Frankie Muniz had 38 cars before he turned 18. Then his girlfriend found a $41,000 charge for “research” that he never made. “It says you spent $41,000 on research last month.” “I didn’t spend $41,000 on anything.” “Call him right now and ask.” So Muniz called his business manager. He says the man immediately got “really frazzled.” Muniz had grown up without money. Once Malcolm in the Middle took off, one of the first people hired to manage his new life was this man. “I really, really trusted him,” Muniz says. But that $41,000 call made him start going through years of records. He says he found expenses that made no sense, car insurance far higher than the cars were worth, and deals involving the manager’s friends. The person trusted to protect a child star’s money had been handling it while the child was too busy becoming famous to question every line. Muniz says the documents eventually filled banker boxes. But by the time he understood what had happened, the statute of limitations had expired. Police couldn’t help. He had 38 cars before he was 18. And nobody had asked why he was supposedly spending $41,000 a month on “research.” How many child stars looked rich enough that nobody noticed they were being robbed?