10 celebrities that are shockingly poorer than you (With Pictures)

3. Nicolas Cage – $18 million

$18 million might seem like a lot of dough to the average onlooker. “What I would give to have a fraction of that wealth in my bank account”, he or she might think. But when you contextualize this within the rest of Nicolas Cage‘s career, it stops seeming like as much. Believe it or not, this meme-ified, long-toothed oddball used to be one of Hollywood’s hottest commodities. Between 1996 and 2011, he earned $150 million just for acting alone. But living lavish caught up with him (sources say that he bought a fossilized dinosaur head just ’cause). He also owned an island. Trouble with the IRS forced him to sell off a lot of what he owned, ensuring his net worth dropped like a stone.