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Sotheby’s auction house will offer rare memorabilia related to Tupac Shakur, who was shot dead in Las Vegas in 1996.
These include a volume with haikus, i.e. short poems in the Japanese style, which the musician wrote at the age of eleven for his godfather, when he was in prison.
Tupac in love
The auction house also offers love letters that Shakur wrote at the age of 17 for his one-time love
The online auction is estimated to fetch $300,000. Bids can be submitted until March 30th.
Tupac and Madonna
Three years ago, Tupac’s breakup letter, which he wrote to Madonna at the time, was auctioned off. the rapper is said to have penned the letter to the Queen of Pop in January 1995 while in prison.
Madonna desperately wanted a court case to keep the letter from going under the hammer, but lost. In July 2018, the singer requested that her personal belongings not be sold. However, a former friend had sold Tupac’s letter to an auction house.
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