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$16,000 on clothes
That's, like, 2000 Forever 21 garments per month.

Ask Keef about outliving everyone's expectations. As for Britney, I admire what appears to be a genuine, fuck-up-your-life meltdown in the classic mode. The only other one so keen on self-immolation these days is Courtney Love. On any given day I would be proud to buy her a drink and put her back on the highway to hell.

Salman Rushdie went as Darth Vader for Halloween.

For some reason, this reinforces my image of him as a guy who would be fun to hang out with, but has terrible luck with the ladies. And in some cases, treats them really bad (see previous divorces, etc.). If he told one little kid dressed up as Boba Fett, "No disintegrations" or told someone that he found their lack of faith disturbing, then I'm totally willing to forget about the (only two) books I didn't like. And the soap opera thing.

Brit should open up "Forever WT" for the over 40 set.

@rod: More, considering the employee discount.

"Sell your fucking plane!" Hmm, this reminds of something that always bugged me about that Wind Beneath My Wings Song. As I understand it, in order for lift to occur, air must follow both the top and bottom surfaces and be deflected downward, both above and below the wing. So, I think, it's actually "The Wind Beneath and Above My Wings." Rewrites are needed, Bette!!!

I can't wait for Britney's new show, Entertaining Yourself on $3400 a Day.

@CodePink: Team Bernoulli's Principle.

Well, the debt might not be so stupid.

For one, it helps Britney establish credit. Believe it or not, even professional hobo-drunk cokehead party sluts need to demonstrate a certain ability to qualify for and promptly pay credit. It also helps her case to see her kids, because credit comes into play in those sorts of proceedings.

For another, the person running her money likely has most of the rest of it pouring into investments that will earn faster than a house ever will. With the exception of the last 5-7 years, house prices historically grow only slightly faster than treasury securities.

@concerned citizen: $3400? Damn. Her dealer SO ripping her off.

I think Gawker's gone soft on her, ever since she started wearing the brunette wig

I heard Salman got drunk at the party and called up Padma, and then just breathed heavily into the phone for five minutes.

Uh, rumor is Britney likes to eat pussy food now.

@FracturedAcetabulum:
Yes!

How much is spent on Purple Drank?

@GayatriSpivak: About half as much as she spends on Fried Chicken.

@MisterHippity: ... saying: Padma, I am your father.

A $1 million mortgage at 7% is $7,300 a month. So $50K means she is carrying about $7 million in mortgages. That's either (1) a very big house, or (2) mortgages on more than one house. Doesn't she own something in NYC as well as a couple of places in CA?

I don't like the girl - if you're handed everything on a platter, throwing it away rather than trying to help others makes me talk crazier than she does - but I do pity the day she met K-Fed. It all went downhill after that. Every guy was salivating over her, she ha her choice of successful men - and she chose a barely literate backup singer.

@FormerEnglishMajor: But it was love! Amid the heady fumes of Purple Drank, diapers and Hennesy XO

There is altogether too much talk about the talentless Ms. Britney Spears, meanwhile her lesser-known indie-rock half-brother, Asparagus Spears, releases album after classic album and remains only a critical darling.

@FormerEnglishMajor: a million dollars will get you a small suburban starter home in the expensive areas of California.

@josh speed: His first album, My Pee Stinks, is one for the ages.

@FormerEnglishMajor: I agree. I carry a rock around with "K-Fed" written on it in case I ever have the chance to throw it at him.

@MisterHippity: Padma: "Tony, is that you? If you're coming over, bring food, 'cause I have the munchies."

If Britney got her mortgage a couple years ago when rates were at all-time lows, she'd be crazy NOT to carry that mortgage. She can make a helluva lot more w/ a semi-decent investment manager on the money that would otherwise be tied up in the house.

That sure beats having a $2500/mo. mortgage on income of $4000/mo., or am I missing something? That could be. Not too sharp today...

@FormerEnglishMajor: And ironically, that barely literate backup singer is now looking like the marginally better parent. I bet she's rueing (ruing?) the day she ever decided to cheat on Timberlake. Sigh.
$102,000 on entertainment vs. $6,000 on child care? Nice priorities!

i always talk about how if i had as much money as britney spears i would be WAY crazier than her but honestly, as her life unfolds, i don't think i could even be half as crazy as her with double the money.
which is awesome and my contractual obligation with the gays that says i must love her (and all fabulously cracked out ho's round the world) is just kind of secondary because her insanity is epic.

Of all the possible examples of Brit's craziness, carrying that mortgage is not one. And Suze would agree.

Yep--mortgage debt is good debt, usually, because your money can earn more interest than you're paying on the mortgage. Also, remember the tax advantages.

I'm sure the mortgage thing wasn't Brit's idea at all, but the idea of someone smart in her money manager's office.

no way anyone living in new york and posting on this board is spending less than 25-50% of their monthly income on rent. she ain't even cracking 10%, suze would be pleased.

K-fed was a back up DANCER. Please, people. Read your People.

Um, more concerned with the picture...Hello?!? No crotch-shot???
(and I mean of Bette, of course)

(eek, I just grossed myself out)