The crown worn by Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace in his last photo shoot before he died sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $475,000 — despite its original $6 price tag.

A crown adorned with plastic jewels, famously worn by Notorious B.I.G. during his last ever photo shoot, sold for $594,750 at a hip hop-inspired auction in New York on Tuesday evening.

Another hip-hop artifact is expected to be put up for auction in the coming weeks. On Monday (Aug. 25), news surfaced that The Notorious B.I.G.'s crown from a famous photoshoot in the 1990s will ...

The Notorious B.I.G.'s gem-adorned crown has sold for big money—pun intended—at Sotheby's Auction House. On Tuesday (Sept. 15), the largest broker of fine and decorative art, jewelry, real ...

A plastic crown worn by the Notorious B.I.G. during the rapper’s "King of New York" photoshoot sold for $595,000 at a Sotheby’s auction.