£632k for Breakfast at Tiffany’s (with Audrey)
AUDREY Hepburn’s own Breakfast at Tiffany’s script sold for £632,000 in an auction of her belongings that fetched more than £4million.
The late actress’s personal copy was due to go for around £90,000 – but instead it broke the record for most expensive film script ever sold.
As well as the 1961 film script, which featured her handwritten notes and deleted scenes, an engraved Tiffany and Co bangle, given to the actress by director Steven Spielberg, went for £332,750. But it was the actress’s blue satin sleep mask with blue lacetrimmed flowers which attracted the most attention. It sold for £6,250 – 50 times its pre-sale estimate.
Her children, Luca Dotti and Sean Hepburn Ferrer, who chose Christie’s in London to sell their late mother’s possessions, called her ‘an enduring symbol of grace, elegance and humanity’. Her three-quarter-length Burberry trench coat, and her twopiece Givenchy black satin cocktail gown, made for 1963 film Charade, both fetched nearly £70,000.
More than 12,000 people viewed the exhibits online, with the tenhour live auction raising £4,635,500 – seven times the estimate. The actress died in 1993 at 63 of cancer.