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    Cher Auctions Off 700 Items For Charity

    Playfuls.com, Romania
    Aug 1, 2006

    Top rated singer and actress Cher is to sell all the items in her
    house, excepting five of them. They are mostly pieces of clothing,
    jewelry, furniture and artwork. The auction is the start of a quite
    radical redecoration to take place at her Malibu home.

    The approximately 700 items will go on sale at Sotheby's and Julien's
    auction houses, after being put on display until October 3rd, when
    the actual auction will take place.

    "My house is so full that there's no way to do something different
    unless I totally change it," she said.

    Among the items expected on sale are a Gothic revival brass bed,
    made in about 1865, a 2003 H2 Hummer, outfits Cher wore on The Sonny
    and Cher Comedy Hour in the 1970s, neo-Gothic art and furniture,
    a 16th-century terra-cotta figurine of Jesus Christ and a Bob Mackie
    gown that she wore to the Academy Awards.

    "I'm truly excited about it, having had this stuff for so many years,"
    she said.

    "The amount of costumes I have is staggering, so this doesn't even
    make a dent."

    Among the 85 items of jewelry due on sale there will be pieces Cher
    has herself made. There will be also around 200 items of clothing
    on auction.

    A "nice percentage" of the estimated $1 million revenues will go to
    the Cher Charitable Foundation, which supports numerous causes.

    Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere (born May 20, 1946), better known by her
    stage name Cher, is an Armenian-American Academy Award-winning actress,
    singer, songwriter, director and author. Through her achievements in
    music, television and film, she has won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy
    and 3 Golden Globe Awards, among other trophies.

    In 1988, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role
    in the romantic comedy "Moonstruck." In 1999 she got a star on the
    Hollywood Walk of Fame.

    Cher frequently donated concert tickets' revenues to families and
    non-profit groups for children and youth with facial deformities.
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