A big spender on eBay shelled out almost $1 million to get inside Casey Anthony's head.
A Los Angeles eBay user called "prophunter" wound up with six rubber renderings of Anthony's face that had been used in a parody video and put one of them up for auction on eBay. That first mask garnered a winning bid of $999,900 Wednesday. It beat out 104 other bids that started at $25 on Monday.
In the description field for the item, the seller billed it as "possibly the most frightening mask on the planet."
The mask's expression is, well, expressionless, capturing the image that became a national obsession over the course of Anthony's almost six-week trial for the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Anthony was acquitted on July 5, drawing the vocal ire of crowds outside the courthouse, social media users and television personalities nationwide.
On HLN's Showbiz News Tonight on Wednesday, Popeater.com columnist Rob Shuter pronounced then-active bidding "tasteless, but it is capitalism."
For comparison's sake, the most expensive set of Charlton Heston's stone tablets from "The Ten Commandments" fetched $87,000 at Christie's in 1995, which would be a little more than $120,000 today.
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I think CNN has been duped. Go look on ebay. Someone is trying to sell the domain name for $275. Also, there's a "Casey Anthony mask pet rock" going for $1.1 million. Hilarious. Just someone trying to drum up interest, as I believe she may be finding out no one really wants to pay her money to hear her talk.
Casey is hot !!!!
Tomorrow we will read the story about how the bidder made a mistake and meant to bid $9.99 and how the mask is back on ebay.
Strange about Ms. Anthony – she is not a public figure. True there was public info broadcast at the trail. The trial is over. So how much is she gonna sue for!
She's a public figure now, and has no right to sue. She is going to be hounded everywhere she goes for life, as she should be.
She thinks she is entlitled, anyway. Was she thinks and WHAT SHE REALLY IS are two different things
...wow..
HALLOWEEN IS EVIL AND THOSE THAT SUPPORT IT ARE EITHER EVIL OR IGNORANT THAT THEY'RE STILL CELEBRATING DEATH.
The true origin of Halloween was not to celebrate Death, but to honor our friends and loved ones that have passed on. It's not celebrating death, but honoring the dead. Big difference.
It's funny that your name is truth but you speak more lies than anything else.
And Thou hast not been beggotten when forsaken thou has untold thou last most bretheren sinner, Hah, and thou unto them for those that forsaken a beggotten shalt not thou own fate unto those who forsaken the forsook, HAH! And, HAH, thou shalt not want to own thou forsaken to the last though beggotten, HAH!
ignorant christians are funny. Samhane was celabrated 1000's of years befor jebas was born, it has nothing to do with christianity, just like the pagans celabrated beltane the same time as "easter", and yule the same time as christmas, all long before judaism let alone christianity. But ignorant thoests will believe what they want.
Do your homework dear. Halloween is to honor those who have passed and to celebrate life...
I would use that mask to rob a bank.
this stupid thing was never up for bidding on ebay. get your act together CNN and quit acting like Faux News.
some people are sick! like her!
HMMM Go ahead Casey and sue them for using your likeness! I would love to have one of those mask that looks like Nancy Grace! That is the real halloween mask!
I think that anyone that would buy anything that has to do with Casey Anthony is a NUT CASE just like she is. She is hiding out in OHIO and no one likes it either. She needs to go back to FL and take what she gets like the WOMAN she thinks she is! And that is TRASH.
How sad, don't call her a nut case. That suggests that she may have an mental illness, she does not, she is a psychopath, a personality disorder and can not be helped.
You cal also buy OJ's glove to complete the ensamble
Sick why would anyone want such a thing
some people are sick! as her!
HAHA, check the auction and the guys feedback, he already left feedback, go read it!