A 19-year-old thrift shopper could be in line for a massive payday after buying what turned out to be a warm-up jacket worn by late basketball icon Wilt Chamberlain for just $3.07 at a Goodwill store. The rare piece is now up for auction through Sotheby’s, where it is expected to fetch between $150,000 and … Read more
A dusty casino outpost that many Southern Californians know as the final pit stop before Las Vegas may have just scored a dramatic reprieve. Primm Valley Resorts — the last full-time casino still operating in Primm, Nevada, the tiny gambling outpost formerly known as State Line along Interstate 15 — will not go completely dark on … Read more
Who spends $10.1 million on an old handbag? Japanese resale mogul Shinsuke Sakimoto, that’s who. The now-revealed mystery buyer placed his winning bid from halfway around the world on the original Hermès Birkin last month — making the coveted fashion artifact the priciest purse in history. And yes, he’s still recovering from the experience. Who blew … Read more
One man from Nebraska kept the party going after purchasing Michael Jordan’s Chicago-area mansion earlier this month. John Cooper, of Lincoln, purchased Jordan’s 56,000-square-foot mansion in Highland Park for $9.5 million, which ended an 11-year stint of being on and off the market — after the NBA legend cut the price from $29 million in 2012, … Read more
If you build it, they will come … back. A vintage furniture restorer claimed that a woman who sold her a mid-century dresser on Facebook’s marketplace wanted the piece back after she had started refurbishing it for a profit. Kandra Sobel, who remodels homes and refinishes antiques for her over 11,000 TikTok followers, shared the … Read more
The art world’s gone bananas. Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when it is auctioned off by Sotheby’s in New York City next month. However, what you actually get for the staggering sum is not the original … Read more
This Taylor Swift guitar really went under the hammer at auction. A mystery buyer is going viral for reportedly coughing up $4,000 to buy a signed Taylor Swift guitar at a Texas charity auction — just to immediately smash it up with a hammer. The white-haired man obliterated the “Shake It Off” singer’s old instrument … Read more
Oh, deer! A man was car shopping when a deer crashed right into the truck he had his eyes on — and it was all caught on video. Jay Vaughan listed his car for sale on November 4, and got an unexpected viewer coming to check out the offering. A prospective buyer pulled up to … Read more
The buyer who purchased Rush Limbaugh’s Palm Beach estate for a record $155 million has been revealed as billionaire William Lauder, The Wall Street Journal reports. Lauder, 62, is the executive chairman of powerhouse cosmetics brand The Estée Lauder Companies, and has a net worth of $3.5 billion, according to Forbes. The Post reached out … Read more