How could Boris Becker earn $130 million in his tennis career but now be broke?

The problem with a lot of athletes and entertainers is that once they hit it big, it just never occurs to them that it won't last. They assume the revenue will at least stay steady and so they fail to save.

I thought he was only broke when the German tax authorities came looking for payments.

"I cant even imagine spending a fraction of that.

That's a hell of a lot of hookers and coke."

You'd be amazed at how little a billion bucks will buy today. Have you seen the price of coke lately?

Multiple homes on different continents and staffs to maintain them, fleets of luxury cars, gambling, money grubbing family and friends digging in your pockets, bad investments, divorces, alimony, child support, agents taking a cut of everything, lawyers, accountants. You can easily blow that money if you’re rich and trying to keep up with the joneses, OP.

Easy come easy go. Overpaid to hit a ball around.

I prefer to remember Boris when he looked like this

He had some nice lips for a white boy.

Expensive divorces, multiple times over.

52 but could pass for 62.

Drugs!

It's so weird when elite athletes let themselves go.

(I mean, not just go soft, but fatten up.)

Wives wives wives he had to pay off once he dumped them...legitimate/illegitimate children to pay for... maybe Donald J Trump can lend a hand!

OK, Boris!