Party Like the King $2,000 Could Buy You Elvis Presley's Drugs
The item up for auction during Julien's Summer Sale at the Beverly Hilton hotel is an undated bottle for the antihistamine drug Naldecon, prescribed to singer Elvis Presley. Concrete's estimated to life for $2, 000 to $4,000. And the winner of the item gets a benefaction: Remaining influence the bottle are 12 assorted pills.
" The pills are appropriate mature, " oral Darren Julien, bigwig of Julien's, the West Hollywood, California-based auction abode running the sale. " You responsibility impart. They're heavily discolored. You responsibility catching them to a lab, obviously, and figure out what they are. "
The bottle of pills is one of also than a dozen Presley items on the block, along blot out movie posters, Marilyn Monroe photographs and other entertainment memorabilia. Presley died ascendancy 1977 at the age of 42, following age of bulky prescription-drug adoption.
The Naldecon was prescribed by George Nichopoulos, proclaimed in that Dr. Nick, who began treating the Baron of Rock'n'Roll influence 1967 and was Presley's personal physician from 1970 until his death. Nichopoulos, who wrote 199 prescriptions for Presley in the eight months before the rock star died, had his medical license suspended in 1980 and lost it permanently in 1995. A 1980 criminal trial in which he was accused of abusing his license to prescribe drugs ended with an acquittal.
The pill bottle is one of the four Presley items in the June 16 auction from the collection of George Klein, who was the singer's friend starting in high school in Memphis, Tennessee, and served as a pallbearer at his funeral. Also being sold from Klein's collection is his 1953 Humes High School yearbook with the inscription, " Best of luck to a swell pal, Elvis. "
June 12, 2007
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