Elvis Presley’s Drugs Offered for $2,000
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LOS ANGELES — If you’re the winning bidder for Lot 284 at a Beverly Hills, Calif,, auction on Saturday, you could spend the rest of the weekend partying like the King.
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. It’s estimated to go for $2,000 to $4,000. And the winner of the item gets a bonus: Remaining in the bottle are 12 assorted pills.
“The pills are very old,” said Darren Julien, president of Julien’s, the West Hollywood, Calif.-based auction house running the sale. “You can tell. They’re heavily discolored. You can take them to a lab, obviously, and figure out what they are.”
The bottle of pills is one of more than a dozen Presley items on the block, along with movie posters, Marilyn Monroe photographs and other entertainment memorabilia. Presley died in 1977 at the age of 42, following years of heavy prescription-drug use.
