Marion Jones reportedly is broke.
Less than 7 short years after she was on top of the athletic world, winning five medals at the 2000 Olympics and signing multimillion-dollar endorsement deals as one of the world's greatest female athletes, Jones, according to reviews of recent court documents, is heavily in debt and down to about $2,000 in the bank.
Last year, she reportedly went through foreclosure on her $2.5 million mansion and had to sell a few other properties, including the house her mother lived in, to raise money to battle her mounting debt responsibilities.
The World Anti-Doping Agency, the United States Anti-Doping Agency and any other agency that waged war with Jones over her alleged steroid use didn't merely win, they routed Jones.
They did it without winning a single battle in a nearly decadelong war of attrition that has left Jones broke, without her once-stellar career, and without a legacy.
Jones continually said she had never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs and vowed to use all of the resources at her disposal to aggressively fight any claims that she had.
In the end, she did.
Recently asked about what happened to the millions of dollars she earned in her career, Jones, 31, replied: "I wish I knew. Bills, attorney bills, a lot of different things to maintain the lifestyle."
Jones might have blown some of her money on frivolous things, but there is no denying that much of it was lost to the bills associated with waging a non-stop battle with various track and field governing bodies to keep from being suspended.
Up against such high-powered and well-financed entities as WADA, Jones hired top legal assistance to argue her cases. That help didn't come for free, and eventually bills came due.
