In Debbie Reynold's case, the obnoxious old man she married, Harry Carl, gambled away his fortune and hers too £65 million of hers, to be precise. Her third husband, property developer Richard Hamlett, squandered the rest of Debbies money in a failed business venture. Why, Why did she make such disastrous choices in husbands??
(I still can't believe Debbie is gone.)