January 15, 2012 7:25 PM
The Score: Super-Agent and Attorney Leigh Steinberg is Bankrupt
Posted by Brian Baxter
Longtime sports-agent-to-the-stars Leigh Steinberg, a lawyer who served as the inspiration for the main character in Jerry Maguire, filed for bankruptcy this week in Santa Ana, California.
Steinberg, 62, cited a longtime alcohol addiction, his children’s ongoing health problems, and a fateful business transaction with a former employee as the factors behind the bankruptcy filing. He told The Associated Press that while he has been sober since 2010, his previous addiction left unable to mind his financial affairs.
“I am responsible for my own addiction—no one forced me to drink—and in revealing my struggle with alcoholism, I am in no way justifying or excusing my circumstance,” he said to The AP. “I discuss it to provide context as well as understanding and inspiration to those who also battle addictive behavior.”
Court records show that Steinberg, who once boasted a Hall of Fam–worthy list of sports clients, now counts only $483,500 in property assets, as well as a Vizio flat screen television, $200 in clothes and personal memorabilia, a 2001 Mercury Mountaineer worth $6,700, and $475,000 in stock
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