Hollywood tells us that once you’ve made big money, you have to spend some of it on an outrageously expensive car.

Tracy Morgan’s most recent acquisition was a white Bugatti, with a price tag of around $2 million and a top speed in excess of 400 km/h.

Minutes after buying the car earlier this week, however, it was sideswiped by a Honda. Morgan claims that it wasn’t his fault, and the NYPD agree, stating that Morgan was preparing to make a legal left turn when the crash happened, reports Forbes.

Let’s get a look at the damage:

Yeah, that’s going to cost him.

Morgan has unwillingly joined a pretty exclusive club. It looks likes celebrities have a habit of buying and then crashing incredibly expensive cars.

Let’s check out his fellow club members:

Dutch DJ and music producer Nick van de Wall, better known as Afrojack, totalled his brand-new Ferrari 458 Italia the same day he bought it in 2013.

Before the incident, van de Wall tweeted a picture of himself with the $240,000 car, captioning it: “I made a new friend!!!.”

About an hour later, he posted an image of the wreckage: “Ok that sucks. Good thing we’re all ok!!!! Lesson in life: don’t drive a Ferrari in sh*t weather!”

He followed up the Ferrari with a Lamborghini Aventador. Shortly after that, he got his licence revoked.

Rowan Atkinson wrecked his McLaren F1, sold for almost $10 million in 2015, twice over a period of 18 years.

In 1999, he damaged the car’s hood by driving into the back of a Rover Metro. Then in 2011, he drove it into a tree, resulting in an infamous $1.4 million repair bill.

The comic actor bought the slick McLaren F1 in 1997 for around $606,000. It is powered by a 627-horsepower 6.1-liter V12 engine that will do zero to 62 mph in 3.2 seconds and accelerate all the way to 241 mph.

He sold it in 2015. Only 64 were ever built.

Moving on to Missy Elliot.

In a weird series of events in 2003, a 30-year-old Virginia man, Joseph Johnson, stole and then wrecked the rapper’s purple Lamborghini Diablo.

The crash occurred within three miles of the garage in which the car was being stored, not much of a joyride.

According to court documents. Johnson caused $170,000 in damages and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Lastly, and most painfully, the eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, and a Lamborghini were totalled in what the Japanese media called “the world’s most expensive car accident”.

The supercars were part of a 20-car convoy heading from Kyushu to Hiroshima when the lead driver, a 60-year-old businessman in a Ferrari F430 Scuderia, lost control on wet pavement. The damage totaled $3.85 million.

The carnage is almost too sad to look at:

It’s the stuff of petrol-head nightmares.

No celebs involved in that one, but a right mess nonetheless.

[source:forbes]