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A Chanel dress. I bought it with my first proper paycheck and it was ridiculously expensive. It is also hideous.
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A painting by Renoir, paid for by demanding a huge fee for a screenwriting deal with a producer I didn’t want to work for. The movie was never made.
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A mink coat in 1975 (it was the done thing then). It cost me £5,500.
A wedding ring.
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When I was 18, I bought a boat for a million pounds and sold it a year later for just over half the price.
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First loved, then laid, then paid.
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