My concept of a “ineffective waste of cash” is the clearance Christmas crochet package I purchased for $15 and have but to open three months later. Some celebrities, alternatively, have been recognized to throw hundreds and even tens of millions of {dollars} into the bathroom with utterly ineffective purcahses.
Listed here are 18 occasions celebs spent an embarrassing sum of money on one thing that wound up completely ineffective:
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Cardi B has a group of costly automobiles — however she does not have a driver’s license. In 2018, she instructed The Late Late Present with James Corden, “I’ve a Lambo. I’ve a Lamborghini truck. I’ve a Bentley truck. I’ve a Maybach, and I’ve a Suburban.” When James requested her what the purpose of getting all these automobiles she could not drive was, she replied, “To take photos with it.” She additionally stated she could not simply take photos within the showroom as a result of “that is being an imposter.” She additionally stated that studying to drive was “scary.”
In 2024, she live-streamed her first driving lesson on Instagram.
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In 2008, Brad Pitt purchased a thousand-acre property in Provence, Château Miraval. Just a few years down the street, a person satisfied him that tens of millions of {dollars} price of gold was buried on the property, hidden by a medieval proprietor who supposedly took it from Levant amidst the Crusades. So, Brad spent an undisclosed sum of money on radar tools to seek for the hidden treasure. In 2022, he instructed GQ, “I acquired obsessed. Like for a yr, this was all I might take into consideration, simply the joy of all of it. Possibly it has one thing to do with the place I grew up, as a result of within the Ozark Mountains there have been at all times tales of hidden caches of gold.”
Nevertheless, the person who instructed him concerning the gold turned out to be considerably of a charlatan who simply needed Brad to spend money on his radar firm. The actor felt it was “fairly silly in the long run.”
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On a 2025 episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian revealed that, when she acquired engaged to Kris Humphries in 2011, she coated 80 p.c of the $2 million engagement ring. Their marriage infamously lasted solely 72 days, and he or she did not even get to maintain the ring! She stated, “I used to be pregnant with North, nonetheless married to him, and with the intention to divorce him, he stated I needed to give him the ring in my divorce.”
Kris in the end bought the ring at public sale for $749,000.
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In 2021, Lil Uzi Vert spent $24 million on the 11-carat pink diamond from Elliot Elliant and had it implanted of their brow. They tweeted, “I have been paying for a pure pink diamond from Elliot for years now. This one Stone price a lot I have been paying for it since 2017. That was the primary time I noticed an actual pure pink diamond. Numerous M’s in my face.”
Nevertheless, a mere 4 months later, they had been not carrying the jewel. Uzi instructed TMZ, “I had a present at Rolling Loud. And I jumped within the crowd, they usually type of ripped it out…I nonetheless have the diamond, so I am feeling good.”
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In 2022, the New York Occasions reported that Saturday Night time Dwell castmates Pete Davidson and Colin Jost had been a part of the group that collectively bought a retired ferry for $280,000. Two years later, Colin instructed Individuals, “It’s completely the dumbest and least thought-through buy I’ve ever made in my life. The best way I justified it’s for the sum of money we had been placing into shopping for it, on only a primary square-footage stage, is when you discovered the fitting place for it to be, you had been primarily shopping for a constructing on its aspect, that is 65,000 sq. toes. So round New York, that may be a excellent value per sq. foot.”
He additionally stated that he “soft-floated” the thought by his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, earlier than making the funding, however she did not take him critically. He stated, “She was similar to, ‘Wait, so that you personal this boat now?’ Particularly reasonable query. She now clearly sees the worth in it, but additionally, I feel she’s like, ‘It is now turn into one thing that may be a defining factor for you guys and an fascinating factor for you guys. So it is best to take it critically and determine the very best model of it, as a result of for higher or worse, it should mirror on you.’ We do not care as a result of we’re comedians.”
