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 "It should not sit in a billionaire's closet for country club
bragging rights," the anonymous buyer told Newton-John,
according to video of the exchange provided by Julien's
Auctions.
"The odds of beating a recurring cancer using the newest
emerging therapies is 1,000-fold greater than someone appearing
out of the blue, buying your most famous and cherished icon, and
returning it to you," the buyer told the actress as he presented
her with the jacket at a meeting in California last weekend.
The jacket and the figure-hugging black pants worn by
Newton-John for her "You're the One That I Want" duet with John
Travolta in the 1978 movie were sold to separate buyers at a
Beverly Hills auction last month, fetching more than double the
expected price.
They were among some 500 items from her collection being sold to
benefit the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center in
Melbourne, which the singer cofounded after her first bout of
breast cancer in 1992.
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The British-born, Australian-raised performer, 71, said earlier this
year she is battling breast cancer for a third time.
The buyer of the jacket called himself the singer's "No. 1 fan" and
wished Newton-John "God speed for a quick recovery."
The singer said she would put the jacket on display at the Melbourne
cancer center.
"That is the most incredibly generous thing to do for me," she told
him. "I am so grateful, and I am just blown away."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Tom Brown)
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