." Busey's injury also exacerbated an existing
drug habit, and the combination of no impulse control, drugs, and a lack of high-paying
jobs led to a 2012 bankruptcy filing, in which he listed just $50,000 in assets. Nicolas Cage's slide into the video-on-demand
category of film has been one of the more surprising career transformations of the modern
age. Cage was once considered an A-list talent,
and an actor who could both do serious work and play a believable action star. His net worth of $25 million is a lot of money,
but considering the fact that Cage was once allegedly worth as much as $150 million and
at one point earned as much as $20 million per film, that number seems awfully low. Things make a lot more sense once you take
into account Cage's unique shopping habits, however. Over the years, the actor has purchased no
fewer than 15 homes, a number of other properties, and a range of collectibles, such as a rare
Superman comic book and a real dinosaur skull. Spending like that will erode any fortune,
and when Cage came up short on the absolutely massive property tax bills, the foreclosures
began, and he had to scramble to stay solvent. While he's become a bit of a joke for the
slew of low-budget, sketchy films he's appeared in over the last decade, that hustle is exactly
why he's successfully rebuilt at least a portion of his former fortune. As part of Long Island's Baldwin family of
actors, Stephen Baldwin has appeared in some big movies, and a whole load of not-so-big
movies. Still, he's worked as a well-known actor for
decades, so you might imagine he'd be worth a bit more than the $500,000 that Celebrity
Net Worth estimates. But the truth is that Baldwin got into a heap
of tax and credit card trouble a few years ago. After falling behind on his mortgage payments
on his million-dollar Long Island home, Baldwin tried to sell up, and wound up defaulting
on the $781,000 loan instead. At the same time, the IRS came after him for
not paying taxes for a couple of years, slapping a $407,000 lien on the actor. Baldwin has spent the last few years cleaning
up his finances. The house was auctioned off, and Baldwin and
his wife moved into a small apartment in Queens to reduce expenses. Baldwin got the lien lifted a few years ago,
but all that drama has had a negative effect on his net worth. All the same, the actor has four projects
listed on IMDB this year, so he might just be on his way back to the big time. $10 million would mean early retirement for
most people, but it doesn't seem like a lot of money for someone like Wesley Snipes, who
was once paid $13 million for Blade: Trinity alone. So what happened? In a nutshell, Snipes is one of the many extremely
wealthy people who thought he could get away with not paying his taxes. Snipes was indicted in 2006 on tax fraud in
the form of $12 million in refunds he illegally claimed, not to mention failing to file tax
returns for several years. His legal team claimed he was the victim of
terrible advice, but failed to mount any sort of defense when the case went to trial, while
the IRS proved he'd earned about $40 million between 1999 and 2004. Snipes wound up in jail on tax evasion charges,
but just because you go to jail doesn't mean you stop owing the IRS, so Snipes still had
to repay his back taxes when he got out in 2013. After a few more years in court, he managed
to get his debt reduced from $23 million to $9.5 million, but that's still gotta hurt
your bottom line, especially when you're not the A-Lister you once were. A net worth of $5 million certainly isn't
nothing to sniff at, but considering that Chris Tucker was once once one of the highest-paid
actors in Hollywood, it's a surprisingly low number, even when you take into account his
apparent lack of interest in working. Since his break into megastardom with 1998's
Rush Hour, Tucker has only appeared in four films: Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3, Silver Linings
Playbook, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Still, considering he was paid $25 million
for Rush Hour 3 alone, you've gotta ask, what happened to all that money? Well, for one, a number of tax problems, poor
accounting, and business management difficulties resulted in a whopping $14 million fine from
the IRS. "Take care of your business, man, don't listen
to people, do your own business, be careful who you listen to. 'Cause that's the last time I let Wesley Snipes
help me out with my taxes." Those problems sparked a domino effect: Yahoo!
