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.
this mask cost much less than $1 million to make........ what an idiot!
this better be for charity, if someone just made a million dollars off a little girls murder.........
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Halloween is all about monsters. Even semi-hot monsters.
Indeed she is kinda hot for a monster... LOL
Do they make a Casey Anthony Blow Up Doll yet? Now I'd pay 1 mil for that!
Ha for a million you can have Casey Anthony herself... LOL just use a condom. 😉
I here the REAL DOLL company bought the mask to create a line of real dolls with her face
I wish they would report on what these things REALLY sell for. Almost all of the bids on the mask were fake and nobody is paying $1,000,000 for this thing. In fact I know there were people who purposely bid on this auction with the intention of not paying so they could sabotage the auction. I think that's awesome.
Oh how the F^&K do you know that for a fact... IDIOT
Actually, the bidder had to be pre-qualified to bid that amount, and bidding on ebay is a legally binding contract. But thanks for coming out.
Too bad she didn't copyright her name. (snaps) Who knows. Maybe her lawyer can pull another one off and get her royalties from the sales.
Its ebay. Selling is one thing but actually getting paid almost 1 million is another. I think its just gag. Think of what the seller fees will be if the high bidder was bogus.
It's gonna be a scary Halloween this year for sure!!!
What about a Casey Anthony fleshlight?
The mask really doesn't look exactly like her. They could have done a better job. For a Million $$ they could have bought the real person. Casey will take the money.
I didn't know Nancy Grace's ebay user name was 'prophunter'.
Something is wrong in today's society.
What twisted POS purchased this?
We found SPOCKS Sister.. Enterprise beam us up!
I have seen everything now!