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Al Pacino Acted in Movies He Didn’t ‘Relate’ to at 70 Years Old Just for the Money: ‘I Was Broke. I Had $50 Million and Then I Had Nothing’
Al Pacino went from $50 million to zero dollars and was forced to change his career in order to make money.
Al Pacino writes in his recently-published memoir “Sonny Boy” that he was forced to make dramatic career changes after losing all of his money due to a corrupt accountant who eventually served seven and a half years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme. According to Pacino, it was in 2011 when he started “to get warnings that my accountant at the time, a guy who had lots of celebrity clients, was not to be trusted.” The actor was already paying “a ridiculous amount of money to rent some big fancy house in Beverly Hills,” and then he took his entire family on a trip to Europe where he flew various guests overseas “on a gorgeous Gulfstream 550” and “rented out a whole floor of the Dorchester hotel in London.” Pacino was in his 70s when he learned he was broke, adding: “I wasn’t a young buck, and I was not going to be making the kind of money from acting in films that I had made before.
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