The media loves to put strange celebrities on display. Lady Gaga’s meat dress and Justin Bieber’s ruby and diamond Stewie pendant have made the news, but when you start looking into just how outlandish the purchases of some of the upper crust are, Gaga and Bieber don’t even rank on the crazy list.
5. Bryan Williams’ Maybach Exelero
While some of us are comparing quote online for the lowest car insurance prices, this rapper won’t have to worry about those measly insurance bills – not when he was willing to drop $8 million on a German luxury car.
Famous rapper and co-founder of Cash Money Records, Williams bought a one-of-a-kind Mayback Exelero that tops out at a speed of 218 miles per hour.
Williams is not a stranger to specialty cars, though. His lavish tastes in transportation are well-known. He already owns a Bugatti Veyron and a Mayback Landaulet, worth over $2 million and $1.5 million respectively.
4. Kanye West’s Blinged Out Grin
Many rappers have a selection of removable, precious metal grills and even a few have a precious gem set in one of their teeth. However, rapper Kanye West decided to go far past the usual and subtler options. West had his bottom front teeth pulled and had a set of diamond teeth implanted.
The dazzling dental addition is set in gold and cost $60,000. His finished smile is sparkling, indeed.
3. Beyoncé Knowles’ Gold Leggings
Regular designer leggings were not an option for Ms. Knowles when she performed at the 2007 BET Awards. She came out onto the stage wearing a science fiction inspired costume and stripped it off to reveal a matching gold bra and a pair of golden leggings worth $100,000 themselves.
The superstar bought the Balenciaga leggings just for the awards occasion, and they haven’t been spied on her shapely form since.
2. Tamara Ecclestone’s Crystal Bathtub
Daughter of Formula One racer Bernie Ecclestone, Tamara had to have a truly unique bathtub for her bathroom. She sent a team of people to the Amazon Rainforest to search for crystals that might be made into a bathtub and ended up with something beautiful, if more than a little insanely pricey.
The tub – made from a single crystal that was cut, hollowed, and smoothed to create a bathroom fixture – cost $1.5 million.
1. Nicolas Cage’s Heads
Other celebrities are spending their not-so-hard-earned money on things like cars and mansions. Cage, on the other hand, buys… heads? He has been singled out by the media in the past for his purchases of islands and a castle in the UK, but those are positively normal compared to his other buys.
In one of Cage’s Bel Air mansions, he keeps a dinosaur skull and quite the interesting collection of shrunken heads.
Cage outbid Leonardo DiCaprio for the dinosaur skull and ended up spending over a quarter of a million dollars on it. Nicolas, who is in debt to the IRS for a cool $6 million, is liquidating much of his real estate holdings to pay for the debt. He is also suing his business manager causing his financial problems – someone who did not bid on the disembodied heads, interestingly enough.
While we shake our heads and sigh at the ridiculous purchases that come well-known figures and celebrities make, we can rest easy in the knowledge that at least their crazy buys are providing the rest of us with entertainment.
It also provides us with the assurance that, no matter how odd our quirkiest purchases are, we still don’t manage to rank up there with the shrunken heads and crystal bathtub buys.
Author Bio: Taryn C. is a successful businesswoman who has taken her skills online. Currently, she’s trying to help people find cheap car insurance quotes. When not helping people save money online, she spends her time reading every book and watching every new movie she can.