Maryse Ouellet is another WWE personality that has used wrestling as a platform to enter other business ventures. While she might have found other lanes to create revenue streams, Ouellet is a wrestler at heart. She's an excellent performer and her signature moves including the Spinning Backbreaker, French TKO, French Pain, and French Kiss DDT would cause even the most trained athlete a tremendous amount of pain.
Hailing from Montreal, Canada, Maryse was a model prior to entering the WWE Diva Search in 2006. After training in two different WWE developmental territories, Maryse was assigned to the WWE Smackdown program in 2008 where she would win her first WWE Divas Championship within the same year. Her initial seven-month stint with the title belt made her the third-longest reigning Divas Champion in WWE history. In February 2010, Maryse won the title for a second time making her the first to ever hold the championship multiple times and the only woman to win the belt via a tournament. Since then, Maryse has popped back in and out of wrestling managing her husband, The Miz, raising their children, working as a realtor, and starring in her own reality show. Maryse worked the wrestling system right and does as she pleases.
Not all celebrities have fame and fortune, some are just famous – and in a ton of debt. They came from rags to riches, then went back to rags. Whether they’ve filed bankruptcy, ended up in court, or just can’t stop spending, celebrities mismanage their money just like everyone else. They just hide it well.
50 Cent coined the term “wanksta,” then “partied like it was his birthday” until he filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015. The rapper was said to be anywhere between $10 million and $50 million in debt. In 2016, a federal bankruptcy court judge in Connecticut approved a plan for the founder of G-Unit to pay his debts back. He was able to get his bankruptcy discharged in February of the following year.
Following a 45-year-long career in Hollywood, acting in more than 70 films, actor Gary Busey found himself in more debt than he was worth. In 2012, it was reported that Busey owed between $500,000 and $1 million worth of debt, but only had $50,000 to his name. The 74-year-old actor owed money to hospitals, banks, the L.A. Waterworks District, and even a storage company. He filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy that same year. Despite his longstanding career in Hollywood, Busey's net worth is now only $500,000.
Burt Reynolds is still worth five million dollars, but his battles with debt date back more than 20 years. Between bad investments and a pricey divorce from actress Loni Anderson, the 1970s superstar had to deal with over $10 million in debt and decided to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1996. While testifying in a 1994 custody hearing, the South Florida native said he spent $40 million getting through his divorce.
The former Hollywood bad boy, Charlie Sheen owes the IRS nearly $5 million. But that's not all. In 2016, his net worth was reportedly still as high as $150 million, but he was nonetheless $12 million in debt at the time – including mortgages, legal fees, and taxes. That same year, Debt.com reported Sheen owed nearly $300,000 on an American Express card alone.