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Stairs to the Eiffel Towers sell big at auction

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So I know this isn’t gossip, but it’s Parisian history and so iconic I just had to share the news. A nearly ten foot high section of the original stairs from the Eiffel Tower were sold at auction on Tuesday and brought an onslaught of bidders from all over the world. The 14 steps were a part of the 984-foot structure when it was constructed by engineer Gustave Eiffel for the 1889 World Fair in Paris. Portions of the original stairs, which existed for nearly a century before an elevator was installed at the monument in 1983, have wound up at various museums and landmarks across the globe, including the Statue of Liberty, noted AFP. Preauction values for the staircase block, which was owned by a Canadian art collector, had been expected to draw between $36,000 and $48,000 — about seven times less than the going price — before a “lively auction battle by phone” jacked up the price, and it went for $328,427! View this post on Instagram A post shared by ARTCURIAL (@artcurial__) The post Stairs to the Eiffel Towers sell big at auction appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Michael Jordan’s sneakers sell for $615,000

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On Thursday at Christie’s Auction House, a pair of Michael Jordan’s sneakers sold for a record-breaking $615,000! They weren’t just any old kicks, of course.  They were a pair of Air Jordan 1 Highs that the NBA megastar wore during a 1985 exhibition match in Italy when he dunked the ball so hard it shattered the glass backboard. (See gif up top) “This is the original shoe with an actual piece of the backboard, a piece of glass, in the sole of the shoe,” said Caitlin Donovan, head of handbag and sneaker sales at Christie’s — which organized the auction with Stadium Goods. Jordan racked up 30 points while wearing the size 13.5 shoes, which are in the red and black colors of his Chicago Bulls team. Though the sale broke the record set in May when a pair of Air Jordan 1’s sold for $560,000, the new auction landed below the estimated range of $650,000 and $850,000. The post Michael Jordan’s sneakers sell for $615,000 appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Frank Sinatra’s gold toilets sold at auction

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I’m a fan of Frank Sinatra’s music and that’s hard for me because I’m aware that be beat his wives something terrible. That seems like an odd way to open, but I had to get that out before jumping into the frivolous end of things… Three gold-topped toilets from Sinatra’s “Chairman’s Suite” at the Golden Nugget hotel in Atlantic City went up for auction Sunday.  People bought them.  People that need a hug. That’s my guess. The lavish Italian marble-and-gold loos, made by the New York City-based Sherle Wagner International, were among a collection of Sinatra goodies up for grabs by SS Auction Inc. The assortment also was flush with furniture, lamps, artwork and antique clocks from his crap there at the hotel. So how much? Well first you need to know that the things are supposed to have cost $30k when made.  They sold for $4,250, $3,500 and $3,750.  Ha! Dummies.  All of them. The post Frank Sinatra’s gold toilets sold at auction appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Mustang expected to auction for huge money

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The famous green Mustang driven by Steve McQueen in the 1968 Warner Bros. film “Bullitt” is headed to auction in January, in Kissimmee, Fla., and if Mecum Auctions gets what they are expecting, the car could sell for more than $3.5 million— that’s the record price for an American muscle car. According to Hagerty, an insurer and valuator of classic vehicles, the “Bullitt” Mustang could end up the most expensive Mustang ever sold at auction, surpassing a 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake that Mecum sold for $2.2 million at the 2019 Kissimmee auction. Could it be yours? Well, you can dream. Here’s a look at Steve McQueen’s “Bullitt” Mustang. The post Steve McQueen’s Bullitt Mustang expected to auction for huge money appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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Family finds Rembrandt in the basement, Gets the money

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A New Jersey family made some fast money recently when they were cleaning out their basement. The Landau’s said the painting originally belonged to their grandparents until there death when their mother decided to hang it in the dining room.  Something a number of the kids didn’t care for, since the image is of a woman passed out and being revived with smelling salts.  It just doesn’t say “bon appetite!” In 2010 their mother passed and the painting went down into a basement and under a ping pong table.  Fast forward to 2017 and the family decides to auction off some of the things inherited from mom that were just gathering dust. rothers Ned and Steven Landau took the artwork in 2015 to Nye & Company Auctioneers in Bloomfield, where they were initially told it might fetch around $500. John Nye, of Nye & Company, put what appeared to be an unsigned copy of the Rembrandt painting up for auction. “Everybody was caught by surprise. There were only three people in the world that recognized the significance of the painting, and they were all in Europe,” the auctioneer said. When the auction was over the painting had sold for $1.1 million!  The winning bidder had the painting authenticated soon after to prove it was a real Rembrandt and then quickly sold it to a collector for $4.4 million. The post Family finds Rembrandt in the basement, Gets the money appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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John Lennon’s Letter to Ex-Wife for Sale at Auction’s

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A letter written by John Lennon to his ex-wife disputing Yoko Ono’s involvement in their divorce is one of two letters up for auction. Both letters were written by the Beatles legend on Nov. 15, 1976, and both refer to Cynthia Lennon and her relationship with the media. The lot is estimated to be sold for $25,000 at the auction this week. Lennon and Powell, parents of Julian Lennon, were married in 1962. They divorced in 1968, and his affair with Ono, whom he’d met that same year, was cited as grounds for the split. Powell died in 2015. One letter, titled “An Open Letter to Cynthia Twist” (which was her married name at the time), was written as a response to an interview she’d given to a magazine. “As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. or Yoko Ono … and that’s reality!” he wrote. “Your memory is impaired to say the least. Your version of our first L.S.D. trip is rather vague, and you seem to have forgotten subsequent trips altogether! Lennon also referred to an episode involving mutual friends. “I don’t blame you for wanting to get away from your ‘Beatle’ past,” he concluded. “But if you are serious about it, you should try to avoid talking to and posing for magazines and newspapers! We did have some good years, so dwell on them for a change, and, as [Bob] Dylan says, it was ‘A Simple Twist of Fate’! Love & good luck to the three of you, from the three of us.” The letter was addressed to the editors of a magazine, with a handwritten introduction. “I would appreciate this letter being printed without any edits,” he wrote. “I think it only fair to me and your readers to present my side of the story. Thank you.” The firm responsible for the sale, R&R Auction Company LLC, notes that “Lennon’s clever pun at the close of the first letter, ‘A Simple Twist of Fate’ – a takeoff on Bob Dylan’s ode to a lost love – likely inspired his former spouse in her decision to title her forthcoming tell-all memoirs, A Twist of Lennon, which Twist was then publicizing. As Lennon’s official ‘side of the story,’ a public he-said-she-said self defense, these letters represent the unique final chapter in the life of the former Beatle and are thus of the utmost rarity and importance.” The post John Lennon’s Letter to Ex-Wife for Sale at Auction’s appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.