The Green Pile: Money And The Movies, Part Four
Charity begins at home. Oh, and hookers - lots of hookers!
Added to life’s ‘necessities’ are all manner of recreational items that stars squander their fortunes on. At the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, Charlie Sheen confessed to having spent $125,000 on hookers over a three-year period (“It adds up,” smiled Sheen as he thumbed through the receipts during his testimony).
A drug habit could also set you back a fair whack, even if it’s ‘monitored’ - Cary Grant shelled out $100,000 on revolutionary LSD therapy in the hope of discovering why his relationships kept failing (doctor’s diagnosis - “Too much acid”?).
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