Notorious B.I.G.’s crown, Tupac Shakur’s love letters headed to Sotheby’s auction
missive he sent Madonna, whom he briefly dated in the Nineties, went to auction last year after Madonna had tried to stop the sale.)As for the Biggie lot, the autographed crown is the same one the Brooklyn rapper wore during his “King of New York” photoshoot with Barron Claiborne in 1997, just days before he was shot and killed. The lot will come with three unique prints from the shoot, made and signed by Claiborne, plus the contact sheet.