As part of their enormous Fall Fashion section, New York magazine have a feature story up on Annie Leibovitz. If you don't know who she is, pick up a copy of Vanity Fair, or Vogue, or a vintage copy of Rolling Stone, or pretty much any magazine with a reputation for iconic, beautiful, big-budget photography. Chances are, Leibovitz shot the cover photograph.
Now you'd imagine that someone so talented and so high-profile would earn top dollar. And you'd be right. Unfortunately, while she earns top dollar, she also spends top dollar. And, according to the article, she's pretty much broke.
A couple of sources weigh in on where the money went. "She wanted her life to be like a magazine spread," says one. "Everything beautiful, nothing out of place. She wanted everything to be perfect."
"She's a massive perfectionist," adds another, "and absolutely doesn't care about the impact on her own bottom line."
It's entirely her own fault. But it's still sad. And it makes her another (deserving) formerly-flush casualty of the economic crash of the late-noughties.