Anna Nicole's Diaries Bring $500,000 on eBay
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Buyer plans to sell information, photos to the media
The ongoing epilogue to the life and times of Anna Nicole Smith played itself out on eBay on Thursday. A German bidder shelled out more than $500,000 (and a 20% buyer's premium) for the two diaries the late model and "reality" celebrity wrote in 1992 and 1994.
As reported on MSN (from an AP story), the buyer wished to remain anonymous but said he would sell information from the two hand-written diaries then resell them both by the end of the year.
The "soap opera value" of the dairies could be worth more than $1 million alone, including the rights to publish photos of the pages, Thomas Riccio of Universal Rarities, the California company that handled the sale, told the AP.
Though this latest bit profiteering off of the late Ms. Smith strikes us as just a tad unseemly, it somehow fits with the tawdry manner in which she and so many would-be loved ones around her regarded her in life. Search Anna Nicole on eBay and you wonder who will be next to cash in. Alas.
The ongoing epilogue to the life and times of Anna Nicole Smith played itself out on eBay on Thursday. A German bidder shelled out more than $500,000 (and a 20% buyer's premium) for the two diaries the late model and "reality" celebrity wrote in 1992 and 1994.
As reported on MSN (from an AP story), the buyer wished to remain anonymous but said he would sell information from the two hand-written diaries then resell them both by the end of the year.
The "soap opera value" of the dairies could be worth more than $1 million alone, including the rights to publish photos of the pages, Thomas Riccio of Universal Rarities, the California company that handled the sale, told the AP.
Though this latest bit profiteering off of the late Ms. Smith strikes us as just a tad unseemly, it somehow fits with the tawdry manner in which she and so many would-be loved ones around her regarded her in life. Search Anna Nicole on eBay and you wonder who will be next to cash in. Alas.
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