8_Days__June_1_2017

BY
CLAUDIA NG
Aaron Kwok recently forked out HK$30mil (S$5.39mil)
on a mansion in Shanghai’s affluent Xintiandi district for
his wife, model Moka Fang. The house was reportedly a
pre-wedding gift from the Heavenly King to his Shanghaibased
wife.
That’s what friends
are for! For Jennifer
Aniston’s 39th
birthday, Courteney
Cox gave her Friends
co-star and real-life
bestie a US$12,000
(S$17,000) Chanel
bicycle. Featuring eight
speeds, the bike also
has a quilted leather
Chanel seat and a
saddlebag emblazoned
with the iconic logo so
she can cruise past
paparazzi in highfashion.
When it comes to
extravagant gifts, how
can the Kardashians
(with their notorious
spending habits) be
excluded? Last year,
Kim Kardashian
proudly sported a
20-carat Lorraine
Schwartz ring which
was a gift from her
hubby Kanye West.
The whopper allegedly
set the rapper
back an estimated
US$10mil (S$14mil)
and boasts an
emerald-cut centre
Type IIa stone — the
purest type of diamond. It also happens to be the
ring that she got robbed of (she has since been
reunited with the rock) in the Paris Hotel Heist last
October. Too much flaunting, perhaps?
Bling for the world’s most
expensive bum? Back
in the early noughties,
Jlo reportedly refused to use any toilet
unless it’s fitted with her special toilet seat, which
was a gift from ex-fiancé, Ben Affleck, in 2004. And
by special, we mean a US$105,000 (S$146,000)
jewel-encrusted toilet seat with diamonds, rubies and
sapphires set inside a plastic casing.
In 2014, Katy Perry
bought ex-hubby Russell
Brand tickets to the Virgin
Galatic Mission. The tix,
each costing US$100,000
(S$140,000) would have
allowed them to travel
111km into the atmosphere,
view Earth from space and
float weightlessly for five minutes before heading back
to land. Pity the couple never embarked on the trip.
Earlier this year, Taiwanese actress
Pace Wu splurged on a pair of
50-metre long crystal dragons that cost $1bil RMB
(S$200mil) for the opening of a hotel that the mother of
her billionaire fiancé, Ji Xiao Bo, invested in. Weighing
over 18,000 kilos and covered in gold scales and two
and a half million Swarovski crystals, the art piece now
hangs on the ceiling of an eight-star resort hotel in
Saipan, an island in the Northern Mariana Islands.
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