CHER is auctioning off 700 personal items

[Susanelizabeth28]

From MSN
CHER SELLS OFF PERSONAL ITEMS

Pop veteran CHER is auctioning off 700 personal items - including costumes, jewellery and even her own bed - in a bid to raise more than $1 million (GBP550,000) for charity. The 60-year-old star will kick off the glitzy sale on 3 October (06) with the help of auction giant Sotheby's and Julien's Auctions. Cher insists she is ready to let many of her treasures go, as she is desperate to revamp her plush Malibu, California, home. The Cher Charitable Foundation will benefit from the proceeds. She says, "I'm truly excited about it, having had this stuff for so many years. I'm only keeping about five items from everything I have." "When I got off the road, something happened and I said, 'You know, I think it's time to do something different. But my house is so full that there's no way to do something different unless I totally change it." Items from the statuesque I GOT YOU BABE star's collection include neo-Gothic art and furniture and a 16th-century terra-cotta figurine of Jesus Christ, as well as outfits featured on THE SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR in the 1960s.
01/08/2006 02:06

[CherAficionado]

Hey Guys,
Darren Julien of Julien's Auctions was at the Cher Convention and told me all about this great auction. He was looking for photos of the items he is selling and is sending me a couple of catalogues for helping him out. He mentioned some of the items they are auctioning are the "Take Me Home" Gold Viking horned costume and the dress she wore in the "Dark Lady" song/video segment. I own the matching headdress she wore in that, which I displayed at the convention. He encouraged me to attend since I am a big collector.
Javier!

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Come October, the highest bidder can sleep in Cher's bed.
It's one of 700 items from the superstar's Malibu home to be auctioned off in Beverly Hills.

Cher announced Monday that she plans to part with hundreds of her personal possessions — including furniture, artwork, jewelry, a 2003 H2 Hummer and original costumes by famed designer Bob Mackie — so that she can redecorate her home.

"I'm truly excited about it, having had this stuff for so many years," Cher told The Associated Press. "I'm only keeping about five items from everything I have."

A "nice percentage" of the auction's proceeds will benefit the Cher Charitable Foundation, she said. The sale is expected to bring in more than $1 million, according to Lee Dunbar of Sotheby's, one of two firms administering the auction.

Cher said she was inspired to redecorate following her three-year Farewell tour.

"When I got off the road, something happened and I said, 'You know, I think it's time to do something different,'" she said. "But my house is so full that there's no way to do something different unless I totally change it."

The Oscar and Grammy winner has collected neo-Gothic art and furniture for more than 25 years. Among the items offered in the auction is a Gothic revival brass bed, circa 1865, an oak reading table, a pair of painted brass chandeliers that hung in Cher's dining room and a terra-cotta figurine of Jesus Christ from the 16th century.

She plans to redo her home in a mix of styles inspired by Morocco and Tibet.

"It sounds crazy, but I'm going to try to mix a whole bunch of cultures together," she said.

About 200 pieces from Cher's extensive wardrobe and costume collection will also be sold in the auction, including outfits featured on the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and an original Mackie-designed gown she wore to the Academy Awards.

"The amount of costumes I have is staggering, so this doesn't even make a dent," said the 60-year-old star.

She will also part with 85 pieces of jewelry, including beaded items she made herself.

Cher will tell personal stories of how she found each of the items for the auction's catalog. Stories make the pieces into "living entities," she said.

Highlights from the auction, including furniture, paintings and Mackie-made gowns, will travel to Sotheby's locations in London, Chicago and New York before the full exhibition opens at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sept. 29. Bidding begins Oct. 3.

A preview exhibition is on view now at the Beverly Hilton.

Most of the items to be sold are still in Cher's house. She said she looks wistfully at them, knowing they'll be gone soon.

"I have loved everything I ever bought," she said. "I have loved them and kept them for all these years and now it's time for them to go on."

[Jan]

Wish I could hit the lottery! LOL:)
BTW Javier email me..I still wanna re order a jacket from u..since I was not allowed to charge it at convention..Man talk about easy come easy go, I got the shirt and jacket part too..Hope ur move goin ok.. miss ya..Jan

[davidsyd]

The only thing that I can afford is the catalogue but at least its something

David

[Jan]

U and me both Dave