At age 13, she blossoms with a foray into feature-length films, which she finances from hundreds of thousands of micro-donations on her own website.
The 17-year-old girl from western Suffolk said she moved to heroin after she could no longer support her two-pill-a-day OxyContin habit, which she had financed by stealing from her parents.
Now, however, it's been joined not only by one of the most lauded pictures of the last 12 months – the Coen brothers' True Grit, which she co-financed – but a startlingly large chunk of the most interesting movies lurking up the pipeline.
A linchpin of Clinton's plan is a tax credit worth up to $5,000 that would be made available to households with out-of-pocket health care costs that exceed 5percentt of their income in a year, which she would finance by cutting federal spending on prescription drugs.
After failing to obtain financing from people she knew in the world of Silicon Valley venture capital, Ms. Goldman turned to friends and family to come up with $300,000, which she said should finance at least the first issues of the magazine, which is to be published six times a year.
Mr. Fujimori's ex-wife, Susana Higuchi, denied that Pablo Escobar had contributed to her former husband's 1989 campaign, for which she oversaw the finances.
On an evening only days before her death, she was in her front row seat for a production of "La Traviata" by the Florida Grand Opera, which she had helped finance.
Ms. Meeker has now turned those skills to America's fiscal woes, with a presentation called "USA Inc". in which she examines U.S. finances as if the country were a business, then asks what a turnaround expert would do to put USA Inc. back in the black.
Lifetime has a third cable network, Real Women, that tells the stories of ordinary heroines, something Oprah Winfrey does occasionally on Oxygen, which she helped create and finance.
