New Cases

This week on The Broke and the Beautiful, the NHL’s Dallas Stars slide into bankruptcy, the New Jersey Devils are refinancing debt, and a Denver media personality tunes in to Chapter 7.

Grounded from his corporate jet and facing accusations fraud, an entity controlled by Atlanta businessman William B. Johnson filed for bankruptcy protection Friday.

Once the owner of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel chain, Johnson filed a Chapter 11 petition in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., on behalf of a company that’s on the hook for a $15 million loan that the well-known entrepreneur used to buy a corporate jet.

A little short on change and customer promises, Minnesota coin dealer International Rarities Corp.<

Celebrities have been understandably hesitant to carry Alex Caldwell’s handbags down the runway.

But Hollywood has found other reasons to call upon the purse designer, whose egg-shaped art pieces have made it possible for fashion-bold women to wear art inspired by legendary Russian jeweler Peter Carl Faberge—yes, the guy who made the eggs—over their shoulders.