By Roman | June 2, 2010 - 10:05 pm - Posted in Needless, Transportation

Saeed Abdul Ghafour KhouriBack in 2007 the United Arab Emirates held a  license plate auction and there were some really expensive license plates sold.

For reference: United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED) = $.27 USD.

Plate #55555 sold for 2 million dirhams.

Plate #12 sold for 8.9 million dirhams.

Plate #5 sold for 25.2 million dirhams or $6.8 million (the most expensive license plate at the time).

In 2008 the United Arab Emirates held another  license plate auction, this time plate #1 was up for grabs.

The license plate was purchased by Saeed Abdul Ghafour Khouri for a sandy $14.3 million USD.

By Roman | - 10:03 pm - Posted in Cosmetics

Clive Christian's Imperial MajestyTechnically Clive Christian No. 1 is the world’s most expensive perfume running a smelly $2,150.00 USD per 2 oz bottle and it’s combination of Indian jasmine, mandarin and sandalwood has some pretty big fans such as Elton John.

Now for some people, like Elton, $1,075.00/ounce is just not expensive enough so British designer Clive Christian came to the rescue.

Clive poured 16.9 ounces of No. 1 into a bottle with an 18 carat gold collar that houses a five-carat diamond and called it “Clive Christian’s Imperial Majesty“.

As only 5 are made every year it may be hard to sniff one out, but if you do, a fruity $215,000.00 USD will have you smelling like a million bucks.

By Roman | - 10:02 pm - Posted in Art

99 Cent II DiptychonWhat happens if you walk onto a supermarket and take a picture? Usually not much.

But if your name is Andreas Gurskyand you are a German visual artist known for your enormous architecture and landscape color photographs then the results end up being the world’s most expensive photograph.

The photo depicts an interior of a supermarket with numerous aisles depicting goods resulting in a colorful work. The work is digitally altered to reduce perspective. The photograph is a chromogenic color print or c-print. It is a two part work, also called a diptych. There were 6 sets made and mounted on acrylic glass. The photographs have a size of 207 by 337 centimeters.

Created in 2001, 99 Cent II Diptychon, sold at auction at Sotheby’s on February 7, 2007 for a fair market price of $3.34 million USD.

By Roman | - 10:01 pm - Posted in Food & Drink

If you ever travel to Densuke watermelonHokkaidō, Japan’s second largest island, be sure to search out an Densuke watermelon, perhaps the rarest and most expensive watermelon in the world.

If fact, they are so rare that sometimes they produce only sixty fruit during a harvest and Japanese purchase these watermelons as gifts.

Not only because of their rarity but also due to the fact that they are superior to American watermelons because they are sweeter and firmer, they sell for about $200.00 each.

A perfect example of a  Densuke watermelon, weighing 17 pounds, sold at an auction to a man wanting to support local agriculture, he paid a seedy $6,100.00 USD.

Angelina JolieAngelina Jolie  was born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California and is daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.

Angelina’s early career was mainly that of a fashion model, starting when she was 14 years old, and appearing in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf (“Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through”), Antonello Venditti (“Alta Marea”), Lenny Kravitz (“Stand by My Woman”), and The Lemonheads (“It’s About Time”).

Her first film role came that of Tosh in 1982 in the movie Lookin’ to Get Out, when she was only 7 years old, her father cast her in the role.

Here big break through would come in 1997 as Cornelia Wallace in the biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.

At present Angelina Jolie is considered to be the world’s most expensive actress by raking in a golden $27 million per film.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California and reached stardom in the 1990s as Rachel Green in the sitcom Friends, which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Jennifer made her debut on the silver screen in 1992 as Tory Reding in Leprechaun.

On top of it all she spent 2000 – 2005 married to Brad Pitt.

Jennifer is #2 on the list of most expensive actresses costing an anty $25 million per film.

  • 3: Meryl Streep – $24 million per film.
  • 4: Sarah Jessica Parker – $23 million per film.
  • 5: Cameron Diaz – $20 million per film.
  • 6: Sandra Bullock – over $15 million per film.
  • 7: Reese Witherspoon – $15 million per film.
  • 8: Nicole Kidman – over $12 million per film.
  • 9: Drew Barrymore – $12 million per film.
  • 10: Renee Zellweger – $10 million per film.