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James Brown's Auction Attracts The Curious, The Hairstyling Historians [Everything Must Go]
Posted on July 21, 2008
Last week's auction of James Brown's belongings at the auction house Christie's sounds like it was a pretty depressing affair, with a few C-list sightings (Paul Shaffer, Nicky Hilton, DJ Shadow) and a lot of malaise. The sale had been projected to bring in some $2 million, but all the items wound up fetching half that $857,688, according to The New York Times. Brown's children Yamma and Larry told the Times' Guy Trebay that the auction marked a sad day for the family, thanks to every item on the bill being forcibly sold no matter what price was offered and the likelihood of one collector b...
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