Famous Success Stories With Super Dark Endings

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People love a success story, and they think the success part is the end of the story. But surprisingly often, there's a big crash afterward that goes unreported. Here are some super-familiar stories about successful people, and the unfamiliar stories about the bad things that happened in the aftermath.