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6 October 2006 | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Every auction item turned out to be trés cher at a Sotheby's/Julien's Auctions sale of 700 items belonging to Cher that went under the hammer in Los Angeles Wednesday night. The auction house said that buyers paid roughly twice the estimated worth of the items, with one Bob Mackie-designed costume that she once wore on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour going for $60,000, 20 times its estimated worth. The auctioneers had originally estimated that the items would fetch around $1.5 million; instead, they brought in $3.5 million. Reuters said that Cher had promised to donate part of the proceeds to charity and use the rest to redecorate her Malibu home. Meanwhile, a Christie's auction of Star Trek memorabilia Thursday night also fetched big prices, as Jean-Luc Picard's captain's chair went for $52,000, nearly six times the pre-auction estimate of $9,000. »

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1 August 2006 | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Pop veteran Cher is auctioning off 700 personal items - including costumes, jewelry and even her own bed - in a bid to raise more than $1 million for charity. The 60-year-old star will kick off the glitzy sale on October 3 with the help of auction giant Sotheby's and Julien's Auctions. Cher insists she is ready to let many of her treasures go, as she is desperate to revamp her plush Malibu, California, home. The Cher Charitable Foundation will benefit from the proceeds. She says, "I'm truly excited about it, having had this stuff for so many years. I'm only keeping about five items from everything I have. When I got off the road, something happened and I said, 'You know, I think it's time to do something different. But my house is so full that there's no way to do something different unless I totally change it." Items from the statuesque star's collection include neo-Gothic art and furniture and a 16th-century terra-cotta figurine of Jesus Christ, as well as outfits featured on The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour in the 1960s. »

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