(ANSA-AFP) – BUENOS AIRES, DEC 20 – The auction of Diego Maradona’s assets held online yesterday on the order of Judge Luciana Tedesco to pay the debts and expenses left by the former Argentine champion who died for Cardiac arrest on November 25, 2020: according to calculations by the AFP news agency, the operation brought in only 26 thousand dollars (about 23 thousand euros), with unsold assets for over 1.4 million dollars. There were about ninety lots, but the largest ones – such as a villa in Buenos Aires that Maradona had bought for his parents – did not even receive an offer.
A disappointment, then, even though over 1,500 potential buyers – based in Italy, South America, France, United Kingdom, Russia and the Emirates – had registered to participate in the auction which lasted only three and a half hours, the organizers said.
The highest bid was for a painting of Maradona titled ‘Between Fiorito and the Sky’ by artist Lu Sedova, which sold for $ 2,150. A photograph of Maradona with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro was sold by a Dubai buyer for $ 1,600. “The auctions are like this: You cannot know the result until they are over,” commented the organizer, Adrian Mercado. “We expected a lot, but the reality is that (the end result) is always an unknown,” he added.
Among the most valuable unsold lots, in addition to the Buenos Aires villa – which was valued at $ 900,000 – there is an apartment located in the Mar del Plata resort (valued at $ 65,000), two BMWs (valued at $ 390,000). ) and a Hyundai van (valued at $ 38,000).
Among other minor lots they found buyers a painting of Marilyn Monroe bought by an Argentine for 1,500 dollars, a Napoli shirt with the number 10 on the back also bought for 1,500 dollars and a box of Cuban cigars bought for 550 dollars. The court will now have to decide what to do with the unsold goods. (ANSA-AFP).
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