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Someone Just Bought Patricia Kluge's Curtains For 27 TIMES Their Expected Sale Price

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Someone who apparently has money to spare just paid $16,450 (including buyers' premium) for a set of yellow curtains that were once owned by Patricia Kluge, ex-wife of billionaire media mogul John Kluge.

The curtains, which once hung in Kluge's former estate in Virginia, were expected to sell for somewhere between $600 and $800.

About 100 other items from the Kluge estate also sold at the auction this weekend. They included a set of shotguns given to Patricia by the King of Spain, which sold for $31,000, according to a spokesperson for Potomack Co., which ran the auction.

Kluge made headlines last year when she was forced to cut the price tag on her Virginia home, known as Albermarle, by an incredible $76 million.

Donald Trump picked up the property's vineyard and winery for $6.2 million in April.

Click here for a tour of Albermarle House >

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Julie Zeveloff West is Director of Editorial Product Strategy at Business Insider. She was previously Chief of Staff to Business Insider's editor-in-chief.Julie was the editor-in-chief of the Life division, where she oversaw Business Insider's entertainment, health, food, travel, style, parenting, and digital culture coverage. She was also a Deputy Editor for the site's business section, where she oversaw the lifestyle, transportation, retail, education, and lists & rankings sections, as well as its social media and graphic design teams. Before joining Business Insider in 2010, she was a reporter at Law360, where she covered international trade.In 2019, she was chosen as one of the Folio: Top Women in Media honorees in the Up and Comers category. Julie graduated from Cornell University and holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.