The 8 Most Insane Celebrity Purchases

Buyer’s remorse. Who among us hasn’t suffered from it? When you’re making a big purchase, you’re high on endorphins. But later, when you come to your senses and look at the bill, you realize that mistakes were made. “Wait, I spent how much on sunglasses?”

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You’re far from alone. In fact, it seems that the richer you are, the more likely you are to do insane things with your money. And we’re not talking about buying mansions and fancy cars and speedboats. If we could afford them, we’d buy those things, too. No, we mean the weird impulse buys, the extravagances that nobody needs.

Here are 8 ridiculous purchases by famous people that will make your overpriced sunglasses look like a drop in the bucket.
 

Price Tag: $250,000

Paid By: Jay-Z

While in Miami promoting the release of 2011’s Watch The Throne, the hip-hop icon reportedly dropped a quarter of a million dollars on champagne at the LIV Nightclub.

“He bought bottle after bottle of Ace of Spades,” a patron told Radar Online. The same eye witness also claimed the Mr. Z ended the night with a 15-liter bottle that cost $100,000.

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At least he’s a good tipper. The lucky waiters who hauled out all that champy were rewarded with a $50,000 gratuity.

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Price Tag: $276,000

Paid By: Nicolas Cage

Mr. Cage is no stranger to questionable spending. This is a guy who owns two islands, three castles, and 22 cars. But nothing compares to the 67-million-year-old skull of a Tyrannosaurus bataar he bought in 2007, outbidding fellow dino enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio for what was, at the time, the largest dinosaur skull ever auctioned.

This story doesn’t have a happy ending. And not because Cage realized too late that he’d just spent a college tuition on a fossil paper weight. In 2013, The Telegraph revealed that the paleontologist who sold Cage the skull had “pleaded guilty last year to illegally importing fossils from Mongolia and China.” Ruh-roh!

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Price Tag: $50,000

Paid By: Lady Gaga

Not only does Lady Gaga believe in ghosts, she wants to know where they are at all times, and she’s willing to pay top dollar for that knowledge.

According to VH1, before a 2010 tour gig in London, Ms. Gaga dropped $50,000 on an electromagnetic field meter, a tool used by professional ghost hunters to detect electrically charged objects.

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“Her aide said the gear had to be robust as they were taking it on the road—so they must be doing this everywhere Lady Gaga is performing,” Dan Webb, the head of a ghost-busting firm who sold her the equipment, told The Mirror.

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Price Tag: $17,000

Paid By: Daniel Radcliffe

It’s happened to all of us: You’re just out of college and dirt poor. So you share a small apartment with 3 other guys and sleep on an uncomfortable futon, because it’s all you can afford. Unless you’re Daniel Radcliffe, that is.

At just 17 years old, the Harry Potter star dropped $17,000 on a mattress. Which seems like a lot, but this thing was made out of horse hair and fleece wool, and entirely hand sewn, probably by underage factory workers as old as Radclife was when he made that first Harry Potter movie.

Growing up is hard. At least for the mattress-making sweat shop kids.

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Price Tag: $425

Paid By: Kate Moss

$425 isn’t a lot of money, especially to somebody like Kate Moss—who, in 2006, was one of the most famous waif super-models in the world. But it is a lot of money to spend on a vibrator. You can buy a 7-inch Doc Johnson Naughty Secrets Velvet Desire Vibrator at Walgreens for 10 bucks. Also, last time we checked, masturbation is free.

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According to the New York Post, Moss purchased the sex aid— a Jimmyjane “Little Something” vibrator in 24K gold—at New York’s La Petite Coquette store. Yeah, that’s right, it’s made of gold. Because if we know nothing else about women’s sexual desires, it’s that size doesn't matter, or the motion of the ocean. It’s how much of your dong contains precious metal.

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Price Tag: $1,500

Paid By: Bono

Remember the last time you went on vacation and forgot to pack a favorite item of clothing? You were probably like, “Aw crap. That sucks. Well, I guess I don’t get to wear it then.” Because you’re a reasonable human being.

The U2 frontman had no intention of settling for that. During a trip to Italy, the man who once called himself “a spoiled rock star” realized that he’d left his favorite trilby hat back in London. So, he made arrangements for his hat to be flown to him, with a first class ticket on a British Airways flight, costing approximately $663.

Along with taxi fares to and from the airports, and tips, the final bill came to a whooping $1,500.

Think about that the next time you’re smooshed into economy class.

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Price Tag: $2000-plus

Paid By: Ke$ha

A 2-ounce jar of glitter goes for about $3 at a Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store. Which makes it even more disturbing that pop singer Ke$ha spends, in her words, “a few thousand every month” on glitter.

“I am shooting glitter from glitter guns and out of every orifice in my body,” she explained to Vanity Fair in 2011. We’ll let your imagination do the math on that one.

She also revealed to Jimmy Kimmel that she employs a glitter specialist named Santa. “He just follows me around and makes sure I’m always covered in glitter,” she explained. “Because I feel it would be seriously a disappointment if I was ever seen without it.”

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Price Tag: $20 Million

Paid By: Kim Basinger

While stuck in traffic in Braselton—a small town in northeastern Georgia—Basinger saw a billboard that read “If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Right Now.” She took this suggestion to heart, and bought the whole damn town—or at least 1,751 acres of the town’s 2,000.

The original idea was to turn it into a theme park and film production studio, but when that failed to pan out, Basinger and her co-investors unloaded the property for a mere $1 million.

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