Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorThe Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is suing to block a Beverly Hills auction house from selling Valerie Harper’s four Emmy statuettes because the sale this week would tarnish the award, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.The Emmy awards that Harper received for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda are estimated at $5,000 to $7,000 each on the Julien’s Auctions website, where they are set to be sold Friday and Saturday.
The TV Academy says if the sale is allowed to proceed it will undermine the prestige of the award.The actress died in August at age 80.
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