To be black and have some financial sense, you'd actually need to be part-jew (Wiggs) or gay (Goodrum).
If either of these prominent getbiggers had Owens money before this, they would have made that fortune grow even bigger.
Actually, he trusted the wrong people.
"It's not a matter of having lived too large -- he was never the type to stockpile Ferraris or build himself a compound; the flashiest car he ever drove was a Mercedes, and while he indeed racked up a few homes that cost as much as $4 million, the only crib he classifies as even mildly sick by pro-ball standards was the one he bought in Atlanta to live in during the Philly off-season.
The problem, he says, is that he's by nature too trusting, loyal to a fault, despite everyone's carping that he's selfish. It's the sad old stereotypical song of the up-from-nothing black athlete: He let other people take care of things."