Houston, we have an auction
Few people can sing like Whitney Houston. But next week, anyone with spare cash can dress like the Grammy winner, right down to one of her black velvet bustiers, and croon into one of her microphones.
Those items and more than 300 others from a 1999 world tour, including grand pianos, drum kits and a forklift, will be auctioned Tuesday to help cover unpaid storage fees on the gear and clothing, said Jeffrey Campisi, a lawyer for Speed of Sound, a company that has been tending to the equipment in New Jersey.
Speed of Sound went to court in May after not receiving payments from Houston’s company, Nippy Inc., for a year. The company is now owed $175,000 to $200,000, Campisi said Wednesday.
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