Simon Cowell’s mind fetches £19k at grey matter charity auction!

November 3rd, 2009 Stars including KEVIN SPACEY and OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN have donated their shoes to an online auction for a cancer charity. A pair of Spacey's black leather Prada footwear is up for grabs in the fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support, along with the Grease beauty's black and white pumps.

November 2nd, 2009 Egyptian sculpture from OH garden sells for $118KCLEVELAND — A bronze Egyptian sculpture from a Cleveland man's garden that he almost let an antique dealer take for $3,000 a few years ago has sold at auction for $118,000. The 4-foot tall sculpture of a woman carrying a water vessel on her head was in the yard when the man bought his house 40 years ago.

October 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - TV vixen Tila Tequila is auctioning off a plaster cast of her breasts for charity on eBay. "I am so excited to be able to work with Keep A Breast Foundation!," Tila wrote on her blog yesterday.

October 27th, 2009 LONDON - Media mogul Simon Cowell recently admonished X-Factor judges Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole for paying more attention to their looks than work, sources say. Cowell's frustration had built after his act Danyl Johnson was placed at the bottom two.

October 21st, 2009 LONDON - Music mogul Simon Cowell's first withering put-down has been revealed to have been aimed at his mum's hat. Julie Cowell, 82, who described her son as being "a determined and often difficult child" while growing up in Elstree, Herts, recalled an incident in which he ridiculed her hat when he was just 5-years of age.

October 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Supermodel Stephanie Seymour's 1992 photo snapped by famous photographer Richard Avedon has been auctioned off for a whopping 46875 dollars. The portrait fetched more than the speculated price of 20000 to 30000 dollars, at the Sotheby's auction house.

October 11th, 2009 LONDON - Michael Jackson's illuminated white glove has raked in a whopping 44,300 pounds at a Hollywood auction. The mitt got popularised after the King of Pop wore it on his 1984 Victory Tour, reports The Sun.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - A jewelled glove once worn by Michael Jackson has fetched 49,000 dollars at an auction in Melbourne. The late King of Pop threw the crystal-encrusted white glove into a crowd after a film premiere, while visiting Australia in 1996.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - Harry Potter author JK Rowling's chair, sitting in which she wrote the first two books of the famous series, has been re-sold for a whopping 20,000 pounds. The value of the chair, which was previously sold for 15,000 pounds, has increased three-fold in the last seven years.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - Simon Cowell's ex-girlfriend Terri Seymour thinks that it's time for the music mogul to retire from one of his hit shows and enjoy his golden years. Seymour and the X Factor judge have remained close friends despite the music mogul's gruelling schedule.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A Sgt Pepper souvenir poster signed by The Beatles has fetched a staggering 52,500 dollars in a pop memorabilia auction at Christie's in New York. Among 300 musical items that went under the hammer were a bass guitar owned by late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain that drew 43,750 dollars and Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics of 'God On Our Side', which snapped up 25,000 dollars, The BBC reports.

June 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Music mogul Simon Cowell's credit card was rejected when he tried to make payment at a posh London restaurant. Cowell, 49, who was dining at Cipriani, was told he had "insufficient funds" when he tried to pay the bill.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - The black cape worn by Sir Christopher Lee in the 1958 hit Dracula sold at an auction for 26,400 pounds. Angels The Costumiers sold the woollen cape, which has 250 lots of film and TV costumes in its archive.

May 8th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has donated a session with her personal trainer Tracy Anderson to a celebrity charity auction. Fitness fanatics can bid online for a session with the expert, who also trains pop diva Madonna, to raise money for the Clear Water Initiative - a charity that seeks to provide clean water to those without it, reports contactmusic.com.

May 8th, 2009 LONDON - A journal from HMS Beagle, the ship which Charles Darwin voyaged on, has fetched 97,250 pounds at an auction. The journal was kept by a commanding officer on the ship, which was the vessel that Darwin used during some of his most important journeys that helped him form his evolution ideas.