He stated in 1997: “This is a very difficult time for me. You can see that by where I’m living.<\/p>\n
“I know a lot of people are trying to find out where I am, but to be honest that’s how I want it. I want to be left alone. I don’t want to see any of my old friends from my old life. I’ve been quite ill lately and it’s too much for me to go back to it all now.<\/p>\n
“Of course I have regrets, but there is nothing anyone can do to change the past. I just want to get on with it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Prior to his passing, he relocated to the retirement home Denville Hall, and according to the Borehamwood and Elstree Times, he was “living off social security”.<\/p>\n
Anthony had three marriages under his belt, one of which was to actress Anita Ekberg, who sadly did not attend his funeral. Anita also tragically passed away without a penny to her name at the age of 83 in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.the-express.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the late 1940s and early 50s he was appearing in movies – but by the 80s he was bankrupt and residing in a cramped apartment, reports the Express. By the 80s Anthony was performing in holiday shows and dwelling in a modest flat in Northolt, west London. His representative David Daly revealed that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2109939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[382873,399578,338913,399579,22860,346582],"class_list":["post-2109938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-anita-ekberg","tag-anthony-steel","tag-celebrity-news-section","tag-financial-struggles","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-star"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Hollywood-star-died-on-benefits-in-tiny-apartment-despite-success.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2109940,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109938\/revisions\/2109940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}