penniless

Lauren, not her real name, told the BBC she and her children were left penniless.

Instead, they had ended up penniless and too afraid to tell their families back home.

A member of the family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain, Pritzker noted that his family emigrated penniless while fleeing the Soviets in Ukraine.

“From 2017 to 2020 I hid from the world. I was single, unemployed, penniless and disabled.”

He was now penniless, his $3,000 savings gone.