Despite a lawsuit raised by the estate of Tupac Shakur’s late mother, a Brooklyn auction house is till moving forward with selling some of the rapper’s most prized possessions. Tupac’s handwritten lyrics and jewelry will be sold at Black Heritage Auction on the same day he posthumously gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More specifically, there are thirty-nine items up for sale, and the bidding starts at $480,000; however, the auction house expects to bring in seven figures. Further, the auction house did not reach out to the estate, as they felt the memorabilia was obtained lawfully. This lawsuit comes at the heels of another lawsuit fired off by the estate of Tupac’s mother against another auction house that was selling the rapper’s passport and driver’s license, claiming it was not the dealer’s to sell.
See Tupac Shakur Memorabilia Auction Still a Go Despite Lawsuit Threats, TMZ, April 3, 2017.
