Whitney Houston's numerous awards, stunning red-carpet dresses and other personal affects will be up for an auction. Organised by auction house
Heritage Auctions
and sanctioned by her estate, it will take place later this month, reported Billboard magazine.
"The (Houston) family actually reached out to the president of our company," said
Garry Shrum
, director of
Entertainment and Music Memorabilia
at Heritage Auctions.
Whitney Houston documentary in works "We had worked with a good friend of theirs, David Gest. He knew us and liked what we did and told the Houston (family) about us, and my colleague
Margaret Barrett
and I went out to
New Jersey
and listened to what they wanted to do.
"We gave them some ideas, they gave us some ideas, and we came up with this 119-piece collection that's basically a retrospective of Whitney from the beginning, from when she first started singing after she left being a background singer for
Chaka Khan
and
Lou Rawls
. We have her passport from the beginning, all these various awards and outfits, all kinds of cool and groovy things."
The most buzzed-about item on the internet is her intricate, one-of-a-kind
Marc Bouwer
wedding dress, which she wore to wed Bobby Brown in 1992. Some of the more unique and sentimental items include weathered passports, a jacket given to Whitney by her father emblazoned with her childhood nickname
Nippy
, and a Disney coloring book entirely in Japanese.
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