Last but not least: Franjo Pooth's star rises and falls

 
Franjo Pooth, husband of TV starlet Verona Pooth, is facing bankruptcy with his company. The electronics company Maxfield has filed for insolvency proceedings, as reported by SDA. The company, which mainly sold MP3 players, is said to have debts of up to 14 million euros. According to well-informed sources, Pooth filed for insolvency because he was no longer able to pay the salaries of his company's twelve employees. The background to the payment difficulties was the extreme drop in prices for MP3 players. This comes less than three years after Pooth had achieved a spectacular increase in turnover from 10 to 35 million euros with the company within a year. It is not known whether this was due to the legendary Verona MP3 player (in pink, for sport and fitness). In any case, Pooth worked in a similarly volatile business as his wife. At least there is a positive side to this. While his star is falling in the business world, it is rising slightly on the celebrity side. In the vanity charts, he has climbed one place to 533rd place in the overall celebrity ranking.