Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor’s legendary collections of jewellery, haute couture dresses, art and memorabilia have all been sold for a total of $183.5 million after a series of auctions in New York and London.
The last pieces of the estate of the late actress to be auctioned were 38 art works, which fetched a combined total of $24,628,618 over two days of sale on Tuesday and Wednesday at Christie’s auction house in London.
The sale of some paintings from the Taylor collection as part of the old master paintings auction in New York on January 25 had raised $2,098,500.
The family of the Hollywood icon, who died in March last year, put her personal effects on sale after her death and a four-day sale in New York in December raised 156.8 million.
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‘Men get heart risk from dad, pass it to sons’
Scientists have discovered a common inherited genetic variant in men which increases their risk of developing heart disease, a danger which they say also gets passed on to their sons.
The British study, published in The Lancet, found that men with a particular version of the Y chromosome, were 50 per cent more likely to suffer from coronary artery disease (CAD), which can lead to angina, heart attacks and heart failure.
And those having the variant are also more likely to pass on the danger to their male children, the scientists claimed. Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, from the University of Leicester who led the study said: “We are very excited about these findings as they put the Y chromosome on the map of genetic susceptibility to coronary artery disease. — PTI