[pierrem15]

I suspect she was easily bored: she ran through money and husbands like water.

I think she claimed in her autobiography that she earned somewhere between $20 - $25 million by the early '60's, and blew every last penny.

She was arrested for shoplifting a few times when she was broke.

[SkyPilot]

I think she claimed in her autobiography that she earned somewhere between $20 - $25 million by the early '60's, and blew every last penny.

True. She wrote: "I figured out that I had made and spent some thirty million dollars. Yet earlier that day I had been unable to pay for a sandwich at Schwab's drug store."