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Elvis' hair sells for 15,000 dollars

Oct 19, 2009, 1:28 GMT

New York - A lock of Elvis Presley's hair sold for 15,000 dollars to an anonymous telephone bidder at a Chicago auction on Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reported.

A souvenir pocket knife in an Elvis Presley case sits with Elvis dolls on display during the preview of Presley memorabilia from the Gary Pepper collection at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago, Illinois, USA 15 October 2009. The items are scheduled to go on the block 18 October. Gary Pepper, who suffered from cerebral palsy, was head of a Presley fan club named the Tankers and was befriended by the singer who died in 1977. Pepper died in 1980 and most of his collection ended up in the possession of his nurse Nancy Pease Whitehead whom Presley paid to care for Pepper when his family could no longer afford it. EPA/TANNEN MAURYThe hair was shorn from Elvis' head when he joined the US Army in 1958. The locks were part of an Elvis memorabilia collection offered by Leslie Hindman auctioneers in Chicago. The collection, which belonged to former Presley fan club president Gary Pepper, includes stage clothes, records and Christmas cards. Pepper died in 1980 and left the collection to his nurse, who is now putting it up for sale. Estimates had put the sale price of the hair at between 8,000 and 12,000 dollars.

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