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How Lady Gaga spends her US$275 million fortune

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Lady Gaga poses backstage with her awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic Dance Album at the Grammy Awards in 2010. Photo: AP
Lady Gaga poses backstage with her awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic Dance Album at the Grammy Awards in 2010. Photo: AP
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The star recently provided a closer look at her life in the Netflix documentary, ‘Gaga: Five Foot Two’

Lady Gaga may have once written a song called “Money Honey”, but cash isn’t everything for the pop artist.

“Money has been put on a pedestal, beauty has been put on a pedestal, celebrity has been put on a pedestal,” she told the crowd at one 2016 London concert, according to The Telegraph.

Still, with a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s interesting to see what kind of costs Gaga is racking up.

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The star – whose real name is Stefani Germanotta – recently offered fans an intensely personal glimpse of her life in the new Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two .

Here’s what we know the pop star spends her money on:

Since bursting onto the scene with her 2008 debut album The Fame Gaga has acquired a net worth of around US$275 million.

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But, in Gaga’s case, fortune didn’t immediately follow fame. Despite her success, she found herself US$3 million in debt after her Monster Ball tour, which ran from 2009 to 2011.

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“I remember I called everybody and said, ‘Why is everyone saying I have no money? This is ridiculous, I have five No. 1 singles,’” she told Financial Times. The culprit of her money woes turned out to be the tour’s multitude of lavish costumes.

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