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Emu · #1

...that he used the profits from The Passion to buy himself an island.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_041209191545
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood star Mel Gibson (news), flush from the huge success of his religious film "The Passion of Christ," has splashed out 15 million dollars on a private Pacific island, a report said.

The Australian-raised screen heartthrob and movie industry mogul flew to Fiji earlier this month where he bought the 2,160-hectare (5,400-acre) island of Mago from a Japanese hotel chain, People magazine reported.

"He wants to keep it as an exclusive getaway for his friends and family," the magazine quoted a local source as saying.

Gibson plans to turn the Pacific paradise, that is home to 40 residents, mostly coconut farmers and their families, into his own personal retreat, the US magazine said in its edition due to hit news-stands on Friday.

The South Pacific island boasts two lagoons and stunning white-sand beaches, it said.

Gibson's spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Emu · #2

fuck you edit button

FS · #3

He needs an island to hide on after alienating so many people. Jews (Passion of the Christ), Brits (the Patriot), men (What Women Want)...

FartinMowler · #4

I know this is a little off topic, but who owns these Islands in the first place to be able to sell them?

El Blanco · #5

S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

The economy has hit them hard.

Anonymous · #6

Little do you know he plans to turn the island into a jesus-based theme park ;<

the_dudefather · #7

i think he should send the money to jesus. to do this he would have to:

-write a cheque (or an envelope full of cash)
-go to a hospital
-find a dying old woman (with a clean record)
-shove the money/cheque down her throat
-wait until she dies
-and presto! she will take the money with her to heaven, and then give it to jesus

Emu · #8

Nooo, you can't take it with you. So you enter heaven naked.

McMock · #9

This is everything that is wrong about capitalism. Mel Gibson doesn't deserve that kind of treatment. He should be shot in the stomach with a buckshot just on account of being an aussie alone. They're all criminals, remember?