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- Matt Damon told the Hollywood Reporter that he funded his mother’s PhD. with his first big paycheck.
- Unusual first purchases include a bowling party and a TV for someone else’s grandma.
- The humblest purchases were a fish and lots of sweets.
Matt Damon paid for his mother’s PhD while fellow “Oppenheimer” co-star Cillian Murphy bought a record player
Matt Damon as Leslie Groves in Oppenheimer. Universal images
Matt Damon got his first big paycheck for the 1990 TV movie Rising Son, earning $25,000 for the role.
“I bought my brother a car and put my mother through her PhD program. And that was a really cool feeling,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview in July.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Damon’s 2023 net worth is estimated to be around $170 million. Variety reported that he earned $4 million for his role on “Oppenheimer.”
“Oppenheimer” actor Cillian Murphy told The Hollywood Reporter in the same interview that he bought a record player or a sound system with his first big salary.
“Because turntables weren’t as cool as they are now, right?” he said.
Cillian Murphy’s net worth is estimated at $20 million by Celebrity Net Worth.
Brad Pitt paid for some stylish furniture with it
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“When I got my first paycheck from my now-famous day job, I spent it on a historic Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright wannabe lamp,” Brad Pitt told Architecture Daily in 2012. He added that his second paycheck paid for a stereo.
Today, lamps sold at the Frank Lloyd Wright store range from $240 to $2,750, while Craftsman chairs are listed at Crafters and Weavers for anywhere from $1,450 to $1,695.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Pitt has an estimated net worth of $400 million. For his starring role in the 2022 action film Bullet Train, Variety reported that Pitt earned $20 million.
Lil Nas X took his whole family for some old-fashioned fun
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Rapper and singer Lil Nas
“I think I took my family bowling. So all. It was a lot of us, not just my immediate family,” he said.
His hit song “Old Town Road” grossed him an estimated $14 million before taxes at the peak of his popularity in 2020, according to Forbes. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Nas has an estimated net worth of $9 million.
Nicole Kidman bought a new home appliance
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“I bought my mother and father a washing machine. I later bought myself a pair of boots that were some of the coolest boots I’ve ever seen in my life,” Nicole Kidman told Time magazine in 2018.
Forbes listed Kidman as the seventh-highest paid actress in 2020, behind top earners Sofia Vergara and Angelina Jolie, earning $22 million that year alone.
Rupert Grint bought an ice cream truck
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“My first wish was to be an ice cream man, so I bought the Bedford van,” Harry Potter star Rupert Grint told the Daily Mail in 2014.
“Shortly after I first got it I drove into a pub to do a U-turn and there were eight kids who didn’t have pocket money and were hoping to buy a 99 or whatever. But I had nothing to give them. I’ve learned my lesson since then,” he said.
He added that the van came in handy when he drove it to the set on the final day of Harry Potter filming. “The cast and crew grilled, and I provided the lollipops and ice cream.”
Grint landed his first film role in Harry Potter at the age of 11 and said his experience as an actor on the series was “overwhelming”.
Celebrity Net Worth puts Grint’s net worth at $50 million.
Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield both bought a Tesla
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“The Photograph” co-stars Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield found out in a 2020 interview with Buzzfeed that they made the same purchase on their first big salary.
Stanfield told Buzzfeed, “I bought a Tesla.”
Rae said, “Same thing. What? Tesla twins! Are you lying? I’ve never seen you ride it.”
Stanfield said, “It’s in the store!”
Issa Rae — best known for starring in the HBO comedy Insecure and most recently as President Barbie in Barbie — signed a five-year, $40 million deal with HBO in 2021, according to Variety.
LaKeith Stanfield, who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah, is estimated by Celebrity Net Worth to have a net worth of $2 million.
Olivia Holt bought a fish
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“When I was 8 or 9 I did a commercial or something and my parents gave me $200 of it and I took that $200 to Petco and bought a betta fish there,” said the singer and former child actress Olivia Holt to People magazine in 2020.
From 2011 to 2014, Holt starred in the Disney comedy series Kickin’ It.
Tiffany Haddish bought a lot of candy
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“I bought a big box of Snickers and lollipops. Jolly Rancher sticks and blow pops. And did I say Snickers? And corn nuts,” comedian and Girls Trip star Tiffany Haddish told Time magazine in 2018.
“I’m surprised I don’t have diabetes right now because I love Snickers,” she said, adding that one of her goals was to get a job at a Snickers factory so they could figure out their recipe and make it themselves could produce.
Haddish told HuffPost in 2020 that she made $80,000 for her breakthrough role on “Girls Trip.”
Today, her net worth per Celebrity Net Worth is estimated at $6 million.
Jennifer Lopez upgraded her car
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When Jennifer Lopez was the Fly Girl dancer on “In Living Color” in 1991, she drove a Honda hatchback to every audition, she explained during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable in 2016.
“And when I arrived, I think it was a regular series, I bought a car — a Mercedes,” she said, “and it was a huge deal, even though I was just signing the lease on the car and I was told by my boyfriend separated.” That same week. We were at the dealership and I cried.”
Jennifer Lopez’s net worth is estimated to be around $400 million by Celebrity Net Worth.
Kirsten Dunst put her money into her college funds and bought a house
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“I started acting so young that all my money just went into a college fund. And then I probably bought my mom a house,” Kirsten Dunst said during a Hollywood Reporter roundtable in 2016.
Dunst began as a child actress and had her first big break at age 12, starring in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
However, Dunst never attended college and graduated from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles in 2000.
George Clooney bought his friend’s grandmother a TV with a remote control
George Clooney in a Nespresso ad. Nespresso
George Clooney was living in the apartment with his friend’s grandmother when he started acting.
“I bought her a TV with a remote control because she always had to get up and change the channel. So I bought her a TV with my first check,” he told fafaq in 2022 when asked what he did with his first paycheck.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Clooney has an estimated net worth of $500 million.
The South China Morning Post reported that the actor earned $40 million from his ad appearances at Nespresso.
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