Big wigs pay big bucks for Warhol's hairpiece
Bidders flipped their wigs Thursday at a Manhattan auction where one of pop art icon Andy Warhol's signature silver hairpieces sold for $10,800.
The wig, complete with three strips of toupee tape inside, was worn by Warhol during the early 1980s. Warhol began wearing the hairpieces in the early 1960s, and they eventually turned into fashion accessories more than a cover-up for his baldness. Presale estimates for the hairpiece were $4,000 to $6,000.
It was one of several lots put up at Christie's auction house by Jeffrey Warhola, the artist's nephew.
Wedding bells chime for Urban, Kidman
Nicole Kidman emerged from her waterfront mansion Saturday to tell the media horde that she had simple plans for the night before her wedding to country music star Keith Urban.
“I'm going to get some sleep,” the Oscar-winning actress said.
Kidman, leaving the mansion she once shared with ex-husband Tom Cruise to visit her parents, Antony and Janelle, in their northern Sydney home, offered no details about the nuptials.
The couple is expected to be married today in a Roman Catholic ceremony at a stone church overlooking Manly beach.
Blair, Zappa call it quits, break the knot
Actress Selma Blair has filed for divorce from her husband, actor-writer Ahmet Zappa, after 29 months of marriage.
Blair, 34, filed her petition Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The couple has no children. Blair has appeared in “Cruel Intentions.”
What happened to yielding to pedestrians
An actor who appeared in the MTV series “Undressed” admitted in court Friday that he left the scene of a Manhattan accident in which a pedestrian was killed by his car.
Wole Parks, 23, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident after causing physical injury.
The accident happened Jan. 22 at Second Avenue and 14th Street. Wole's 2001 Hyundai hit and killed Hannah Engle, 25, of San Rafael, Calif., a graduate student at New York University.
Assistant District Attorney Jill Hoexter said that although the accident was a “horrible crash that took a young woman's life,” the misdemeanor plea was appropriate because evidence indicated that Parks did nothing wrong in the crash.
He had the green light, was not speeding and had committed no traffic infractions.
She added that no one smelled alcohol on his breath and he showed no signs of intoxication.
Parks, an NYU graduate, pleaded guilty in exchange for a promised sentence of one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and counseling that includes an alcoholism program.
- From wire reports
The wig, complete with three strips of toupee tape inside, was worn by Warhol during the early 1980s. Warhol began wearing the hairpieces in the early 1960s, and they eventually turned into fashion accessories more than a cover-up for his baldness. Presale estimates for the hairpiece were $4,000 to $6,000.
It was one of several lots put up at Christie's auction house by Jeffrey Warhola, the artist's nephew.
Wedding bells chime for Urban, Kidman
Nicole Kidman emerged from her waterfront mansion Saturday to tell the media horde that she had simple plans for the night before her wedding to country music star Keith Urban.
“I'm going to get some sleep,” the Oscar-winning actress said.
Kidman, leaving the mansion she once shared with ex-husband Tom Cruise to visit her parents, Antony and Janelle, in their northern Sydney home, offered no details about the nuptials.
The couple is expected to be married today in a Roman Catholic ceremony at a stone church overlooking Manly beach.
Blair, Zappa call it quits, break the knot
Actress Selma Blair has filed for divorce from her husband, actor-writer Ahmet Zappa, after 29 months of marriage.
Blair, 34, filed her petition Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The couple has no children. Blair has appeared in “Cruel Intentions.”
What happened to yielding to pedestrians
An actor who appeared in the MTV series “Undressed” admitted in court Friday that he left the scene of a Manhattan accident in which a pedestrian was killed by his car.
Wole Parks, 23, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of leaving the scene of an accident after causing physical injury.
The accident happened Jan. 22 at Second Avenue and 14th Street. Wole's 2001 Hyundai hit and killed Hannah Engle, 25, of San Rafael, Calif., a graduate student at New York University.
Assistant District Attorney Jill Hoexter said that although the accident was a “horrible crash that took a young woman's life,” the misdemeanor plea was appropriate because evidence indicated that Parks did nothing wrong in the crash.
He had the green light, was not speeding and had committed no traffic infractions.
She added that no one smelled alcohol on his breath and he showed no signs of intoxication.
Parks, an NYU graduate, pleaded guilty in exchange for a promised sentence of one year of probation, 250 hours of community service and counseling that includes an alcoholism program.
- From wire reports
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