Aniston TP Auction off the Roll

Fri., Jul. 29, 2005 4:05 PM PDT by Joal Ryan

Jennifer Aniston's toilet-paper musings are not for public consumption.

The Southern California lawyer who made headlines this week for promising to auction off memorabilia of his and Aniston's long-ago supposed summer of puppy love, including the birthday card the future Friends star was said to have improvised on two-ply, has scuttled the sale.

Michael Baroni said he nixed the planned eBay auction, set to launch on Friday, after hearing from Aniston's camp that the actress would rather the items not be put up for bid.

"I have nothing but fond memories of Jennifer as a friend and only wish her well," Baroni said in an email.

Aniston's publicist did not return a call for comment.

Baroni planned to seek at least $100,000 for the lot of photos and trinkets, some dating back to 1984, when Aniston was 15 and he was 16. According to him, they shared a "summer passion" in New York. Baroni said the fling morphed into friendship, before falling off the map altogether. He said he last spoke with Aniston in 1991, three years before she shot to fame in Friends.

Though Baroni's memorabilia never was publicly offered on eBay, the same could not be said of a host of joke auctions--the one offering the "Jennifer Aniston love letters I will write and never send" or the one offering "an actual Jennifer Aniston love letter my brother sent her that parodied a hit country-music tune lyrics." Baroni sounded concerned that he would be linked to those sales. He was not--that is, linked to those sales. Suffice to say, the T-shirts with the TP graphic reading "I used you--Jennifer Aniston" was someone else's brainchild.

With his own eBay auction a nonstarter, Baroni said he has no plans to revive the sale. That means the "love letter from Jennifer, handwritten in red pen," the page from Baroni's "little black book that contains Jen's old New York address and phone number," the famous toilet-paper birthday card and the piece of paper Aniston reportedly wrote her name and phone number on ("in her own lipstick!") might forever be off-limits to celebrity archivists.

Though Aniston might have scored a victory in keeping the reputed remainders of her young love life off the market, on the day, she was only one-for-two in the romance department. Friday, after all, would have been her and Brad Pitt's fifth anniversary, but the couple fell several months short of that mark. Aniston filed for divorce in March.