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Senior citizens aren’t the only targets! Many celebrities have fallen prey to con artists and swindlers. Keep scrolling to see which stars have admitted to being scammed.
After getting a call from someone who claimed to be from his bank’s fraud-alert team, the TV host, 55, spent more than an hour on the phone with them, during which he inadvertently gave them access to his accounts which had “a lot of money” in them, he recently revealed. “What I should have said is, ‘Can I call you back?’ Or ‘I’m gonna go to my bank and handle this.’
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Cindy Crawford & Rande Gerber
A German model tried to extort $100,000 from the pair after showing them a pic of daughter Kaia, then 7, tied up and gagged. (Her nanny, who was dating the blackmailer, had taken the photo during a game of cops and robbers.)
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Kyra Sedgwick & Kevin Bacon
Something is too good to be true, it’s too good to be true,” Kevin said of losing most of the pair’s fortune in Bernie Madoff’s infamous Ponzi scheme. “You get angry, but I have to say, there were a lot of people who were much worse off than we were.”
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Robert De Niro
A crooked NYC art dealer was imprisoned after selling several artworks by the actor’s late father, an abstract expressionist painter, without permission in 2008, leading to about $1 million in losses.
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Anne Hathaway
“The rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden,” the actress said after her then-boyfriend, Italian property developer Raffaello Follieri, was arrested in 2008 for defrauding investors of $6 million by posing as a Vatican official. Anne, who never spoke to him again, had to give back jewelry he’d gifted her, and he went to prison for four-and-a-half years.
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Jewell
“I can’t tell you the tears I’ve cried,” the singer said after her mother and former manager, Lenedra Carroll, allegedly “embezzled all of my money — over $100 million.” (Her mom has not publicly responded to the allegations.)
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Courtney Love
The most daring case of identity theft! Kurt Cobain’s widow claims someone used the late grunge icon’s Social Security number to steal millions, including their daughter Frances Bean’s college fund.
