Haim then sold them on another website for an “undisclosed” sum. Initially, he had trouble unloading the items eBay put an end to Haim’s auction, as selling body parts online violates its policies. To sweeten the deal, he included “clumps of his hair.” Īctor Corey Haim (1971–2010) tried to auction one of his molars after the tooth “fell out of his head” in 2001. Only the tresses of the revolutionary Che Guevara, offered by a former CIA employee, outsold that of the King of Rock and Roll, but Guevara’s $119,500 winning bid included his fingerprints and photographs of his corpse. Presley’s hair also brought in more money than the hair of celebrities that had sold at previous auctions, including that of baseball legend Mickey Mantle ($6,900). In a 2002 Internet auction, a lock of Presley’s hair sold for a whopping $115,000, beating out the winning bids for hair from Beatles member John Lennon ($48,000), composer Ludwig van Beethoven ($7,300), and President John F. Other clippings of the rock star’s hair have also been sold at previous auctions for thousands of dollars. Over the years, Gilleland attached locks of the legendary vocalist’s hair to his own business cards and gave them as gifts to his friends.
The buyer was Homer Gil Gilleland, who’d been Presley’s personal hairstylist. In 2012, a vial containing clippings of the hair of rock ‘n’ roll great Elvis Presley (1935–1977) sold at the Music Icons and Sports Legends Auction at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, for $4,160. He’d cut them off as a gift for Jennings after Jennings beat his drug addiction. Among them were country music star Willie Nelson’s pigtails. After country singer Waylon Jennings died in 2002, items of his estate were sold in an eBay auction. The shaving of one’s hair is required at least once in a Hindu’s lifetime, “as a way of shedding the ego, ridding oneself of sin and making a vow to the gods.” The temple hopes to cash in on the international demand for Indian hair by selling it abroad as well as locally.Ĭelebrity hair also sells well. Indian hair, described as “both thin and strong,” is a hot commodity in the manufacture of wigs and hair extensions. The sale of the hair raises millions of rupees for the temple.
He does a brisk business, handling 900 kilograms (1,984 lb) of hair each day. After their hair is shaved at Sri Venkateswara Temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh, Patheti Srinivasarao collects, categorizes, and sells it. In India, Hindu pilgrims cut off their hair as an offering to Lord Venkateswara, a form of the god Vishnu. The initial asking price for the dictator’s blood and brain was €22,290, but the price dropped to €15,000 before eBay withdrew them, saying the auction of “any human organic material” violates the company’s policies. After Mussolini was killed at the end of World War II, his body was autopsied at a Milan hospital, from whence it was stolen, according to his granddaughter, Alessandra Mussolini. The blood and brain of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) were reportedly briefly offered for sale in an eBay auction. After a “dispute” between his heirs and the French government concerning “the disposition of his heart and brain,” the latter was “included in a sale of furniture and never traced.” The heart of the author who wrote the classic Candide, or Optimism was presented to the Bibliotheeque Nationale. Photo credit: Nicolas de Largilliere, WikimediaĮdouard Giard, the French Auctioneers’ Association’s honorary president, said the brain of the famous French Enlightenment author Francois-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), who’s better known by his pen name Voltaire, was most likely sold at an auction. The buyer is said to have “wanted the head for its ‘shock value.’ ” Higher bids, including one of €10,000, were offered, but they weren’t accepted because those who offered them intended to take the saint’s head out of Ireland. No one knows how his head came to Ireland, but its owners “acquired it on the ‘grand tour’ of Europe during the 19th century.” Ī Hollywood actor purchased the skull for €3,500, four times its reserve price. Although his early years were characterized “by licentiousness and immorality,” Vitalis became a saint later in his life and sought atonement for his sins by undertaking pilgrimages to a number of sanctuaries. The “guide price” for the object recommended between between €800 and €1,200.Īn Italian hermit who lived in poverty, the monk died in 1370. Stored in a Queen Anne case, the gruesome relic was offered for sale by an Anglo-Irish family. Vitalis of Assisi (1295–1370), the patron saint of people with genital diseases, was put on the auction block in County Meath, Ireland. On May 29, 2011, the decapitated head (actually, skull) of St.
0 kommentar(er)
