In 1989, Georgia-native and actress Basinger as well as other investors bought 1,751 acres of the 2,000-acre town for $20 million. She wanted to turn the town's farmland into a tourist attraction and film studio.
In 1995, the town was auctioned off as part of Basinger's bankruptcy.
Like many athletes, Magic Johnson turned his post-sports career into a business. While many thread their athletic image with health foods, Johnson decided to go into Burger King franchising in 2004.
He also built 105 Starbucks franchises (and later sold them), but he's still hanging on to those Burger Kings.
For his 35th birthday in 2010, Perry bought her then-fiance Brand a ticket for Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic.
It's not really clear what happened to the ticket since the couple divorced, but it wouldn't be surprising if Perry still wants to send Brand to space.
He signed on in 2012 to be the 500th passenger.
In 2007, Cage became the owner of a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull. In 2015, though, he had to give it up. It turned out the skull was originally stolen from Monglia by a fossil smuggler named Eric Prokopi.
During a three-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas starting in 2002, Dion had the hotel install a very expensive humidifier to "preserve her singing voice in the harsh desert climate." The misting device hung above the stage while she performed.
It was one of Beyonce's and Jay-Z's daughter's many expensive gifts for Beyoncé's baby shower.
More recently, Blue Ivy got to wear a gown worth $11,000 to the MTV VMAs.
The daughter of Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone bought a really, really expensive bathtub. The crystal itself cost around $800,000, and it was a few hundred thousand dollars more to gather the crystals, build it, and reinforce her floor to hold it.
"It's costing £1 million because I’ve got to reinforce the floor and I’ve had to pay for everyone's travel and the hauling back and polishing of the crystal," she told the Sydney Morning Herald in 2011. "But I spend a lot of time in the bath so it's worth it."
After buying Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Boeing 757 for around $100 million in 2011, Trump apparently decided it didn't make him look wealthy enough. So he added a bunch of golden features and accents, including a gold-plated sink.
Lucas paid $100 million for Skywalker Ranch in California. To protect his investment, he pays for 12 full-time firefighters, plus a few volunteers and fire trucks.
It was just for a 2011 Halloween costume. We wonder how many times he's worn it since, or if it's been misplaced.
She sported the Balenciaga leggings during her performance at the 2007 BET Awards.
The handcrafted phone was designed by Stuart Hughes and was made of 150 grams of 24 carat. She got it about five years ago, so it's not totally clear if she decided to keep it or is going for the iPhone 7.
According to E!, she purchased an Electro-Magnetic Field Reader in 2010 to keep the ghosts at bay while she tours.
Flying to Italy for a charity concert in 2003, Bono forgot his favorite hat in London. So he arranged for it to be ferried to him immediately, paying for a plane ticket, cab rides, insurance, and tips.
"It was tricky telling the drivers and British Airways what he was after, but it all worked out," a source close to Bono told Contact Music.
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