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.
Oh, latex casting of her FACE. Not interested.
Hah!
lol
You can always get a blow up body?
In other news, things like this herald the collapse of civilization. I'm actually kind of looking forward to Fallout USA though.
crap bid. he'll never pay up.
More dollars than sence.
Very good point.
"Sense"
Sense-as in "common sense"
Cents-change from paper money
Scents-different fragrances
Your spelling-???
My thoughts on the mask are, good. The more we can humiliate this woman, the better. If she does land a televised interview, don't watch it!!
More dollars than SENSE. Education should be mandatory. Maybe then people wouldn't pay for things like this.
jeers to CNN for actually believing the highest bidder will fork over 1 million smackaroos. there are so many bidding trolls on ebay this shouldnt even be news.
That's exactly what I was thinking..
Well, look at the comments. This is getting more comments than about the National Debt.
Ida liked to dooo her when she first got out. .
I know what you're thinkin' but some guard was proabably sticking it to her in there.
what a Joke!
you like doo? gross. not me.
as a jooish person this worries me. plus i gots to take a dooody.
1 million for a mask? Wonder how much her REAL head would pull in?
I'm scared...
What do you do with a mask of a witch?
That is the UGLIEST DEATH mask ever designed i would be afraid of it buying it let alone wearing it for fear of becoming POSSESED by her WICKED SATANIC SPIRIT!
@bob, Yeah like that freaky Twilight Zone episode where their faces turned into the masks they were wearing...
Geez, that IS a scary looking thing.