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Charlie Sheen bought so much cocaine that a Mexican cartel cut him off, because they were sure he had to be dealing it "They had never seen someone acquiring that kind of weight." The only people buying that much from them were dealers. So they decided he was running a side business. He wasn't. It was all for him. At the time he was making $1.8 million an episode, around $40 million a year, the highest paid actor on TV. The reporter asks about the seven-gram rocks of crack. He says that's more or less true. In 2011 he got fired, then joined Twitter and hit 1 million followers in about 25 hours, a Guinness world record. He walked away from the firing with a reported $25 million settlement. She tells him he's lucky to be alive. "I know, I get all that." He's been clean for 8 years now. When even the cartel thinks you've had enough, who exactly is supposed to stop you?

Whitney Houston signed a $100 million record deal, then went on national TV and asked to see the receipts for her $730,000 drug habit December 2002. Diane Sawyer reads her the tabloid headline: "Whitney dying. Crack. Rehab fails." She laughs at it. "Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack." Then the line everyone remembers: "Crack is whack." Sawyer reads her the $730,000 figure. "730? I wish. I wish whoever's making that money off of me could share it with me." A year earlier Arista had signed her for $100 million, the biggest record deal in history at the time. Ten years later, reports said the money was gone and the label was advancing her cash against her next album. On February 11, 2012, she was found dead in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton. She was 48. Three years later her daughter Bobbi Kristina died at 22. Bobby Brown took the blame for 15 years. Then her own brother told Oprah he was the one who introduced her to drugs, back in the 80s. Sawyer asked her who the biggest devil in her life was. She didn't say Bobby. She said "that would be me." Did Bobby Brown ruin Whitney, or did she tell us the truth on camera and nobody listened?

$44 billion for Twitter, and now Elon Musk says politicians want to jail him, deport him and seize his companies over it Tucker asked him one simple question: how much pressure is there to shut X down or censor it? He didn't dodge it. He just started listing. Jail. Every government contract his companies have, gone. Tesla and SpaceX nationalized. Deported "as an illegal." Arrested, "because I'm apparently Putin's best friend." Then he looked straight at the camera and finished with "nothing besides those things." Any other billionaire sells at that point and goes back to rockets and cars. He kept the one company that puts a target on his back, because he calls it the one place you can still find out the truth. Would you keep a $44 billion app if the price was your freedom?

Robert Downey Jr. went from a California prison cell to $80 million a year, and when one interviewer brought up the years in between, he got up and walked out It was 2015. He was the highest-paid actor in the world, there to promote Avengers: Age of Ultron. About 15 years earlier he had spent roughly a year behind bars after a string of drug arrests. Then Marvel hired him for Iron Man in 2008 for a reported $500,000. Seven years later Forbes had him at $80 million in a single year. The interviewer asked about his past, his father and his politics. A few questions in, Downey stood up and left. Watch his face right before he goes. Was the interviewer out of line, or was that the one question he'd spent $80 million trying to outrun?

DANA WHITE WON $3.2 MILLION AT A LAS VEGAS CASINO AND GOT KICKED OUT FOR WINNING TOO MUCH He beat the Palms casino for $1.6 million, came back, and won another $1.6 million. Same casino. Twice. Instead of letting him keep playing, they started lowering his betting limits until there was no point in coming back. But there's another part of this story that makes it even crazier. White once got so drunk at a different Vegas casino that he went home thinking he'd lost $80,000. The next morning, he found out he'd actually lost $3 MILLION. His credit limit was only $1.5 million, but the casino had allowed him to go way beyond it. When he was losing millions, nobody was rushing to stop him. When he started winning millions, suddenly the casino didn't want him at the table anymore. The UFC boss tells the story himself on Club Shay Shay. If Vegas is perfectly happy watching someone lose $3 million in one night, why does winning $3.2 million suddenly become a problem?

Matthew Perry made $1 million an episode, spent $9 million trying to get sober, and a doctor still charged him 190 times the going price for ketamine A year before he died, he describes the night doctors gave him a 2% chance to live. Five people were on ECMO that night, and only he survived. The day the doctor met him, he texted a colleague "I wonder how much this moron will pay." Over the next 12 days he sold Perry 20 vials for $57,000. On the market each one cost about $15. Then the assistant found a cheaper source, a dealer prosecutors called the "Ketamine Queen." On October 28, 2023, the assistant gave Perry at least three shots. He was found dead that day at 54. The dealer got 15 years. The doctor who called him a moron got 30 months and a $5,600 fine. He made $57,000 off a man he mocked. Was 30 months enough?