Floyd “Money” Mayweather has taken to Instagram, the sepia-toned medium of conspicuous consumption, to show off his brand-new, 255-mph Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse, purchased for $3,498,000. (Mayweather, ever demure, listed the price only to the thousand.)
This seasonally appropriate ode to spill-it-on-the-floor-like-Dom Perignon wealth, cloaked in orange and matte black, is actually one of the more elegant posts on Mayweather’s Instagram. Scrolling back, one comes across photos of a questionable Star of David-embroidered ballcap atop a pile of money, a pile of money next to a bag of money and a Mayweather original quote: “They say money doesn’t bring you happiness… I say… Neither does being broke.” Floyd Mayweather, methodically dismantling pith like it was Manny Pacquiao.
So, a career of hits to the frontal lobe doesn’t leave one with Wilde’s wit. It does, as Mayweather would point out, leave one with a $350 million fortune. Congratulations on all the money, Floyd, and drive safe.