Ken Starr Ponzi Scheme

One of the perils of celebrity is that with money and fame piling up almost exponentially, sycophants bombard your personal orbit -- often looking very respectable -- and seek to profit off your talents.The other side, of course, is that some celebrities are simply horrible with money and either trust the wrong people, or lose track of where their money went.Here are some celebrities who trusted the wrong people with their money, and some who thought that they'd been ripped off when the failure was more likely their own.Uma ThurmanWhat happened: Thurman was taken for $1 million by financial adviser Kenneth Starr. Starr had been hired to handle various aspects of her finances, and, it was later discovered, took around $33 million from his clients to give his ex-stripper wife a rich and famous lifestyle.But when Thurman learned of her own seven-figure loss, she confronted the slippery manager, who repaid her the very next day -- with money he took from other clients.The conclusion : Star...

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