With textbook Hollywood good looks and a series of leading roles in action movies, it seemed that Brendan Fraser couldn't put a foot wrong during the 1990s. 'The Mummy' and its sequels followed 'George of the Jungle,' and for a while, it looked like casting Fraser was the surest way of ensuring a box office smash when film studios went looking for a summer blockbuster. His time in the spotlight was short, though. Fraser still works in the movie business, but not on anything like the platform he once owned.
With less money coming in each year, the costs of a 2007 divorce began to hit home hard for Fraser. He'd been ordered to pay his ex-wife $900,000 per year, but after six years he had to go back to court and admit that he could no longer afford to maintain those payments, and requested that the agreement be revised to a lower amount.