Robert Evans' estate auction over the weekend hauled in several hundred of thousands of dollars, including his Helmut Newton photograph collection which sold for $486,972, according toJulien’s Auctions.
Evans died Oct. 26, 2019. The iconic producer and studio chief was credited with resurrecting Paramount Pictures in the 1960s with a slew of classics, includingRosemary's Baby,The GodfatherandChinatown.
His Chinatown Golden Globe nabbed $83,200, more than 27 times its original estimate of $3,000, according to the auction house.
In the same realm, his third draft Chinatown script — signed with a note by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne — sold for $40,625, well over its original estimate of $8,000,Julien’s noted.
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