Anna Nicole Diaries Finally Sell
Anna Nicole Smith's innermost thoughts might end up on someone's bedside table after all.
A week after some of the Playboy Playmate's personal effects were auctioned off online, a Dallas recording company executive forked over $59,750 for two diaries kept by Smith in the early 1990s that had previously failed to sell.
"We had two collectors who wanted to buy them, and the Dallas man took time from his busy recording schedule to be the first to send the money," Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage Auction Galleries, told the Associated Press.
Heritage was retained to auction the items by an unidentified German businessman who reportedly purchased the mementos from eBay last month for more than $500,000.
Both journals, which contain entries that reflect Smith's anxieties about her weight, the beginning of her modeling career and her relationship with elderly hubby J. Howard Marshall II, were priced at a minimum of $25,000 apiece.
The initial auction went ahead Apr. 16 despite Howard K. Stern's objections that the diaries were stolen from his late girlfriend's estate, although Stern's objections purportedly led to two potential bidders' decision not to buy the hand-penned diaries.
Norwine maintained throughout the proceedings that all of the materials up for sale were legitimately obtained, as far as he knew, from a Los Angeles-based celebrity memorabilia dealer before they ended up on eBay. The belongings on the block included canceled checks, shopping receipts and ID cards, as well as the spiral-bound notebooks Smith once used to chronicle her thoughts.
The reality-TV star died Feb. 8 of an accidental prescription drug overdose. On Wednesday, a Bahamian judge gave confirmed baby daddy Larry Birkhead permission to return to the United States with their infant daughter, Dannielynn, although the L.A. photographer has not yet been given full custody of the child.
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