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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..its not fair...lets make and sell oh e-bay masks of Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, Julie Powers Schenecker, China Arnold, Lashanda Armstrong..what about Marybeth Tinning ..she should profiting at least 9 times more than Anthony....congratulation Casey Antony you true American hero..
This mask isnt work the money uset to make it... there are kids that needed that kind of money (St Jude's for a start).. this is going way too far!!
What idiot paid for it, I have an investment opportunity for them. SEND ME THE MONEY.
PLEASE REMOVE THIS FROM THE WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why? just because you don't like what you see?
I agree with having it removed!.....tasteless.
Remove it because it is a fake story. Nobody paid $1 million for the mask. They drove the price that high, but nobody has actually paid that money for the mask
I doubt the winning bidder will actually pay for it !!
its Bat-Boy from Weekly World News!
actually, I'm pretty sure it's Natasha (from Rocky and Bullwinkle)..Boris is still in hiding.
If you go to the million dollar ebay post, then you can read that the person isn't really buying it. The "buyer" jnco6970 tells the seller: "You shuold be ashamed of yourself for profiting of the death of a child." How much more watered down can the news reports get? It takes 20 seconds to debunk this trash.
You know you REALLY suck and the world HATES you when you have been reduced to a goofy looking Halloween mask! May she rot where it is really hot
That anyone would bid on this, shows a depraved mind. That they would bid over a buck shows a VERY depraved mind. The REAL Casey Anthony is a gargoyle.
That they would bid $1 million shows a mind that is making a little practical joke.
I don't want to see this monster's name or face anymore. Enough is enough. What is the hell is wrong with people? Let this story die. Stop circulating ANYTHING about this woman. She got away with murder, plain and simple. Oh, and larry flynt is a friggin dumb a**
"She got away with murder" – really? prove it.
Awesome! Good for her! Hope she can bank in on some of the publicity. She should sue for the masks citing defamation of character.
Who in their right mind would PAY for that UGLY thing??? Sheesh...
The auction ends today...its now OVER $10 MILLION. It's disgusting. And, ebay will profit way over $1 million!!!
This is sick!!! that money could of fed someone who is homeless!!! I guess have to remember there are sick people in this world.. gee I always wanted a face mask of a woman who killed her kid!! god bless America for loving there sick drama.. what next a mask of Caylee??
"woman who killed her kid" – Proof please.
"A big spender on eBay shelled out almost $1 million to get inside Casey Anthony's head."
This reporter needs to learn the difference between a bid and a payment. No one is paying $1m for this mask, as anyone reading the story immediately realizes. Why doesn't the reporter realize it?