20-year-old who blows £15,000 on shopping each month
IT IS more than some people earn in a year, but this 20-yearold thinks nothing of blowing £15,000 a month on luxury shoes, bags and clothes.
And Lana Scolaro is certainly not embarrassed about her profligate lifestyle.
For she is one of the ‘ Rich Kids of Instagram’, a group of super-wealthy youngsters who brag about their lavish lives on the social media site to thousands of followers.
They post pictures of themselves doing things most of us can only dream of, such as flying in private jets, cruising in customised Rolls-Royces or dining at some of the world’s most exclusive restaurants.
London-born Miss Scolaro is so out of touch that she believes the average Briton spends as much as £5,000 a month on shopping.
The multi-million pound heiress – who previously made headlines in 2013 after posting a picture online of herself with then- married singer Robin Thicke, in which a mirror revealed he had his hand on her bottom – is to appear in a documentary about the privileged group.
Photo and video- sharing website Instagram has become popular with celebrities, who use it to keep followers up-to-date with their every move. Miss Scolaro’s account details her jetset lifestyle, which sees her fly between London and other family properties in New York, Ibiza and Monaco.
It also reveals her penchant for luxury Hermes Birkin handbags, which cost thousands of pounds each. In the Channel 4 documentary, Rich Kids of Instagram, which airs on Monday at 9pm, she reveals her parents bought her a £30,000 version after she ‘got really good grades’. She added: ‘I had another one which I graffiti- sprayed by accident, so my parents went mad about that. It wasn’t really an accident. I just felt like doing it.’
Miss Scolaro also said: ‘I probably spend about £15,000 a month on just shopping. I think the average person a month probably spends something around like £3,000 to £5,000.’
She studied fine art at the exclusive Parsons College of Design in New York and recently launched a jewellery collection, backed by her father Francesco Scolaro, who made millions as a mining entrepreneur and investor in the leisure sector. Her mother, Anna, is horrified by her behaviour and temporarily deleted her Instagram after the photograph with Thicke went viral.