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Jessica Chastain, Hollywood's latest "It Girl," still recalls the wise financial advice she received from veteran actress Cherry Jones back at Juilliard. And now she's trying to follow it, too. But for years, her financial plan involved roller coaster rides of credit card debt.

Jason Statham made his fortune as a top movie action hero several head-butts ago: His pictures have made well over $1 billion. But the British actor keenly remembers when being a well-paid tough guy meant selling jewelry and perfume out of a briefcase on the street.

Jackson Hurst's gorgeous mug is one of his biggest assets in managing his show business career, but for years, management and assets were his career: The sexy star of Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva once was a rising star at Citigroup before he ditched the world of finance to follow his dreams.

While it seems celebs hardly work for their money, their pre-fame resumes tell dramatically different stories: rife with tales of cleaning toilets, delivering beer and asking sweetly, "Would you like fries with that?" Turns out that America's most glamorous hotshots held down all kinds of...

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Monday (last updated at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time): More Americans Tapping Retirement Savings: Mutual-fund giant Fidelity Investments reports the number of Americans seeking to withdraw money from savings set aside for...

Score a victory for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie against the tabloids that hound their every move. The celebrity couple sued and won an undisclosed amount of damages from the UK tabloid News of the World at a hearing in a London court on Thursday. Brangelina sued the newspaper in January over a...

In Part Four of Ad Rant's series on The Best and Worst Celebrity Ads, we name names -- boldface names, that is, such as Ringo Starr, Bruce Willis and Elle McPherson. It's weird to see rocker Alice Cooper in an ad for a British bank ... and weirder still to see Brad Pitt offering a group of confused...

It's official: Private air travel is as uncool as taking your mom to prom. After congress scolded the auto industry for taking the costly private jets to DC to request their bailout money it was only a matter of time before the move to ditch private flights caught on. TMZ is reporting that both...

I like money, particularly bills. I like their weight, their smell, the pretty colors that they have, and the cool pieces of colored lint that the manufacturers put in the paper. What I don't like, however, are the pictures. Not to insult Messrs. Washington, Lincoln, Grant, and Franklin, but these...