Indications

Dead celebrities may come and go, but the business of Elvis marches on. In June, more than 45 Elvis-related items from the estate of his personal physician, Dr. George “Dr. Nick” Nichopoulos, were sold in Las Vegas by Julien's Auctions. Highlights included empty prescription bottles (the pills were destroyed when the legality of selling them was questioned, Bloomberg.com reported), including one for Benadryl that was prescribed Aug. 15, 1977â€"the day before the King's death. Also on the auction block: a laryngeal scope that went for $1,792, and the medical bag that Dr. Nichopoulos used for house calls to Graceland. The medical bag sold for $16,000. The prescription bottles, which Julien's expected to fetch $800 to $1,200 each, went for $2,880 to $8,960. The members of the Bureau of Indications are, of course, huge fans. But the $28.50 we scraped together was not enough to nab our favorite item: the nasal douche Elvis used to irrigate his sinuses before concerts. It netted a cool $2,176.