During her 2009 Monsters Ball tour, Lady Gaga was technically bankrupt. She had $3 million (£2.3 million) dollars to her name, and she threw it all into making the stage.

“I remember I went home and I was with my dad and he said, ‘I don’t understand. Bad Romance is out. You are all over the radio. Everyone is talking about you and you don’t have a pot to p*ss in,'” she told The Mirror. “I said, ‘Just let me do this. Let me just put it on the stage because I think if I can do this I can get Arthur Fogel’s attention.’ And I did.”

After the show, Fogel and Live Nation wrote Gaga a $40 million (£30.6 million) cheque.

Mike Tyson earned $400 million (£307 million) over the course of his two-decade long boxing career. However, these earnings didn’t last long, and Tyson filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

He was $23 million (£18 million) in debt thanks to a $9 million (£6.9 million) divorce settlement, owing $13.4 million (£10.3 million) to the IRS, and $4 million (£3 million) to the British tax authorities.

It took him over a decade, and a trip to rehab, to pull himself out of debt. Tyson now says he is out of the hole and has control over his life again, according to CNN.

President Trump has never personally filed for bankruptcy, but his companies have gone bankrupt six times.

The first time was in 1991, with the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. Then several more of his casinos and hotels went bust in 1992. It happened again in 2004 and 2009.

“I’ve cut debt — by the way, this isn’t me personally, it’s a company,” Trump said, according to Forbes. “Basically I’ve used the laws of the country to my advantage… just as many, many others on top of the business world have.”

In 2016, he became the President of the United States.

Rapper 50 Cent — real name Curtis Jackson III — filed for bankruptcy in 2015, despite once being worth an estimated $155 million (£119 million).

The filing came three days after he was ordered to pay $5 million (£3.8 million) to Rick Ross’ ex-girlfriend, Lastonia Leviston, who sued him for posting her sex tape online in an attempt to embarrass Ross — 50 Cent’s rival.

In February, 50 Cent managed to finish paying off more than $22 million (£16.9 million), and was discharged from bankruptcy.

Kim Basinger filed for bankruptcy in 1993, despite having a net worth of $5.4 million (£4.1 million). She had pulled out of a film, “Boxing Helena,” and was sued by the production company Main Line Pictures for a breach of contract for $8.1 million (£6.2 million). They settled for $3.8 million (£2.9 million).

Basinger then took a three-year break from acting, but was persuaded by director Curtis Hanson to take the role of Veronica Lake in L.A. Confidential. The film won her a Golden Globe and since then her career has made a comeback. She now has a net worth of $36 million (£28 million).

Everybody knows who Walt Disney is today, but that wasn’t always the case. In his early career, Disney couldn’t pay his bills. He started his first film company in 1922 with a partner, where they made short advertising films and cartoons.

They named the studio Laugh-O-Gram, but they ended up being cheated by a distributor, leaving them bankrupt in 1923.

However, the story didn’t end there. Disney debuted a new character called Mickey Mouse in 1928, and the rest is history.

Meat Loaf has an estimated net worth of $45 million (£34.5 million), but a few decades ago he filed for bankruptcy.

It came shortly after an unsuccessful album, “Dead Ringer,” and a lawsuit filed by Jim Steinman, who wrote many of Meat Loaf’s songs.

Meat Loaf has also had several health problems, including being diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. In 2007 doctors also discovered a cyst on his vocal cords which left him unable to sing.

However, Meat Loaf made a comeback in 2008 when he had regained strength in his voice, and started touring again. He has also acted in a few movies, including “Fight Club,” and published an autobiography.

Cyndi Lauper had a rough start in the music business. She formed the band Blue Angel in 1978 with saxophone player John Turi. They released one album, but the group never really took off.

In 1981, after a dispute the band fired their manager Steve Massarsky, and he subsequently sued them, forcing Lauper into bankruptcy.

Lauper’s luck turned around in 1983 when she started working on her solo album, “She’s So Unusual,” with hit singles including “Girl’s Just Want to Have Fun.”

Now, she’s worth an estimated $30 million (£23 million).

When he was a young man, Abraham Lincoln bought a general store in New Salem, Illinois, in 1823 with a business partner. However, the sales were terrible.

Lincoln’s partner died, and he became liable for $1,000 (£766) in back payments — a large sum at the time. There were no modern bankruptcy laws, so Lincoln lost the only assets he had left — a horse and some surveying equipment.

He continued paying off his debts until the 1840s, and then became President of the United States in 1861.

In 1971, Larry King was accused of stealing £5,000 from his former business partner Lou Wolfson, and his luck just got worse from there.

He lost his broadcasting jobs, and in 1978 he filed for bankruptcy.

However, later that year King was offered a national nightly television slot at Mutual Broadcasting. The first Larry King Show was broadcast the following January, which ran for 25 years.

Marvin Gaye is arguably one of the best soul singers of all time, with numerous hit records and Grammy nominations. However, he had to declare bankruptcy in 1976, after he owed his ex-wife $600,000 (£459,600).

To settle the debt, Gaye agreed to give his ex all the royalties from his next record. It was called “Here, My Dear,” and featured a track called “You Can Leave, But It’s Going to Cost You.”

Gaye was making a comeback with his record “Sexual Healing” in 1984, but he was sadly shot and killed by his father after a heated argument a day before his 45th birthday.

MC Hammer’s hit album “Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em,” earned him an estimated $33 million (£25 million) in 1990.

However, in 1996, Hammer filed for bankruptcy protection with at least $10 million (£7.6 million) of debt.

He insisted it wasn’t because of frivolous spending. However, he told Oprah Winfrey several years later that it was because he employed 200 people to work in his mansion.

He may not have paid the taxman back fully yet, but Hammer is occasionally seen at high profile events, and hanging out with Kanye West. In 2015, he also released new music.

Shane Filan, former singer in the band Westlife, filed for bankruptcy in 2012 with €23 million (£20.5 million) of debt. According to the Daily Star, Filan suffered losses during the recession, because he had invested his money in property.

In 2013, he was half way through settling the debt, and started to make a comeback with a debut solo album “You and Me.”

Burt Reynolds was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the 70s. He spent his money lavishly, owning mansions, a helicopter, and a ranch in Florida.

In 1996, he owed creditors $10 million (£7.6 million), and had to declare bankruptcy in 1998.

However, he didn’t have to sell his Florida estate due to loopholes in the law while he was paying off the debt.

Reynolds made a comeback, and won the Golden Globe for Boogie Nights in 1998. However, he has faced some financial difficulty since. He has vehemently claimed in recent years that he is not broke, though.

When George Foreman retired from boxing, he moved back to his hometown in Texas to become a preacher.

There, he founded a youth centre where troubled children could play sports, but he very quickly found himself on the verge of bankruptcy. He was urged to close the centre, but he refused, and instead decided to go back to boxing.

He defeated Steve Zouski in his comeback match and won the next 23 fights, all but one ending with a knockout. Then he won the world heavyweight title — the oldest fighter ever to do so at the time.

After this, Foreman signed a deal with Salton Inc. to put is name on the Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine. By 2012 100 million grills had been sold.

Foreman sold back his shares in the business for £137 million. He has now published five books, has his own TV show, and still runs his youth charity, and has a net worth of $300 million (£230 million).