I'm wondering if this was the price the estate had to pay to get the 'death bed' out of the auction - juliens and the owners were clearly hoping that the bed wd bring in the big bucks, not appreciating the unsavoury nature of what they were selling. I'm just not sure, it's not typical of the estate to agree to this - they're usually more classy, which is why i was surprised as they clearly hold the rights to mj's name and likeness and cd distance mj from this.
actually "death bed" was never on the auction. LAPD had the mattress as evidence. It has the headboard they were selling. but people were confusing head board with the bed. people didn't freak out about the rug but that's the place where the paramedics worked on MJ for 40 minutes.