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Latex Casey Anthony mask fetches almost $1 million on eBay
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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Americans are just "sick" no wonder they are disliked throughout the world.
Well, Europe is worse. They are in trouble for hacking people's phones.
i love it when the seller say "remember poor caylee". sure, like they are going to remember caylee when they are buying their new sports car, having a vacation in the tropics, throwing a huge coke party for their friends, and whatever else they are going to do with the money....
Why is this even a story?? Anybody with an ebay account can put whatever bid they want to on the mask. Doesn't mean they're gonna collect it.
I BID $2 MILLION!!!
There, CNN......now change your headline to reflect my new "bid".
But that's not quite how eBay works. You can bid $2M, but unless the current highest bidder is anywhere near that, it's only going to go up by the next increment. You bid as much as you're willing to pay, but you generally don't end up paying the maximum.
Point still taken, however.
This story is fishy, considering this whole obsession with Casey Anthony will fizzle out in a few months, I find it hard to believe someone is actually shelling out that much money.
Why? I am not surprise.
ITS A SCAM. Most likely from casey's entourage. The bidding is shady and questionable.
How absolutely disgusting! Not even newsworthy! & the buyer should be ashamed of themself.
Please tell me this is just a typo – considering the world's needs, what a incredible misuse of a person's wealth...
Brilliant! I wish I'd have thought of that. Way to go prophunter.
It's a HOAX, folks! Stop getting your panties in such a considerable wad!!
We need to send seal team 6 after her where ever she is. The world would be a better place without her.
My guess is that by this or next October, anyone can get one of these masks for $35 at a high-end costume shop. I'm wondering if the sale will fall through, if they verified the credit-worthiness of the buyer.
good luck collecting that. its a bogus bid, duh. Did CNN really fall for this? FAIL!!
she should make halloween costumes,, I would buy one !
I don't believe for one second that somebody paid $1 million for that cr*ppy mask. This is a lie.
Wow, that's ugly!