Mila Novak

ER nurse Serenity Cox spent 16 years at a trauma center in Toronto. Her husband films her with other men, and their videos have more than half a billion views on Pornhub. She blocked all of Ontario from seeing her page so nobody at the hospital would ever find it. Someone at work found it anyway and passed it around. The union rep came to her first, and her advice was to take it all down. Serenity asked if that was an actual rule or just an opinion, and ended up on the phone with a lawyer, who called back the next day and said what she was doing was legal. Her manager told her, "I've got your back." It started during the pandemic with a Tinder account her husband knew about, and eventually he was the one holding the camera. They put one video on Pornhub almost as a joke. It took off, and Vixen signed her. In the video below Serenity tells Holly Randall how the hospital found out, what the union wanted, and why she stopped doing 12-hour shifts. In 2024 she walked away from the ER. She says nursing kept her saying no to opportunities that would have made her "a lot more money." Should a nurse be allowed to do porn on her days off, or was the union right to want it gone?

Sophie Rain says she was a waitress in Florida when her Christian boss sat her down for two hours over a Spider-Man video that wasn't even her, and fired her. She opened an OnlyFans, made $43 million the first year, and has never had sex. She grew up on food stamps, $400 a week for a family of six, with church every Sunday. Her own numbers now run past $100 million. She says she bought her parents a house and retired them, and she told David Dobrik, "I almost paid more than LeBron last year." The virgin part she repeats on every show that will have her. On a Christian podcast in September she said "I'm a virgin, I've never had sex," and that she doesn't get naked on camera. The host answered, "I obviously believe what you're doing is wrong," and prayed over her. When a TMZ host told her "She's not a virgin, dude," she walked out. She's a lot less sure about the money. Her OnlyFans pay goes straight to a financial adviser, who sends her "like 5,000 a month." Asked her net worth on another podcast, she guessed "5 million, 20 million." The host did the math on air and got 43. In the video below: "$82 million in the last year and a half" at David Dobrik's, how she got fired, the Christian podcast, and the net worth guess. Is she the only honest girl on OnlyFans, or the best marketer it ever had?

Bonnie Blue was 25 when she slept with 1,057 men in 12 hours in London, in groups of five, about 24 seconds a man. Asked later if she ever cries, she named one thing, her divorce from the man she'd been with since she was 14. "Oh, I always love him," she said. Her real name is Tia Billinger. Before this she spent about five years recruiting finance staff for the NHS, and she told ITV's This Morning she was making £600,000 a month on OnlyFans. OnlyFans has since taken her page down, and both Fiji and Bali have deported her. In the video below, she laughs and calls herself a "quite shy person sometimes." Then a YouTuber sits her next to someone in a gas mask, with a man in a hazmat suit standing over them, and asks what made her "such a horrible, shameless, depraved and wicked individual." Her answer is "I wanted to do this originally just for money and to get freedom, and then I realized I actually enjoyed it." A few minutes later he tells her she looks like she's "been severely traumatized," with "no brain or soul behind your face." On another podcast she's asked if she ever cries, says "Sometimes, but not really," and when he asks what makes her sad, answers "Most recently, my divorce." She and Ollie were together about 10 years and split in November 2023, more than a year before the record. Her mother, in the Channel 4 documentary about her, said it was never something she'd have chosen for her daughter, "No, I was really shocked." Bonnie says nobody ever forced her into any of it: "Everything I do is my decision." Did she really choose all of this, or is that exactly what a broken person would say?

Pamela Anderson was the star of Baywatch, the most watched show in the world, when her honeymoon tape with Tommy Lee was stolen in 1995. It was copied and sold for years, and she says she never made a single dollar from it. The man who stole it said Tommy owed him about $20,000. He was an electrician named Rand Gauthier, working on their house in Malibu. He said that when he came back for his tools after a fight over the money, Tommy Lee ran him off with a shotgun. So he came back again, took the whole safe out of their garage and drove away with it. He said he had no idea a tape was inside. In the video below she's asked on Watch What Happens Live if she made a mint off it. "I made not one dollar." She says Penthouse's Bob Guccione offered them millions for it and they said no. Then a TNT documentary walks through the theft, and why he got high-fived while she got shamed. A company called Internet Entertainment Group sold it online anyway. In 2002 a judge awarded the couple about $1.5 million from that company. They never collected it. In 2022 Hulu made a whole series about the tape. "No one called me. No one asked me," she told Howard Stern. "I'm still alive." So who really owed her: the husband who didn't pay his electrician, or everyone who made money off her for 27 years?

