Yes, trash is treasure to cunning celebrity sellers. After seeing Anna Nicole Smith throw memorabilia out as trash, a quick-thinking neighbour swooped in and snapped up two diaries the deceased celeb wrote in during 1992 and 1994.
In April of 2007, just weeks after a German businessman paid US$500,000 at auction for the journals, an unnamed buyer picked up the items for an undisclosed price on eBay. His goal: to resell the items in Dallas, Texas, Smith’s native state, and spin even more cash out of the tragic woman’s belongings.
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