{"id":67605,"date":"2025-07-16T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67605\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:31:09","slug":"whitney-houston-foundation-auction-to-feature-stage-outfits-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67605\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston Foundation Auction to Feature Stage Outfits, Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 40th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/whitney-houston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whitney Houston<\/a>\u2018s music career will be celebrated on Aug. 11 when Julien\u2019s Auctions hosts the Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation Auction featuring a treasure trove of the iconic singer\u2019s stage clothes and personal effects, including a RIAA multi-platinum sales award for her legendary 1992 hit and Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash \u201cI Will Always Love You.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe auction, which will kick off at 10 a.m. PST will honor Houston\u2019s legacy and raise awareness and funds for the foundation\u2019s many initiatives, including scholarships for young college students studying the arts at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<br \/>\u201cOn behalf of The Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation, we look forward to partnering with Julien\u2019s Auctions,\u201d said the singer\u2019s sister-in-law and former manager\/ executor of Houston\u2019s estate, Pat Houston, in a statement. \u201cFor Whitney\u2019s 40th Anniversary, we have some of her unique and one-of-a-kind items and garments that Whitney wore on stage and at various A-list events and at home. Gathering those items brought back so many memories. We look forward to previewing this year\u2019s collection with her supporters globally.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAmong the items <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juliensauctions.com\/en\/auctions\/the-whitney-e-houston-legacy-foundation-auction\">going under the gavel<\/a> are: a 1991 \u201cI\u2019m Your Baby Tonight\u201d stage-worn Marc Bouwer embellished catsuit, a 1994 personalized FIFA World Cup event-worn jersey, a 1994 event-worn Michael McCollom black fur coat, a 1994 The Bodyguard world tour stage-worn Bouwer embellished two-piece outfit, two pair of 1999 My Love Is Your Love world tour-worn Dolce &amp; Gabbana pumps, a novelty slot machine, various pieces of jewelry and an RIAA multi-platinum sales award for The Bodyguard soundtrack, the best-selling soundtrack of all time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cJulien\u2019s Auctions is proud to partner with the Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation for this very special auction,\u201d said\u00a0Julien\u2019s VP head of music Giles Moon in a statement. \u201cWhitney Houston fans and collectors from around the world will have a rare opportunity to own incredible memorabilia and artifacts from important moments of her stellar career, while making a difference, with 100% of the proceeds from the sale benefitting the Whitney E.\u00a0 Houston Legacy Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tA special preview of the auction items will take place at the Foundation\u2019s 4th annual Legacy of Love gala on Aug. 9 at the St. Regis Hotel in Atlanta, on what would have been Houston\u2019s 62nd birthday; Houston died in Feb. 2012 at age 48. The collection is live now and the sale will commence on Aug. 11 from Los Angeles beginning at 1 p.m. ET and online <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/juliensauctions.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 40th anniversary of Whitney Houston\u2018s music career will be celebrated on Aug. 11 when Julien\u2019s Auctions hosts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[33421,4345,5499,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-67605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-genre-pop","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-music-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114863873621996427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}