Fashion Statement: John Lennon's White Suit AuctionedThe white suit worn by John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles' Abby Road album was sold at auction for $118,000.
The white suit worn by former Beatle John Lennon on the cover of the Abbey Road album by Beatles was sold at auction in Las Vegas for $118,000.
The winner of the suit was Anthony Pugliese of World Films in Del Ray, Florida.
Pugliese also bought the jacket John Lennon wore in his video to the song "Imagine" for $32,000.
"Abbey Road" bears one of the most famous album covers of all time. It showed the four Beatles crossing a busy street at a cross walk.
According to BBC, it turned out the Beatles just posed in what they had been wearing on the day.
The car, an Austin Princess hearse, that John Lennon drove in the film "Imagine" was sold to a private Japanese investor for $150,000.
On the same auction, the headdress worn by actress Elizabeth Taylor in the movie "Cleopatra" which sold for modest $13,500.
SOURCES: FORBES, BBC (UK)
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