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...east called Pomerol, which used to be disdained in Bordeaux wine circles. Now Chateau Petrus commands $250 a bottle for the acclaimed 1982 vintage, making it perhaps the most expensive wine for that year on the market. Older Petrus vintages occasionally fetch more than $1,000 a bottle at auction...
Some Congressmen are not so sure. "Somewhere there may be a race of humans who will take $1,000 from perfect strangers and be unaffected by it," dryly notes Congressman Frank. Says Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "There's a danger that we're putting ourselves on the auction block every election. It's now tough to hear the voices of the citizens in your district. Sometimes the only things you can hear are the loud voices in three-piece suits carrying a PAC check...
...reclining beauty holding a Greek lyre has rarely been seen in public. That obscurity is now a thing of the past for . the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, a 54-in. by 78-in. painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when it is auctioned on April 11. But the Spanish government wants it back pronto...
...were spurious, a charge that both Wimborne and Christie's deny. A London art dealer involved in the sale to Wimborne apparently was told that the necessary export permit was expedited by a Spanish official who owed the Marquesa's former owner a "favor." Christie's insists that the auction will take place as scheduled...
...Valley, ski resort to upscale downhillers, schussed past 50 last week, and as prelude to the birthday, dozens of showfolk showed up in Idaho for the second annual Sun Valley Celebrity Ski Invitational. The highlight of the event: a charity auction presided over by Paul Newman that raised an estimated $140,000 for the Scott Newman Foundation for drug rehabilitation, established by the actor following his son's 1978 overdose death. Setting some kind of record for psychiatric fees, Brooke Shields' mother Teri bid $12,000 for a one-hour "consultation" with TV's Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer. Asked...