Below is an interesting list of some notable people who have used the bankruptcy system to benefit them. Bankruptcy helped these notable people, why not you too!
Abraham Lincoln – 16th president of the Unites States- twice filed bankruptcy
Ulysses S. Grant – 18th president of the United States
Thomas Jefferson – founding father, author of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd president of the United States
William McKinley – 25th president of the United States
Dave Ramsey – self-professed “get out of debt” guru
Walt Disney – as in Mickey Mouse and Disneyland
Rembrandt Haremenszoon Van Rijn – Dutch painter
P.T. Barnum – filed for bankruptcy in 1871
Mark Twain – American author
Oscar Wilde – playwright
Henry John Heinz – condiment manufacturer famous for Heinz ketchup (my personal favorite)
Milton Hershey – founder of Hershey’s chocolate
Henry Ford – automobile manufacturer
J.C. Penney – founder of the department store chain
Mickey Rooney – actor
Debbie Reynolds – movie actress and hotel/casino owner
Johnny Unitas – NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
Dorothy Hamill – figure skater, Olympian
Bjorn Borg – tennis star
Jerry Lee Lewis – rock and roll star
Burt Reynolds – shortly after his divorce from Loni Anderson
Sherman Hemsley – aka George Jefferson of “The Jefferson’s” sitcom
Gary Busey – actor
Nicholas Cage – actor
Kim Basinger – actress, former wife of Alec Baldwin
MC Hammer – entertainer, musician, dancer (Hammer Time)
Willie Nelson – country music legend
Larry King – talk show host
Donald Trump – filed two separate Chapter 11 for his hotels/casinos
Mike Tyson – boxer, filed Chapter 11
Joe Lewis – boxer
Warren Sap – NFL football player
Terrell Owens – NFL football player
Leon Spinks – boxer
Stephen Baldwin – actor
Jose Conseco – MLB baseball player
Janice Dickinson, self proclaimed “first supermodel”
Vince Neil – lead singer of “Motley Crue”
George McGovern – former presidential candidate
John Conally – Texas governor who was injured while riding with President John F. Kennedy at the time of his assasination.
