'Star Wars' slave Leia costume sells for $96,000
Published in Weird News
CALABASAS, Calif. (UPI) -- The "slave Leia" costume made famous by Carrie Fisher in Return of the Jedi sold for $96,000 in an online auction of Star Wars items.
The metallic bikini, which the auction listing said is actually made from "flexible, gold-painted red dense-urethane rubber," came with the collar and chain links space gangster Jabba the Hutt forced Fisher's character to wear when she was enslaved in the 1983 film.
The costume -- once colorfully described by Fisher in a Newsweek article as "what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell" -- came with a certificate of authenticity from Star Wars designer Richard Miller.
The auction also saw a miniature model of Princess Leia's "Blockade Runner," the first ship seen on screen in the original Star Wars, sell for $450,000, a record sum for a piece of Star Wars memorabilia.
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