TomKat blow $100k on Suri Cruise's birthday
Think you're spoiling your kid? Think about poor little Suri Cruise, whose folks blew $100,000 on her second birthday party on April 18. That's five zeroes, mind you.
The New York Daily News and In Touch Weekly say Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes invited 24 people to an afternoon bash. Everyone got an individual designer cake in the shape of a hat bearing that person's name, with a butterfly and a daisy on the brim.
They also ordered $230 worth of cupcakes in flavors like lemon coconut and chai latte, in case that wasn't enough sugar. But the main event was Suri's four-tiered, polka-dotted cake, which was covered in yellow and white sugar butterflies. (Suri is into the butterflies, apparently.)
"They're very specific about what they like," said baker Jane Lockhart, owner of Sweet Lady Jane Bakery in West Hollywood, which made the cakes. "They wanted (Suri's) cake to look simple and childlike so they designed it themselves, which was kind of interesting. They brought in photos they had seen of butterflies and other cakes."
After eating an additional $45,000 in food from Wolfgang Puck and enjoying $17,000 worth of fresh flowers, the day gave way to an evening affair for TomKat's close friends, including David and Victoria Beckham, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Eva Longoria Parker and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy.
We're sure they all sat around the Cruise compound and discussed rising gas prices, health insurance premiums and global food costs as they were gorging on birthday cake and avarice. Why wouldn't they?
[Photo: Getty Images]
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the birthday party is not about their daughter suri, it's about THEM
Posted by: josiane flaherty | April 26, 2008 at 06:12 PM
I do not care about them. Just don't let people like this tell me I need to donate my time and money to the poor. That makes me mad.
Posted by: Jay | April 25, 2008 at 07:28 AM
Well, it's just fine if they want to spend that much. It's all relative, since they are super-rich it's probably a "drop in the bucket" to them.
I only hope that Tom Cruise has lavished as much money and attention on his other two children. I never paid attention to such news, so I don't know if he has.
If not, I feel sad for his other kids.
Posted by: anon | April 24, 2008 at 02:17 PM
Its their money and they make a ton of it entertaning us. More power to em.
Posted by: whocares? | April 24, 2008 at 09:36 AM
Good for the Cruises. Be happy that people of wealth are spending their money. I am sure the baker's, florist, limo drivers , etc are not complaining. Take a chill pill and write about the positives.
Posted by: bob | April 24, 2008 at 09:07 AM
Who cares? It's not my money, or public money. It's their money to spend as they like. You guys need to lighten up.
Posted by: TechRider | April 24, 2008 at 08:41 AM
Why pick on Cruise? I'm no fan, but if I had a hundred million in the bank I wouldn't sweat $4 gas, either.
Posted by: JB | April 24, 2008 at 08:18 AM
One more reason for me to despise Tom Cruise.
Posted by: Anton | April 23, 2008 at 05:06 PM
wow. with what is happening to our economy, this is truly disgusting.
Posted by: frank | April 23, 2008 at 04:46 PM