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ZeroHero · 02-06-2015, 05:15 PM

A Lock of Elvis Presley?s Hair: $115,000

a single lock of Elvis ?The King? Presley?s hair sold at auction in 2002 for $115,000. In discovering this I also found out that the world has an extremely unhealthy obsession with dead people?s hair.

Apart from his soulful voice and swinging hips, Elvis Presley was known for his hair. So it?s perhaps no surprise that a strand from the King of Rock ?n? Roll?s pompadour ? surreptitiously hoarded by his personal barber ? would bring in more dough than hair from John Lennon ($48,000), John F. Kennedy ($3,000) and Beethoven ($7,300) combined. MastroNet Inc, the Oak Brook, Ill., company behind the Internet auction of such macabre memorabilia, has made a small fortune selling the tresses of celebrities, dead (Mickey Mantle, $6,900) or alive (Neil Armstrong, $3,000). Even former government officials are cashing in. In 2007, an ex-CIA employee sold a tuft of Che Guevara?s hair, along with fingerprints and death photographs, for $119,500.

02-06-2015, 05:15 PM
ZeroHero So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Westbahnhof Posts: 15,336	NOT THAT IDIOTIC? A Lock of Elvis Presley?s Hair: $115,000 A Lock of Elvis Presley?s Hair: $115,000 a single lock of Elvis ?The King? Presley?s hair sold at auction in 2002 for $115,000. In discovering this I also found out that the world has an extremely unhealthy obsession with dead people?s hair. Apart from his soulful voice and swinging hips, Elvis Presley was known for his hair. So it?s perhaps no surprise that a strand from the King of Rock ?n? Roll?s pompadour ? surreptitiously hoarded by his personal barber ? would bring in more dough than hair from John Lennon ($48,000), John F. Kennedy ($3,000) and Beethoven ($7,300) combined. MastroNet Inc, the Oak Brook, Ill., company behind the Internet auction of such macabre memorabilia, has made a small fortune selling the tresses of celebrities, dead (Mickey Mantle, $6,900) or alive (Neil Armstrong, $3,000). Even former government officials are cashing in. In 2007, an ex-CIA employee sold a tuft of Che Guevara?s hair, along with fingerprints and death photographs, for $119,500.