They’re nonetheless working in the direction of making their imaginative and prescient for the boat come to life. In 2025, Pete instructed The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, “Lots of people joke about it, however now we have a very in depth plan, and we’re so much nearer than folks appear to assume. It is like 4 or 5 flooring, and on every ground, we will do one thing fascinating. A lodge up prime. Movie show, an leisure theater, some little purchasing kiosks.”
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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag blew via tens of millions of {dollars} as a result of they believed within the Mayan apocalypse. In 2013, Spencer reportedly instructed OK! Journal, “We made and spent a minimum of $10 million. The factor is, we heard that the planet was going to finish in 2012. We thought, ‘We have now acquired to spend this cash earlier than the asteroid hits.’ This is some recommendation — undoubtedly don’t spend your cash pondering asteroids are coming. However the world did not finish. I’d give my pals $15,000 for his or her birthday. Simply money. I’d purchase folks automobiles. Each valet I met acquired a tip of a few hundred kilos. I’d pay folks $200 simply to open doorways for us.”
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Per the New York Occasions, in 2007, Nicholas Cage purchased a dinosaur cranium — a Tyrannosaurus bataar cranium, to be precise — at public sale for $276,000. Nevertheless, seven years later, the Division of Homeland Safety acquired in contact to tell him that the artifact had really been stolen from Mongolia’s Gobi desert. The actor agreed to show it over so it could possibly be returned to its rightful residence.
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Noel Gallagher has an costly automobile assortment he cannot drive. In 2021, he instructed Radio X, “Not [in driving]. I do like automobiles. Received just a few automobiles, however I can not drive any of them. Yeah, it is by no means me. I feel I might be concerned in a street rage incident inside an hour of passing my take a look at…I’ve acquired a chauffer.”
Beforehand, in 2019, he instructed Radio X that his “costliest mistake” was his “£110,000 Jaguar.” He stated, “I feel it is acquired 12 miles on the clock and simply sits within the storage. It has been there because the ’90s…I believed once I grew to become a fully-blown rock star, I used to be gonna want a automobile. I might heard about this agency that purchase outdated classic automobiles and put a contemporary automobile inside them. So I acquired a Mark 2 Jaguar from 1967, the yr I used to be born. However they take about 18 months to 2 years to construct, so I believed I am going to simply may have discovered to drive in two years. I used to be within the kitchen someday, and this low-loader pulled up exterior the home with this automobile on the again. I used to be placing the kettle on, pondering, ‘Fucking beautiful automobile, that. I am gonna get a kind of someday.’ And the man knocked on the door and stated, ‘Mr. Gallagher? Your automobile!’ I might forgotten that I might purchased the automobile.”
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Meek Mill bought a mansion in Georgia however by no means even moved in. In a since-deleted 2023 Instagram submit, he reportedly stated, “MANSION FOR SALE IN ATL. My realtor not getting this off quick sufficient & I feel I can lol I by no means moved in it had for just a few years. sandy springs/buckhead space! When anyone get traded to the hawks or falcons come seize this Jawn! I’m not even gone tag who shot this shitty video lol.”
Rick Ross in the end paid $4.2 million money for Meek’s mansion.
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In 1989, the New York Occasions reported that Kim Basinger, together with a bunch of traders, paid $20 million for Braselton, Georgia, a city with a inhabitants of 500. She reportedly deliberate to develop it right into a industrial heart and vacationer attraction and probably add film studios.
Nevertheless, by 1992, solely a dentist workplace and a furnishings retailer had been nonetheless in enterprise, and the promised redevelopment was nowhere in sight. Because the Chicago Tribune reported, anytime townspeople requested when it might start, they obtained the reply, “We do not know.” In keeping with the Atlanta Journal-Structure, Kim and her traders bought Braselton for $4.3 million in 1995.
