Open Post: Hosted By A Fan Gifting Olivia Newton-John With The Bad Sandy Jacket She Put Up For Auction

December 13, 2019 / Posted by:

Olivia Newton-John teamed up with Julien’s Auctions to raise money for her cancer research center, and auctioned off a lot of her memorabilia including her Bad Sandy outfit from Grease. The auction happened on November 2 and $2.4 million was raised. The Bad Sandy leather jacket alone got $243,200. And the anonymous buyer of that jacket recently gave it back to Olivia and told her it’s from “the collective soul of those who love you, those for whom you are the soundtrack of their lives.” Olivia graciously accepted the gift from her anonymous fan, and while doing so, probably thought, “Err, you could’ve just written my cancer center a check since I’m going to auction this jacket off again for even more money for my cancer center.” No, Olivia will display it at her cancer center.

via CNN:

“This jacket belongs to you and the collective soul of those who love you, those for whom you are the soundtrack of their lives. It should not sit in a billionaire’s closet for country club bragging rights,” the anonymous buyer said in Los Angeles this weekend, in a video posted on Facebook by Julien’s Auctions. “For this reason I humbly and respectfully return it to its rightful owner, which is you.”

I’m still amazed he did it all anonymously. It ruins my day when the barista doesn’t see the dollar tip I left in their tip jar, so I really can’t imagine gifting a quarter of a million dollars to charity and not letting the world know it was me. Olivia was thrilled, and like I said above, plans to show it off in her cancer center:

“You’re the best, you’re the best! I’m so grateful,” Newton-John said, while hugging the jacket and then the buyer. “This is the most beautiful present, but mainly it’s your heart that I’m grateful for.”
She seemed thrilled when the buyer asked if she would put it on display in her cancer center.
“Yes, it was was always my dream to do that, so yes!” Newton-John said.

Olivia Newton has been through it: she’s had breast cancer three times and had a boyfriend allegedly fake his death. So it’s nice to see Olivia getting some love and celebrated for her charitable ways. In my dream of dreams Olivia and this blurry-faced doctor will discover a cure for cancer, and celebrate by dancing in her leather jacket to You’re the One That I Want on an endless loop.

Pic: YouTube

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