Mike Tyson sued Don King, the man he called his "black brother," for $100 million, and when King finally paid $14 million, Tyson didn't see a single penny of it. Tyson said King had cheated him out of close to $100 million in the years after he got out of prison in 1995. They settled in June 2004, with King paying $8 million up front and the rest over the next two years. By then Tyson had filed for bankruptcy and owed $38.4 million, $18 million of it to the IRS, so every dollar from King went straight to his creditors, the IRS and his ex-wife Monica. The rest of the plan was simple: Tyson, 38, would fight seven more times in three years to pay off what was left, and Monica would get $750,000 from every one of those fights. In the video below you first see Tyson in the 2008 documentary "Tyson" calling King a "wretched, slimy, reptilian" man who "would kill his mother for a dollar." Then you see the two of them in 1989, sitting side by side in King's gym and laughing on live TV. At the end, more than 20 years after the lawsuit, Tyson is asked about beating King up in 2003. This time he doesn't call him a reptile: "I really loved Don, and I really didn't mean to do that stuff back then." Did King rob him, or did Tyson just need someone to blame?

Gary Coleman was reportedly making $70,000 an episode as the kid on Diff'rent Strokes. When a court closed his trust fund at 18, his parents' share came to about $770,000 and his to about $220,000. Years later he was on TV selling fast cash loans, and he started the ad like this: "Twenty years ago, I made millions and millions on TV. The sad part is the people who took care of the money spent it." In the video below he says it straight into the camera. Then his parents sit on the Today show two weeks after he died in 2010, and when the host asks why they were never bitter after everything he said about them in public, the answer is, "Because he was our child. And we loved him." They had written themselves into his trust as paid employees of his own production company. At 21 he sued them and his former business manager for $3.8 million, and in 1993 a judge awarded him $1.28 million for excessive salaries, fees and commissions they had taken from 1982 to 1987. On that same show they said, "We lost him first time when he turned 21." The last time they saw him, around 2000 or 2001, he told them "I love you, too" as he pulled out of their driveway. By 1998 he was working as a security guard at a mall, where a fight over an autograph ended with him pleading no contest. The next year he filed for bankruptcy, and eleven years after that he was dead at 42. Since 2000, California law says a child actor's money belongs to the child, and 15% of every paycheck has to go into a blocked account. Was that money theirs for raising a star, or did they take a child's paycheck?

Mariah Carey has sold more than 200 million records. Her own brother sued her for $20 million over what she wrote about him, and on October 19 a judge threw the whole case out. In the video below she tells Oprah she wouldn't have written any of it if she hadn't been treated "as an ATM machine with a wig on." In the same interview she said her own family tried to sell her out to tabloids "for, you know, $10,000," after she had already given them "thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars." Her 2020 memoir calls them her ex-brother and ex-sister. She writes that when she was 12, her sister drugged her with Valium and tried to sell her to a pimp. Her sister Alison sued first and asked for $1.25 million for emotional distress. Her brother Morgan followed in 2021 and said the book had cost him more than $20 million. In August 2024 Mariah's mother and her sister Alison died on the same day. On October 19 a New York judge ruled that Morgan had not shown "actual malice" and dismissed what was left of his case. His lawyer says he will appeal. At the $10,000 she says her family wanted from a tabloid, $20 million would buy 2,000 stories. Did she owe her family silence, or did they lose that the first time they sold her out?

Mickey Rooney was the No. 1 box office star in America in 1939, and he died with $18,000. His stepson agreed to pay him $2.8 million, and he never saw a dollar of it. In the video below Rooney is 90, sitting in front of the US Senate in March 2011 with his voice breaking. He says his money was "stolen by someone close," and that "it involves a family member." He made more than 300 films, and in 2006 he was still on screen as an old night guard in Night at the Museum, a $574 million hit. By then his stepson Chris Aber, the son of his eighth wife, was running his finances. Rooney's lawsuit said Aber and his wife kept food and medicine from him and refused to tell him what he had in his own accounts. In February 2011 he got a restraining order, and weeks later he told the senators, "I felt trapped, scared, used and frustrated." Aber denied all of it, yet in 2013 he and his wife agreed to a $2.865 million judgment that could only be collected from their insurance policy. Rooney died in April 2014, and a year later a Los Angeles judge ruled that State Farm didn't have to pay, because the policy didn't cover intentional abuse. The money never came. Worked out, that judgment was 159 times everything Rooney left behind. Who failed him more, the stepson who took the money or the system that let him win and still collect nothing?

Shirley Temple earned about $3.4 million as a child star. When she asked her father for the bottom line at 22, her trust fund held $44,000. In the video below, she sits across from Larry King in 1988 and tells the meeting herself, then explains why she doesn't blame her father. Fox paid her $1,000 a week at six, and her father managed the money while she and her mother worked at the studio. At 21 she had not been given control of any of it. At 22 she asked, "Where's the money?" Her father and his business partner hemmed and hawed through a two and a half hour meeting at the family house. Then came the number: "I had $44,000 in my trust fund. That was it." Worked out, that is about 1.3 cents of every dollar she earned. Larry King asked if she was angry. "No, I think I would have paid the studio for the privilege of working, and I think I did." About her father she says he left school in seventh grade and that managing her money "was just overwhelming." She calls him "an innocent led to slaughter" and blames the people who counseled him. "I don't blame him a bit." He lost almost all of it, and she says she never blamed him. Who failed her more: the business partner who advised him, or the father who never checked?

