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 1000’s and even hundreds of thousands of {dollars} into the bathroom with utterly ineffective purcahses.
Listed below are 18 instances celebs spent an embarrassing amount of cash on one thing that wound up completely ineffective:
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Cardi B has a group of high-priced automobiles — however she would not have a driver’s license. In 2018, she informed 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.”
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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 hundreds of thousands of {dollars} value 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 amount of cash on radar tools to seek for the hidden treasure. In 2022, he informed GQ, “I bought obsessed. Like for a 12 months, this was all I might take into consideration, simply the joy of all of it. Perhaps it has one thing to do with the place I grew up, as a result of within the Ozark Mountains there have been all the time tales of hidden caches of gold.”
Nonetheless, the person who informed 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 bought 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 a view to divorce him, he stated I needed to give him the ring in my divorce.”
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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 value a lot I have been paying for it since 2017. That was the primary time I noticed an actual pure pink diamond. Plenty of M’s in my face.”
Nonetheless, a mere 4 months later, they had been not sporting the jewel. Uzi informed TMZ, “I had a present at Rolling Loud. And I jumped within the crowd, they usually sort 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 Stay 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 informed 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 amount of cash we had been placing into shopping for it, on only a fundamental square-footage degree, is if you happen to discovered the proper place for it to be, you had been basically shopping for a constructing on its facet, 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 severely. He stated, “She was identical to, ‘Wait, so that you personal this boat now?’ Particularly reasonable query. She now clearly sees the worth in it, but additionally, I believe she’s like, ‘It is now turn out to be one thing that may be a defining factor for you guys and an fascinating factor for you guys. So you need to take it severely and determine the very best model of it, as a result of for higher or worse, it is going to 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 informed The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, “Lots of people joke about it, however we’ve got a very in depth plan, and we’re so much nearer than folks appear to suppose. It is like 4 or 5 flooring, and on every ground, we’ll do one thing fascinating. A lodge up prime. Movie show, an leisure theater, some little buying kiosks.”
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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag blew by means of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} as a result of they believed within the Mayan apocalypse. In 2013, Spencer reportedly informed OK! Journal, “We made and spent no less than $10 million. The factor is, we heard that the planet was going to finish in 2012. We thought, ‘We have now bought to spend this cash earlier than the asteroid hits.’ Here is some recommendation — undoubtedly don’t spend your cash pondering asteroids are coming. However the world did not finish. I might give my buddies $15,000 for his or her birthday. Simply money. I might purchase folks automobiles. Each valet I met bought a tip of a few hundred kilos. I might 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. Nonetheless, seven years later, the Division of Homeland Safety bought in contact to tell him that the artifact had truly been stolen from Mongolia’s Gobi desert. The actor agreed to show it over so it may very well be returned to its rightful residence.
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Noel Gallagher has an costly automotive assortment he cannot drive. In 2021, he informed Radio X, “Not [in driving]. I do like automobiles. Acquired a couple of automobiles, however I am unable to drive any of them. Yeah, it is by no means me. I believe I might be concerned in a street rage incident inside an hour of passing my check…I’ve bought a chauffer.”
Beforehand, in 2019, he informed Radio X that his “most costly mistake” was his “£110,000 Jaguar.” He stated, “I believe it is bought 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 automotive. I might heard about this agency that purchase outdated classic automobiles and put a contemporary automotive inside them. So I bought a Mark 2 Jaguar from 1967, the 12 months 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 at some point, and this low-loader pulled up exterior the home with this automotive on the again. I used to be placing the kettle on, pondering, ‘Fucking pretty automotive, that. I am gonna get a type of at some point.’ And the man knocked on the door and stated, ‘Mr. Gallagher? Your automotive!’ I might forgotten that I might purchased the automotive.”
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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 believe I can lol I by no means moved in it had for a couple of years. sandy springs/buckhead space! When any person get traded to the hawks or falcons come seize this Jawn! I’m not even gone tag who shot this shitty video lol.”
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In 1989, the New York Occasions reported that Kim Basinger, together with a gaggle of buyers, 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 presumably add film studios.
Nonetheless, 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 will start, they obtained the reply, “We do not know.” In response to the Atlanta Journal-Structure, Kim and her buyers offered Braselton for $4.3 million in 1995.
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EastEnders actor Danny Dyer reportedly purchased a Louis Vuitton bag on eBay, however it turned out to be counterfeit. In 2022, his daughter, Dani Dyer, informed the False Financial system podcast, “We was on the airport, and my dad loves eBay. He is an eBay individual now. And he turned up, and he was like, ‘I’ve bought this actually pretty, like, Louis Vuitton bag. That is what number of years outdated.’ And I went, ‘Effectively, how a lot did you spend on it?’ He spent a couple of 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 massive bag — simply snapped. All the garments went in all places.”
She continued, “So then we needed to go to the true Louis Vuitton then purchase a Louis Vuitton bag. I used to be like, ‘Effectively, Dad, it’s good to 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 bought conned badly. It was simply actually humorous. He stated, ‘You understand what? You reside, and also you be taught. 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 tooth from the jewellery maker If & Co. In response to Enterprise Insider, it value an estimated $5,000. On his weblog, Ben Baller, the jeweler, wrote, “bear 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*&okay out! …disclaimer: TO ALL THE BILLIONS OF JUSTIN BIEBER FANS (I do NOT make everlasting grills, I solely do those which can be detachable, you possibly can put them on and take them off inside seconds they usually’re for trend and enjoyable. loosen up, your little coronary heart throb just 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 “most likely 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 cannot, 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 informed Self-importance Honest that her annual glitter funds was “fairly exorbitant.” She stated, “It is most likely extra like a couple of thousand each month. If you happen to come and see a present of mine, there isn’t any scarcity of glitter. By the top, 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 aim to cowl the planet in glitter and take the fuck over. I am unable to try this if I don’’t have a shit-ton of glitter.”
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In a collection of since-deleted tweets from 2021, Chrissy Teigen stated, “what’s the most costly factor you’ve got eaten that you simply thought sucked? …one time john [Legend, her husband] and I had been at a restaurant and the waiter really helpful a pleasant Cabernet. We bought 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 informed Glamour, “I did a shampoo industrial once I was 20, and any person informed me to save lots of 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 12 months later, its worth reportedly dropped to a mere $10. In 2022, he tweeted that the NFT was “value basically 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 offered it for an “81% low cost” — $47,000.