Life insurance policy – Which celebrity tops the most expensive policy chart?
When did the insuring of stars limbs begin?
The insuring of starts “assets” goes right back to the starlet era of the 1920s when Ben Turpin, a silent movie star famous for having crossed eyes, took out a life insurance policy worth $20,000 in the event that his eyes should ‘un-cross’! This was a huge amount of money in the 20’s and since then, the craze of stars insuring themselves has seriously taken off! The ladies caught on and in the 40’s Betty Grable insured her legs for a whopping $1million, hence the phrase ‘million-dollar legs’.
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Policies get more imaginative
As the insurers laughed all the way to the bank, the celebrities kept on coming up with new necessities to take out insurance policies for. Bette Davies even went as far as to insure herself against weight gain for $28,000. The really bizarre policies began in the 60’s when a topless dancer insured her breasts for $600,000. She was the first but certainly not the last to take out such an insurance policy as Dolly Parton soon followed suit.
However, it is not only the ladies who are insuring their “assets”. A male stripper of British origin thought his manhood so vital that he took out an insurance policy for it at a cool, $1.6million.
Not just the “parts” themselves
As stars found their ways in life, insurance policies continued to increase in popularity too. The next big thing to be insured was stars voices with Bruce Springstein leading the way with a $6 million policy, shortly followed by Rod Stewart. On behalf of the ladies, there have been rumours that Mariah Carey has also insured her massively ranging pipes!
Is that all it is, just rumours?
There ahs been a lot of speculation around stars life insurance policies and whether they are generated from the rumour mill to boost publicity. One of the most famous being the rumour that Jenifer Lopez took out a $1 billion policy for her rear-end. Her people denied but it got her in the newspapers. Therefore, are the stars really about protecting their body parts or is all part of their quest to get that extra 15 minutes of fame?
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