If you've been to Las Vegas, you'll have heard of Wayne Newton. If you haven't, then you may not have come across his name before, and so you might wonder what all the fuss is about. It comes down to this - other star names have residences in Sin City, and then leave. Newton never does. He's been singing and performing in the cabaret bars for years, and yet somehow doesn't seem to have earned a dime.
Newton is known within the city as 'Mr. Las Vegas,' such is his notoriety. He's been entertaining crowds and tourists for decades, but went bankrupt while $20m in debt in 1992. How he'd managed to run up such a bill is unknown. It didn't appear to teach him anything, because the IRS came to him for $2m in unpaid taxes a few years later. Maybe Vegas doesn't pay as well as everyone imagines it does.