Sharon Stone claims to have lost ‘half’ of her reported £50million fortune in the recent financial crisis which saw the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
- The Basic Instinct star made a revelation at a fundraising gala in Hollywood last week
Sharon Stone has revealed that she lost half of her money in the recent banking crisis.
The Basic Instinct star collapsed at a Hollywood fundraising gala last week as she urged the public to donate money to cancer charity.
She told them, “I just lost half my money on this banking thing and that doesn’t mean I’m not here.”
It’s unclear which bank Ms Stone, 65 – who has a fortune of £50m – lost her money with, but the gala she attended – a Women’s Cancer Fund event – took place last Thursday, just days after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
They were the second and third largest bank failures in U.S. history after the implosion of Washington Mutual Bank in the 2008 financial crisis.
Sharon Stone has revealed she lost half her money in the recent banking crisis
The US Federal Reserve has stepped in to guarantee all deposits held at both banks, making it unlikely that Ms Stone, who lives in an £18million house in Beverly Hills, will lose any money.
Pleading with guests at last week’s gala to donate, she also said: ‘I know what you need to do and understanding how to text the money is difficult.
“I’m a technical idiot, but I can write a fucking check.”
She also opened up about her own health battles, including a near-fatal stroke in 2001 and surgery to remove tumors from her breasts in the 1990s.
A spokesperson for Ms Stone declined to comment.
