Raquel Welch.Photo:Donato Sardella/Getty Images; Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Donato Sardella/Getty Images; Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
On Monday, Julien’s Auctions announcedBombshell: The Raquel Welch Collection, a sale set for Friday, April 12 in Los Angeles and online atjuliensauctions.com.
Raquel Welch’s fur bikini.Julien’s Auctions
Julien’s Auctions
The auction also features art, shoes, accessories, jewelry and furnishings Welch kept at her home in L.A.’s Beverly Crest neighborhood. That includes her 2018 Mercedes-Benz SL 550 Convertible, a diamond and 14k gold wedding ring (Welch wasmarried four times), a stainless steel and gold Rolex wristwatch and even her diploma from La Jolla High School (printed with her birth name, Jo Raquel Tejada) and her senior year report card.
Raquel Welch’s wedding ring.Julien’s Auctions
A La Jolla High School program for a 1958 production ofOur Town, starring Welch as Emily Webb, gives a look at her early acting aspirations.
“By age 7 I knew I wanted to be an actress,” the star, who moved with her parents from Chicago to California when she was a child, told PEOPLE in 2010.
“My parents enrolled me in a theater program. You could get away from some of the painfulness of real life. I always had flights of fancy,” she continued.
Raquel Welch’s Bob Mackie dress.Julien’s Auctions
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She married her high school sweetheart, Jim Welch, when she was 19 andwelcomed children Damon and Tahneeshortly after. Within a few years, she was a single mom and a Hollywood star after leaving her husband and breaking out in the campyOne Million Years B.C.
As she said in 2010, “I’ve gotten a lot of opportunities to do various things I am very proud of.”
source: people.com
