Something From Nothing: Top 14 Famous Gold Diggers

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12) Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson had been childhood friends with Prince Andrew of England, and the pair frequently saw each other at polo matches and other social occasions. Their romance was a relatively secret thing, but they announced their engagement in 1986, a year after they began appearing together in the tabloids. Never a very posh sort of person, Sarah endeared herself to the common citizen, and their marriage seemed happy at first. The marriage was in trouble after a short five years, as these British royal thing often are, and Sarah was seen in the company of other men while her husband was away on royal duties.

After their divorce in 1996, the couple seemed to get along relatively smoothly. Sarah was constantly criticized in the press for her extravagant lifestyle, apparently thinking she still had the unlimited funds of the royal family behind her. It must not have been enough, since she devised a little money-making scheme in 2010. She was recorded as trying to sell access to the prince for $750,000 to an undercover reporter posing as an Indian businessman. Not one to learn much of a lesson, she’s millions of dollars in debt, which her friends apparently keep paying off for her.