Ryan Seacrest is best known for hosting 'American Idol', and he's bought himself an iconic American home to stay with the theme. His $49m mansion used to belong to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia Perez and contains the media room which the couple got married in back in 2008.
Seacrest has been hard at work improving the home since he took ownership of it, and we bet it's now worth a lot more than what he paid for it. He's expanded the home so far that the internal coverage is now 9,500 square feet. He's also bought the two properties next door, incorporated them into the design, and added a pond. Who knew he had such a skill for a design? When he's not planning his next addition to the property, Seacrest can go and chill out for a while in his meditation room, which is a feature none of the other mansions we've looked at so far have contained.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.