--- title: Paul Manafort Ostrich Jacket Gets Thoroughly Plucked description: The internet can't stop making jokes about Paul Manafort's ostrich jacket and other high-end style purchases. canonical: https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-03T16:05:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:09.127Z og:title: Paul Manafort's Ostrich Jacket Gets Thoroughly Plucked og:description: The internet can't stop joking about the $15,000 high-end purchase og:url: https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt265c0ba640ac27a7/698936fafb4eac303989747c/manafort-ostrich-jacket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Manafort-ostrich-jacket og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Paul Manafort's Ostrich Jacket Gets Thoroughly Plucked twitter:description: The internet can't stop joking about the $15,000 high-end purchase twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt265c0ba640ac27a7/698936fafb4eac303989747c/manafort-ostrich-jacket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Can't Stop Plucking at Paul Manafort's $15,000 Ostrich Jacket ## Video: Prosecutors Paint a Picture of Paul Manafort's Lavish Lifestyle [Watch (HLS stream): Prosecutors Paint a Picture of Paul Manafort's Lavish Lifestyle](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DdTsoKyI.m3u8) (0:43)  _Published 2018-08-01. Paul Manafort orchestrated a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to evade U.S. tax and banking laws, leaving behind a trail of lies as he lived a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors said Tuesday._ by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 3, 2018 4:05 PM CUT  This photo provided by the Department of Justice was introduced into evidence by the government, during the second day of the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in federal court in Alexandria, Va., shows Manafort's $15,000 jacket made of ostrich on Aug. 1, 2018. This photo provided by the Department of Justice was introduced into evidence by the government, during the second day of the fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in federal court in Alexandria, Va., shows Manafort's $15,000 jacket made of ostrich on Aug. 1, 2018.Uncredited/AP/REX/Shutterstock by [Ashley Hoffman](/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Aug 3, 2018 4:05 PM CUT The fashion police have come for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman [Paul Manafort](http://time.com/5355847/paul-manafort-lavish-money-taxes-bank-fraud-trial/ "undefined"). Manafort is on [trial](http://time.com/5354718/paul-manafort-trial-begins/ "undefined") for bank and tax fraud and federal prosecutors outlined his purchases on Wednesday to build a case about Manafort’s income. That’s how people learned he once spent more than $400,000 in a single year on his own personal wardrobe, paying handsomely for it with it through international wire transfers from foreign bank accounts, according to witnesses and prosecutors. A former employee of New York City’s Alan Couture boutique testified that he bought “an unusual number of suits.” Some of the items he bought at a Manhattan tailor were tailor-made for internet humor. Style selections like his “custom $15,000 jacket made from an ostrich,” a “$9,500 vest made from ostrich,” a “$18,500 jacket made from python skin,” and a”waterproof silk blouson,” were just some of the splurges prosecutors illuminated in the courtroom on the second day of his trial. In his defense, Manafort’s legal team has argued that he left the details of his spending to others, saying that his involvement with longtime associate Rick Gates led to accounting errors. Prosecutors showed so many photographs of his pricy threads that Judge T. S. Ellis III of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. eventually scolded prosecutors. “Let’s move on, enough is enough,” Ellis said during the trial. “We don’t convict people because they have a lot of money and throw it around.” But the jurors on the internet do not adhere to such principles. Manafort’s critics continue to make a meal out of his taste in finer things. See a sampling of the internet responses below. > [](https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1025032258967748611) > [](https://twitter.com/blainecapatch/status/1025153666997731329) > [](https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1025014981371355136) > [](https://twitter.com/KaraScannell/status/1024798995733008386) > [](https://twitter.com/rachelweinerwp/status/1024808149021347840) > [](https://twitter.com/RexHuppke/status/1025073093847511045) > [](https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1024841588617502720) > [](https://twitter.com/DomenicoNPR/status/1024968105729118209) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/"},"headline":"The Internet Can't Stop Plucking at Paul Manafort's $15,000 Ostrich Jacket","datePublished":"2018-08-03T16:05:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:09.127Z","description":"The internet can't stop making jokes about Paul Manafort's ostrich jacket and other high-end style purchases.","url":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt265c0ba640ac27a7/698936fafb4eac303989747c/manafort-ostrich-jacket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt265c0ba640ac27a7/698936fafb4eac303989747c/manafort-ostrich-jacket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Manafort-ostrich-jacket","caption":"Ostrich jacket on hanger","creditText":"Uncredited/AP/REX/Shutterstock","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/","name":"The Internet Can't Stop Plucking at Paul Manafort's $15,000 Ostrich Jacket"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Prosecutors Paint a Picture of Paul Manafort's Lavish Lifestyle","description":"Paul Manafort orchestrated a multimillion-dollar conspiracy to evade U.S. tax and banking laws, leaving behind a trail of lies as he lived a lavish lifestyle, prosecutors said Tuesday.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DdTsoKyI/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-08-01T02:00:39.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DdTsoKyI.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/","duration":"PT43S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5357236/paul-manafort-ostrich-jacket/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```