4. Nicolas Cage Blew $150 Million
You may love Nicolas Cage and his kinetic style of acting and screen presence, or hate him for the very same reasons. Enough people have liked his work to make him about $150 million. And, he’s blown just about all of it, much of it on completely insane purchases that make your last guilty buy seem like child’s play. He’s bought albino king cobras — two of them— pygmy shrunken heads, a comic book collection worth more than $1.6 million, and a menagerie that has included, at various times, a crocodile, shark, and an octopus.
The single most ridiculous buy may be the $276,000 he spent on a Tyrannosaurus Rex skull that was 67 million years old. It turns out that the skull was stolen, and Cage had to return it to Mongolia where it had been originally found.
Now, we totally understand blowing your cash on cool stuff, but you do have to set a limit. That’s the part Mr. Cage had trouble with. He declared bankruptcy in 2009, and in case you haven’t noticed, has been taking on every D-list script that comes his way ever since to stay ahead of his debtors.
3. Mariah Carey’s Out Of Touch
Mariah Carey is said to have had a difficult childhood for various reasons. Maybe that’s why, when she got to the top of the music biz, she turned into a diva, and one whose grasp of everyday reality seems a little tenuous at best. On October 2, 2017, she was doing an interview on British TV with Piers Morgan when the news of the Las Vegas shooting broke. Viewers were baffled when Mariah continued to do the interview for a few minutes, talking about the shootings a the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival as she reclined on the feed from her Beverly Hills home, half lying on a chaise lounge wearing a red gown. Her diva-ish demands got her cameo in the Will Ferrell movie The House scrapped. She went from the top of the charts for decades to a career dominated by gossip about her boyfriends. That alone makes our case for putting her on the list.
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