Ozzy and Sharon's rummage sale nets $800K for Colon Cancer Charity

By Stone Martindale Dec 3, 2007, 0:42 GMT

Ozzy Osbourne - © Scott Alan / Photorazzi

Heaven for rummaging heavy metal fans with some money to spend at the recent high-end auction that sold off the excess of Ozzy Osbourne's rock and roll life.

All manner fo items were auctioned off, including a coat with embroidered bats, sneakers with skulls on them and other items put up for sale by the Osbournes.

"We had Ozzy fans bidding against these sophisticated fine art buyers, which you don't see every day," said Darren Julien, whose company, Julien's Auctions, ran the charity sale Friday and Saturday. "For the most part the metalheads were outbidding the art crowd."

Bidders came from as far as Germany to snap up the belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by the Osbournes, now owned by Christina Aguilera.

CNN reports that the items featured on Osbourne's hit MTV show were the most popular, Julien said. The bat coat sold for $3,300, the skull sneakers brought in $2,625 and a pair of the rocker's trademark round glasses went for $5,250.

Even an oversized coffee cup that Osbourne often clutched while the cameras rolled sold for $1,625.

A dog bed given to Osbourne's wife, Sharon, by Elton John brought in $2,375.

Fine art buyers were interested in items such as a sculpture by French artist Edouard Drouot ($10,500) and a painting by Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier ($5,312).

Osbourne nearly kept his prized pool table because of sentimental memories of playing with his kids as they were growing up. The table eventually ended up on the auction block and it brought in $11,250.

The auction brought in $800,000.

All proceeds from the sale go to The Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

"For a celebrity garage sale, it was pretty spectacular," Julien said to CNN.