Celebrities and Money

I came across an article tonight that caught my eye, and made me think of this class. It's a slide show of seven celebrities and how they spent their first million dollars. Most of the celebrities were people I had heard of, but not really anyone I care about. It made me think about the everything the public wants to know about celebrities. What is the reason to care that Julianne Moore bought her mother a cashmere sweater with her first steady pay check? It seems like with less image management on the part of stars we get more information, but I have to wonder where the craving for information stops. With a quick Google search you can find any information you want on a celebrity, so what is the appeal if there is no mystique?