reports that Tucker subsequently had a $6 million home foreclosed on. Having your money mismanaged by so-called
professionals can happen to anybody, however, and Tucker's fortunes may be on the upswing
again if the rumors about a fourth Rush Hour film turn out to be true. Of course, whether he can match that $25 million
payday remains to be seen. Often, stars and celebrities' financial troubles
can come as a result of their own overspending or bad financial decisions. But Kelly Rutherford's story is different. The reason the star of Gossip Girl to be only
worth $1 million today is a devastating divorce and a bitter custody battle. Divorce is pretty much the main destroyer
of wealth in the modern age, and Rutherford's was particularly nasty. In addition to legal fees to her attorneys,
Page Six reported that Rutherford had to spend enormous amounts of money flying back and
forth to Monaco just to see her children after her estranged husband moved them there, making
70 trips in just two years. This also impaired her ability to work, since
she was traveling all the time. The exorbitant costs of these divorce and
custody battles, plus the lack of work, forced Rutherford to declare bankruptcy in 2013. With that in mind, it's actually kind of impressive
that she's clawed her way back to millionaire status. Depending on your age, you may or may not
remember Sinbad, but the comedian was once a pretty big deal. He had his own TV show at one point and starred
in plenty of movies, while maintaining a solid stand-up comedy career, all of which should
have left him an incredibly wealthy man. However, Celebrity Net Worth estimates he's
worth about $4 million, which is actually a surprisingly low number. Sinbad has been pretty honest about what happened
to his money. In a 2013 interview with Huffpost Live, he
admitted that he had tried to keep his business interests afloat with his own money, assuming
he'd get a big movie role to cover the losses. "I kept thinking 'okay, I get one more movie,
and I wipe these bills out'. But that movie didn't come." As he struggled to pay salaries and equipment
fees, he fell behind on his taxes and eventually had to declare bankruptcy...twice. A series of medical crises followed, including
spinal fusion surgery in 2015, which further slowed his ability to work while putting pressure
on his finances. Luckily, Sinbad has done some sporadic television
work in recent years, including a regular role on the now-canceled FOX series Rel, which
has allowed him to claw back at least a little of his former fortune. You probably know Teri Polo best from the
Meet the Parents films, which, together, grossed over $1 billion worldwide. A former model, Polo has appeared in over
a hundred other movies and TV shows in a career lasting nearly four decades. Yet she fell into enormous debt and filed
for bankruptcy in 2014, and today, Celebrity Net Worth her net worth to be negative $800,000,
meaning her debts far exceed her assets. When she filed for bankruptcy, Polo claimed
to have less than $50,000 to her name, with debts of about $1 million, which were mostly
tied up in back taxes. She was also being sued by her landlord when
she stopped paying rent with almost a year to go on her lease, allegedly leaving her
apartment in a disgusting and disastrous state, which added to her legal and financial woes. Polo continues to work, but for now, it looks
like most of her salaries are going toward paying off that tax debt. Norm MacDonald is widely considered to be
a legend in the world of stand-up comedy. For nearly 30 years, he's been one of the
most recognizable names in the business, appearing in countless TV shows and films as well as
doing comedy specials and voice work, all while touring with his stand-up act. In fact, according to IGN, MacDonald was one
of television's highest-paid performers as recently as 2018. So how come Macdonald's fortune is estimated
to sit at just $1.5 million? There's a one-word answer for this: Gambling. MacDonald is famous for his love of gambling,
and as Marc Maron [MARE-in] recounts in his book Waiting for the Punch, the actor once
said point-blank: "I went broke a few times when I actually
had lots of money. With gambling. And I mean broke. Dead broke." In fact, Forbes reports that MacDonald was
once so desperate to stop gambling that he actually threw away $60,000. No wonder his fortune has taken such a hit. Best-known for his roles in National Lampoon's
Vacation and Independence Day, Randy Quaid was once one of the hardest-working actors
in Hollywood. Between 1971 and 2009, he appeared in nearly
120 films and television shows. Along the way, he picked up some pretty hefty
paydays too, including $1 million for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and $2.25 million
for Kingpin. Nevertheless, today, Quaid's fortune is estimated
at negative $1 million, largely due to a series of bizarre decisions made by Quaid and his
wife, Evi. The Quaids claim they have been targeted by
a shadowy organization they call "The Hollywood Star Whackers," a group they say has killed
many celebrities. Along the way, they've skipped out on huge
bills, squatted in properties they didn't own, and tried to live in Canada illegally. While the Quaids have been relatively quiet
for a few years, and are now living back living in Los Angeles, it's been a rough ride, and
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