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Sharon Stone Says She Lost $18 Million Fortune Following 2001 Stroke: 'I Had Zero Money'

Sharon Stone reflected on the financial losses she suffered after her near-fatal brain bleed in 2001.

The iconic actress, whose fame reached a fever pitch with movies like Basic Instinct and Casino, has also dealt with devastating lows, namely a near-fatal 2001 stroke. I was talking, not knowing I was stuttering, not realizing that the walls didn’t really have blocks of colors on them," she described in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. She was eventually diagnosed and medicated for a brain seizure condition, but side effects would linger for years to come.

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