Once your agent, paid pals and stamp lickers are done picking over your salary, you should still have a fairly tidy pile of spending money. And being a star, only the very best (read: most expensive) will do for you.
Okay, so you need a house, but you don’t need one that cost $14 million in 1996 (Barbra Streisand). And you don’t need a mile-and-a-half long swimming pool in the backyard (Tarzan star and Olympic swimming champ Johnny Weissmuller). And while you need a car, you don’t need 55 of them, nor 210 motorbikes or five planes for that matter (stand up, Steve McQueen).
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