Including two beloved movie stars, a pair of British royals, a couple of oil barons, and one very rich U.S. president.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, is known for his frugality,
living in the same unostentatious Omaha home he bought in the 1950s and
driving himself around in an ordinary American car (albeit a Cadillac).
Sam Walton, the late billionaire co-founder of Wal-Mart, also lived
comfortably, but without all the showy toys he could easily have
afforded. “Why do I drive a pickup truck?” he asked in his
autobiography. “What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a
Rolls-Royce?”
But there’s frugal, and then there’s cheap.
Here are 10 famous figures who seem to have crossed the line between
admirably frugal and abominably stingy. Some hoarded their money and
denied themselves and their families even the most common of comforts.
Others lived lavishly, sparing nothing on their own pleasures—while
sticking other people with the bill whenever possible.
