{"id":161469,"date":"2018-04-25T02:41:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T06:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161469"},"modified":"2018-04-25T02:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T06:41:41","slug":"madonna-loses-battle-to-prevent-auction-of-tupac-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/25\/madonna-loses-battle-to-prevent-auction-of-tupac-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna loses battle to prevent auction of Tupac letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161472\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21766661_10155680927749402_2649660763727857376_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161472\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21766661_10155680927749402_2649660763727857376_n.jpg\" alt=\"Pop star Madonna has lost her battle to prevent an auction of her personal items, including a love letter from her ex-boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, a pair of worn panties and a hairbrush containing her hair. (Photo: Madonna\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21766661_10155680927749402_2649660763727857376_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21766661_10155680927749402_2649660763727857376_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/21766661_10155680927749402_2649660763727857376_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pop star Madonna has lost her battle to prevent an auction of her personal items, including a love letter from her ex-boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, a pair of worn panties and a hairbrush containing her hair. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madonna\/photos\/a.10151969572164402.1073741833.10584534401\/10155680927749402\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo: Madonna\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Pop star Madonna has lost her battle to prevent an auction of her personal items, including a love letter from her ex-boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, a pair of worn panties and a hairbrush containing her hair.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a judge ordered Gotta Have It! Collectibles to pull the items from its impending rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll-themed auction after the Material Girl sought an emergency court order.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision revealed Monday, the judge dismissed the case on grounds the statute of limitations to recover the items had passed.<\/p>\n<p>The auction house told The New York Times it had done due diligence on the items and was confident Madonna had no claim.<\/p>\n<p>The company says the auction will be in July.<\/p>\n<p>Starting bid for the Tupac letter is $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Pop star Madonna has lost her battle to prevent an auction of her personal items, including a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":161472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5556,17654],"class_list":["post-161469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-tupac-shakur","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}