00:00She beat Steffi Graf at the French Open at just 17 years old.
00:04She was the world number one in singles and doubles at the same time.
00:08Four Grand Slam singles titles, 14 total, and according to the New York Post,
00:1341 million of her career fortune is gone.
00:18She's Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, and here's how one of the greatest tennis players of her generation ended up broke.
00:25Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, she's a Spanish tennis legend whose career ran through the 90s into the early 2000s,
00:33and she's considered one of the greats of her sports.
00:36In fact, she beat both Williams sisters.
00:38She's the first Spanish woman ever inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
00:43She's represented her country at five Olympic Games, and she's brought home four medals during that time.
00:50So this isn't just some sort of flash in the pan or average player with a racket.
00:56We're talking about a Hall of Famer who earned a lot of respect and money throughout the course of her
01:02career.
01:02In fact, in just prize money alone, she reportedly made a little north of 16 to 17 million throughout the
01:09course of her career.
01:11You add endorsements and sponsorships on top of that, and you get to the number everyone is talking about.
01:17She claims she amassed a fortune of around $41 million throughout the course of her career, and it's all gone
01:24now, and here's why.
01:26Back in 2012, she wrote a memoir accusing her own father and brothers of mismanaging her money.
01:33She claims her dad paid her a monthly allowance and was supposed to be investing the rest.
01:39In her words, basically, I trusted him.
01:42Then I retired, and there was nothing left.
01:45Her mother pushed back publicly, denied the entire thing, and said the family never touched her money.
01:51The end result, years of estrangement from her own parents and her brothers.
01:56Another cause of her possibly going broke.
01:58Back in 2008, she married businessman and entrepreneur, Joseph Santacana.
02:052019, they divorced after 11 years.
02:07Now she's telling a different version to the story of her going broke.
02:12This time, she's blaming her ex-husband, not the family.
02:16Same story, new villain.
02:18She said, I trusted him blindly, and it vanished.
02:21But this is where it all gets serious.
02:25This isn't just a sad story of another athlete losing it all.
02:29There were real consequences with her downfall.
02:32There's a tax fraud fine tied to a Luxembourg bank dispute that set her back.
02:38On top of that, she and her ex-husband were actually put on trial for allegedly hiding assets.
02:44Now she did avoid prison time on that matter, and she managed to get a suspended sentence instead.
02:50But now she's paying back the debt with roughly half of everything she earns going forward after she was ordered
02:57in 2009 by the Supreme Court to pay a $5.9 million fine from the matter.
03:04She's slowly managing to get her life and her finances back in order.
03:09In fact, she coaches tennis in the U.S., and she's even worked with current tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
03:16Now she says her two kids are the reason she's kept pushing throughout the course of all of this.
03:21Sadly, this is another story that we've seen before.
03:25A top athlete getting paid millions of dollars at the height of their career, but they end up losing it
03:31all for one reason or the next.
03:33We'll have more on this as we get more information.
03:39We'll have more on this as we get more information.
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