Stephanie Seymour has expensive shrubbery

Oy.

September 23, 2010 at 8:54PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
AP Photo
AP Photo (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

It's their money, and they can spend it as they please, but sometimes you just think . . . gosh. Even if I had a half a billion, I'd balk at that. The divorce-then-reconciliation story about supermodel Stephanie Seymour and her very rich husband revealed these details about their property:

The picture on the left is a duplicate. Someone's paying a hundred grand to mow that thing, too. I suppose at a certain level of affluence, $100K per year for shrubbery maintenance is normal, but for that amount of scratch I'd want them to turn an acre of bushes into statues of everyone who's ever appeared on Star Trek, or something. $100K for a single dog seems a bit much.

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