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 got trolled.
Doesn't anyone know how to investigate a sale on eBay? If you look at the buyer's feedback to the seller, you will see that the bidder just ran up the price so the seller couldn't sell it - and since sellers can't leave negative feedback, this probably works.
I saw this on Yahoo and I irgored it. I saw it on CNN and I read it. I did not know that CNN is this bad!
That mask literally gives me the chills!
it sure does, she looks dead!
LOL
YEP! THIS COUNTRY "IS" GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET!!!
hope they donate the money to Missing children org ..
Might be worth one mill if it kept the jehovahs off my porch...
Dont look into it and say its name 3 times or it spits chloroform in ur face and u die...
Good luck trying to collect cash from buyer!!
I hope it opens up so the sick perv who bought it can mouth bang it everyday..
Who in the hell would buy this mask? And who in the hell would pay $1million for it!?
Some people have more money than brains.
well if the person wearing the mask gets harmed, it is their own stupid fault for going out in public. need I say anything more?
the "buyer" posted negative feedback on the sellers site. i don't think they really bought it.