My idea of a “waste of useless money” is the Christmas hook kit in liquidation that I bought for $ 15 and I have not yet opened three months later. Some celebrities, on the other hand, are known to throw thousands or even millions of dollars in the toilet with completely useless purcahs.
Here are the celebrities 18 times have spent an embarrassing amount of money on something that has been completely useless:
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Cardi B has a collection of expensive cars – but it has no driving license. In 2018, she said The late late show with James Corden“I have a lambo. I have a Lamborghini truck. I have a Bentley truck. I have a Maybach and I have a suburb.” When James asked her what all these cars she could not drive for, she replied: “To take photos with.” She also said that she couldn’t just take photos in the exhibition hall because “it’s an impostor”. She also said that learning about driving was “scary”.
In 2024, she broadcast her first driving lesson on Instagram live.
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In 2008, Brad Pitt bought an area of a thousand acres in Provence, Château Miraval. A few years later, a man convinced him that millions of dollars in gold were buried on the property, hidden by a medieval owner who supposed to have taken up in the middle of the crusades. Thus, Brad spent a sum of money not disclosed in radar equipment to search for the hidden treasure. In 2022, he said to GQ: “I became obsessed. As for a year, that was all I could think of, just the excitement of all this.
However, the man who told him about gold turned out to be a little a charlatan who wanted Brad to invest in his Radar company. The actor estimated that it was “quite stupid at the end”.
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On an episode in 2025 of The KardashiansKim Kardashian revealed that when she got engaged to Kris Humphries in 2011, she covered 80% of the $ 2 million engagement ring. Their marriage sadly lasted only 72 days, and she couldn’t even keep the ring! She said, “I was pregnant with the north, still married to him, and to divorce him, he said that I had to give him the ring in my divorce.”
Kris finally sold the ring at auction for $ 749,000.
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In 2021, Lil Uzi Vert spent 24 million dollars on the 11 -carat pink diamond of Elliot Elliant and established it in their forehead. They tweeted: “I have been paying for a natural pink diamond from Elliot for years now. This stone has been so much cost that I have been paying since 2017. It was the first time that I saw a real natural pink diamond. Many M in my face.”
However, only four months later, they no longer wore the jewel. Uzi told TMZ: “I had a strong rolling show. And I jumped into the crowd, and they torn it away … I always have the diamond, so I feel good.”
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In 2022, the New York Times reported that Saturday Night Live The comrades Pete Davidson and Colin Jost were part of the group that jointly bought a retired ferry for $ 280,000. Two years later, Colin told people: “It is absolutely the most stupid and the least thought of purchase that I have ever done in my life. The way I justified it is for the amount of money that we put it in buying it, at a basic square level, it is if you have found the right place for it, you essentially buy a very good price.
He also said that he had “the idea of his wife, Scarlett Johansson, before making the investment, but she did not take it seriously. He said, “She was just like” wait, so you are the owner of this boat now? “Very fair question. We don’t care because we are actors.”
They always work to bring their vision of the boat to life. In 2025, Pete said The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon“Many people enjoy it, but we have a really extensive plan, and we are much closer than people seem to think. It’s like four or five floors, and on each floor, we are going to do something interesting. A hotel at the top. Cinema, entertainment theater, some small commercial kiosks.”
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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag blew through millions of dollars because they believed in the Mayan apocalypse. In 2013, Spencer would have said ok! The magazine, “we did and spent at least $ 10 million. The fact is that we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought:” We must spend this money before asteroids are. “Here are some tips – don’t spend your money thinking of asteroids.
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According to the New York Times, in 2007, Nicholas Cage bought a skull of dinosaur – a skull Tyrannosaurus Batar, to be exact – auction for $ 276,000. However, seven years later, the Ministry of Internal Security came into contact to inform him that the artifact had in fact been stolen in the Gobi desert desert. The actor agreed to return him so that he could be returned to his legitimate house.
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Noel Gallagher has an expensive collection of cars that he cannot drive. In 2021, he said on Radio X: “Not interested (driving). I like cars. I have a few cars, but I can’t drive them. Yes, that never interested me. I think I would be involved in a rage rage incident in the hour following the passage of my test … I have a heating.”
