Swift rejected over wall, $8m neighbour act<\/a><\/p>\n Bruno Mars shocks on $60m debt claims at 40<\/a><\/p>\n The cast of Bewitched Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Agnes Moorehead. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n Erin Murphy (Tabitha Stephens)<\/p>\n Net worth: Approx $US1m ($1.5m)<\/p>\n Playing little Tabitha Stephens, Erin Murphy managed to avoid the infamous child-star curse by pivoting into savvy real estate investments.<\/p>\n Murphy, now 62, earned $US400 per episode, with 10 per cent automatically placed into a trust account.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I turned 21, I bought a house, bought a horse, and lived on a little ranch,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n She later bought and sold several high-value residential properties across Southern California, including homes in Malibu and Bell Canyon, financed through her alpaca farm and artisanal ice-pop business.<\/p>\n Erin Murphy played Tabitha in the show.<\/p>\n The cast of Bewitched Dick York, Erin Murphy and Elizabeth Montgomery. Picture: ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/p>\n Twin child actors David and Greg Mandel-Bloch shared the role of Samantha\u2019s son, Adam, on Bewitched. Picture: Getty<\/p>\n Elizabeth Montgomery (Samantha Stephens)<\/p>\n Net worth at death: $US10m ($A15m)<\/p>\n Elizabeth Montgomery was television royalty both on and off screen.<\/p>\n Unlike many 1960s stars burned by bad studio contracts, Montgomery was a shrewd businesswoman who secured a percentage ownership of Bewitched. <\/p>\n The deal generated an endless stream of syndication royalties for decades.<\/p>\n At the time of her death in 1995, Montgomery held an enviable property portfolio. <\/p>\n Her assets included a 26-room mansion in Beverly Hills, a custom-built five-bedroom lakefront estate in Agoura Hills, and her parents\u2019 20-acre estate in Putnam County, New York.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York. Picture: ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/p>\n Montgomery\u2019s Beverly Hills home. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n Dick York (Darrin Stephens #1)<\/p>\n Net worth at death: $US1,000 ($A1,500)<\/p>\n Dick York\u2019s rise to global stardom as Samantha\u2019s mortal husband Darrin ended in one of the most heartbreaking downfalls in Hollywood history.<\/p>\n Before his death from emphysema in 1992 at age 63, the former TV icon was living off a $US650 ($A975) monthly actor\u2019s pension and using an oxygen tank to breathe.<\/p>\n York\u2019s tragedy began on the set of the 1959 film They Came to Cordura, where he suffered a severe spine injury.<\/p>\n The chronic pain plagued him on the set of Bewitched, eventually leading to a collapse during filming in 1969.<\/p>\n He left the show and sank into an 18-month, bedridden addiction to prescription painkillers. <\/p>\n Dick York suffered a health episode on the set of Bewitched that led to him being replaced. Picture: ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images<\/p>\n After quitting the drugs cold turkey, York sank his remaining savings into an apartment building project that went bankrupt.<\/p>\n \u201cDick York was financially and physically destitute,\u201d biographer Herbie J. Pilato told Fox News<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cHe just did not have the money anymore. His career had dried up. He was in very poor health. <\/p>\n \u201cThere were no more calls for acting. It was tough to watch.\u201d <\/p>\n Desperate for income, the former prime-time star was forced to take work as an apartment cleaner.<\/p>\n \u201cHe went from being a star of one of the biggest TV shows in history to cleaning toilets,\u201d Pilato said. <\/p>\n \u201cIt was humbling for him, and he never complained about it, but it should not have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Facing mounting medical bills, York was forced to sell his family home in Los Angeles for $US31,000 ($A46,500) and move his family into a small cottage in Michigan. <\/p>\n York was forced to sell his family home in Los Angeles for $US31,000. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n Dick Sargent (Darrin Stephens #2)<\/p>\n Net worth at death: Approx $US1.5m ($A2.2m)<\/p>\n Stepping into the role of \u201cDarrin #2\u201d in 1969, Dick Sargent maintained a steady television career spanning four decades.<\/p>\n Sargent resided in a two-storey home in the Hollywood Hills before passing away from cancer in 1994.<\/p>\n Dick Sargent replaced Dick York in \u201cBewitched.\u201d (ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/p>\n Agnes Moorehead (Endora)<\/p>\n Net worth at death: $US400,000 ($A600,000)<\/p>\n Agnes Moorehead, who played Samantha\u2019s overbearing mother Endora, was already a Hollywood legend before Bewitched, having starred in Orson Welles\u2019 iconic Citizen Kane.<\/p>\n At the time of her death in 1974, the screen icon owned a sprawling historic estate in Beverly Hills alongside a family farm in Muskingum County, Ohio.<\/p>\n However, she completely cut her adopted son, Sean Lee, out of her will \u2014 explicitly declaring in legal documents that she had no surviving children.<\/p>\n Moorehead and her former husband, John Griffith Lee, had taken Sean in as a child, but the relationship fractured when he ran away from home in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n After falling completely out of touch, Moorehead refused to legally recognise him as her child when drafting her final wishes, leaving him strictly nothing.<\/p>\n Instead, the TV star left her fortune and property portfolio to her mother, various charities, and her domestic staff.<\/p>\n Agnes Moorehead played Samantha\u2019s overbearing mother Endora. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n Moorehead\u2019s former home in Beverly Hills. Picture: Google Maps<\/p>\n David and Greg Mandel-Bloch (Adam Stephens)<\/p>\n Net worth: Undisclosed<\/p>\n Twin child actors David and Greg Mandel-Bloch shared the role of Samantha\u2019s son, Adam. <\/p>\n Their parents retired them from show business immediately after the series wrapped in 1972.<\/p>\n At age 14, the twins discovered they were adopted, later claiming their biological parents were Hollywood icon Tony Curtis and beauty queen Peggy Potter.<\/p>\n The brothers stepped away from Hollywood to run a restaurant together, with David later working as a head chef and Greg as a production assistant. <\/p>\n David reportedly resides near Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley desert.<\/p>\n MORE: It\u2019s time\u2019: Star suddenly quits $149m in fear<\/a><\/p>\n 50yrs on: What $1bn ABBA all look like now <\/a><\/p>\n \u2018F**k\u2019: What Chris Rock\u2019s divorce really cost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behind TV\u2019s favourite supernatural sitcom lay a dark trail of off-screen drama, tragic financial collapses, and massive real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-609973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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