Leonardo DiCaprio Is the World’s Best Son Inline
Photo: William Davila/Startraks Photo1/8For 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.
Photo: Everett Collection2/8In 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."
Photo: Everett Collection3/8While 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.
Photo: Berliner Studio/BEImages4/8In 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.”
Photo: Marion Curtis/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images5/8In 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.”
Photo: Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images6/8In spite of Leo’s notable dating history, when it comes to the red carpet, his preferred date is always, always his mother.
Golden Globes, 1994
Photo: Berliner Studio/BEImages7/8Premiere of Titanic: Dec 14, 1997
Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake8/8Golden Globes, 2014
