Oscar winning actor Al Pacino didn't get into acting for the money. "I didn't understand how money worked, any more than I understood how a career worked," he writes. However, from paying his landscaper $400,000 a year to maintain a home he didn't live in to unknowingly paying for 16 cars and 23 cellphones, his finances began to spiral out of control. "The kind of money I was spending and where it was going was just a crazy montage of loss," he says. "I had $50 million and then I had nothing," he writes.

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