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You know you’ve reached icon status when two decades after your death, people are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for personal items typically thrown away by the average person. In the year 3000, if my electric toothbrush doesn’t fetch $25,000 or more at auction, I’ll consider my life a colossal failure.
Today, a obscure piece of memorabilia hit the auction market: a mugshot of the Notorious B.I.G.
Via Page Six:
Biggie Smalls was arrested at a nightclub in New Jersey and booked at the nearby county jail sometime between 1994 and 1995. A woman named Megan, who was 14 at the time, was a fan of his, and her brother happened to be working at the jail where Biggie — real name Christopher Wallace — was booked. Knowing his sister was a fan, the guard asked the “Mo Money Mo Problems” rapper for an autograph and instead took home his mugshots with a personalized note.
The note reads, “To: Megan, Much Love, ‘Thanks 4 the phone call’ B.I.G.”
The mugshot is being auctioned by Moments In Time, the same dealer that last year auctioned the BMW Tupac was shot and killed in for $1.5 million and handwritten lyrics to Tupac’s Dear Mama for $75,000. It’s auction price started at $36,000, or the price of a fully-loaded Jeep Cherokee.
Take a look at the mugshot pictures over at Page Six.