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Kobe Bryant memorabilia lawsuit settled, six items to be auctioned

(Reuters) - Basketball great Kobe Bryant, his mother and an auction house have settled a dispute over a proposed sale of some of the Los Angeles Lakers player's memorabilia including jerseys and championship rings, his representatives said on Monday. Ken Goldin, president of Goldin Auctions, said on Monday that six of the disputed items will be sold in an auction that begins June 17 and runs through July 19. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

China literary couple's letters pulled from auction

A sale of correspondence by one of China's top literary couples has been cancelled, a Chinese auction house said, after the widow voiced a strong protest over infringement of privacy. Monday's planned sale of three letters by Qian Zhongshu, who died in 1997 but remains a household name in China for his novel "Fortress Besieged", and his widow Yang Jiang, 102, has been abandoned, Poly International Auction said in a statement. Yang, who is an author and translator in her own right, had condemned the sale over the weekend, threatening to take legal action.

Dozens charges nationwide with rigging foreclosure bids on courthouse steps

SAN FRANCISCO - At the height of the financial crisis, bargain hunters would gather each week on county courthouse steps to bid on foreclosed properties throughout Northern and Central California. The inventory lists were long, especially in hard-hit areas such as Sacramento and Stockton. But the auctions were generally short affairs — often because real estate speculators were illegally fixing the bidding process.

Brazil's Portinari tops Christie's Latin American art sale

By Walker Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dream-like painting of children releasing kites by Brazil's Candido Portinari sold for $1.4 million at Christie's Latin American art sale and set a world auction record for the artist. Portinari's 1941 "Meninos Soltando Pipas" was the top seller at the Wednesday evening sale, which totaled $16 million and set benchmarks for other Latin American artists. "The strength of the Brazilian market reigned supreme," said Virgilio Garza, Christie's Latin American art chief.

Fine art auction brushed by success as sales sizzle for Canadian masterworks

VANCOUVER - Collectors continue to push the value of Canadian fine and contemporary art into the stratosphere. Heffel Fine Art Auction House says its annual spring auction has fetched prices far above original estimates for masterworks of Emily Carr, Jean-Paul Riopelle and the Group of Seven. The auction, held Wednesday in downtown Vancouver, had collected a total of $11.5-million by the time the last gavel came down on the 185 works on the block.

Coffee with Apple chief: $610,000

An anonymous bidder paid $610,000 in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organizers said Wednesday. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, according to a statement from the group and its partner, The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. The bid tied a record set by a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster auctioned in March 2013 for $610,000, the statement said.

Coffee with Apple chief: $610,000

An anonymous bidder paid $610,000 in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organizers said Wednesday. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, according to a statement from the group and its partner, The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. The bid tied a record set by a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster auctioned in March 2013 for $610,000, the statement said.

Coffee with Apple chief: $610,000

An anonymous bidder paid $610,000 in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organizers said Wednesday. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, according to a statement from the group and its partner, The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. The bid tied a record set by a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador Roadster auctioned in March 2013 for $610,000, the statement said.

Christie's art auction sells nearly half billion dollars

A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars on Wednesday -- the biggest haul ever at an art auction. Christie's said its sale raised a "staggering" total of $495,021,500, with 94 percent of lots finding buyers. Nine of the works sold went for more than $10 million and 23 for more than $5 million.

Christie's art auction sells nearly half billion dollars

A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars on Wednesday -- the biggest haul ever at an art auction. Christie's said its sale raised a "staggering" total of $495,021,500, with 94 percent of lots finding buyers. Nine of the works sold went for more than $10 million and 23 for more than $5 million.
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