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Prince’s guitar, Bowie’s hair sold in auction
LOS ANGELES: Bidders paid a combined total of more than $150,000 for a lock of David Bowie’s hair and Prince’s iconic “Yellow Cloud” guitar on Saturday at a Beverly
LOS ANGELES: Bidders paid a combined total of more than $150,000 for a lock of David Bowie’s hair and Prince’s iconic “Yellow Cloud” guitar on Saturday at a Beverly Hills auction.
Heritage Auctions, which prompted legal action by offering Whitney Houston’s Emmy Award as part of a separate sale, said the snippet of Bowie’s pale blond hair went for $18,750.
It came from a former employee of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London who was tasked with recreating the music icon’s 1983-era hairdo for his wax figure.
Prince’s instrument of choice during the late 1980s attracted a winning bid of $137,500, with unconfirmed reports saying it had gone to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.
The auctioneer was forced to abandon plans to sell Houston’s Emmy as part of a separate auction of her dresses and other belongings after the US Television Academy argued it owned the rights to the statuette.
US District Judge Percy Anderson issued a temporary restraining order on Friday forbidding the auction house from selling the trophy, won in 1986 for Houston’s performance of “Saving All My Love for You” at the Grammys.
“We fought the good fight, but we respect the court’s decision,” Heritage spokesman Eric Bradley said. The 48-year-old diva was found drowned in a bathtub in 2012.
