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9 Outrageous, Overpriced Items Celebs Have Bought for Their Homes

Given that celebrities drop millions on mansions without blinking an eye, it should come as no surprise that they also spend wads of cash to furnish these places as they see fit. Sometimes, the results are impressive; other times, a horrific waste of money. Let’s focus on the latter category, shall we?

Look no further than these celeb purchases that made us go “huh?”—and not just with sticker shock.

Blake Lively’s $25,000 range

Would it surprise you to learn that Blake Lively is obsessed with cooking? In 2013 the “Gossip Girl” star equipped her kitchen with a custom-blue range from French manufacturer La Cornue.

“My kitchen is the most important part of my home,” Lively told Elle Decor about this crazy-extravagant purchase. Lively joins other celebrities like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Julia Child, who have also owned La Cornue ranges. Still, we have to wonder if it’ll really make a batch of Rice Krispies treats taste that much better.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s $650 per panel wallpaper

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Hand-painted wallpaper might sound extravagant, but Goop goddess Gwyneth Paltrow thought it was totally worth it to drop $650 per panel for her London home.

In a 2011 interview with Elle Decor, she said she couldn’t live without wallpaper from French design company de Gournay. She “indulged with one wall in her London living room” by installing a custom version of the company’s Chelsea chinoiserie design. Well, at least she acknowledged it’s an indulgence!

Beyoncé’s $5,200 baby bathtub

Blue Ivy, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay Z, deserves only the best—which is why in 2011, the baby girl received this bling-worthy gift from family friend (and former Destiny’s Child singer) Kelly Rowland: a tiny porcelain bathtub covered in nearly 46,000 imported pink Swarovski crystals.

Sources say that each bathtub takes two months to produce, because each crystal is set by hand.

Amanda Seyfried’s stuffed horse

Taxidermy is not one of the first things you’d think a Hollywood starlet would collect, but Amanda Seyfried shocked everyone in 2011 when she bought a stuffed miniature horse.

“I bought a 3-week-old just this week—well, it was 3 weeks old when it died,” she told the press. While she didn’t divulge exactly how much she paid, she said she spent “thousands” and that it will join a menagerie of furry friends at home.

“Of course I have a stuffed raccoon—who doesn’t?” said the “Big Love” actress. “I have a miniature zebra … an owl named Beatrix, a chick called Linda, and a deer called Sha’ Dynasty.” Call it cute or call it creepy, but either way we aren’t buying.

Kendall Jenner’s $52,000 sofa

To ring in her 21st birthday on Nov. 3, Kendall Jenner spent $52,000 on a new couch. At that price, you’d think it would be tres chic and comfortable, right? Perhaps … if you enjoy lounging on what looks like a large, lumpy pile of yarn.

Called “The Boa” by furniture company Edra, this blue blob is actually made from four 100-foot-long velvet tubes painstakingly woven together. We admire all that work, but we’d rather keep that $52,000 any day.

Lady Gaga’s $50,000 ghost detector

Lady Gaga owns a lot of property around the world, and she is strangely scared of ghosts. So, it makes total sense she’d invest in a ghost detector—and why not go for top of the line?

The singer dropped $50,000 on a device that supposedly roots out evil spirits by measuring electromagnetic fields. There’s no news yet on how much “housecleaning” of poltergeists she’s had to do, although she did say one ghost named Ryan took to following her on tour and required a séance in Ireland to ditch.

Daniel Radcliffe’s $17,000 mattress

Clearly, playing a boy wizard who had to sleep in a cramped stairwell took its toll on actor Daniel Radcliffe. In 2006, before his 18th birthday, Radcliffe used the hefty paycheck from the “Harry Potter” movies to buy a mattress for 17 grand.

This purchase seems (almost) modest in comparison to the others on this list, but how on Earth does a mattress get so pricey? Well, it was custom-made by Savoir, which handcrafts beds for the swanky Savoy Hotel in London. It’s stuffed with a wild kingdom’s worth of animal hair, including horsetail from South America and cashmere wool combed from the necks of Mongolian goats. Radcliffe may have actually gotten a deal. Kind of.

Nicolas Cage’s $276,000 dinosaur skull

Dinosaur skulls make such conversation-worthy paperweights, don’t they? Maybe that’s why in 2007 at a charity event, a 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus bataar skull caught the eye of famously stable actor Nicolas Cage, who bid $276,000 for the privilege of taking it home.

Eight years later, however, the fossil was identified as a black market artifact that had to be returned. There’s no word on whether Cage switched to stegosaurus bones instead.

Mike Tyson’s $2 million gold bathtub

It’s no surprise that the man who bought two Bengal tigers ($70,000 each!) had no problem shelling out $2 million in 1988 for a solid-gold bathtub. Tyson’s lofty spending eventually caught up with him, so in 2013 he sold it to British billionaire Derwood Hodgegrass for $1.2 million.

While some of his servants questions whether it’s real, one anonymous source said, “Mr. Hodgegrass is just happy to believe it, whether the thing is legit or not.”

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