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My car, a dilapidated old Jag.
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Diamonds for my wife.
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A 1962 Fender Stratocaster guitar I bought in 2014 for £10,000.
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A trip that was, like, $100k. It was a lot of money and I didn’t even go on it. It was to St Barts. I paid for me and my friends and a lot of stuff fell apart, and then it ended up with one of my friends just going with his girlfriend.
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My five-litre Ford Mustang.
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