Ponzi victim Kevin Bacon needs a job
While billion-dollar bilker Bernie Madoff remains under “house arrest” in his swank Park Avenue apartment after swindling investors out of $50 billion, actor Kevin Bacon and his family are trying to figure out how they wound up with nothing but real estate ownings and their checking accounts. Bacon spoke about being a Madoff Ponzi scheme recently, capping off his comments by saying that he could really use some work right now.
Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick were among the celebrities taken to the cleaners in the alleged Ponzi scheme run by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, but Kevin tells Life & Style he’s trying to keep his losses in perspective.
“There are a lot of things I’m grateful for: my health, my family, my career, my family’s health,” he told Life & Style Friday at a Television Critics Association press event in LA. “We’ll march on. We have to. There’s nothing you can do about it. You can’t change what happened. Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.
But Kevin was shocked by the news of Madoff’s scam. “I didn’t see it coming,” he said.
Asked by Life & Style what he’s currently working on, Kevin replied: “I don’t have anything lined up right now, but I need to work, for obvious reasons.”
Kevin certainly wasn’t the only person, or even the only celeb affected by the scheme, but it sounds like he’s one of the hardest hit. It’s not like he had Steven Spielberg money or something. At least he had some money and real estate – but with this economy, real estate isn’t what it used to be either. But Kevin seems to be keeping a sense of humor about the whole thing – he even starred in a short film on Will Ferrell’s “Funny or Die” website, a spoof of the prank show “Punk’d” poking fun at his role in the Madoff scandal, called “BACON’D.”
Given that Kevin has acted in literally hundreds of movies – many of them good – something will turn up for him soon. In the meantime, given that his wife, Kyra Sedgewick, is the star of cable’s number one show, “The Closer,” I’m sure these two will do just fine.
Here’s Kevin looking upbeat upon arrival at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 15. Photo credits: WENN.
