In May 2012, UK tabloid The Sun reported that Angelina Jolie had shelled out $1 million on a luxury helicopter. While we initially thought she'd want to use the aircraft as a means to bus her six children around the world, an anonymous source told the daily she bought the aircraft exclusively for Brad Pitt. Apparently "they would like to be able to fly to and from Cannes."

Jay-Z knows a thing or two about making money. Forbes listed the rapper as the highest earning hip-hop artist of 2011. After raking in a whopping $37 million, the man could easily afford to throw down $250,000 on a few bottles of Armand de Brignac, a luxury champagne known as the "Ace of Spades."

It's hard to sympathize with Nicolas Cage and his mountain of debt when you realize how many absurd items he's bought over the years. Among his laundry list of extravagant purchases was the 28-room Bavarian castle the actor was sadly forced to sell in 2009 due to the "difficult economic situation."

With unemployment rates soaring and the United States deep in a recession, Brad Pitt did what any rich celebrity would: he bought a nearly $1 million painting by a German artist named Neo Rauch. He then later took the blue pill and continued living in The Matrix.

In 2009 Jessica Simpson bought then-boyfriend Tony Romo a $100,000 motor boat. Perhaps the blonde star hoped the 450 horsepower present would entice the NFL quarterback into marriage. Romo accepted the expensive machinery and thanked Simpson by breaking up with her a day before her 29th birthday. Aw.

Most people don't own any comic books, let alone $1 million worth of them. But then again, most people aren't Nicolas Cage, a man sent to earth to spend as much money as humanly possibly on whatever he could get his hands on. Like, say an original, first-edition Superman comic that was stolen 10 years ago, only to be found in a storage locker in April, 2011.

If we had to crown the queen of extravagant celebrity purchases, the honor would go to Kim Basinger. The actress passed on castles and decided to buy an entire town in Georgia for $20 million back in 1989. She could have bought an island in Barbados or a lifetime supply of Cool Ranch Doritos. But no, she went with Braselton, GA.

Pop quiz: what would you do if you went on vacation and accidentally left your favorite hat at home? Would you A) find another hat and go on with your life, B) have it shipped overnight by Fed-Ex, or C) spend $1,700 to have it delivered on an airplane? If you're U2 frontman Bono, the logical answer is "C." Yes, he actually did that. Because he could.