Original King Kong model fetches $200K at auction

November 15th, 2009 LONDON - A strand of Elvis Presley's hair saved by his personal barber has fetched 1,055 pounds at an auction. Homer Gill Gilleland, who trotted the globe with the King of Rock n Roll for more than 20 years, dyed the singer's hair black and then cut it, saving strands in a towel.

November 7th, 2009 Country star REBA MCENTIRE needed an interpreter to converse in English during a recent trip to Hong Kong - because the singer's Oklahoma accent was too strong for others to understand. The star travelled to the Far East to look for new stage outfits for her forthcoming tour, but her heavy southern drawl made it tough for locals to answer her questions - even though English is one of the official languages of Hong Kong.

November 7th, 2009 LONDON - Those looking to get into the mind of Simon Cowell had their wish granted after the music mogul decided to put his grey matter under the hammer for charity. The X Factor judge, along with other big names including Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green and author Sir Salman Rushdie, put their names on the auction list to help the Krug Mind Share charity event.

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 19th, 2009 LONDON - A large tuft of Elvis Presley's hair, bought by a devoted fan for 18,300 dollars, was among 150 items that went under the hammer at Chicago's Leslie Hindman auctioneers. The hair is believed to have been cut from the King of Rock 'n' Roll's head when he joined the army.

October 14th, 2009 Crypt above Marilyn Monroe back up for auctionLOS ANGELES — The crypt above Marilyn Monroe is going back on the auction block. Bidding for the marble mausoleum crypt will start at $500,000 beginning Oct.

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 9th, 2009 King Kong figurine used in 1930s movie up for saleLONDON — A tiny King Kong figurine that helped launch the career of one of cinema's biggest monsters is going up for sale, Christie's auction house said Friday. The London auctioneer said the 22-inch (56-centimeter) skeleton was the one used in the climactic scene of the 1933 movie in which the humongous ape climbs New York's Empire State Building, clutching a blonde starlet and swatting away fighter planes.

September 30th, 2009 Bergman items sold at auction in SwedenSTOCKHOLM — A chipped and incomplete chess set believed to have featured in one of Ingmar Bergman's best known films fetched one of the highest bids at a special auction for the late director's belongings, auction house officials said Tuesday. The set, which had been valued at around 10,000-15,000 kronor ($1,430-$2,150), sold for 1 million kronor ($142,000), said Charlotte Bergstrom, a spokeswoman at Bukowskis in Stockholm.

September 10th, 2009 Bergman belongings on auction in StockholmSTOCKHOLM — A writing desk, film cameras and Golden Globe awards belonging to Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attracting a huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in Stockholm. Auction house Bukowskis says the 337 Bergman items for sale include the chess pieces most probably used in the director's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal" and a 1960s portrait of Bergman by Irving Penn.

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.

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 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 27th, 2009 LONDON - A rare stamp portraying film star Audrey Hepburn smoking fetched close to 47,000 pounds at an auction in Germany, it has emerged. Eight years ago, the German government had ordered the stamp to be destroyed after Hepburn's son, Sean Ferrer, objected to the cigarette holder dangling from her mouth and refused to grant copyright.