He Lost His Life Savings at 70. Then He Played 387 Shows to Win It All Back: Leonard Cohen

How did a poet from one of Montreal's most prominent Jewish families lose his life savings at 70, then earn it all back by going on tour at 73? In the fall of 2004, Leonard Cohen learned that a retirement fund he believed held more than $5 million was down to about $150,000. On May 11, 2008, he walked onto a 709-seat stage in Fredericton, New Brunswick. — SOURCES: "COHEN, LYON (Yehuda Leib)" — Dictionary of Canadian Biography https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cohen_lyon_16E.html "Leonard Cohen" — The Canadian Encyclopedia https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/index.php/en/article/leonard-cohen-emc "Leonard Cohen Goes Broke" — The Canadian Encyclopedia (Maclean's, 2005) https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leonard-cohen-goes-broke "Leonard Cohen (Profile)" — The Canadian Encyclopedia (Maclean's, 2008) https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/leonard-cohen-profile "The Leonard Cohen Crescent Street Mural" — Tourisme Montréal https://www.mtl.org/en/what-to-do/heritage-and-architecture/leonard-cohen-crescent-street-mural-montreal "Cohen Awarded $9M Judgment" — Pollstar https://news.pollstar.com/2006/03/07/cohen-awarded-9m-judgment/ "Cohen Wins Court Ruling" — Everything Zoomer https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/stars-royals/2012/04/13/cohen-wins-court-ruling/ "Flashback: Leonard Cohen's Miraculous Resurrection in 2008" — Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-leonard-cohens-miraculous-resurrection-in-2008-183195/ "Leonard Cohen Collapses Onstage in Spain, Celebrates 75th Birthday" — Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/leonard-cohen-collapses-onstage-in-spain-celebrates-75th-birthday-255194/ "Flashback: Leonard Cohen Plays Final Encore at Last Concert" — Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-leonard-cohen-covers-drifters-at-possible-final-show-20151006 "Westmount cantor lends his voice to new Leonard Cohen songs" — CBC News https://amp.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/leonard-cohen-cantor-zelermyer-1.3773180 "Hear Leonard Cohen's Final Interview" — NPR/KCRW via GBH https://www.wgbh.org/news/2016-11-11/hear-leonard-cohens-final-interview "Leonard Cohen: the mensch who always remembered his past" — The Jewish Chronicle https://thejc.com/opinion/leonard-cohen-the-mensch-who-always-remembered-his-past-wmw6h21k "I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen" (2012), Sylvie Simmons — the standard full-length biography "A Broken Hallelujah: Rock and Roll, Redemption, and the Life of Leonard Cohen" (W. W. Norton), Liel Leibovitz — source for the childhood and family chapters