Kanye West made the term “Gold Digger” even more popular than it already was when he sang an entire song about not wanting a gold digger. If you’re not sure what this even means, a gold digger is a man or woman who chooses partners for relationships based solely on the number of zeroes at the end of someone’s bank account over anything else. Take that couple that consists of a gorgeous young woman and a much older gentleman as an example.
Most people are going to assume that a 20-something married to or dating a 70-something is a gold digger – and many times they’ll be correct. Sure, many May-December relationships are genuine and really do work because of true love, but some are just straight up gold digging men and women looking for someone to pay their way so that they can live a fancy life with no responsibility. These 20 women are notorious in Hollywood for their gold digging ways.
Anna Nicole Smith
It’s never a happy feeling to say negative things about someone who is no longer with us, but the world knows that she’s one of the most famous gold diggers of all time. She was only 26 when she married J.
Howard Smith, an 89-year-old oil tycoon. Rumor had it she was never intimate with him nor did she ever even live with him, but she did work hard to get his money after his died and his family did not want to give it to her.
Melanesia Trump
Despite the fact that she and Donald Trump have been together almost as many years as the age difference between them, they’ve been married almost 10 years and are still married. She could be our next first lady. The model met Trump back in 1998 when she was only 28 and he was 52.
They were married 8 years later and are still married. It’s been 18 years that they’ve been together and for some reason, it does work for them, though she’s far too young and gorgeous not to be married to him for his money – also, he’s Donald Trump.
Arlene Silver
She was a poor makeup artist when she met and married Dick Van Dyke. It doesn’t seem like a big deal, since people who work together are known to fall in love and have something to do with one another, but it turns out that she was only 40 and he was 86.
She wasn’t quite 20 so it wasn’t the same scandal as it was when Anna Nicole Smith did the same thing, but it was just enough so that it meant that she was probably gold digging.
Courtney Love
She might be a famous singer, mother and the love of the late Kurt Cobain, but that doesn’t change the fact that she is a self-proclaimed gold digger. She’s said it herself; she only likes men who have a lot of money to their name, and she does not feel that there is anything wrong with that.
You know, we like her honesty and we no longer feel for any man who chooses to date a woman upfront about her interest in his finances.
Kim Kardashian
It might seem like a bit of a stretch to put her on the list, but there were rumors long before she was so famous that she was, in fact, a bit of a gold digger. She dated famous, rich men and then she made a lot of money off of them and their relationships.
Her sex tape made her so famous that she’s now the most famous person in the country, and she’s got the most famous family in the country. Now she is filthy rich, but she has never hesitated to forgo using her exes to increase her fame and fortune
Ivana Trump
There are those who state that the stunning beauty knew what she was doing when she met and married the very wealthy Donald Trump. She knew he worked a lot, was never home and would make sure she had a very nice life if she wanted it, and she did.
Of course, then he cheated and it became public, so she divorced him and took his money and now she’s living the life she’s really wanted to live since she was first married.
Holly Madison
She’s the former ex-number one girlfriend of the very, very elderly Hugh Hefner, and she’s a gold digger. I mean, she’s never said it, but there is a bit of a rumor that this is the truth.
In fact, we could say that any woman that’s dated Hef in the past few years is probably just a bit of a gold digger. Especially if you take into consideration the stories that come out of the Playboy mansion about him and how most women are grossed out to be with him
Peta Cavendish
The former nude model from the UK married Mark Cavendish, reportedly for his money. It’s been said that she no longer wanted to pose nude and wanted to have a happy life that involved a lot of money, so she married the wealthy cyclist who treats not only her, but everyone else, poorly.
Rumor has it she puts up with him and his ‘extracurricular’ activities because she likes to be wealthy.
Kendra Wilkinson
She kind of straight up admitted she was gold digging when she, as a teenager, decided to move into the Playboy mansion.
She said she wanted to live there, the weekly allowance seemed like a lot and she loved the idea of being able to party all the time and have very little responsibility. It worked for her, and now she’s famous.
V. Stiviano
She’s the woman who began a relationship with former basketball team owner Donald Sterling, recorded their private conversations and then sold them to the highest bidder.
She is much younger than him, he’s married and they are just one of those couples that make everything in the world seem wrong. She’s been called a gold digger, and it’s probably the truth.
Elin Nordegren
There’s actually not much of me that believes this. Tiger is not a bad looking man, she’s gorgeous, and they’re not too far apart in age. But she was a nanny and then she married the pro golfer, but then he cheated on her and she got $100 million of his.
Now she’s dating a much older billionaire, so that might be questionable. However, one of the many less than stellar women that Tiger ‘dated’ when he was still married called Elin a gold digger that Tiger stayed married to only to save his money.
Amber Rose
She’s a former stripper and she dated Kanye West (who we also think might be a bit of a gold digger and a fame whore). That, alone, says she might be gold digger material (perhaps the muse for his famous song?).
When she was done with him, she went on to marry Wiz Khalfia. And then the world knew that she was certainly, definitely, absolutely a gold digger thanks to that.
Tameka Foster
She married famous superstar Usher after being one of his stylists for a long time. She’s 10 years his senior and their marriage didn’t last.
It’s been said that she was after his money, and even Usher’s own mother reported that this is the truth. She refused to attend her son’s wedding to Foster, and that makes us think that there might be some truth to the rumor that she’s a gold digger.
Shana Moakler
She’s been called one of the most notorious gold diggers in Hollywood, looking for fame and fortune with any man she could get close to. She first became involved with Billy Idol and then she let Oscar De La Hoya impregnate her before she sued him for more than $62 million for the baby.
After that, she married musician Travis Barker and then had kids with him and divorced him later once she became famous.
Pilar Sanders
When she married Deion Sanders, she allegedly asked him for $100,000 to say yes to his proposal. Reports are that he paid the money so she would say yes to him and they got married.
They didn’t stay married, however, and she ended up walking away with a few bucks of his money to call her own. I’m not saying she’s a gold digger (thanks Kanye), but I’m saying that she charged her future husband $100k to say yes.
Kimora Lee Simmons
Were you aware that many consider the famous business woman and model a gold digger? I was not; she and Russell Simmons seemed to have a good marriage when they were married, and they have a good friendship now that they are not.
However, reports are that she’s a gold digger who married him to gain fame and money, took over his clothing line and has only dated celebrities since so she could become more famous.
Vanessa Bryant
They were longtime sweethearts from the time they were young, and we know that she did not marry Kobe for his money.
However, after he cheated on her and was accused of rape, Kobe Bryant reportedly paid his wife millions of dollars in cash and jewels and other gifts to stay married to him to protect his reputation after the scandal. She reportedly accepted considering that they are still married – and that makes her a gold digger in the eyes of many.
Rachel Hunter
There are some that don’t believe it, and others that do, so she’s made the list. Some say that her 16-year marriage to Rod Stewart was all a scam designed so that she could have access to his significant fortune, and that’s something that she’s never confirmed or denied.
What she can confirm, however, is that after 16 years of being married to him, she made the decision to divorce him and take $16 million from him.
Heather Mills
She was once married to Sir Paul McCartney of former Beatles fame and even though she was a model before he met him, even her publicist says that her marriage to the former superstar was strictly about the money.
Well, I guess that makes her a bit of a gold digger, even though we’ve not seen much of her since she walked away with tens of millions of his dollars.