The personal possessions of the Godfather of Soul fetched thousands of dollars during a recent auction, which his children protested. Fans tiffany necklaces on sale James Brown as well as collectors filled a Christie’s salesroom in New York as more than 300 lots of his personal items were sold, such as costumes, boots and Grammy awards, bringing in a total of $857,688, the auction Tiffany Necklaces on sale said. “We were given a list of things and asked to go through and check off things that we didn’t think should go, and we were just ignored,” Brown’s daughter Deanna Brown Thomas said on Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show. “At the end of the day, everything went.” Some of the tiffany necklaces on sale sold included a beaded, black satin cape for $47,500; a blue satin cape embroidered with “Thy Name Is Godfather of Soul” for $35,000; the studded denim jumpsuit Brown wore for the 1974 concert preceding the “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing tiffany necklaces on sale between Muhammad AIi and George Foreman, for $25,000; and a medical bracelet, which stated that Brown was diabetic and tiffany necklaces on sale to penicillin, was purchased by band leader Paul Shaffer of the “Late Show with David Letterman” for $32,500. Brown died at age 73 of heart failure on Christmas Day 2006.
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