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Auction of Jerry Weintraub Memorabilia Scheduled for May 5-6 in California
An auction featuring over 800 items from producer Jerry Weintraub's career will take place on May 5-6 at Julien’s Auctions in Gardena, California, and online. The event, titled 'Jerry Weintraub, The Consummate Producer,' includes memorabilia from films, music, sports, and personal collections. A preview will occur during the TCM Classic Film Festival from April 30 to May 3.
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Jerry Weintraub, a producer whose career spanned 50 years, worked in movies, television, music, and sports. He collaborated with figures including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, the Beach Boys, the Pointer Sisters, and John Denver, whom he discovered. Weintraub began as an agent, manager, and concert promoter before transitioning to film and television production.
The auction, organized by Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies, will offer more than 800 lots. Items include autographed scripts, wardrobe pieces, and props from the Ocean’s Eleven franchise, such as a signed casino table from Ocean’s Thirteen estimated at $3,000 to $5,000 and a Faberge egg and pedestal from Ocean’s Twelve estimated at $6,000 to $8,000.
Other film-related items feature Ralph Fiennes’ suit, bowler hat, and umbrella from The Avengers, a jumpsuit from The Karate Kid II, and the script for Robert Altman’s Nashville, which received five Academy Award nominations in 1975, including for best picture.
artifacts in the auction include boxing gloves signed by Muhammad Ali, estimated at $1,000 to $2,000; tennis rackets used by Jimmy Connors, estimated at $5,000 to $7,000, and Rod Laver, estimated at $4,000 to $6,000, the latter used to win the U.S. Open; figure skates worn by Dorothy Hamill in the compulsory competition before her 1976 Olympic gold medal performance in Austria, estimated at $50,000 to $70,000; and a 1984 Olympic Torch, estimated at $2,000 to $3,000.
Music-related items comprise more than 60 gold and platinum record sales awards for projects including Elvis Presley’s “As Recorded at Madison Square Garden,” John Denver’s “An Evening with John Denver,” the Carpenters’ “Live at the Palladium,” Neil Diamond’s “12 Greatest Hits Vol.
2,” Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks,” and the Ghostbusters movie soundtrack. ” The auction also features a Golden Globe Weintraub won for producing Behind the Candelabra. Personal items from homes in Palm Springs and Beverly Hills, owned by Weintraub and his former wife Jane Morgan, include an art collection with works by Pablo Picasso, Gaston Sebire, and Andy Warhol, along with furniture and decorative pieces.
