LOS ANGELES – Sources close to Jennifer Aniston say the Friends star will be watching eBay closely when love notes she wrote as a teenager and other memorabilia go on sale July 29. The items to be auctioned include a scrap of paper with Aniston’s name and phone number scrawled on it in lipstick, a love letter written by Aniston in red pen, and birthday greetings to a friend scribbled on toilet paper.
Michael Baroni, the California lawyer selling these items, is also selling a page from his address book that contains dated contact information for Aniston, a photo of him and Aniston hugging, and a 34-B autographed bra that allegedly belonged to Aniston. The reserve price for the entire package of memorabilia is $100,000.
According to Baroni, he and Aniston had “a brief summer thing” in 1984 when he was sixteen and she was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s High School of Performing Arts. They remained friends but eventually lost contact in 1991 as Aniston’s career began to blossom and Baroni was busy with correspondence school law courses.
Aniston’s representative, Stephen Huvane, would not say whether Aniston plans to bid for the items or to use eBay’s “Buy It Now” option to purchase them outright. Even if Aniston plans to use that option, she’ll have to get the jump on rival bidders who might buy the collection then put it back on eBay at a higher price—or sell the items individually.
Huvane did say that Aniston’s interest in the memorabilia is strictly humanitarian.
“Jennifer knows what it’s like to be under the microscope, and she wants to spare the person or persons who might be living at her old address or who might now have her old phone number from the inevitable visits and crank calls that celebrity inspires.”
Other Hollywood insiders say the photo and the bra are the items Aniston really wants.
“It’s no secret Jen had her nose and boobs done,” said fashionista Joan Rivers. “What people don’t know is that she’s been buying every pre-nose job and flat-chested picture she can find. She’s got more old photos of herself than a stalker.”
Marketing types think Aniston may have a financial interest in the toilet paper birthday note. Hallmark, which is already rumored to be exploring the possibility of adding a Toilet Paper Greetings section to its popular Shoebox division, is said to be ready to buy the Aniston collection in order to secure the toilet paper note.
“Obviously,” said a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch, “buying the Jennifer note to use in an advertising campaign would be a significant, and relatively inexpensive, coup for Hallmark. On the other hand, having to license that note from Jennifer or anyone else could be considerably more expensive.”
Hallmark refused to comment on this matter, but a freelance greeting card writer living in Beverly Hills told Entertainment Tonight she had been approached by an editor at Hallmark.
“The editor asked me to come up with some short birthday greetings that would fit on a regular two-ply section of toilet paper and to make them sound as if they had been written by a teenager who had forgotten someone’s birthday.”
Strangely enough no one—not even Brad Pitt’s army of lawyers—is speculating about the content of the red-ink note from Aniston to Baroni or about the embarrassment it might cause her.
In related news, a seller identified as “amrmx” is offering “every love letter I wrote to Jennifer Aniston, including a makeshift birthday card I wrote on a piece of toilet paper” for sale on eBay. So far there have been no bids at the opening price of $25,000.
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