November
6 Dana Giacchetto to sell soul at auction - now with photo gallery!

On page 44 of today's Daily Variety, tucked amidst AFM ads for "Dim Sum Funeral" and "Love At the First Hiccup," is an even seedier advertisement: The announcement of a bankruptcy auction sale "Relating To Dana Giacchetto, 'Financial Adviser To Hollywood Stars' ". (Click on the image for larger resolution.) Giacchetto, of course, served time after being indicted for securities fraud eight years ago; last year, worked with biographer Amy White on "You Will Make Money in Your Sleep: The Story of Dana Giacchetto, Financial Adviser to the Stars." Janet Shprintz reports that he still owes people more than $2 million, so he's auctioning his life rights (minimum bid: $100,000), a "Titanic" VHS signed by his former client, Leonardo DiCaprio (minimum bid: $1,000) and "Giacchetto personal items seized from him by US Marshals upon his arrest after allegedly violating bail order." Bidding starts at 9 am on December 11 in US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. [Variety]

UPDATE: Now with pictures! Click here to see a gallery of the items available at auction! They include the most dreadful fingerpaintings ever created by a disgraced former celebrity money manager and his client, the Leo-signed VHS, a weird leather pouchy thing and, perhaps best of all, a Discman.