Report: OZZY OSBOURNE Puts Satin Bat Coat, Devil's Head Up For Auction
November 27, 2007, 16 years ago
Bloomberg.com has issued the following report from Daniel Taub:
OZZY OSBOURNE came off the rails of the crazy train years ago. Now he's selling memorabilia from his days both as a devil-worshipping, drug-abusing rocker and as a chess-playing, coffee-sipping father entering premature dotage.
The items for sale during the auction on November 30th and December 1st at the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Beverly Hills, California, range from a black satin coat with a bat-wing cape, expected to sell for $800 to $1,200, to a hand-painted, floral-design teacup that Osbourne used for coffee during filming of MTV's The Osbournes, estimated to fetch $200 to $400. Art, furniture, cars and guitars also are up for sale.
"A lot of this stuff is from our "Osbournes" house that we filmed for the TV show," Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy's wife of 25 years and a judge on television talent shows in the U.S. and U.K., said in an interview. "We've moved out of that home and moved into a new home, and a lot of it doesn't fit the style of the new house or just size-wise."More than 500 lots will be offered during the sales, being run by West Hollywood, California-based Julien's Auctions. The items are from the Beverly Hills home featured on the MTV show, the couple's Malibu, California, beach house, and their mansion in Buckinghamshire, England. A portion of the sale's proceeds will be donated to the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where Sharon, 55, was treated for cancer five years ago.
Ozzy Osbourne, 58, gained fame as the frontman of proto-metal band BLACK SABBATH. As a solo artist in the 1980s, he recorded such hits as 'Crazy Train' and '`Mr. Crowley', many of which had lyrics dealing with the occult.
Read the full report at Bloomberg.com.
