Farrah Abraham sells sex tape as raunchy pics leak online

Published May 01, 2013

FoxNews.com

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  Farrah Abraham's video cover is shown.FNN

Former “Teen Mom” Farrah Abraham has officially gone from reality star to porn star.

The MTV starlet sold her sex tape, filmed with adult-film actor James Deen, for more than six figures, according to TMZ. The young mother is said to be making about $1 million from the raunchy movie.

And now some photos from the X-Rated flick have hit the web. In the pics, obtained by TMZ, Abraham is seen posing seductively on a bed and in the shower.

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On Tuesday, the “Teen Mom” said she was happy with the money she earned for the tape.

"I am happy with the seven figure settlement I have reached, with who I feel to be the best adult entertainment company in the industry, Vivid," Abraham said in a statement. "This is a risk for me to take, however I feel comfortable having given the rights to Vivid, a company I know can handle the media and press surrounding my sexuality."

The tape, titled “Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom” will be released May 6 on Vivid’s website and May 14 in stores.  

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Egg laid by extinct elephant bird sells for $101G at British auction

Published April 24, 2013

Associated Press

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  March 27, 2013: Christie's scientific specialist James Hyslop holds up a chicken egg to scale the size of a sub-fossilised pre-17th century Elephant Bird egg as he poses for photographs at the auction house's premises in London.AP

LONDON –  A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction.

Christie's auction house said Wednesday that the foot-long, nearly nine-inches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813). It had been valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds pre-sale, and was sold to an anonymous buyer over the telephone after about 10 minutes of competitive bidding.

Elephant birds were wiped out several hundred years ago. The oversized ovum, laid on the island of Madagascar, is believed to date back before the 17th century.

Flightless, fruit-gobbling elephant birds resembled giant ostriches and could grow to be 11 feet high. Christie's says their eggs are 100 times the size of an average chicken's.

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Bowl bought for $3 sells for more than $2 million at NY auction

Published March 20, 2013

New York Post

A New York family scored a huge payday when a small bowl, which they bought at a garage sale for $3, turned out to be a 1,000-year old Chinese piece that sold for $2.2 million at Sotheby’s yesterday. The family bought the rare bowl at the secondhand sale in 2007, and kept it sitting on their mantle for years, the auction house said.

After becoming curious, the bargain hunters began consulting experts about the bowl. They finally brought the piece to Sotheby’s, which estimated it would sell for somewhere in the $200,000 to $300,000 range.

But yesterday, London art dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi blew away those figures when he plunked down $2.2 million for the museum-quality piece.

He beat four other bidders for the Northern Song dynasty bowl — known as a Ding bowl — which dates back to the 10th or 11th century.

There is only one other bowl like it in the world, and it is in the British Museum.

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