8. Tom Cruise
On number 8, we have Tom Cruise, a man who is now worth approximately $500 million, but he’s one of today’s 10 Wealthy Celebrities That Were Once Extremely Poor.
So life wasn’t always this good for him.
Born in Syracuse, New York on July 3, 1962, Cruise was the only boy in the family formed by Mary Lee and Thomas Cruise Mapother III.
His mother was a special education teacher, and his father was an electrical engineer, so there’s no need to tell you that he wasn’t born rich.
In fact, his family was very poor, and they were dominated by his abusive father.
Tom Cruise described his father as “a merchant of chaos.”, saying that “He was the kind of person where, if something goes wrong, they kick you”
