A bikini museum has snapped up the sexy bikini worn by Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia in the Star Wars movie ‘Return of the Jedi ‘ for an out-of-this-world USD 175,000 at a US auction.
The late actress sent a generation of teenage boys’ pulses racing in 1983 when she wore the skimpy outfit when her character was captured by intergalactic baddie Jabba the Hutt.
Video footage from the Heritage Live auction in Dallas, Texas, from 25th July shows the moment it was knocked down to Germany’s Bikini Art Museum in Bad Rappenau.
A bidding firefight saw the iconic lot sold to museum director Alexander Ruscheinsky in barely more than four minutes.
The last time the costume is known to have been sold was for just GBP 77,000 during a ‘Profiles of History’ online auction eight years ago (2016).
It will now join other costumes worn by Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Amy Winehouse already in the museum’s collection.
But Carrie Fisher later gave the costume designers a dressing down for the outfit which she wore perched beside Jabba’s throne with a chain around her neck.
She described it as “what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell”.
And when parents said that a Staw Wars doll wearing the bikini was a bad example to girls she agreed Âsaying: “Tell them a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit and then I killed him because I didn’t like it.”
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