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Cher Key to the City of Adelaide

Cher Key to the City of Adelaide

Cher Adelaide Key eBay Bidder Reneges On Payment

by Paul Cashmere on May 1, 2012

in News

A man who bid almost $100,000 for Cher’s Key to the City of Adelaide says he has no intention of paying for it.

Cher Key to the City of Adelaide

Cher Key to the City of Adelaide

Melbourne resident Robert McDougall placed the dummy bid on eBay to protest Cher’s insult to the people of Australia for selling the key. He told The Age that he pushed up the bids as a joke.

In the past 30 years only 33 keys have been given out. One of those was to for the Dalai Lama.

Someone in Cher’s office is supposedly responsible for the giving the key away to be auctioned off on eBay. “I’m upset 2 & trying 2get2 bottom! I Think my office fkd up?” she tweeted after finding out the news.

She was given the Key To Adelaide after her performance at the Grand Prix in the city in 1990. Former Adelaide mayor told The Age “If she didn’t want to keep it she should have returned it back to the city”.

The seller went by the name Authentic_Cher and claimed the item came directly from her home in Malibu.

McDougall’s winning dummy bid was $US95,900.

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