Affleck said he and his best friend mistakenly thought they were “rich” after selling their “Good Will Hunting” script for $600,000.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon once blew all of their hard-earned money on a party house and a flashy new car.
The then-aspiring actors lived together in Los Angeles and shared a bank account well into their 20s but mistakenly mismanaged their money after their first big break.Friday that he thought to himself when they sold the rights to their “Good Will Hunting” script for $600,000, “‘We are now rich for life. My needs are over. I will never have to work again. I’m rich forever.'”
Ben Affleck shared on “The Drew Barrymore Show” that he and Matt Damon went “broke in six months” after blowing all of their “Good Will Hunting” money.However, after paying their agent a $30,000 fee and coughing over $160,000 in taxes, both men were left with only enough funds to buy a Jeep Cherokee and spend the rest on a $5,000-a-month “party house.
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