Leonardo DiCaprio Is the World’s Best Son Inline

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    For Mother’s Day this year, Leo reportedly took his mother to the Palm Court at the Plaza for a deluxe Sunday tea party with four of his friends, including Ethan Suplee, who also appeared in The Wolf of Wall Street.

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    In 2006, DiCaprio was asked if he felt any differently about purchasing precious stones after filming the drama Blood Diamond. "Well, I don’t remember the last time I have," DiCaprio said. "My mom is the only person that I would buy something like that for, and for a while now she hasn’t wanted one."

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    While Leonardo DiCaprio had cemented his heartthrob status by 1998—Titanic had already hit in theaters—he was still living at home with his mother in Los Angeles’s neighborhood, Los Feliz.

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    In the fall of 1998, he purchased a Cape Cod–style beach house in Malibu for $1.6 million. According to Variety, “the house has long been used on either a full- or part-time basis by the star’s mother.”

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    In addition to lavish gifts, Leo also showers his mother with kind words. “She supported this little kid who said, ‘I want to be an actor,’ at twelve years old, which is ridiculous, and she drove me to all these auditions,” he said. “She’s the only reason I’m able to do what I do.”