eBay Pulls Auction For Madonna's Personal Journals

eBay pulled a multi-million dollar auction for Madonna's personal journals and other Madonna related items at 10am Monday morning. TMZ reports that "a rep for the singer was able to convince eBay that "they" were the rightful owners."

The seller, a man who bought the collection at a blind auction for $150 at a Chatsworth, California storage facility, is rightfully upset.

The storage unit belonged to Melissa Crowe. Crowe was Madonna’s personal assistant from 1987 to 1996. In the storage unit was Madonna’s personal daily journals, from 1988 to 1992, an address book containing famous names, personal pictures of Madonna and her family, among other things. The items in the unit went up for auction when the storage fees went unpaid.

The collector who bought the Madonna items and then placed them on eBay listed them with a starting bid of $2.5 million for the whole lot.

In the description of the items on eBay, the seller stated:

"Today at a moving company, I bought some boxes that were owned by Melissa Crowe. She was Madonna Ciccone's (singer known as 'Madonna') assistant from the years 1987-1996 ... 17 binders/book on everything Madonna and Melissa did! I have not looked through each page, but there is a little of everything in them."

Crowe had gone on blogs making negative comments about the auction and telling people not to buy the items.

PopEater reports that Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, told them - "These are not Madonna's diaries."

Madonna’s personal daily journals, from 1988 to 1992.



A peek inside of one item.



Madonna’s address book



1959 - Baby Madonna and her family.