Previously, in 2019, he declared on Radio X that his “most expensive error” was his “£ 110,000 Jaguar”. He said: “I think he has 12 miles on the clock and sits down in the garage. He has been there since the 90s … I thought that when I became a fully denounced rock star, I was going to need a car. I had heard of this business which bought old vintage cars and put a modern car inside. Years. And the guy hit the door and said:” Gallagher? “I forgot that I had bought the car.”
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Meek Mill bought a mansion in Georgia but never even moved. In an Instagram post in 2023, he would have said: “Mansion to sell in ATL. My real estate agent does not withdraw it quickly enough and I think I can lol, I never moved for a few years.
Rick Ross finally paid $ 4.2 million in cash for Meek’s Mansion.
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In 1989, the New York Times reported that Kim Basinger, with a group of investors, paid $ 20 million for Braselton, Georgia, a city with a population of 500 inhabitants. She would have planned to develop it in a shopping center and a tourist attraction and perhaps add film studios.
However, in 1992, only a dentist office and a furniture store were still in business, and the promised redevelopment was nowhere in sight. As the Chicago Tribune reported, whenever the city dwellers asked when it would start, they received the answer: “We do not know.” According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kim and its investors sold Braselton for $ 4.3 million in 1995.
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Oriental Actor Danny Dyer would have bought a Louis Vuitton bag on Ebay, but he turned out to be counterfeit. In 2022, his daughter, Dani Dyer, told FAKE Economy Podcast, “We were at the airport, and my father loves ebay. He is an ebay person now. And he presented himself, and he said to me:” I really have very charming, like, Louis Vuitton Bag. How many years are. “And I said to myself:” Well, how much did you spend on it? “He spent a few hundred people.
She continued: “So we had to go to the real Louis Vuitton then buy a Louis Vuitton bag. I said to myself:” Well, dad, you have to pack this bag. “I said to myself:” Discard it. And he was like: “I won’t do that. He was poorly linked. I said to myself: “No, dad, just commands a bottle of Zoflora or something like that, not a Louis Vuitton bag.” “”
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For his 2011 Halloween costume, Justin Bieber ordered a tailor -made gold grill for his teeth of the jewelry manufacturer Si & Co. According to Business Insider, it cost $ 5,000. On his blog, Ben Baller, the jeweler, wrote: “Remember, I don’t even make a grill no longer unless it is for someone really special. And obviously, it’s someone special. So I’m going to send it back to F * & K! … Warning: to all billions of fans of Justin Bieber (I don’t make permanent grids, I don’t put them in place, you can put them in the heart, you can put them in the heart, of which you can highlight them and put them on the heart, you can highlight them and put them on the sequences and things that are not scattered, you can highlight them and put them on the way you can put them in the heart, you can highlight them and put them on the heart and highlight them and highlight them and put them on the heart).
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In a YouTube video in 2025, Streamer Kai Cenat called his biker hat Chrome Hearts of $ 6,000 “probably the most stupid purchase (he) never made in (his) life”. He said, “I hate.
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In 2011, Kesha told Vanity Fair that his annual glitter budget was “quite exorbitant”. She said: “It’s probably more like a few thousand each month. If you come to see one of my shows, there is no shortage of glitter. If I have no shit of glitter.”
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In a series of tweets deleted since 2021, Chrissy Teigen said: “What is the most expensive thing you have eaten that you thought you would suck? … Once John (legend, her husband) and I were in a restaurant and the server recommended a beautiful Cabernet. We even finished it and it was erased !!!”.
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In 2019, SHINE Actor Betty Gilpin told Glamor: “I did a shampoo advertisement when I was 20, and someone told me to save everything, but I did not take the advice and) spent everything on marijuana and taxis in New York. I could have used this money for other things!”
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In 2021, Logan Paul spent $ 623,000 for an NFT from the Azuki collection. A year later, its value would have dropped to only $ 10. In 2022, he tweeted that the NFT was “worth mainly”, but it “immortalized this error” with its own NFT collection.
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And finally, in the same way, in 2022, Kevin Hart would have bought an annoyed NFT for $ 200,401. Zycrypto reported that, two years later, he sold it for an “81%discount” – $ 47,000.