Billy Joel accused his own brother-in-law of stealing $30 million and sued him for $90 million. Nineteen years earlier, Billy had fallen in love with that man's sister while she was married to his best friend. In the video below, the brother-in-law answers on TV during the lawsuit, his wife blames Christie Brinkley, and then the best friend tells the other half. In 1970 Billy was living with his bandmate Jon Small and Jon's wife, Elizabeth Weber. They had a child. Jon remembers the day Billy came up to him and said, "I'm in love with your wife." The band broke up. Billy was sleeping in laundromats. He swallowed sleeping pills and spent days in a coma. Later he drank a bottle of furniture polish. He married Elizabeth in 1973. She managed his career. Later her brother, Frank Weber, managed his money. "Billy used to say that he would take care of the music, and I would take care of the business," Frank says. In 1989 Billy fired him and sued. Frank's wife said the real problem was Christie Brinkley's jealousy. A judge awarded Billy $2 million. On the $30 million he said was gone, that's less than seven cents on the dollar. Jon forgave him. They made up and worked together again. Jon produced the video for "Uptown Girl." He died this September. Billy posted three words: "RIP Jon Small." "Eventually, I forgave him," Jon said. The friend he hurt forgave him. The family he trusted, he took to court. Who paid the bigger price, Jon or Billy?

Elizabeth Holmes' chief scientist was due to testify under oath about her blood tests. The night before, he took an overdose. His name was Ian Gibbons. He'd already told his wife, "There was no invention. There was nothing there." And, "Elizabeth lies about everything." Theranos was worth $9 billion. Forbes put Holmes at $4.5 billion. Henry Kissinger and James Mattis sat on her board, Rupert Murdoch put in $125 million. In the video below, his widow Rochelle tells the whole story on TV for the first time. Then you see Holmes herself, under oath, in 2017. Gibbons had more than 60 patents and a Cambridge degree. When he raised his concerns, Holmes fired him, and the company took him back a few hours later with a demotion. By 2013 he was drinking and depressed. In May 2013 he was told to appear for a deposition in a Theranos lawsuit. He was afraid he'd lose his job if he told the truth. He died eight days after the overdose, at 67. They'd been married 38 years. Rochelle let Holmes know. Holmes never called back. The only call she got from Theranos was about returning his company property. In 2022 Holmes was convicted of fraud and got 11 years and 3 months. In March 2026 a judge took a year off. She is due out in February 2030. His widow says he'd still be alive if he had never taken that job. Was this a money crime, or something worse?

Bernie Madoff mailed his clients statements for $64.8 billion that never existed. Even Steven Spielberg's charity lost money to him. A year before he confessed, he sat on a small panel in New York and explained on camera why nobody can get away with fraud on Wall Street. Robert De Niro played him later for HBO. The video below is the real man in October 2007, and then his wife and son describing the night it ended. With all the regulation now, he says, "it's virtually impossible to violate rules." "It's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time." By his own later admission he had been faking it since the early 1990s, and about $17 billion of real cash was gone. A man named Harry Markopolos had been telling the SEC since 2000 that his returns were mathematically impossible. Nobody moved. On December 10, 2008, he sat his wife and two sons down in a room and said, "Everything I've been doing is all a big lie." The sons went to the authorities. He was arrested the next morning and got 150 years. Exactly two years after the arrest, his son Mark hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment while his 2-year-old son slept in the next room. His other son Andrew died of cancer in 2014. Bernie died in prison in 2021, at 82. The trustee has since clawed back more than $15 billion for the victims, most of the cash that was actually lost. Watch his face when he says it. Was he lying to that room, or telling them exactly why nobody would catch him?

In 2015, the heir to one of New York's richest real estate families walked into a bathroom and forgot his microphone was still on. His name was Robert Durst. His family helped build the Manhattan skyline, and for 33 years the people closest to him kept disappearing or dying. In 1982 his wife Kathie vanished and was never found. In 2000 his close friend Susan Berman was shot in the back of the head, just as investigators were getting ready to talk to her about Kathie. In 2001 he was living in Texas disguised as a mute woman. He killed his neighbor and cut up the body. A jury called it self-defense. In the video below, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki sits him down for the last interview of HBO's The Jinx and hands him two envelopes. One is a letter Durst once mailed to Susan. The other is the anonymous note sent to Beverly Hills police right after she was killed, with her address and one word: "CADAVER." Both spell the city "Beverley." He reads both addresses out loud himself. He admits the writing looks similar and he can see why police would decide one person wrote both. Then he says it anyway: "I definitely did not write that." After that he went to the bathroom with the mic still on. Alone, he muttered: "There it is. You're caught." And later: "Killed them all, of course." Years later it came out that HBO had stitched those lines together out of order. It didn't help him. He was arrested the day before the finale aired, in a New Orleans hotel, with a revolver, a latex mask and about $42,000 in cash. In 2021 a Los Angeles jury convicted him of Susan's murder. On the stand he admitted writing the cadaver note and told the jury: "I did not kill Susan Berman. But if I had, I would lie about it." He died in custody months later, at 78. What caught him in the end, the microphone he forgot about or one word he misspelled 15 years earlier?