For the past few days, Alain Delon has been in the news because of the auction of his collection of works of art acquired during his life. If most of the time, this kind of sale takes place following the death of a personality, the famous 87-year-old actor decided to do it during his lifetime and is helped by his daughter Anouchka Delon to carry out this prestigious sale. These 80 collector’s items could also bring them between 4 and 5 million euros.
This June 22, 2023, another sale linked to an emblematic French personality was also taking place in Paris. The company CarPrecium renowned for its car auctions has indeed put on sale the famous Rolls-Royce offered by Coluche to the actress Marie Bell. Exhibited in the Drouot district, rue Rossini for those interested, the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow is intended to be rare since it was manufactured from 1965 to 1980 in approximately 30,000 copies, 65% of which are still in circulation today. This jewel also appears in two James Bond films, namely “The Man with the Golden Gun” released in 1974 and “The World Is Not Enough” released in 1999.
Coluche: why the comedian felt indebted to Marie Bell
This car is above all the witness of a beautiful story of friendship. We are at the beginning of the 1970s and the actress Marie Bell directed the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris after an exemplary career as an actress in cinema and theater. At the time, she then gave a comedian a chance for a show alone on stage, a comedian who was none other than Coluche!
June 29 at #auction in Paris, the #Rolls Royce Silver Shadow series I from 1971 that #Coluche offered the comedian-actress Marie Bell, director of the Théâtre du Gymnase, the comedian’s favorite scene. Starting price €14,000 to €18,000 @AuctionMillonpic.twitter.com/IP9nj9wE2t
— Jean-Francois Guyot (@JFGuyot) June 23, 2023
Very grateful to Marie Bell who allowed him to launch his career, Coluche then gave him this Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in 1973. “Every day he gave her roses and one day he gave her a Rolls” says elsewhere a close friend of Marie Bell, referring to the car that Coluche used on a daily basis but also to go on vacation to Monaco.
If Marie Bell died on August 14, 1985 at the age of 85, Coluche, whose real name was Michel Colucci, died in June 1986 at only 41 years old.
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