The Worlds Cheapest Celebrity

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11	Vincent Kartheiser

Let's start this one off with one of the most ascetic men in Hollywood. Vincent Kartheiser, most famous for playing Pete Campbell on Mad Men, lives in a one-room house in Los Angeles with no furniture and doesn't even own a car. He's the only person in the whole city who takes the bus. After realizing that he really didn't need all of the stuff that accompanies celebrity life, Kartheiser began gutting his house, taking all of his possessions to second-hand stores and giving them to charity. He doesn't even have a toilet!

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10	Robert Pattinson

Let's be honest with ourselves here: Robert Pattinson has more money that we can even conceive of. Literally even my calculator doesn't go that high. The Twilight star and imaginary boyfriend of thousands of teenage girls hasn't really come around to spending that fortune, though - he still occupies an apartment he rents on a month-by-month lease, has a pay-as-you-go phone, and drives a rattling old car he originally bought for $2,000. His advice to fans? "Never spend money, ever, and then you'll be rich!"

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9	Tiger Woods

One would think that Tiger Woods, one of the highest-earning athletes of all time, would be able to lay down some cash if he had to. Unfortunately, not only did Tiger sleep around on his wife, he also made a name for himself as a horrendous cheapskate. The ladies who were gobbling Tiger's putter didn't get many favors from the golfer, with many of the women griping to the press that Tiger never spent a dime on them. One, a waitress named Mindy Lawton, says the only thing Woods ever bought her was a chicken wrap from Subway. And there's also the tale of Woodstaking back a $5 tip from a waitress at a Vegas casino because he'd already tipped her earlier that night.

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8	Kristen Bell

Being cheap isn't a bad thing - it's actually pretty cool when celebrities step up and show that they're not any different from the rest of us. One foxy fashionista who shops the low end of the aisles is Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell, who has shown up for red carpet events in $45 dresses from Target. Sure, she gets fancy on occasion too, but it's nice that she can look good in something that the rest of us could actually afford.

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Max Gail

We're gonna go back a little bit for this next entry. Max Gail is best known for playing Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz on Barney Miller, a fondly-remembered late 70s, early 80s cop sitcom. The show was wildly successful for its time and made its stars quite rich. So how did Max live with his cash? After buying an acre in the Point Dume area of Malibu (across the street from Bob Dylan), Gail erected a teepee in the yard and lived there instead of the main house. It was the 70s, that was just what California was like.

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6	Leonardo DiCaprio

You have to give props to Leonardo DiCaprio - although he rakes in mad cash for his flicks, he doesn't blow it on the typical ridiculousness of the Hollywood elite. He owns one car - a Prius - and even though his house was pricey, he installed solar panels on the roof to mitigate energy costs. DiCaprio chooses instead to use his cash for charity, donating a cool million to disaster relief in Haiti as well as other causes.

5	Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton's cheapness is kind of ridiculous - the hotel heiress certainly blows plenty of money on ridiculous clothing and drugs, but she has serious problems paying for things that actuallyneed to be paid for. The tabloid celebrity made headlines in Australia when she dashed out of a cafe without paying her $10 drink tab. Even funnier was her refusing to pay the fee for her California storage unit, leading it to be sold at auction. When the lucky buyer opened it up, he found sex tapes, prescriptions for herpes medication, and more embarrassing junk.

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4	Warren Buffett

You don't get to be one of the richest dudes in the world by spending money. Warren Buffett is widely regarded as one of the best investors the market has ever seen, and he hasn't used much of his $40 billion personal fortune to pamper himself. Buffett bought his relatively humble home in Happy Hollow, Nebraska in 1951 for $31,500 and has pledged that 99% of his net worth is going to be donated to charity before he dies. That's a lot of cash, if you want to do the math. He doesn't have a computer at home, doesn't have a cell phone and drives his own car. When he did splurge on a private jet in the 80s, he named it "The Indefensible."

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3	Tyra Banks

Celebrity frugality manifests itself in a number of ways, but model, actress and talk show host Tyra Banks seems to run the gauntlet. The star grew up in less than salubrious circumstances, and she's pinching pennies wherever she can. Take the Christmas party she held for her staff - when Santa walked in, what did he pass out to the hard-working men and women who slaved for Banks all year? McDonalds cheeseburgers. She's so cheap that when she moved her production company into a new office and hated the carpet, she chose to instead repaint the walls because it was less expensive. She's also notorious for taking bars of soap from hotel rooms.

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2	Sarah Jessica Parker

Although Carrie Bradshaw on Sex And The City is a veritable poster child for conspicuous consumption, Sarah Jessica Parker is significantly more stingy with her cash. Growing up as one of eight kids in a welfare family in Cincinnati, Ohio, the value of a dollar (and the pain of not having one) was drilled into her head from an early age. Her son James wears almost exclusively hand-me-down clothes and she's notorious for grabbing tons of swag from her movie wardrobes, despite her net worth of an estimated $130 million.

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1	Teri Hatcher

Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher is on her second real career go-round in Hollywood, and she obviously learned a lot from her first run on Lois & Clark. The actress only buys economy cars and drives them until they fall apart - her rule for getting a new car is 10 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first. That's a lot of driving for someone who makes $400,000 perepisode of her show. She also avoids the real estate trap, living in a modest home in Los Angeles