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.
cnn does not have fact checkers... a quick look at ebay shows that there have been bids on the item and the last bid is for $62.00
Not a chance
Only in America...
whats sad is someone in that family knows the truth and they are all covering up for eachother. That little girl deserved better , like a family that actually loved her.
Well George,
Whats done is done why waste your life away in jail, especially when your as hot as she is. It would be a shame to waste a sweet ass like that. Tell me you would turn yourself in and confess
As long as she doesn't get the money then more power to you!
I agree. Not a chance.
I think enough masks should be provided for each member of the Florida jury who put this woman back on the streets. Force them to wear the masks in public and let's see what happens.
Yeah right. CNN, great investigative reporting.
Anybody who's been on eBay knows its a farce.
Wht does this exist?
she is so hot, could use that mask in some fantasy role play 🙂
What size cup do you think she has? I am guessing a large C
With bids like this the national debt is a drop in the bucket.
Will copies of this be made for Halloween this year? I wouldn't doubt it.
As the country nears a default...a mask sells for 1million. What the....
Maybe the gov. should just make a couple masks and sells them.
I love how HLN believes this is so tasteless. How is it not tasteless that HLN is profiting off of HLN becoming the Casey Anthony channel?
YES! thats how I feel. Nancy Grace and others like her only prey on peaoples missfortunes.
..and then criticize others who are doing the same exact thing. Hypocrites!