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Singers Bankrupt
July 20, 1975
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Oklahoma

The singing Cowsills are bankrupt.

William Cowsill, whose wife, Barbara, and six children were once on the top of the nation's recording charts, has filed for bankruptcy in U.S. District Court, claiming debts of $445,339.01.

Cowsill said the bills mounted while he as the group's business manager. The papers, filed on June 27, show that among his creditors are dozens of hotels, credit card companies, airlines, lawyers, recording studios, agents and lawyers.

Total assets are listed as $4,973 with $78 in cash and the rest in personal property.

The mortgage has been foreclosed on a 23-room house the family once occupied in Newport, R.I. Nearly 200 acres of real estate in West Greenwich and all except one of his several cars have been given up to creditors.




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