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EastEnders actor Danny Dyer reportedly purchased a Louis Vuitton bag on eBay, but it surely turned out to be counterfeit. In 2022, his daughter, Dani Dyer, instructed the False Economic system podcast, “We was on the airport, and my dad loves eBay. He is an eBay particular person now. And he turned up, and he was like, ‘I’ve acquired this actually beautiful, like, Louis Vuitton bag. That is what number of years outdated.’ And I went, ‘Properly, how a lot did you spend on it?’ He spent just a few hundred quid on it. We had been on the airport, and it simply snapped. It ripped. So the brand new Louis Vuitton bag that he purchased — this large bag — simply snapped. All the garments went in every single place.”
She continued, “So then we needed to go to the actual Louis Vuitton then purchase a Louis Vuitton bag. I used to be like, ‘Properly, Dad, you must pack that bag.’ I used to be like, ‘Ship it again. Ship the bag again.’ And he was like, ‘I ain’t gonna try this. Going straight within the bin, that.’ He acquired conned badly. It was simply actually humorous. He stated, ‘ what? You reside, and also you study. You by no means order from eBay something like that.’ I used to be like, ‘No, Dad, simply order a bottle of Zoflora or one thing, not a Louis Vuitton bag.'”
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For his 2011 Halloween costume, Justin Bieber commissioned a custom-made gold grill for his enamel from the jewellery maker If & Co. In keeping with Enterprise Insider, it price an estimated $5,000. On his weblog, Ben Baller, the jeweler, wrote, “keep in mind, I don’t even make grills anymore until its for somebody actually particular. and clearly, that is somebody particular. so I’m gonna swag it the f*&ok out! …disclaimer: TO ALL THE BILLIONS OF JUSTIN BIEBER FANS (I do NOT make everlasting grills, I solely do those which are detachable, you may put them on and take them off inside seconds they usually’re for style and enjoyable. calm down, your little coronary heart throb isn’t ruining something) okay.”
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In a 2025 YouTube video, streamer Kai Cenat referred to as his $6,000 Chrome Hearts biker hat “in all probability the dumbest buy [he] ever made in [his] life.” He stated, “I hate it. I ain’t gonna lie. I do not prefer it no extra. Like, I simply can’t, like. It is, like, you gotta put on it on sure events…When are you ever gonna have the ability to put on this? …I am an fool. Like, chat, let me go forward and say one thing — don’t fall for lots of this shit that be going out, ‘trigger I be falling for it, bro.”
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In 2011, Kesha instructed Self-importance Honest that her annual glitter price range was “fairly exorbitant.” She stated, “It is in all probability extra like just a few thousand each month. When you come and see a present of mine, there isn’t a scarcity of glitter. By the tip, everybody from the again of the auditorium to the very entrance is roofed and doubtlessly choking on glitter. I’m taking pictures glitter from glitter weapons and out of each orifice in my physique. It is actually a giant a part of what I do. It is my objective to cowl the planet in glitter and take the fuck over. I can not try this if I don’’t have a shit-ton of glitter.”
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In a sequence of since-deleted tweets from 2021, Chrissy Teigen stated, “what’s the most costly factor you have eaten that you just thought sucked? …one time john [Legend, her husband] and I had been at a restaurant and the waiter really helpful a pleasant Cabernet. We acquired the invoice and it was 13,000 {dollars}. HOW DO U CASUALLY RECOMMEND THAT WINE. we did not even end it and it had been cleared!!!”
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In 2019, GLOW actor Betty Gilpin instructed Glamour, “I did a shampoo industrial once I was 20, and anyone instructed me to avoid wasting all of it, however I [didn’t take the advice and] spent all of it on marijuana and cabs in New York. I might have actually used that cash for different issues!”
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In 2021, Logan Paul spent $623,000 on an NFT from the Azuki assortment. A yr later, its worth reportedly dropped to a mere $10. In 2022, he tweeted that the NFT was “price primarily nothing,” however he “immortalized this error” together with his personal NFT assortment.
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And eventually, equally, in 2022, Kevin Hart reportedly bought a Bored Ape NFT for $200,401. ZyCrypto reported that, two years later, he bought it for an “81% low cost” — $47,000.
