Just a heads up, this episode contains some strong language.

In February 1992, Sathabies and London auctioned everything in Robert Maxwell's apartment.

The newspapers called it a grand garage sale.

This was three months after he was laid to rest in the Mount of Olives in Israel.

The cause of his death in Spain was still in dispute, but back in the UK, the colossal

debt that Maxwell left behind was all over the news.

So his personal items were being sold off to help pay his creditors, and everything had

to go.

Mixed up among household items like pots, pans, and a toaster was a director's chair, with

Maxwell's name on the back.

Apparently a gift from Ronald Reagan.

And there was a collection of photographs of Maxwell with Jesse Jackson and the Mandelas,

from when they visited the mirror offices.

The auction crowds snorted with laughter when multiple copies of Maxwell's biography

were wheeled out.

An exercise trampoline, brand new, and unused, was also mocked.

The sun newspaper, owned by Maxwell's nemesis, Rupert Murdoch, paid $2,000 for his monogram

and towels, bath robes, and slippers, so that the next week they could offer them as contest

prices to readers.

The hottest topic was the sale of Maxwell's enormous double bed with padded headboard.

The woman who bought it owned a country hotel in England.

She claimed she would make it the centerpiece of a new, scandal suite.

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