Celebrities Who Got Rich and Then Lost It All

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola makes more wine than films nowadays, and that's likely because of his famous budget overages that ravaged his film sets. After he went into debt from Apocalypse Now, despite the movie's popularity, he dropped even further when his following movie, One From the Heart, flopped. Coppola declared bankruptcy in 1982, and several years later he opened one of the most successful wineries in human history. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.