It's a complicated thing with some folks wanting to tell a 700-page story over. I'll try to lay it out in 20 lines.
Boris Becker had a great successful run as a tennis player, and made a ton of money.
Boris Becker had a successful marriage....got around to cheating....crapped out on that marriage, then got some hotel maid pregnant (having to pay for that kid)....married wife number two....with her waking up a dozen years later that his economic issues were multiplying, then divorcing him.
Between the extra kid, two wives, and just really poor judgement over money.....he spent most of his fortune. Somewhere in this.....he owned a great home on Mallorca, where he poured in tons of money (continual renovation with no end-point), and maintained some home in London.
So loans came up and he failed on these....pushing back the credit people, and eventually....the court said you need to come talk to us.
Yesterday, the drama finally ended. Court said on legal basis....you corrupted the system, and need to do 2.5 years in a Brit jail/prison. People differ on what money he has left.....I suspect he has some fund safely locked up to pay him enough to survive the remainder of his life at a marginal level. This lifestyle thing? It finally caught up with him, and his lack of money knowledge screwed him over in the end.
I'll just say this.....at age 54....he's mostly a juvenile-acting adult, and maybe the 2.5 years in prison will change him a bit.
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