Tupac’s break up letter to Madonna 20 years back hit the auctioneer’s block this Wednesday, 17thJuly after a long-winded court case to halt the sale of the love letter by Madonna.
The opening bid is set to $100,000 with many industry watchers predicting the final prize could go as high as $300,000.
The break up letter was part of Madonna’s private collection up for auction this week.
We now know for the first time that Tupac broke up with his then girlfriend, Madonna because she was white – the letter dated January 1995 revealed.
The sale is being handled by online auction site, GottaHaveRockAndRoll.com on behind of Lutz, the long-term art consultant and now estranged friend to Madonna.
The note is part of the highly contested private memorabilia collection which Madonna tried to block their sell that included Madonna’s hairbrush with a strand of hair, photos, and even a pair of panties she was rumored to have worn once.
Madonna and Tupac dated briefly before he was finally shot dead in Las Vegas 1995. He was 25 at the time.
The hip pop rapper opened the letter by apologizing to Madonna: “I haven’t been the kind of friend I know I’m capable of being,” he wrote.
“For you to be seen with a black man wouldn’t in any way jeopardize your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting.”
“I felt due to my ‘image’ I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was. I never meant to hurt you.” he explained.
He went further to bring up an interview Madonna granted, in which she said, ‘she is off to rehabilitate all rappers and baseball players.’
“Those words cut me deep seeing how I had never known you to be with any rappers beside myself,’ he wrote.
“It was at this moment out of hurt and a natural instinct to strike back and defend my heart and ego that I said a lot of things.”
He went on: “I have since grown both spiritually and mentally. It no longer matters how I’m perceived. Please understand my previous position as that of a young man with limited experience with an extremely famous sex symbol.”
“I offer my friendship once again, this time much stronger and focused. If you are still interested would like to further discuss this with you, but some it couldn’t wait.”
“I felt compelled to tell you…just in case anything happened to me.”
Madonna while seeking to block the auction of the note, claimed “Lutz had betrayed my trust in an outrageous effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or consent.”
“The fact that I have attained celebrity status as a result of success in my career does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy,” she concluded.
In a court ruling, the Judge affirmed Madonna forfeited her rights to those property once she signed the settlement agreement with Lutz back in 2004 after a bitter dispute.
The auction is expected to begin July 17, and half of the proceeds would go to a breast cancer advocacy group.
