Steve Harvey reveals he woke up owing the IRS $22,000,000 because his accountants spent SEVEN YEARS pocketing his tax checks and never filing a single return.
The government told him he had to pay $650,000 a month, every month, for 4 years. Miss ONE payment, and you go to JAIL.
He never would've known if his accountant hadn’t died. A woman cleaning out the office called his lawyer with a serious problem.
STEVE HARVEY: “She had found on the floor all my tax forms for seven years signed and with the checks stapled to it.”
“Well, they were cashing the checks, keeping the money and not turning in the tax forms.”
Seven years of bank statements that looked like a man paying his taxes.
“My lawyer called me, said, ‘Hey, man, we got a problem. You haven’t paid taxes in seven years.’”
“He said, ‘Man, that’s tax evasion. You can go to prison.’”
“I ended up owing 22 million. 22 million with the penalties.”
When he told his wife, Marjorie, she cried for two straight days.
“She says, ‘What you going to do?’ I said, ‘I’m going to go to work.’”
And he did.
“I took every comedy gig in this country, signed every contract. I went to work, man. I worked every single Friday, Saturday and Sunday.”
“I never missed a payment.”
He did that for four years. $650,000 a month, every month.
In 2012, he sold 49% of his radio company and used the check to pay the government off to zero.
“And that was the first time, man, I could breathe.”
The thieves were his accountants.
The $22,000,000 bill went to Steve Harvey.
And the only one who got threatened with prison was the man who got robbed.
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Leonardo DiCaprio played him in a movie. The real Howard Hughes was worth two billion dollars, and he died naked in a blacked-out room at ninety pounds, with broken needles in his arms.
His fingernails had curled into long spirals. He had not cut his hair in years. The FBI needed fingerprints to prove the body was his.
This is the same man in the clip, at the peak the whole world adored. At 29 he set the world air speed record at 352 miles an hour. At 32 he flew around the globe in 91 hours. He built a plane with a 320-foot wingspan, owned TWA and RKO, and spent 300 million dollars buying up Las Vegas.
Then the fear took over. Germs, mostly. He sealed every window, ordered the staff never to look at him or speak to him, and touched the world only through layers of Kleenex. Codeine did the rest.
Keep this part. His money did not fail him. It worked perfectly. Two billion dollars bought so much distance that no one was left who could walk in and tell him no. A fortune that size does not just buy freedom. It removes every person who might have stopped you from destroying yourself.
The clip runs under a minute. That is what peak looked like, before the dark room.
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Iftekhar: I raise you. Nightdress.
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July 13, 1978. Ford fired the man who built the Mustang. Exactly five years later, he got his revenge.
Iacocca had given Ford 32 years. He was the father of the Mustang and the president of the company. Ford made close to $2 billion that year.
On July 13, 1978, Henry Ford II fired him anyway. Asked why, Ford reportedly said: sometimes you just don't like somebody.
Iacocca later called it a lonely summer. Big companies outside cars offered him the top job. He wanted to stay in cars, and the only real opening was Chrysler. It was close to bankruptcy.
He cut his own salary to $1 a year. He laid off tens of thousands of workers, and he says he never forgot their faces. He went to Washington and won federal loan guarantees, and Chrysler borrowed $1.2 billion. Then he went on TV himself: if you can find a better car, buy it.
On July 13, 1983, exactly five years after Ford fired him, he stood at the National Press Club in Washington. Chrysler would pay off the last $800 million. Seven years early.
He opened by saying he was fired five years ago that day and hated being reminded of it. Then came his line: we at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
Henry Ford II fired a man he did not like. He ended up handing a rival the one executive who knew how to beat him.
Be honest. Was firing him Henry Ford II's right call, or the biggest mistake Ford ever made?