Big spenders: the crazy things celebrities splurge on

Some time ago, Lady Gaga said she was being chased by a ghost named Ryan. To eradicate the problem, she bought a ghost detector for $50,000. Apart from that, she hires hunters of ultratumba beings to search the rooms before she spends the night there. This crazy story was published by the Daily Star.

David and Victoria Beckham once hired a person for $1,800 a day to open the Christmas presents they received, as they regularly receive lots of them as well as their children.

Absolutely one of the most extravagant things that Bono has done: buying a first-class ticket for one of his hats. One day he was about to play a show in Italy when he realized that he didn't have the hat. He paid 1,700 dollars for someone to take it from his house in London to the airport and then transport the hat on a first-class seat in the first plane. The hat arrived without any scratch or setback.

Paris Hilton ordered a huge double floor dog house with heating, air conditioning, a glass lamp and furniture created by famous designers. The heiress of the Hilton hotels spent about 320,000 dollars on this extravaganza to make her pets comfortable.

Miley Cyrus has also been looking for the best for her dogs, so she invested $125,000 in a car that would transport her pets comfortably and with style. The truck in question was a Range Rover Sport. The dogs were allowed to jump on it, scratch the upholstery and nibble as much as they wanted.

Kim Basinger has been one of the most creative when it comes to squandering her money. She had the idea of buying a city. The actress paid $20 million to buy Braselton, a Georgian village that had about 500 inhabitants at the time and covered about 1,600 hectares. She wanted to turn the town into a tourist center, but it didn't work out for her. Kim Basinger sold it again for a million dollars.

Not surprisingly, Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best paid soccer players in the world, buys dozens of cars. But he has left many with their mouths wide open when he spent 35,000 dollars to put a wax figure of his own in front of his house. Reportedly, he even contacted Michael Wade, the sculptor who made his wax statue for the Madrid Museum, to order the replica.

Ronaldo was born in a poor family. Read more about his ascendance to fame.

If anyone wastes money on extravagant things, it is Justin Bieber. Once, he traveled to Miami to have fun at a nudist club, and he 'lost' 75,000 dollars. According to an employee of the club, Justin took that amount with him in dollar bills and began to throw them to anyone who came near. This crazy story was told in 2014 by the celebrity website TMZ.

Rihanna is one of the richest singers in the world, so it's no wonder she spends thousands or millions of dollars on grooming. Reportedly, the singer from Barbados spends about a million dollars a year to keep her hair impeccable and follow other beauty routines.

How Rihanna became one of the richest stars in the world

Not only women indulge themselves, men do too. Daniel Radcliffe invested $17,000 in a mattress so he could sleep like an angel. Why was it so expensive? Because it was custom-made by specialists, so reported E! Online.

Kanye West is one of those celebrities who no longer know what to do with their money. Some time ago, he placed golden teeth to replace the ones he had lost in a traffic accident.

Kanye's wife Kim Kardashian could not stay behind. The couple has spent money on things you find hard to believe, such as four toilets plated in Louis XIV gold, each valued at more than 750,000 dollars. They were installed in their Bel Air mansion, according to The Sun.

Jay Z loves champagne, so he decided to buy the French brand Armand de Brignac whose bottles are worth around 300 dollars each. The previous owner of the brand confirmed the sale, but the value of the deal was not disclosed. People say it was several million dollars.

They say mothers don't skimp when it comes to their children, and Sandra Bullock is no different. She gave her son Louis a painting of Andy Warhol for his first birthday. What will she give him on his next birthdays?

Everyone knows that New York is an expensive city, but if you're Katie Holmes you might not worry about that. Tom Cruise's ex-wife was named New York's biggest spender of 2009, because she spent 14 million dollars in 6 months. Part of it, according to Page Six, was to care for her daughter Suri, and the rest for her frequent visits to exclusive restaurants and shops of renowned designers.

Elton John spent almost half a million dollars on the florist's payments in less than two years. He says he loves flowers, so he doesn't mind spending huge amounts on these things.

Shakira is one of the top earning Latin singers in the world, so it's no wonder she's looking for something to invest in. As a matter of fact, the Colombian star owns an island in the Bahamas. They say she spent 16 million dollars on this acquisition. However, according to the Spanish website Vanitatis, Shakira put the island up for sale after tax problems in Spain.

In 2012, Mark Zuckerberg acquired a part of the Hawaiian island Kauai, one of the most beautiful corners of the planet. The founder of Facebook invested around 100 million dollars in a 280-hectare site.

Leonardo DiCaprio also owns an island, but his lays off the coast of Belize. He paid almost 2 million dollars for it. Given his commitment to the environment, he is building an exclusive tourist complex there that aims to preserve the local environment and the biosphere.

Ricky Martin couldn't stay behind either, and in 2008 he bought himself an island in Brazil, located near the coast of Rio de Janeiro in the archipelago of Angra dos Reis. As far as we know, he paid 8 million dollars for this paradise. He basically uses it to relax.

Skin care matters to Celine Dion, so she once bought a humidifier that cost her 2 million dollars (according to Business Insider). The reason was the dry air of Las Vegas, where she had long series of shows. Maybe the humidifier made her look so young.

Surely for Mike Tyson there is nothing more comforting than a good bath after exercise. And that is probably why the ex-boxer paid $2 million for a bathtub. Not to mention the three Bengal tigers he acquired, each for $70,000 ... Maybe it was these excessive expenses that caused Mike's bankruptcy.

Like many celebrities, Beyoncé doesn't skimp on clothes, but for many it's astonishing that she bought some leggings with gold plating from Balenciaga for 100 thousand dollars. She used them during one of her performances in 2007. Legend or reality?

Michael Jackson paid 47.5 million dollars for the rights to the Beatles' catalogue of songs in 1985. This acquisition earned him a disproportionate hatred from his former friend Paul McCartney, who also wanted to buy the rights but did not have that much money at the time. He felt that Michael betrayed him.

A computer genius, Bill Gates has always been attracted to Leonardo da Vinci's mathematical manuscripts. The founder of Microsoft therefore spent 30.8 million dollars to own Codex Leicester, a 72-page manuscript Da Vinci made in the early 16th century, with diagrams, writings and drawings for future inventions.

Before his presidential term, Donald Trump gave himself a little treat: a private plane for which he paid 100 million dollars.

Over the years, Nicolas Cage has created fame as a buyer of strange things, including the skull of a 67-million-year-old dinosaur. For this Tyrannosaurus's head, the actor paid 276,000 dollars in an auction. Some time later, upon learning that it had been illegally removed from Mongolia, he decided to return it.

Katy Perry has bought a lot of things, but one of her most extravagant expenses was the special gift to her then-husband, Russell Brand, of a 200,000 dollar ticket to travel into space.

Drake doesn't mind spending $50,000 on strippers in one night. According to witnesses, the rapper came to a club one night, throwing money at every dancer he saw. At some point, the floor had turned into a carpet of bills. The Daily Mail reported on this story.

When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were still a couple, the actress bought the actor a $1.5 million helicopter. Of course, this amount of money included flying lessons for Brad.

This is the family of Brad and Angelina: They have six children together.