Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Ozzy Osbourne Auction

The Ozzy Osbourn auction raised $800,000 for charity. Heavy metal fans aren't usually seen making bids at high end auctions, but they turned out in numbers to snatch up a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by Ozzy Osbourne. They had Ozzy fans bidding against these sophisticated fine art buyers, something you don't see every day. For the most part, the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd. Bidders came from as far as Germany to try and buy belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by the rocker and former star of "The Osbournes" reality show. Items featured on Osbourne's hit MTV show were the most popular. The bat coat sold for $3,300, the skull sneakers brought in $2,625 and a pair of the rocker's trademark round glasses went for $5,250. All proceeds from the sale go to The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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