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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDionne Warwick, down to $1,000 cash, files for bankruptcy
Dionne Warwick, one of the most recognizable pop voices of the 1960s, filed for bankruptcy last week, citing more than $10 million in tax debt dating back to 1991.
"Due to several consecutive years (the late '80s through the mid-'90s) of negligent and gross financial mismanagement, Dionne Warwick has realized the current necessity to file personal bankruptcy," Warwick publicist Kevin Sasaki said in a statement to CNN Tuesday.
Warwick, 72, made hits out of many Burt Bacharach and Hal David songs, and won five Grammys in a 50-year career. The singer is down her last $1,000 in cash and only owns furniture and clothing worth $1,500, according to the Chapter 7 filing in New Jersey.
The bankruptcy documents filed in New Jersey on Thursday outline a sad financial situation for Warwick, a cousin of the late Whitney Houston.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/26/showbiz/dionne-warwick-bankruptcy/index.html
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Aristus
(66,442 posts)n/t
olddots
(10,237 posts)her work is beyond brilliant and millions owe her for the joy and good she brought.
tblue
(16,350 posts)Awww. This is sad. I LOVE her work. "Promises, Promises" "Walk on By" "Reach Out for Me"
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I'm so sorry she's going through this. She's a lovely person.
Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)Hope she pulls out of this.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)My bad!
Warwick's a great lady and a great talent. Sad to see her falling on hard times. One of her greats...
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)n/t
quakerboy
(13,920 posts)I Guarantee that.
Loryn
(945 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Mosby
(16,340 posts)must be tough to live on such a piddly amount of money.
Maybe she should have paid her fucking taxes like the rest of us.
Logical
(22,457 posts)bike man
(620 posts)RILib
(862 posts)Millions roll in, they hire idiot or corrupt managers, taxes aren't paid, and then even though they make an annual income that must of us will never approach, they wind up with giant debts.
I find this way of life mind boggling.