Like Ophélie Winter, these stars have lost everything
The shock moved her fans and other celebrities, Ophélie Winter was seen getting out of her car where she had spent the night. Dispossessed of everything, her life now fits in a few plastic bags and she struggles not to be devoured by precariousness. But she is not the only one to have fallen from notoriety to ruin. Overview of the most vertiginous waterfalls on the planet people.
A fall worthy of Icarus. All the more prodigious since his victim fell from a pinnacle that one might have thought - wrongly - unalterable. This is the fate of Ophélie Winter, yesterday in the top 15 of the charts with her hit God gave me faith, today wandering, looking haggard, in clothes crumpled by a night in her Smart after she lost everything. If her fans are mobilizing to find her accommodation, when even singer Lââm has offered her help, the results are clear: the singer, actress and model with the golden hair who bewitched the 90s generation is ruined.
A few unfortunate career choices, health concerns and an expensive life will have got the better of his nest egg - a fortune that certainly did not amount to 245 million euros, as La Dépêche believed by being trapped by a parody site. While such a descent into hell is exceptional, Ophélie Winter is not an isolated case. The planet people have its share of dizzying declines.
Mallaury Nataf, panties that did not go
Among the most notable, we find Mallaury Nataf who, despite a comeback announced in an episode of the Mysteries of Love, went through a long period of wandering after a dark history of panties that broke her image of a clean bourgeoisie with of her audience in the series Le Miel et les abeilles in which she played Lola Garnier, her main character. Unable to fight against the bad buzz of 1994, the actress lost her footing, her appearances in the series Sous le soleil and in the show La Ferme Celebrité did not keep her going.
In 2012, a police patrol found her sleeping outside with her youngest son, Shiloh. Homeless for five years, Mallaury Nataf lost custody of her three children and, bitter, shared his frustration with Télé Stars: “I am deprived of my parental rights. So I went back to being like when I was 24, like a kid. I'm no longer a mother, it's over! No one will ever say 'mom' to me again.
Often dismissed from her odd jobs because of her notoriety, the actress sees her salvation only through AB Productions, the production house that made her famous to the French public: “Working with ordinary people in ordinary jobs m is impossible. The first month, everything goes well. And then someone recognizes me. Customers learn it and suddenly the whole neighborhood knows it. Everything becomes very complicated, hellish. It's bad for business. And the boss doesn't want to keep me. My only way to rebuild my life was AB Productions. "
Loana, plagued by depression
Among the sacrificed of the star system, Loana is an example, like a story that would be repeated in the upper echelons, to scare oneself. After her victory won during the first version of Loft Story, the first historic French reality TV show which remains memorable for its aquatic sex sequence, the star has not been able to capitalize on her notoriety even if she now assures that she no longer has financial problems. In addition, sexual abuse and the aftermath of fame have repeatedly driven her to suicide.
While her spectacular weight gains due to antidepressants have particularly marked the spirits, she has now reclaimed her body and is refocusing on the essentials: her mother and her two Yorkshires. Today, Loana dreams of opening a family hostel in the Algarve, Portugal. In bickering with her daughter, who is angry with her for having abandoned her, this 42-year-old grandmother would also very much like to meet her granddaughter. Recent heart problems indicate that the first reality TV celebrity is probably not out of the woods.
Patrick Topaloff, crushed by the celebrity who raised him
Known for his song J’ai bien mangé, jai bien drunk, Patrick Topaloff has the distinction of having been crushed by the same notoriety that had elevated him to the rank of celebrity. Indeed, while he was in the trough of his professional life, his divorce pension had been indexed to the income he had obtained when he was at the top. Crushed by unbearable expenses, the comic trooper knows gloomy 90s which leave him with a destiny of penniless homeless. In 1995, he even knew the Fleury-Mérogis prison for family abandonment.
His release from prison shocked him. After publishing his memoir, he struggled to reconnect with the stage and even found some success with his play Série noire. Eventually, after being able to get back on the water, he died of a heart attack at the age of 65. It was March 7, 2010, in Sèvres, the day after a concert on the Tender Age and Têtes de bois tour.
Stéphane Bern, Patrice Laffont, Paul-Loup Sullitzer and so many others ... sucked into financial pitfalls
In the land of celebrities who are not immune to ruin, Stéphane Bern announced that he had recently had to mortgage his apartment for a reason commensurate with his love for heritage: the restoration of the former 17th century royal college. century in Thiron-Gardais. A financial pit of nearly four million euros. At 84, actress Mylène Demongeot lives in a 35m2 apartment in Paris and has been counting her pennies since she was swindled by a crooked banker. Goguenard, it is a Patrice Laffont without regret who proudly displayed his ruinous way of life by affirming that he had spent all his money: “I am a real cicada.” He preached during an interview with Tele- Hobbies.
In debt after a bitter television experience, ex-weather miss Solweig Rediger Lizlow had to organize a jackpot of € 10,000 to get off on the right foot. The writer Paul-Loup Sullitzer claims to be living on a pension of € 1,500 per month, far from the € 200,000 monthly that constituted his salary and far from the lifestyle in tune with his impressive fortune. "I ate my reservations, he told L’Obs. Once my reserves were exhausted, I lived without money. Before, I earned up to 200,000 euros per month. Net. I'm not a Bernard Tapie, I ended up in a crappy little apartment. ”
If there is one lesson to be learned, it is that the Fall spares no one. Even though prancing with the elites in the Olympus of the star system must give an illusory feeling of invulnerability, these stories have reason to upset us for all the right reasons. They seem to remind us that no one is immune. And the more we climb to the top, the harder the fall can be.
