Leonardo DiCaprio auctions off week at his mansion
Leonardo DiCaprio auctioned off a week at his California home at a Cannes Film Festival charity event.
A week-long vacation for 12 guests at DiCaprio's house in Palm Springs from from 16 to 23 January next year (17) sold for $336,000 at the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala on Thursday (19May16).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a second week in DiCaprio's
home was then put up for sale at the the French resort's Hotel du
Cap-Eden Roc, which fetched a comparatively paltry $112,000.
The two week long stays will reportedly not include any time with
the actor, who sold the vacation on the condition that guests abide
by "house rules".
At last year's (15) amfAR Gala, Leonardo sold off the chance to
have dinner with him on his yacht for $280,000.
The event's opening host, Kevin Spacey joked about the stay,
"Tonight you can bid on a stay at the Las Vegas home of Leonardo
DiCaprio. It's something very special, only a few hundred
Victoria's Secret models have had. Orlando Bloom is gonna bid on
that."
Kevin, who wowed attendees with his impressions of Johnny Carson,
Bill Clinton and Jack Lemmon, sold a day with him and a walk-on
role on his TV series House of Cards for $560,000.
The fundraising event also saw models Karlie Kloss and Jourdan Dunn
appear in a fashion show, with Uma Thurman auctioning the dresses
they and other models wore on the catwalk.
Orlando, whose new girlfriend Katy Perry performed at the charity
gala, sold off a luxury holiday in Papua New Guinea.
"Basically you can put your carbon footprint on some of the last
unspoiled areas in the world," Orlando quipped while auctioning the
lot, in a joke which may not have gone down well with famed
environmentalist Leonardo.
Other items to go on sale included a sculpture by British artist
Damien Hirst, which sold for $3.5 million and a painting of a fish
by actor turned artist Adrien Brody which sold for $504,000.