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Celebrity auctions

You want a piece of Al Capone? Some personal effects are up for auction.

by Dylan Miettinen
Aug 25, 2021
Among them dinnerware, figurines, a 14-carat gold and diamond matchbook cover and his favorite Colt pistol.
Gangster Al Capone, left, with U.S. Marshal Laubenheimer.
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The business behind celebrity auctions

by Marielle Segarra
Aug 10, 2018
What started in 1970 with a massive MGM auction has turned into a multimillion-dollar global business.
Sotheby's auctioneer Oliver Barker fields bids at the white-glove sale of David Bowie's personal art collection on November 10, 2016 in London, England. 
Michael Bowles/Getty Images for Sotheby's
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