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$100,000 for a lock of Che's hair

12:50 H | Topics: Bizarro - Celebrities - Houston

What would you do if you had an extra $100,000 laying around? More specifically, would you buy a lock of Che Guevara's hair? One Houston man has done just that:

Bill Butler, 61, was the only bidder for the hair, which was allegedly cut from the Marxist leader's head before his burial in 1967.

The collector described Guevara as "one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century", according to staff at the Heritage auction house in Dallas, Texas.

He plans to display the item in his bookshop in Rosenberg, just outside Houston.

To each his own, but I'm from Houston and I'm nothing thinking that this is going to draw huge crowds in my hometown. But hey, I could be wrong.

Apparently the hair was collected by the CIA agent Mala mentions in her post from earlier this year about whether Che's body is actually him (incidentally, that debate is news again today). The U.K.'s Telegraph reports that the agent had to obtain the hair as proof that he had completed his mission to kill Guevara. However, it's never been confirmed that it actually belongs to El Che.

Via / Telegraph.co.uk

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