Madonna's naughty messages on auction
Celebrity items from Dylan, Hendrix, Eminem also on the block
Last Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 | 12:46 PM ET
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Naughty messages left by Madonna to former boyfriend Jim Albright are among 500 celebrity items up for auction in New York.
The Material Girl's messages, stored on two micro-cassette tapes, are expected to sell for up to $40,000 US.
The Gotta Have It! Auction house is selling memorabilia related to the Beatles, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix and dozens of other stars in an online auction to close Aug. 5.
Other items from Madonna's relationship with Albright include faxed love letters and a home video shot while she was filming Dangerous Game in 1993.
Hendrix's first performing contract, a 1965 deal signed with PPX Enterprises that paid him the princely sum of $1 US, is up for grabs.
So is a photograph of Hendrix signed "Toronto 1969" and a rose-coloured Dandie Fashions of London jacket that Hendrix gave to a fellow musician from the Velvetones.
A terrycloth robe Muhammad Ali wore for his 1976 fight against Ken Norton and the striped jacket Sting wore at the first MTV awards are also on auction.
Other items include:
- A collarless 1960s jacket worn by John Lennon.
- A gold watch given to Elvis Presley by his father.
- Dylan's original 1962 working lyrics for A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.
- Eminem's outfit from the Just Lose It music video.
- A handwritten letter from Janis Joplin to her boyfriend Peter de Blanc.
- Drawings by the Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood.
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