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 him unable to mind his financial affairs.
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