After a few months, the duped crook was as good as penniless and fled back to the mainland due to heavy debts.

Source: https://www.thewestonforum.com/giacomo-casanova-where-the-wind-blew/

A perpetually penniless theatrical producer and his pals are rehearsing a play they think will be a huge hit but their mounting hotel bills threaten to overwhelm the enterprise before opening night.

Source: https://www.crescentavalleyweekly.com/featured/09/07/2023/scene-in-la-23/

At this time, Ronald's third marriage had just broken up, while the younger Brand was said to be "unemployed, penniless, birdless and desperate for his approval".

Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/russell-brands-teenage-trip-dad-30956568

“Fascinated by ideas and invention, Buick seldom looked up from his workbench to capitalise on his achievements … Buick died penniless though many of his inventions were major achievements.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23794901.scottish-born-legend-whose-name-still-adorns-us-cars/?ref=rss

Mary Beaumont was penniless when she married the wealthy farmer and bore him four children before his death.

Source: https://collider.com/mary-and-george-trailer/

Scapin is known as a schemer and teller of tales and is enlisted to help in the affairs of Octave and Leander as both men have fallen in love with penniless, undesirable mates.

Source: https://businessjournaldaily.com/scapin-in-vaudeville-fun-for-ysu-theatre/

“Though there was no novel, Dad left behind five diaries that span the years 1953 to 1963, a period after the war when he was divorced, penniless, living in the wilderness of Snowdonia and trying to write his magnum opus,” he says.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/15/the-wolf-at-my-throat-observer-writer-christopher-wordsworths-diaries-reveal-troubled-life

Weymouth Duke of Cornwall court battle leaves pub landlord 'penniless'

Source: https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23298939.weymouth-duke-cornwall-court-battle-leaves-pub-landlord-penniless/?ref=rss