“Heche allegedly died with approximately $400,000 to her name”
How is that possible? She never had a lapse in her acting jobs.
Millions must have gone up her nose or in her veins,
There is another possibility....
She was never a big name actress, who could command millions of dollars per part.
At best, during her best years, she was probably earning no more than a few million.
It looks like to me that her earnings in the last years were low by Hollywood standards and she still has to make her rent or mortgage in the Hollywood Hills.
A lot of actors aren’t paid much, and many of them work infrequently. It’s a high-risk profession. Most will never make it big. Anne Heche hung in for a long career, but she was never A-list.
Don't discount hangers-on, grifting relatives, parasitical agents. She lived in a swamp full of venomous snakes, leeches, and blood sucking ticks.
She needed to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. She built her home on sinking sand.
“ Millions must have gone up her nose or in her veins”
From her nose into her veins.