Twice now the swaggering businessman has splashed serious cash and looked like a big shot in front of a crowd — only to back out later when nobody was watching.had bid a stunning $1.5 million in a charity auction for Unicef at a glittering gala attended by Leonardo DiCaprio, Jared Leto and former Vogue UK boss Edward Enninful — but then decided not to cough up, bizarrely calling the event’s organizers a “fraudulent organization.
So our resourceful hero took the hint and shelled out a fortune on items including several gowns for his girlfriend, $19,000 cuff links, $2,500 sandals, a $10,000 leather jacket, and dozens of other head-spinning goodies. Sniffed a deeply unimpressed source: “He wants to let people know he’s very rich but then he wears clothes and returns them?”Sources tell Page Six that Carroll had made it quite clear to the famed American fashion house that he would like tickets to its Milan fashion show.bought the goods to become a big enough spender to qualify for the tickets, a rep for Carroll told us the claim sounded “odd.”
“It doesn’t make sense that they are giving him trouble for returning his girlfriend’s clothes that she decided wasn’t her favorite. People return things all the time,” they added.But seething sources tell Page Six that once they’d worn the clothes to the event, Carroll attempted to return many of the most expensive items, including the cuff links and gowns.“This is the biggest bunch of bullsh**t. I hope Tom Ford didn’t say this because it isn’t good,” he said, “I didn’t return anything.
After he withdrew the donation, Carroll told Page Six: “I sent the full amount of the donation through my bank and was quite surprised when it flagged the recipient as a fraudulent organization. That is because, as I later found out, the donation was technically not to Unicef but rather to the ‘membership committee’ and to the event promoters, which spent lavishly on the benefit itself. I was also told the donation was tax deductible, and shockingly that wound up not being the case.