Singer Dionne Warwick - cousin and inspiration to Whitney Houston - had one of the greatest voices of the 1960s. Her biggest song was 'Walk on By,' but it couldn't persuade the IRS to walk on by when they discovered that she hadn't been paying taxes for virtually all the past twenty years when she filed for bankruptcy in 2013. Documents associated with the case say that she hadn't paid a penny since 1991, and owed just under eight million dollars.
By the time she faced the music, Warwick bad just under one thousand dollars to her name, along with a small amount of furniture and her clothes. The fact that someone who was such an icon can be reduced to just the shirt on their back towards the end of her life is a warning about the impermanence of fame.